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Sep 28, 2019 · There is still a constitutional right to choose to have an abortion; there is no constitutional or legal right that allows someone to send an unvaccinated child to school. In fact, the U.S....
- paul.thornton@latimes.com
- Letters Editor
Mar 13, 2024 · Both advocates for abortion access and opponents to vaccine mandates shared a common cry: “my body, my choice,” recognizing the implication of these issues on their bodily autonomy. However, a fundamental right to bodily autonomy has never been established.
Jul 4, 2022 · Vaccine opponents have appropriated "My Body, My Choice," a slogan that has been inextricably linked to reproductive rights for nearly half a century, to fight mask and vaccine mandates...
- It Threatens The Legitimacy of Reproductive Rights Movements
- Free-Riding Or Relying on Others to Get Vaccinated Is Unfair
- Not Getting Vaccinated Wreaks Collective Havoc
- The Choice Is Not Necessarily Informed
These movements call for reproductive rights for people who may want to avoid pregnancy or who might want to terminate a pregnancy. These movements are linked to activism over bodily autonomy, calling for young people – especially girls – not to be forcibly married as children (who cannot provide consent), or coerced into sexual relationships. Not ...
Ensuring that as many people get vaccinated as possible – to try and reach herd immunity – is essential in reducing cases and deaths, stopping the spread of the virus, and providing protection to immunocompromised people who cannot get the vaccine and rely on others getting vaccinated to stop the spread of disease. In addition, there are millions o...
‘My body, my choice’ is an activist rallying call referring to individual health choices, centring on the bodily autonomy of the person. These choices (with the exception of abortion that could affect the emotional well-being of the other potential parent) don’t affect anyone else. In the midst of a pandemic that has killed 4.5 million people so fa...
Scientists and regulatory bodies who assess whether or not a vaccine is safe require enormous amounts of expertise and need to review vast amounts of data to make that decision. Most people, even those who are scientifically literate, don’t have the capacity for that level of assessment, which is why we have regulatory bodies and many levels of che...
Shortly after Governor Abbott signed SB 8, he issued an executive order that prohibited COVID-19 vaccine mandates by any entity. It was painfully clear that “My Body, My Choice” only applies to certain bodies and certain choices.
Oct 28, 2024 · After many nations prioritized public health over individual rights, global anti-mandate protests erupted (Haddad, 2021), frequently invoking the “my body, my choice” slogan to oppose vaccine mandates (see Bluth, 2022). But do those who oppose COVID-19 mandates also support abortion rights?
Many "anti-vaxxers" oppose COVID-19 vaccination mandates on the grounds that they wrongfully infringe on bodily autonomy. Their view has been expressed with the slogan "My Body, My Choice," co-opted from the pro-choice abortion rights movement.
