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Collected Item: “Vaccine skeptics and anti-maskers who invoked 'my body, my choice' in the pandemic are now lining up to support the end of Roe v. Wade”

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Vaccine skeptics and anti-maskers who invoked 'my body, my choice' in the pandemic are now lining up to support the end of Roe v. Wade

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Text story

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This is a news story from Business Insider by Mia Jankowicz. This is about the argument of bodily autonomy as it applies to abortion and COVID. People have argued that vaccine passports and masks are infringements of civil liberties. The author writes that this is a mirror of what pro-choice advocates say. Some have argued that the anti-vaccine and anti-mask views being conflated with bodily autonomy arguments do not make sense, as being unvaccinated poses a greater risk to others, whereas lack of abortion access could put the mother's life in danger.

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mask, vaccine, vaccine skepticism, pandemic skepticism, abortion, Supreme Court, bodily autonomy, HST580, ASU

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https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-vaxxers-mask-skeptics-invoked-bodily-autonomy-support-overturning-roe-2022-5

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Mia Jankowicz

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2022-05-05
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