Anti-Vaxx Parents Sue Rockland County Over Measles Restrictions
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School Parents Sue Rockland Over Measles Restrictions | Pearl Ri..
Some 20 parents of children enrolled at the Green Meadow Waldorf School are suing Rockland County over its public health restrictions on schools with low vaccination rates. They'll be in court Tuesday.
The parents say the medical value of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination is debatable, according to The Journal News. The parents in the lawsuit also said they had valid religious exemptions from vaccination, that the county was violating their constitutional rights, and that their children were traumatized by being kept from school.
Rockland County Attorney Thomas Humbach said the county would fight the Green Meadows parents.
"These religious exemptions run the gamut from references to organized Christian doctrine to a generalized spirituality," he said. "As the case progresses, we expect several of the exemptions to be challenged, as not evincing a sincere religious belief against vaccination."
Pretty much suing for the right to poison their own kid, if you want to be a moron then at least abide by the rules.
Hopefully the courts tell them to get fucked.
fine them $25,000 for wasting the court's time and call it a day. If they can afford it, make the fine bite a little more, so they don't do it again.
Rockland County Attorney Thomas Humbach said the county would fight the Green Meadows parents.
"As the Supreme Court of the United States has held, the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint; and, the right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death."
Good man.
The parents say the medical value of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination is debatable ... the parents ... also said they had valid religious exemptions from vaccination, that the county was violating their constitutional rights, and that their children were traumatized by being kept from school.
These parents' mental well-being and capability for making rational parenting decisions is debatable, religion should have absolutely fuck-all to do with society-wide vaccination requirements to maintain herd immunity, Americans do not have the constitutional right to be a biological weapon, and these children are probably being traumatized by realizing their parents are pseudoscientific cult morons who reject basic scientific reality more than they are being kept away from school.
But you know I'm not a parent so my opinion is uninformed or something
why does my hometown have to be like this
Fine them and refer them to child protective services.
I'd look at them twice and say "you seem like the kind of person to let a child die..." while holding a set of handcuffs.
Can you imagine if people tried to excuse child brides/child rape or human sacrifices with "MUH RELIGIOUS FREEDOM" like people do with vaccines? It's fucking disgusting that these people have the support they do. I hope the courts destroy them.
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