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Supreme Court Says Mandatory Vaccinations Don't Violate Children's Constitutional Rights

• thefreethoughtproject.com

The SCOTUS's failure to hear the case effectively states that mandatory vaccination of all public school children, doesn't violate their constitutional rights.

A lower court had ruled that the school vaccination requirement, which three parents had legally challenged after their unvaccinated children were prohibited from attending school, did not violate the constitutional rights of the children.

The appeals court also upheld a decision that children exempted from vaccinations due to religious reasons could be prohibited from school attendance in the event of a disease outbreak that is vaccine preventable.

According to a report by the Associated Press:

In the New York case, two students who were not vaccinated on religious grounds were temporarily barred from going to school after a fellow student was diagnosed with chicken pox. The family of the third student challenged the statute after a judge denied her mother's request for a vaccine exemption, finding that the mother's concerns were primarily health-related and not based in religion.


 


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