Evidently we're going to have a debate about vaccine mandates and abortion at the same time--that is, both culture war tribes are simultaneously going to take both positions on the rights to medical privacy and "my body my choice" autonomy
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What _is_ an open question, as far as I know, is whether the _Federal_ government has the power to enact vaccination requirements. I have not studied that issue, but the case cited in Roe (Jacobson) was about State action, not Federal, and states (alone) have police power.
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I don't think that's right. It's confusingly worded, but I think paragraph 8 of Jacobson says that courts may weigh the merits of compulsory public health measures (including forced vax) per epidemic or even per person and block sufficiently unreasonable requirements.pic.twitter.com/saOqjMIUq8
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In other words (per my best attempt at understanding the para), it's not that one's right to bodily autonomy &/or privacy doesn't cover compulsory vaccination at all, but rather that those rights are non-absolute and need to be balanced against public health needs case-by-case.
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