So many people are pro-choice when it comes to COVID vaccines but are those people also pro-choice when it comes to a woman's right to abort?

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I am pro-choice for COVID vaccines but anti-reproductive rights

I am pro-choice for COVID vaccines and for reproductive rights

I am anti-choice for COVID vaccines but pro-choice for reproductive rights.

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Personally i don't think vaccines should be mandatory for the same reason i don't think a woman should have to carry a pregnancy to term against her will.

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BlueVeins · 22-25

The two are dissimilar in that an abortion impacts only the health of whoever's getting it, whereas vaccination impacts the health of everyone around whoever's getting it. I tend to think a full-fledged vaccine mandate, but a "vax or test and mask" rule (imposed by gov't, enforced by threat of firing) seems like an appropriate balance between the bodily autonomy of oneself and the bodily autonomy of others.

Pikachu

@BlueVeins

Yeah that gets a bit murky too but broadly i agree with the idea that vaccination should not be legally mandated but socially enforced.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@Pikachu I'd call it a "soft mandate," I mean it does have gov't enforcement behind it, but the punishment isn't the conventional shit like jail or fines, and there's a way to kinda get around it if you keep others safe. The way I see it, either they take some baseline action to prevent themselves from being vectors of disease or the rest of us have to take even stricter action. People like to talk about 'freedom' as some rigid, clear-cut principle, but the reality is that there's only a finite amount of freedom in the world, and it's incumbent on us to distribute all the freedom we have in an equitable way.

Pikachu

@BlueVeins

True. Freedom is an important value but so is community.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@Pikachu I'd frame it moreso as protecting everyone else's freedom than a 'community' thing, you know? Like if the virus keeps raging and we have to keep lockin' down and wearing masks because of these anti-vax imbeciles, we've kinda lost our freedom, right?

Pikachu

@BlueVeins Yeah that's a reasonable view of it.