If you believe in body-autonomy, do you also believe in coercing people to get vaccinated?

Judith Jarvis Thompson's paper argues that the bodily autonomy of a mother would trump the well being of a third party in the specific case of abortion if the foetus were a person. It doesn't argue that bodily autonomy trumps the well being of any third party in any case. For example, the bodily autonomy of a foetus does not trump the bodily autonomy of the mother according to Thompson. If you want to prove that there is a contradiction, you would seem to have to show that restricting bodily autonomy in the way you are describing is comparable to the example of abortion or any of the other examples that Thompson references rather than just asserting that bodily autonomy is involved.

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