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The legality of the government forcing a medical procedure for the common good been decided by the supreme Court nearly 100 years ago. There is no specific "liberty" that is being violated here.


The same decision (Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 1905) is what allowed the Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924 and to force the sterilization of the undesirables.

If a law would be proposed today to disallow covid-unvaccinated people from having children, I bet you a good number of leftists would agree with it.


Not saying that I advocate for the following, but from reasoning logically, I've arrived at the following based on simplified assumptions. I would love to hear any possible counter-arguments against this hypothetical outcome:

Assuming that unvaccinated people are more likely to die from covid (and hence reproduce), then over time, they would naturally be written out of the gene pool. Or at least drastically dwindle in numbers compared to those vaccinated.


I have seen violations of human rights. Those are the freedoms I was referring to.

See the UN Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Article 13 - right to freedom of movement (lockdowns, anyone?)

Article 20 - right to peaceful assembly (lockdowns again)

Article 24 - right to work (mandatory vaccination as a condition of employment)


That decision revolved around a one-time $150 fine (in today's money) and was used to justify forced sterilizations. And it was overturned later. And it was for the authority of a state, not the Federal Government.

Not the same thing at all.




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