For John, BLUF: President Biden seems to have little tolerence for pushback If people won't do it his way, he doubles down, the Constitution be damned. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Here is the sub-headline:
Biden is about to find out that he’ll have as hard of a time eradicating freedom and personal choice in this country as trying to eradicate the coronavirus.
From The Hannah H Cox Blog, by Ms Hanna Cox, 10 September 2021.
Here is the lede plus three:
It’s been a hell of a news cycle for bodily autonomy.The legality of mandating vaccines is based on the 1905 case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts. This originated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and made its way to the US Supreme Court.The left is in histrionics over the new Texas abortion law that bans the procedure after six weeks, and the rest of us are aghast at Biden’s new executive order forcing private companies to mandate COVID vaccines for their employees.
You’ll find few people in both camps, however, a testament to just how partisan and unprincipled our country has truly become. That’s a tangent for another time, though. Right now, I want to talk about the legality of Biden’s mandate.
Even before the ink dried one could hear the lawsuits being filed.
Then there is the 1927 case, Buck v. Bell. At the height of the Eugenics movement. This ruling, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., of Massachusetts, said it was legal to sterilize those who were "feebleminded."
On the other hand, we have Roe v Wade, which legalized abortion.♠ How does "Our Bodies! Our Choice!" fit into this?
If the Courts empower and encourage President Biden in this area we will see a further erosion of our civil rights in the United States and we will become a little more like the People's Republic of China.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
♠ There was no abortion and the name of the child, a daughter was recently revealed.
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