Vaccine Mandate vs Abortion?

Per usual, medical decisions are more complicated than many would like to think

[seregiel]

TB is also a requirement to work at a lot of zoos/places with animals as it can transmit cross species :).

[lucienfortner]

If a pregnant person walks into a crowded room, no one else will get pregnant from being around them. If they get an abortion, other people won't miscarry. Pregnant people can decide what to do with their bodies because it isn't causing a health crisis for other people. This should not be difficult.

[AHDBification]

Their goal isn't to make a sound and reasonable argument, it's to get what they want done. Unfortunately, what they want is total control over non-believers.

[seancallaghan]

Did they know that there is a difference between personal protections and public protection. Personally I can choose to not buy a product I don't like, but I cannot personally decide to not pay taxes that find public works

[maevehession]

Thank you for being the voice of reason. I’m a fan and an R.N.

[authormomma]

The MMR doesn't take with me. My titer shows immunity to rubella, but not mumps or measles. I had to get re vaxxed twice, with follow up labs and a doctors note to finish nursing school.
(And I would have never known this if I hadn't been adopted, and the person on my vaccination card no longer existed. My birth certificate changed...Like literally, that kid, ME, did not exist, so I had to get revaxx as an adult.)
And it didn't take!
I'm relying on herd immunity.

[sergel]

I’m glad more people are pointing this out as some people don’t really get that part of vaccine requirements is for public health. And most places still give options to opt out of vaccines for many reasons. It’s not really like access to birth control and abortion/termination rights.

[hudmo]

Thank you for this response. Very clear and straightforward. When people don’t even understand what they disagree about it becomes that much harder to come to an agreement or even a compromise

[yeet]

A lot of Americans i find don't understand the difference between "freedom from" and "freedom to"

[qatonfire]

I hate when I go out in public and catch an abortion from someone in the store

[dxt]

Thanks, Doc! We appreciate you for educating us with facts and important health information. You're the man!

[johnmabe]

Just remember that the guy giving the stupid antivax rhetoric in the video was nothing more than donald trumps personal bag man, literally his job was to carry his luggage around until he needed someone to be a face for him.

[Adrastia]

They think their audiences are stupid and will just nod along with whatever they say.

[eden.nd.]

One only affects the individual making the decision, the other risks the health and lives of others.

[KrinOkar]

Also in those cases people are allowed to not get vaccinated if they want, but there were public safety measures put in place so that decision didn't get people hurt

[robertpesche]

Doc, mandatory vaccination DID happen for a lot of people. Like the 3 million Americans in the armed forces.

[christinapalafox]

There's minding one's own business. Then there's sh*tting where others eat. There's a big difference.

[altheadraghici]

The only thing that bothers me in your response is talking about Covid in the past-tense. ITS STILL HERE

[Hi_Im_Akward]

Public health enforcement is not specific for gender/sex either. Anyone who doesn't have a uterus doesn't have to consider these choices that directly affect people who do. Pregnancy is risky and life changing for a multitude of reasons, wanted or unwanted, planned or unplanned and the people who are affected by the decision to carry or abort are the people directly affected by the pregnancy, most of all the pregnant person. Moreover no one else's life is at risk besides the pregnant person and, depending on the stage of the pregnancy, the fetus.

[SusanReik-ro]

Thank you, Dr., for making these incredibly valid points!