Mattie McGrath TD has turned one of the political and media establishment’s favourite hackneyed cliché against them when he declared “My Body, My Choice” outside the Dáil on Tuesday when speaking to reporters about the government’s plan for vaccine passports.
Independent TDs Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy Rae correctly proclaimed that their vaccination status is their private business and refused to reveal if they will accept the experimental Covid-19 jab.
Deputy McGrath told reporters:
“That’s that question that I’ve been asked, but I said, that’s another area of constitutional rights, your bodily integrity,” he said.
“We had a situation a couple of years ago, in the Repeal situation, where the main slogan was ‘my body, my choice’.
“So it’s my body, my choice, and it’s a matter between me and my GP.”
The stalwart representative went onto say:
“If you study history and I’m not a historian, you can see what happened in Germany.
There is huge correlations, it’s exactly the same if you want to study it, exactly the same, restriction of movements, couldn’t go where they wanted to go, treated like.
“I’m comparing what went on in early Germany and the people had such fear and that’s what happened, so I am comparing, yeah, that’s for me to compare and for anyone else who wants to read history, make their own decisions on it.”
Mr McGrath previously compared taxi men not being able to protest during the pandemic to “Nazi Hitler times”.
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