With an eight-week miscarriage in my past, there was no way I was going to get vaccinated that early on with a shot still under Emergency Use Authorization and that was explicitly not tested on pregnant women, no matter what the experts said (which, at the time, was muddled advice at best, with somewhat different recommendations from the World Health Organization, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Centers for Disease Control, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

At first, the Johnson and Johnson vaccine seemed it might be the best option for pregnant women, given that it’s a traditional vaccine.

Despite no consensus of new, peer-reviewed clinical data on pregnant women and the vaccine, seemingly overnight all of the major health authorities suddenly coalesced from their muddled opinions into a united front, and started urging pregnant women to get the shots.

What’s more, the health authorities who manage those databases and run all of our major health institutions are not actually urging pregnant “women” to get vaccinated, but pregnant “people.” That’s right, “people,” because as we are reminded again and again by the highest and purportedly best medical authorities in the land, “Women aren’t the only ones who can get pregnant, you know.”.

So, if you want to know why I, at nearly 30 weeks pregnant and married to a fully vaccinated doctor, am not yet vaccinated against COVID-19, suffice it to say that I have determined there is a possibility that our major health institutions might not have my unborn daughter’s best interests at heart.

In addition, the data about low vaccination rates among pregnant women indicates that there are many, many other mothers out there who have made the same calculation.