[Magdalen] Federal court backs law removing religious exemption from vaccinations.

[Jay Weigel]

Heck, I remember BEING quarantined for measles and mumps (possibly rubella
too, although my recollections are a little foggy and run together) in that
awful year I was in 4th grade, when we had everything *except* chicken pox,
which we'd had earlier! And it was the summer just before that I came home
to learn that a neighbor boy in my grade (but not in my class) had died of
polio. These idiot parents don't have a CLUE and I wish I could slap it
into them!

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This issue is so complex and fueled by ignorance IMNSHO. It is definitely
> not only the religious fundies who oppose vaccinations.
> It makes me feel REALLY old when I realize that we are several generations
> removed from being part of or having experiential connections to the days
> of extreme quarantine where people were lawfully confined to their homes,
> or childhood deaths or blindness from measles, crippling and death from
> polio and little boys rendered 'sterile' by mumps. Somehow mandated medical
> preventative care has become a vast government conspiracy while at the same
> time it has taken on the overtone of Big Brother.  Is our news media too
> young to tell the stories that predate their birth??
>
> Lynn
>
>
>
> www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would
> not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you
> gave me'. attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
>
> On Aug 30, 2016, at 11:16 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> Denying a child a vaccination (especially in today's world!) is a valid
> exercise of religious freedom.  Right.
>
> Keep talkin', Rome (and mindless Fundies).  The rest of us will not stop
> reminding you that your personal version of "religious freedom exercise"
> has no right and decent connection to the health of the general populace,
> much less children.
>
> *****
>
> Catholic World News
> Federal court backs law removing religious exemption from vaccinations
> August 30, 2016
>
> A federal judge has ruled that California’s interest in protecting the
> health of its citizens takes precedence over the First Amendment right to
> free exercise of religion.
>
> US District Court Judge Dana Sabraw issued his ruling in response to a
> lawsuit filed against a new state law that removed the personal-belief
> exemption from the mandatory childhood vaccination law.
>
> “Even outside the context of vaccination laws, the Supreme Court has
> reiterated the fundamental rights under the First Amendment to the United
> States Constitution do not overcome the State’s interest in protecting a
> child’s health,” the judge wrote in his decision.
>
> “The Constitution does not require the provision of a religious exemption
> to vaccination requirements, much less a personal belief exemption,” the
> judge added.
>