The author's arguments throughout the article are persuasive but they do break down because of the anomalous nature of the Covid vaccine. Because the Covid vaccine is actually not a vaccine, it does not prevent the spread of the virus as does, for example, the polio vaccine. Nor does the Covid vaccine prevent the infection itself, as does the polio vaccine. But does the vaccination somewhat prevent or somewhat mitigate infections?
So what has this to do with the argument, my body my choice? Well, if I am fully protected by the polio vaccine what interest do I have been compelling someone else to take the polio vaccine? Few that I can think of unless that other person is a child whose parents are negligent. Of course, there is the consideration of the imposition of costs of care of those who contracted polio upon society but that is also a question of socialized medicine overall.
If I am not fully protected by a vaccine, such as Covid, that arguably offers me some protection from infection by someone else who is unvaccinated, I do have an argument, however weak, to compel the other party to be vaccinated for whatever limited protection it might yield me, despite the shibboleth, my body my choice.
This even though a vaccinated person apparently still carries some limited, or unlimited, capacity to infect me with the virus.
The difficulty here is in the nature of the Covid, it's adaptability and the largely unknown or unproven capacity of the vaccination to either prevent or mitigate (or even aggravate) the ravages of the disease. While this ill-defined area exists, arguments can go both ways.
That is absolutely not the case with abortion. That is a 100% fatal application that completely does away with any logic for, my body my choice.
