06-28-2022, 06:24 PM
(06-28-2022, 06:14 PM)Lucidus Wrote: Vaccine mandates exist in instances where the health and safety of the overall population is significantly jeopardized by the transmission of a dangerous, scientifically verified infectious disease.
More accurately, when it's perceived to be.
Quote:However, even in the instance of a mandate, you still retain your bodily autonomy and have the freedom to not get vaccinated. If you choose to exercise that freedom, it comes with certain limitations as to how and where you can interact with other members of the population because you put the health and safety of everyone you come in contact with at greater risk, not just yourself.
I see. So you'd be ok with legalizing abortion, but if you get one you lose your job? You're still exercising your bodily autonomy.
Quote:Abortions are not infectious, do not physically harm others
I believe this statement is considered incorrect by every single person who is against abortion. The latter part, to be specific.
Quote:and any medical risks are confined to the individual. Taking away the right to get an abortion would necessarily be a violation of a person's bodily autonomy because any health and safety risks are limited to the individual and not the population at large.
So then, your argument is not for bodily autonomy at all, it's for a perceived collective benefit. Or, more directly, that you perceive bodily autonomy to be overridden by a perceived public benefit, i.e. a risk to the health and safety of others? Are Mumps, Measles, Rubella and other vaccines mandated? Is there not a collective health and safety risk created by those who refuse such vaccines?
Also, is abortion, especially past the first trimester, not the deliberate killing of a human being? Even if you take the ability to survive separately from the mother into account, the youngest baby to be born premature and survive was 21 weeks old. Consequently, any abortion that takes place after that time period is demonstrably killing a human that could conceivably survive separate from the mother. Is the procedure not a deliberate threat to that person's health and safety?
