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The left's contempt for bodily autonomy during the pandemic is a gift to the right
Cook, Jonathan
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-12-21/left-contempt-bodily-autonomy/Date Written: 2021-12-21 Year Published: 2021 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24570 When did parts of the left get so contemptuous of the principle of "bodily autonomy"? Answer: Just about the time they started fetishising vaccines as the only route out of the current pandemic. Abstract: - Excerpt: Only two years ago most people understood "bodily autonomy" to be a fundamental, unquestionable human right. Now it is being treated as some kind of perverse libertarian luxury, as proof that the "deplorables" have been watching too much Tucker Carlson or that they have come to idealise the worst excesses of neoliberalism's emphasis on the rights of the individual over the social good. Subject Headings |