I’ve received a couple messages since our last council meeting and I thought I'd take a moment to submit my thoughts following comments at the last Town Council meeting when we discussed a ban on vaccine/ mask mandates.
The argument that a pro-life stance contradicts with my views on mask/vaccine mandates comes from a false equivalence. I think a nationwide issue is that we’ve boiled down conversations into easy-to-swallow phrases that don’t accurately depict what’s being discussed.
“My body my choice” is one example that is interesting to me, as in the abortion conversation it’s not the mother’s body that is being destroyed, so on its face, it’s a false statement. Yet, it’s the most common argument for abortion.
We’ve been shown that in the first trimester the baby with separate human DNA form the moment of conception already has fingers, toes and nose by week 12, brain activity in week eight, and a heartbeat at as early as four weeks. Therefore, the argument that a fetus is not a human life is unequivocally false.
My belief is simple – one should not be mandated to be subjected to a medical procedure or forced to accept a medical device on or in their body without consent.
When a medical procedure has the sole purpose of ending that person’s life, we turn to a conversation about whether that person has a right to life. If it’s an adult on the table, and a doctor were to crush the skull and remove the limbs from the torso as is the process of a third trimester abortion, it is obvious that this is not a medical procedure, but a murder. When it’s a baby, we argue about whether it would be government overreach to make it illegal.
