It is time the Church accepted that even nuns have a right to resist coercive medication

It is time the Church accepted that even nuns have a right to resist coercive medication

The idea that vaccination is the way out of the Covid-19 pandemic is opening up fault lines throughout the free world, felt perhaps most keenly over the question of vaccine mandates, the obligation to accept a jab in order to continue in employment or have access to other freedoms.

It is the issue of coercion, rather than the morality of the vaccines that tends to be the preeminent source of tension between those who seek greater restrictions and those who seek greater freedom.