Can "My Body, My Choice" anti-vaxxers be pro-life?
Bioethics
; 36(6): 708-714, 2022 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1779176
ABSTRACT
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. Yet, many of those same people are pro-life and support abortion restrictions that are effectively a kind of gestation mandate. Both vaccine and gestation mandates impose restrictions on bodily autonomy in order to prevent serious harms. This article evaluates the defensibility of the anti-vax pro-life position. We argue that the case for opposing gestation mandates on grounds of bodily autonomy is much stronger than the case for opposing vaccine mandates-even if fetuses have full moral status. Thus, there is a deep tension in being a pro-life, COVID anti-vaxxer concerned with bodily autonomy.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Abortion, Spontaneous
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Abortion, Induced
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
Bioethics
Journal subject:
Ethics
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Bioe.13033
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