Abortion vs. Covid mandates: Which positions do you take?

[Schiff for Senate]

I really can't answer the poll question since my position on abortion is more complicated than just 'pro-choice' or 'pro-life.' I'm in the now-underrepresented 'safe, legal and rare' category (so to the right of Democrats and left of Republicans) but it's worth noting I support the Hyde Amendment (which bans federal funding for abortion EXCEPT in cases of rape/incest/mother's life is in danger).

As for mandates, though, I'm reasonably pro-mandate.


I do disagree with the OP, though. Option 3 is not nearly as outrageous or hypocritical as Option 2. People who are pro-life but anti-mandate are people who on one side call for 'freedom of choice' when it comes to vaccines but are okay with yelling "Not your body, not your choice" to women making a decision about their own bodies and not letting them make a decision that should really be between them and their doctor. These people claim to be pro-life and claim to be acting in good faith in trying to save unborn lives. Well, it seems that when that unborn baby is actually born, these people care less. It depends on how you defend 'mandates,' but it's true that, like it or not, at the end of the day mandates do save lives. And it's the ultimate hypocrisy that these people refuse to let a woman make a choice about her body because muh unborn child, but unironically call for "freedom of choice" when it comes to people literally doing something that impacts other people (who were actually born and are actual people). Like seriously. It's almost like these people value life more pre-birth than they do post-birth.