My Body My Rights
Variations of "my body my rights" have been a central theme for the Left for decades. I am all for this (as long as we are applying it to adults wholeheartedly but more restrictively to minors). But I have argued for years that this represents faux libertarianism -- the Left believes this absolutely when it comes to abortion (and more recently for gender transitions among minors) but not so much when it comes to any other issues. You want to eat GMO foods? Sorry, you can't do that. Smoke? Sorry, no dice. Teenage tanning salon visits? Sorry, not without more parental paperwork than is required for an abortion.
Here is your latest example, from the most progressive city in the country, San Francisco which is requiring vaccinations of all employees:
So these folks who don't think a couple of decades of testing of GMO foods is enough are requiring injection of a vaccine that has been tested for barely a year (I personally consider it safe and was vaccinated but I also consume GMO foods without reservation -- my body my choice).
By the way, this is from the ACLU website:
Being able to make our own decisions about our health, body and sexual life is a basic human right.
Whoever you are, wherever you live, you have the right to make these choices without fear, violence or discrimination.
Yet all over the world, people are bullied, discriminated against and arrested, simply for making choices about their bodies and their lives.
The ACLU, of course, has been completely missing in action throughout COVID, when we have experienced some of the greatest government intrusions of individual rights in our nation's history. Lockdowns? Silence. Mask mandates? Silence. Bans on assembly? Silence. Censorship of heterodox opinions on the virus (that turn out to be right)? Silence. Forced vaccinations? Silence. All of this is consistent with the ACLU's transition from being a true civil rights organization to yet another progressive political lobbyist.
