Non-Consensual Vaccination and Medical Harassment: Giving Vaccine Refusers Their Due

Journal of Controversial Ideas 3 (1):1-8 (2023)
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This article argues that non-consensual vaccination is morally impermissible, for the same reasons for which sexual assault is not permissible. Likewise, mandatory vaccination is morally akin to sexual harassment, and therefore is not to be allowed.

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