Thread by @EmpireinWinter

BMJ: Journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics

For the curious, multiple references to other vax ethics papers.

We can disagree, but this is how issues are framed by medical ethicists.
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jme.bmj.com/content/early/…

'neither a moral obligation to vaccinate nor a sound ethical basis to mandate vax under any circumstances, even for hypothetical vaccines that are medically risk-free'

'Agent autonomy with respect to self-constitution has absolute normative priority over reduction or elimination of the associated risks to life.'

'In practical terms, mandatory vaccination amounts to discrimination against healthy, innate biological characteristics, which goes against the established ethical norms and is also defeasible a priori. '

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