Quote from: Lucid Salvatore on September 17, 2021, 05:01:30 PM
What happened to the phrase "my body, my choice"? Or does that only apply to women seeking abortions? Y'all need to keep the same energy regarding the vaccines. Period.
You're engaging in a false equivalence logical fallacy. These issues require context. In general, I'm pro-life, but I believe there are a number of scenarios where abortion is advisable (rape, mother's health, etc.). Also, the majority of abortions in 2018 took place early in gestation: 92.2% of abortions were performed at ≤13 weeks' gestation (and this % is the common trend over the years). Advancements in medical technology made it so that a fetus might be considered viable, and thus have some basis of a right to life, at 22 or 23 weeks rather than at the 28 that was more common at the time Roe v. Wade was decided. And most state laws prohibit abortions over 20 - 25 weeks or have a viability standard (22/23 weeks).
Vaccines provide personal protection against COVID-19, but they also reduce the spread of the coronavirus in the community. COVID-19 cases have spread rapidly due to the more contagious Delta variant, particularly among unvaccinated people. If someone becomes infected, they can pass the virus to older people or high-risk people with other conditions who could become severely ill. When you have a virus that's circulating in the community and you are not vaccinated, you are part of the problem because you're allowing yourself to be a vehicle for the virus to be spreading to someone else. Unvaccinated people also put children at risk since those younger than 12 aren't yet eligible for vaccination. For example, the number of children being hospitalized with COVID-19 in Florida has increased by more than 10 times and reached a new peak in recent weeks, according to NPR. This is still an outbreak, a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And when you look at the percentage of cases, particularly those that wind up with severe consequences leading to hospitalization, it is overwhelmingly among the unvaccinated.
