My Body, My Choice

I would like to take this opportunity to state unashamedly that I support the right to choose. Each person's body is their own, and the government has no right to interfere with our medical decisions. Government meddling with our medical decisions at the point of a gun, or under threat of financial ruin, is tyranny.

I'm talking about a woman's right to an abortion,  of course. But I'm also talking about everyone's right to decide for themselves whether to receive a Covid-19 vaccination. 

I'm not anti-vaccination. I'm vaccinated, and my son is vaccinated - with vaccines that have been thoroughly tested through standard procedures by the FDA before the regulatory capture of the FDA by the pharmaceutical industry - Big Pharma.

Testing a new medication for safety, including long-term safety, is a process that takes years. Covid-19 itself is barely two years old as far as medical awareness is concerned. It surely existed before that, but no one was trying to develop a vaccine for it before then. And that's why the vaccines currently available are being used on the basis of emergency waivers from the FDA. Even the Pfizer vaccine could not possibly have passed standard FDA safety checks in the time that was given, despite it's supposed "approved" status.

What's really stunning is the degree to which the government and media have conspired to terrorize the public against anyone who questions the safety of these new and untested vaccines. It's virtually a Two-Minutes Hate on TV and online. The sheer unthinking loathing expressed by the vast majority of the public is strongly reminiscent of the peak of McCarthyism. Appeals to Constitutional rights are met with contempt and seething hatred.

"My body, my choice" is an interesting answer to those attacks. It puts one unthinking, unquestionable article of faith - a woman's right to choose (which I personally support) against another: that anyone who questions a mandate that forces them to be vaccinated under threat of job loss and ensuing homelessness, potential seizure of their children by the government, and unemployability.

It exposes the basic hypocrisy of proudly standing by a woman's right to chose while condemning the right of everyone to chose not to be vaccinated. And since studies now show that the vaccinated are as likely to be carriers of Covid-19 as the unvaccinated (if not more so, because there are so many more of them), the poor excuse of public safety simply doesn't apply.

A powerful argument. It forces anyone who supports abortion rights to at least take a moment to reflect. It can also force those who oppose abortion rights to consider, as most of them oppose vaccine mandates. In short, both sides are equally hypocritical when it comes to mandates. They're just hypocrites in opposite directions, so to speak.