The reason is that, unlike @TheDemocrats, @GOP has conflated opposition to school vaccine mandates with “parental rights,” “choice,” and opposition to big government. In effect @GOP has become the antivaccine party. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/04/19/gop-has-become-antivaxer/ … 2/
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This is because antivaxxers have been quite successful in framing their opposition to vaccine mandates as in those terms, and antivax groups like
@TXforVaxChoice and@MI4VaxChoice are active and well-funded through conservative groups like@EmpowerTexans. 3/1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
So, yes, antivax have successfully linked their opposition to mandates to parental choice and rights, but why did
@GOP let them be so successful? Why do Republicans now regularly do things like this? 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/05/14/oregon-republicans-facilitate-antivaxers/ …1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
Why is nearly all the opposition to S2173, to eliminate nonmedical exemptions coming from the
@NJGOP? Yes, there were a handful of@NJDemocrat senators opposed, which delayed a final vote until next month, but the vast majority of the opposition comes from Republicans. 5/1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Why did my ex-state rep chair an antivax “roundtable” before the 2018
@MIGOP primary and my ex-state senator, who was running for governor, attend? 6/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/08/03/jeff-noble-kerry-bentivolio-host-antivax/ …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
That same state rep said that the
@MI_Republicans on the Health Policy Committee are the only ones receptive to “vaccine choice” initiatives, while the@MIHouseDems won’t even consider them and want to “shove vaccines down your throat (or arm).” 7/1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Why are school vaccine mandates becoming so politicized, with
@GOP opposing expanding them out even advocating weakening them and@TheDemocrats supporting their expansion and opposing weakening them? 8/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/22/in-the-age-of-donald-trump-vaccine-policy-is-becoming-politicized-with-potentially-deadly-consequences/ …1 reply 3 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
Don’t get me wrong. There are antivax liberals/Democrats. (I’m talking to.) However, they are quite rightly viewed as fringe and have little influence. Compare them to
@RandPaul, who’s antivax and a powerful Senator. 9/2 replies 0 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
(I’m talking to you,
@RobertKennedyJr,@marwilliamson, and@DrJillStein.) That was a weird cut and paste error.
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Replying to @gorskon @RobertKennedyJr and
God help us, if the Left manages to get the ‘My Body My Choice’ meme going. Linking it to abortion rights. Or the even sicker. Comparing Vaccines to rape. Or going against ‘mother nature and mommy instincts. Anti-feminism even 1/2
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There have been antivaxxers trying to co-opt "my body my choice" and link "vaccine choice" to abortion rights. They haven't really gotten much, if any, traction—fortunately.
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Replying to @helencaddes @gorskon and
She really is. Not as bad as Kennedy. But her thoughts on the subject and her objections are not based on science
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