ROE V. WADE OVERTURNED
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Abortion was never a precedent for bodily autonomy. Second, there are 2 bodies involved with an abortion, not one.
That was litterly the argument. This is a loss
Except for the baby, you'd suppose.
RvW used bodily autonomy as the justification for abortion protection. The courts saw it as one body.
No, they didn't. They made the decision of Roe on a right to privacy, not bodily autonomy. In fact, the only SCOTUS decision on vaccine mandates, was that the poor fellow had to take the shot or pay a fine. The guy paid the $5 fine and walked.
Privacy/autonomy are basically the same thing in this context.
No, they are not, when the constitutional basis for the decisions are miles apart.
Roe was decided though the substantive due process clause of the 14th amendment as a mechanism. The Court at the time said that a right to privacy existed in the constitution, though it doesn't exist in any amendment or text of the thing. This made up right to privacy was what they used to decide Roe.
The Supreme Court in the vaccine mandate case (Jacobson in 1905), which has never been overturned, and which was decided upon decades prior to Roe, the Court ruled that under the state's "police power" it can force you to get an injection against your will.
Now, rhetorically, you may be correct, but as a matter of law and case precedent, you're wrong.
The argument about when life begins hasn't been settled.
Scietifically, it's a human being. Just not a fully developed one, just as a baby isn't fully developed either.
The question is when is "personhood".