The most obvious slogan acquisition in the history of political marketing — and they had no plan.
Vaccine opponents have appropriated “My Body, My Choice,” a slogan that has been inextricably linked to reproductive rights for nearly half a century, to fight mask and vaccine mandates across the country — including in California, where lawmakers had vowed to adopt the toughest vaccine requirements in the U.S.
As the anti-vaccine contingent has notched successes, the abortion rights movement has taken hit after hit, culminating in the June 24 Supreme Court decision that ended the federal constitutional right to abortion. The ruling leaves it up to states to decide, and up to 26 states are expected to ban or severely limit abortion in the coming months.
Now that anti-vaccination groups have laid claim to “My Body, My Choice,” abortion rights groups are distancing themselves from it — marking a stunning annexation of political messaging.
“My Body, My Choice,” was first and always a political slogan, employed by those whose core ideology held only contempt for the rights of the individual. Without that solid philosophical foundation, it melted at first contact with contradiction.
You know we’re winning when we just blatantly abscond with one of their favorite slogans, make it our own, and the left can do nothing about it. Like when Trump just took the “Fake News” label and successfully employed it to attack our despicable media.
…and then got his ass kicked out of power.
Relying on your opponents to create your slogans for you is the ultimate failure.
At least you admit the election was stolen. There’s still hope for you fella!
Good! Glad to hear this bumper sticker has been co-opted by another group,and I’m, very happy it embarrasses the PP bunch. Now get out and shout this slogan to every liberal/Liberal on the rubber chicken circuit this summer and during the next election campaign.
I’m still pissed off at how the World Wildlife Fund stole “WWF” from Vince McMahon and his pro rasslin’ outfit that had been around since the 1950’s, forcing him to change his business name to WWE.
Lefties are f***ing bullies, absolute tyrants when they get the chance, glad to see a small victory over the SOB’s.
When I refuse any further vaccinations … I am truly defending MY OWN body.
When a woman DEMANDS the suctioning out or dismembering of another human being growing within her body … she is DESTROYING someone else’s body. She’s barely touching HER OWN body.
Gee … no wonder they’re ditching their slogan that NEVER made any sense whatsoever.
“she is DESTROYING someone else’s body”
It’s not a person.
Says who? You? PROVE it’s not a person! Otherwise STFU. Your opinion is not fact just because…
“Neither a fetus nor an embryo is an individual in any relevant sense. Neither is physically or physiologically individuated from the pregnant woman. A fetus has the genetic potential to become an individual human being, but it is not one until birth. It can’t even act with the autonomy of a cat or a dog, let alone as a human being who makes choices about how to pursue happiness. The fetus doesn’t need protection for its ability to act independently — it has no such ability.”
https://newideal.aynrand.org/abortion-should-be-legal-until-birth/
“It can’t even act with the autonomy of a cat or a dog, let alone as a human being who makes choices about how to pursue happiness.”
Back to primate Randian might makes right logic. Same logic applies to people in coma paralyzed etc, never mind. Look, I’ll give you one thing, while your pro infantiside arguments aren’t persuasive, your presence does constitute a strong argument.
That isn’t proof. That’s conjecture. Yet another opinion. You can’t prove that the unborn isn’t a person any more than I can prove that it is, so stop with the “My opinion is fact-based,” because it isn’t.
There is little difference between a fetus and a newborn, only the short trip down the birth canal. Unless you are going to argue (as some do) that parents have the right to infanticide, the argument goes nowhere. No one has the right to kill someone because they are inconvenient.
UnMe the Clump of Cells chimes in. Lol.
Abortion is very much a self cleaning oven. Wait, easy with the stones, let me explain. A generation ago access to abortion in Poland was very open. Those who wanted to murder their children did, those did not want to didn’t. A generation later the proportion of pro abortion voters wasn’t there… and abortion is no longer legal. Russia is another great example, ethnic russians mutilate their litter at rates higher than they give life births to. And the proportion of ethnic russians is decreasing constantly, while the proportion of mooselimbs is increasing and thus russia is heading towards inevitable civil war in not too distant future.
The same argument applies to homosexuals. They can’t reproduce naturally, so they recruit. In other words, they groom other people’s children, because if they don’t, they tend to die out. I won’t comment on your Russian example.
Someone should make a shirt that reads “I Gave Up My Political Slogan And All I Got Was Myocarditis.”
My granddaughter was born and we were talking to her new grandad on the phone from the hospital.
Five hour later, I am in his living room where he died…
A large Varicose vein in his abdomen let go, he puked blood until he died…
Pharma always has side effects that kill you eventually…
Came home in shock, drinking heavily and then this song comes on…
We have associated with him ever since…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qQYpF2pCkLI
God rest his soul…
These progressive slogans make more sense when you understand that the “principle” they espouse is just a false front to cover their real intentions. “My body, my choice” actually has nothing to do with bodily autonomy. They don’t want bodily autonomy; they never did. It was always about killing babies. These people hate themselves, hate life, and are livid that there are people out there somewhere who are less miserable than they are. Their hope is that bringing others down to their level of misery might bring some momentary surcease — Poe’s “respite and nepenthe” — to the despair of their existence.
Nailed it!
Holy crap. The irony, the projection. The lack of self-awareness.
Please, oh, PLEASE point out the projection! That is, after all, your side’s area of expertise, isn’t it? (“It’s ok when we do it!”)
The pro-choice people aren’t the ones who want to ruin everyone’s lives with children and implement a Republic of Gilead. That is solely the provenance of the anti-choicers.
Yes, dear.
You’re special.
Like they have been up-front on the message of “renewable electricity”.
It is just that we got the wrong idea – of course it is renewable – you renew thye whole bloody plant about every 15 – 20 years.
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Actually has nothing to do with electricity produced
Mr. Paine, applause.
Misery loves company.
FreeMan the thread killer…
Sorry SDA…
I don’t mean too…
I can’t help being me…
God made me that way…
And…
I trust God…
Never Man…
FreeMan…
The video is 11 years old and so is my granddaughter Lily…
We haven’t told her yet…
She needs to be older…
We don’t want to ruin her birthday…
Her grandad Poohda who is in heaven agrees…
He loved her
but never saw…
heard..
Or…
held her…
“My Body, My Choice, You’re Paying.”
With the claims of a fetus being a parasite, a disposable option, a thing of no importance made by those demanding the ‘right’ to an abortion one might think a little planning not to need such an invasive procedure would be of some interest. Faint hope remains.
All civilizations that become extinct ramp up the child sacrifice to Moloch to speed up the inevitable.
Kate
I’ve been lurking her for a bit. I’m in the US if that matters.
Abortion was never, a constitutional right. It was declared a woman’s right to choose and even Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then lead counsel at the ACLU, decried it as bad law. This was judicial fiat. Thurgood Marshall, wanted to be an activist judge. What the court giveth, the court can take away. In the 50 years when this atrocity was legal, the Legislative Branch, even when they controlled both houses and the White House, couldn’t be bothered to make an actual law. Abortion is no where in the US Constitution. Guns, however, are.
Not snarking on you. But, the MSM has vomited that constitutional right up at every turn. Don’t buy it.
The legislature never touched this (and never will) for the exact reason that RvW was finally abandoned – it is unconstitutional. There is no provision in the constitution for the federal government to legislate any such thing.
Yes there is it’s the Ninth Amendment. Neither you nor Winston nor any of these other phony constitutional scholars really understand how the USC is supposed to work. It is *not* supposed to explicitly denote all of our rights, indeed the 9th Amendment makes that explicitly clear.
Didn’t the supreme court find—- (invent) the “right” to abortion siting the 14th amendment using the so-called “privacy” argument? Oh yes! They did!
https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/roe-v-wade
“The court held that a woman’s right to an abortion was ***IMPLICIT*** in the right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.”
…but I’m not even a scholar so I yield to YOUR expertise! /extreme sarc.
True, the SC in Roe did-and it was Roe’s biggest flaw. Interestingly, the district court that was handling the case before the SC found the right to abortion in the *Ninth* Amendment, which made for much stronger law.
If that was the case, why didn’t the SCOTUS use it in the Roe v. Wade case? Because 9A only suggests that rights exist that have not been enumerated in the constitution. It does not necessarily imply that the so-called “right” to abortion is among those unenumerated rights. It’s a pretty week argument to make, and that’s why it wasn’t referred to in the case of Roe v. Wade. Yes, that is only my opinion, but then I’m only trying to explain why the court did what it did. My opinion is based on theirs. What’s Unme’s opinion based on?
abortion, birth control by a different name
And it costs far more than most know, as it over loads the health care system, which then pushes back health issues that cause people to wait and miss productive time in society. The lost production is far greater ($$$$$) than most realize.
That is not only wrong, that is the opposite of the truth. Anti-truth. Abortion prevents overloading of the healthcare system by eliminating problems before they become problems.
The truth according to Unme… who lives in an extra-dimensional plain in the multi-verse, where there are now 2,304 genders… (at last count)
I think that’s a Margaret Sanger quote, right Unme? Especially the black ones.
“the abortion rights movement has taken hit after hit”
Correction: abortion rights have taken hits. The movement supporting those rights is as strong as ever, and is likely about to become a whole lot stronger as the consequences of Dobbs transpire and turn out to be absolutely horrifying. I will be shocked if Dobbs lasts even a third as long as Roe. May Roe 2 be an improvement on Roe, may it be based on the 9A instead of the 14A.
I repeat my last post.
No one has the right to kill an unborn child, IT IS NOT A FREAKING RIGHT. IT IS MURDER.
Now, that I’ve gotten Unme out of my system, let me say what I came here to say, and that is the dolts at NPR have it all wrong. First, they’re trying to rewrite political history by blaming Trump for the politicization of the vaccines, when it was Trump’s operation warp speed that brought the vaccines within 9 months while the demon-craps were all harumphing that they would never take the Trump vaccine because they don’t trust it. I never thought I would agree with a democrat, but they were initially right about the vaccines, but then the two groups magically switched sides!
But what I really wanted to say was that the reason the anti-vaxers were so successful in co-opting the “my body my choice” slogan was because the purpose of using that slogan was to point out the hypocracy of the left, who used that slogan to justify killing a child, but conveniently ignored their foundational principle by coercing us to give up our bodily autonomy for a medical experiment. An experiment that is failing so dramatically, the other side can’t bring themselves to admit how wrong they were, because it would incite a massive uprising.
Our position isn’t inconsistent at all. Our position is based on the RIGHT TO LIFE, and to do no harm.
Your position is wrong and indeed inconsistent. Hilariously, you initially praise Operation Warp Speed for all the right reasons in all the right places, then complain about people switching sides, then…switch sides yourself with psychobabble about ‘medical experiments’ and ‘failing dramatically’. The real world data is very clear: the vaccines have been highly effective. Moderna, Pfizer, the others all deserve all the awards. Praise be unto them.
Your comprehension skills are underwhelming. I was NOT PRAISING Op Warp Speed. I was CONDEMNING IT. The two sides did switch positions, or do you deny Kamala outright saying that she would never take a Trump vaccine. Biden said the same thing.
Medical experiments is psychobabble??? Have you had a talk with your Pfizer rep recently? They are admitting that the experiment will only conclude in 2024. As I said in an earlier post, You are living in an alternate plane of existence outside the realm of reality, as you so grievously continue to spout your “clear evidence,” when there are mountains of data proving that you are absolutely wrong.
And one more thing… Stop sounding like eugenicists, because that’s exactly what you sound like when you say unholy things like “Abortion prevents overloading of the healthcare system by eliminating problems before they become problems.” Peoples lives are not “problems” to be solved by abortion!
You don’t cure a disease by killing the patient.
“Now, that I’ve gotten Unme out of my system,….”
I hope you remembered to wipe.
I ran out of TP. 18 rolls wasn’t enough.
They didn’t even mean it for abortion.
The baby can be killed; the woman who refuses an abortion is an enemy of the cause.
It could go on.
Don’t worry libs, Roe V Wade was just a clump of words.
Masterful trolling, sir.
Abortion is just a cover for Eugenics:
https://vimeo.com/147695523
Yes.
Pro-abortionists already mangled this bit of propaganda.
It’s funny to see the cult walk back on this and that men are women too but only they can debate abortion but they can’t.
Again, a cult.