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by Nahtnah 1376 days ago
One has very little to do with the other besides having to do with body autonomy. Also, people were never forced to get vaccinated. I would always be against that. Women are being forced to come to term.

It's unfair to women for a bunch of nerdy guys to rhetorically equate the two. And by going after abortion, looks like GOP might have made a rod for THEIR own back. We'll see.

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> Also, people were never forced to get vaccinated.

This will be the line when people start suing their employers over vaccine injuries. "It was always voluntary. You could have just let us fire you."

People are not forced to get vaccinated the same way women are not forced to be fertile. We live in a world of IUDs, morning after pills, and birth control. Why not just not be pregnant? (Yuck)

But this is a disgusting line of logic to go down - and whether or not they are truly equivalent doesn't matter because the political opposition believes that they are.

Bodily autonomy is about to be sacrificed to government whims, just like privacy was, and assuming we can just put the cat in the bag is naïve.

I hope our rights become further enshrined, but I don't think it's in the cards.

Fair enough. But I have to say - your first line makes no sense. Two of the three things you mentioned, I assume you know, don't work 100% of the time. And IUDs are a giant lol from me, many dudes don't even like putting on condoms and you want women to stick this plastic thing in their vagina? So it's all on the woman, and then if she gets pregnant, its STILL all on her, and all decided by a bunch of 'religious' white guys.

Is your argument women just shouldn't have sex?

Besides the point I agree, but goes to show since this argument was introduced by you as blow back against vaccines and the politics of the current conservatives, that maybe 'their' political rhetoric is a bit wonky. That's the asymmetry I was pointing out in my original comment.

You can't just 'both sides' everything blindly.