Candace Owens Attacked for Tweeting 'Medical Freedom Is an Individual Right'
Daily Wire host Candace Owens trended on Twitter on Thursday after experiencing a backlash for her comments about her family’s decision not to take the coronavirus vaccine.
“Not one person in my family will ever touch the Covid-19 vaccine,” Owens tweeted on Wednesday evening.
“That is the decision that we have made, unabashedly, as a family,” she said.
“Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government.”
Not one person in my family will ever touch the Covid-19 vaccine.
That is the decision that we have made, unabashedly, as a family.
Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government.— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 7, 2021
By Thursday morning, more than 16,700 tweets had been posted in response to her words, trending in the top 10 overall on Twitter.
A second tweet by Owens further expanded on her view that medical freedom is a personal right.
“As an employer — I can assure you that no employee at my company will ever be pressured to put any substance into their body as a condition of their employment,” she said.
“Medical freedom is a corporate policy.”
As an employer— I can assure you that no employee at my company will ever be pressured to put any substance into their body as a condition of their employment.
Medical freedom is a corporate policy.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 7, 2021
Some attacked Owens as suddenly turning “pro-choice.”
Check this out she finally understands pro choice @RealCandaceO pic.twitter.com/XHF0wmLnpT
— James Scott (@Jscott1145) July 8, 2021
Owens quickly responded to the accusation.
I have always been pro medical-choice and anti-the murder of infants.
Not sure why this seems to have startled some on the Left who wish to conflate the two ideologies. https://t.co/fFzHuaukrO— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 8, 2021
Some criticisms reached absurd levels, with Owens reposting one response she claimed, “This made me laugh out loud.”
“Not one person in Candace’s unvaccinated family should go on a plane, enter a business, eat out at a restaurant, or attend a concert since they’re still, and choose to be, spreaders of the deadly COVID virus that’s killed more than 600,000 Americans. Put her photo behind counter,” said Jeremy Newberger, the CEO of a documentary film company.
This made me laugh at loud.
You people are genuinely nuts. Lol https://t.co/k60ZGMh36v— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 8, 2021
Many Americans continue to hold strong views regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. President Joe Biden conceded the nation fell short of his goal of 70 percent of Americans receiving at least one vaccine shot by July 4.
Controversy ensued when he said in a speech that people could soon show up “door-to-door” to encourage Americans to be vaccinated.
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