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(I am pro-choice and pro-vaccine) How can you be for bodily agency and also be in favor of forcing people to get vaccines?
by rlt 8y ago
(I am pro-choice and pro-vaccine)
How can you be for bodily agency and also be in favor of forcing people to get vaccines?
- chx 8y agoNote first I disagree with allowing to opt out of your body used as an organ donor after your death. No value is absolute. Trolley problem and all that (Judith Jarvis Thomson phrased the trolley problem as an organ transplant case it so happens). The potential destruction wrought by an unvaccinated child is deadly enough it overrides the individual bodily agency. By taking away the bodily agency of one child you are potentially saving several living, actual humans. When you take away the bodily agency of one woman, you are potentially saving the life of an unborn person at best. This doesn't compare favorably. Also, beyond bodily agency we need to weigh all effects of forcing a decision and forcing vaccinations have an extremely low chance of causing harm to the child being vaccinated whereas banning abortions have an extremely high chance of causing harm to the woman.