COVID-19 vaccination should be routinely recommended during pregnancy

A policy proposition favoring a routine recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy. It reflects ACOG's continuing recommendation and is informed by CDC's pregnancy safety and effectiveness evidence; it does not propose compulsory vaccination.

A single-payer system could address rising medical costs and expand coverage to all Americans.

Minors should be allowed abortions without parental knowledge

Mature minors should be allowed to make their own medical decisions

All recreational drugs should be legalized

Medicare for All is a viable solution to the U.S. healthcare crisis

Social media has made humanity less happy

Fathers should have a say in whether a pregnancy is continued

US public schools should start later in the morning so students are better rested

Minors should be allowed abortions without parental consent

Parents should be barred from refusing life-saving care for children on religious grounds

Clothing ads should disclose digitally altered body shapes

Minors should be offered cosmetic surgery only for medical needs

Cosmetic-procedure ads should be banned in spaces primarily used by teenagers

Doctors should be allowed to refuse abortions on conscience grounds

The principle that individual freedom should be secondary to public safety can be weaponized, and its negative externalities outweigh the positive benefits

Public health emergencies can be used by the powerful to seize freedom

In liberal democracies, the balance between personal autonomy and public safety is ideally negotiated democratically over time

In a democratic system, a government can legitimately make decisions that improve societal health at the expense of some individual freedoms

People carrying a serious contagious illness are not permitted to go out in public

Individuals with a very contagious and serious illness should not be permitted in public where they can transmit the disease to others

Prioritizing public health over individual freedom allows people to seize power and unjustifiably abrogate individual freedom during a crisis