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Since Roe vs Wade, “my body, my choice” has been driven into our society, mainly due to the “right" of a person to govern their own body regardless of what some may consider immoral or unethical. Currently, many who opposed the slogan, now want to adopt it. And now, they are told that they don’t have the right.  It seems a double standard is being put in place.

"My body my, choice" is a slogan that is meant to represent the idea of personal bodily autonomy, bodily integrity and freedom of choice. Bodily autonomy constitutes self-determination over one's own body without “external domination or duress.” Bodily integrity is the inviolability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy, self-ownership, and the self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. In the field of human rights, the violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as either unethical infringement and/or possibly criminal. Freedom of choice describes an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options, unconstrained by external parties.

The irony behind this slogan and the desire to mandate vaccines is that they contradict themselves.  Those desiring vaccine mandates are not shouting “my body, my choice” on this particular platform.  But…in regard to the platform of abortion, and since at least five of the candidate COVID-19 vaccines use one of two human fetal cell lines, they are shouting it from the rooftops.  Here’s the research: one is HEK-293, a kidney cell line widely used in research and industry that comes from a fetus aborted in about 1972.  The other is PER.C6, a proprietary cell line owned by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, developed from retinal cells from an 18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985. 

While the original message of “my body, my choice” has been muddied and regardless as to your position of "for or against", whether you're talking about reproductive health or COVID-19, these are choices that involve freedoms from external control. 

Since the vaccine does not stop the spread of the virus for either those who are vaccinated or those who are not, stop the double standards and just say no vaccine mandate.  Develop something that truly works and then let's go from there.  Until then...no means no.