Roe V. Wade set several precedents. One of these legal precedents was to uphold the right to individual bodily autonomy in medical decisions. (obviously "bodily autonomy" doesn't apply if you consider the fetus to be a separate life. But that was not the court's take)
Back to the main point: They cannot mandate the vaccine if you have a right to bodily autonomy in medical decisions.
And even without a federal law like Roe, blue states would still keep abortion legal.
So I suspect the federal government is willing to sacrifice Roe V. Wade if it means they can mandate the vaccine.
Thoughts?
I suspect that too. I even made a post about it on GreatAwakening.win.
I've been saying that using Roe v Wade as a basis for vaccine exemption is dumb. The case is rotten and you don't want to bring that rot into anything else.
There is decades' worth of case law using Roe v Wade that hinges upon that medical privacy thing that isn't even what the case was actually about. If it unravels, it could go any way but the leftists now hold almost all the cards.
we can vax embryos!
Gzz. What a Faustian dilemma: murder children or murder self?
Ooo, I know! DON'T MURDER ANYONE.
But yes. I suspect you are on pointe.
AFAIK Roe v Wade has yet to be cited in any vax case. It's a non-issue as far as vaccine mandates. The reason it's being challenged now is this is the first time in 40 years there's been a SC willing to overturn it. The reason it's happening now and not a year or two ago is because of how long it takes cases to worm their way through the appellate system to SCOTUS.
One HUGE problem with your theory.
The law passed in the southern state that prompted the legal challenge, Mississippi I believe, predates covid by several years. Moreover, the anti-abortion movement spawned by Roe in 1973 predates covid by even longer. Casey (1992) was a challenge to Roe too, and that happened long before covid.
You're correct that as a consequence of Roe falling, should it, would be to open the door wider to SCOTUS saying federal vax mandates are acceptable. But they could do whatever they wanted on the issue, regardless of Roe.
Federal vax mandates would rely on Jacobson, an early 20th century case that allowed for forced smallpox vaccinations or you pay a fine.