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originally posted by: Burred_Dawg
a reply to: SirHardHarry
"A fetus or embryo is not a baby. You guys always want to ignore that."
It is in Texas !
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: scrounger
They go the New York way and remove those legal protections for the baby.
That's what they want.
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA),
1905 that disease was way more deadly. Not even in the same ballpark.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Stupidsecrets
1905 that disease was way more deadly. Not even in the same ballpark.
Not relevant. The principle is that individual rights must, at times, take the backseat to public health.
Can it be overturned? Yes. Has it been? No.
You can’t have a mandate that exempts groups of people*
And especially if congress is exempt that is pretty much a double barrel middle finger to everyone in the country.**
History shows that when laws never apply to who is running the government bad things happen like the French Revolution.***
I just hope it isn’t too late****.
originally posted by: Dalamax
Glad you’re brushing up on the law, can you find a way to impeach this cretin please?
For the sake of the, rapidly diminishing, free world?
a reply to: Brassmonkey
originally posted by: game over man
Ugh...this trend of comparing mask and vaccine mandates to the injustices towards black people while being the same group who says there's no such thing as systemic racism is so cringy. Stop.
We have unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty could be used as an argument against masks and vaccine mandates but the right of liberty does not release you from being liable. So protecting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is what the masks and vaccines do.
originally posted by: SirHardHarry
a reply to: Brassmonkey
Been doing a little research on Constitutional law and in my opinion
You're a Constitutional lawyer?
See Jacobson v Massachusetts:
A law that authorizes mandatory vaccination during an epidemic of a lethal disease, with refusal punishable by a monetary penalty, like the one at issue in Jacobson, would undoubtedly be found constitutional under the low constitutional test of “rationality review.” However, the vaccine would have to be approved by the FDA as safe and effective, and the law would have to require exceptions for those who have contraindications to the vaccine. A law that authorizes mandatory vaccination to prevent dangerous contagious diseases in the absence of an epidemic, such as the school immunization requirement summarily upheld in 1922, also would probably be upheld as long as (1) the disease still exists in the population where it can spread and cause serious injury to those infected, and (2) a safe and effective vaccine could prevent transmission to others.
Instead, the question was whether the state had overstepped its own authority and whether the sphere of personal liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment38 included the right to refuse vaccination.
Justice Harlan stated the question before the Court: “Is this statute . . . inconsistent with the liberty which the Constitution of the United States secures to every person against deprivation by the State?”2(p25) Harlan confirmed that the Constitution protects individual liberty and that liberty is not “an absolute right in each person to be, in all times and in all circumstances, wholly free from restraint”:
There is, of course, a sphere within which the individual may assert the supremacy of his own will and rightfully dispute the authority of any human government, especially of any free government existing under a written constitution. But it is equally true that in every well-ordered society charged with the duty of conserving the safety of its members the rights of the individual in respect of his liberty may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.2(p29)
Thus, the more specific questions were whether the safety of the public justified this particular restriction and whether it was enforceable by reasonable regulations. The Court answered yes to both questions. It noted that the vaccination law applied “only when, in the opinion of the Board of Health, that was necessary for the public health or the public safety.”2(p27) The board of health was qualified to make that judgment, and, consistent with its own precedents, the Court said that it was the legislature’s prerogative to determine how to control the epidemic, as long as it did not act in an unreasonable, arbitrary or oppressive manner.2,39,40 Vaccination was a reasonable means of control:
originally posted by: neo96
Biden V Mandate violates 14nth amendment.
I figured out how to beat the Vaxxers.
I Identify as a vaxxed person therefore I don't actually have to be one.
Game set MATCH.
Flawless progressive logic.