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His argument was against vaccines and not pro abortion. In the anti-choice mind, you can both be anti-choice and anti-vaccine as the choice to abortion impacts not just your body but someone else’s (i.e., the baby’s).
They can make both arguments without being in contradictions from each other.
They are still contradictions. As we saw, there is collateral damage to hospitals and emergency resources when anti-vaccine folks hate science until they are on their death bed.
With that said, now we are doing better to the point that anti-vaccers aren't overloading hospitals and my argument becomes moot. But during a period of time once vaccines initially were available, anti-vaccine folks were definitely hurting other people.
Unfortunately this is a dead end argument for conservatives. Their entire platform is built on "rules for thee, not for me". I still enjoy pointing this out to conservatives but it never goes anywhere.