You know, I really have no problem with the state providing the vaccine to those who wish to utilize it, but the whole mandate thing just rubs me the wrong way. The "choice" in the matter shouldn't be to opt-out, it should be to opt-in.
It's kind of like the hepatitis vaccine--when I was in high school one of the clubs I belonged to was going to help the local Kiwanis with a corn-dog stand at a carnival. In order to do it, I had to have a Hep-B vaccine (per OSHA), so my mom and I went down to the Health Department for the series of shots. No big deal, and it was a choice.
You're exactly right about the opt-in option. Though, I'm not sure the state should pay for it unless you meet certain qualifications (low income, no insurance, etc.).
I also want to clairfy that most Republicans I know and have heard express outrage over this are not doing so based on the whole sex issue (as implied by the article). The outrage is the runaround the system by a pseudo-Republican Governor.
I can understand the sex issue, but that's not my main concern. My main concern is that the government should have no bearing on what I choose to do with my body. And I know that opens a whole big huge can of worms with the whole abortion debate, but to be perfectly honest, I have become so disenfranchised with BOTH parties, that I find myself longing for a more and more libertarian/federalist debate that decentralizes these issues.
It's a bit of a stretch, (but perhaps only a bit), but what happens when it becomes mandated that hospitals are forced to use all means possible to keep someone alive, (who consequently has a living will and doesn't want those measures taken)? And where does personal responsibility lie in all of this? Ugh.
I'm totally disenfranchised with both parties as well. I am truly scared about our future, another reason I wasn't so gung-ho about having kids. I mean, I have a deeply rooted fear about what life is going to be like for my child when she's my age.
You know, I'm sure that every generation has those fears, especially amdist the 20th century when things changed so rapidly from generation to generation.
My priority isn't so much standing up against the mainstream, as it is instilling some sort of value and self-worth in my future kids. Knowing what I went through as a teenage girl in the 90's, I'm not so naive as to think that I can shield my kids from the media and from the garbage that's out there--the best I can do is what my parents did for me: let them figure out on their own that there is a right way to do things, and that forces such as good and evil do exist; that life is full of choices, and that those choices are what make you who you are.
Stepping down off the soapbox... I will say that I would never 'turn' on the Republicans by switching over to the Dems, but I did change my voter registration to "Independent", and my views are much more Libertarian than either of the big two.
It's kind of like the hepatitis vaccine--when I was in high school one of the clubs I belonged to was going to help the local Kiwanis with a corn-dog stand at a carnival. In order to do it, I had to have a Hep-B vaccine (per OSHA), so my mom and I went down to the Health Department for the series of shots. No big deal, and it was a choice.
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I also want to clairfy that most Republicans I know and have heard express outrage over this are not doing so based on the whole sex issue (as implied by the article). The outrage is the runaround the system by a pseudo-Republican Governor.
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It's a bit of a stretch, (but perhaps only a bit), but what happens when it becomes mandated that hospitals are forced to use all means possible to keep someone alive, (who consequently has a living will and doesn't want those measures taken)? And where does personal responsibility lie in all of this? Ugh.
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My priority isn't so much standing up against the mainstream, as it is instilling some sort of value and self-worth in my future kids. Knowing what I went through as a teenage girl in the 90's, I'm not so naive as to think that I can shield my kids from the media and from the garbage that's out there--the best I can do is what my parents did for me: let them figure out on their own that there is a right way to do things, and that forces such as good and evil do exist; that life is full of choices, and that those choices are what make you who you are.
Stepping down off the soapbox... I will say that I would never 'turn' on the Republicans by switching over to the Dems, but I did change my voter registration to "Independent", and my views are much more Libertarian than either of the big two.
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