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

[Michael Bishop]

I am probably one of the few on the list who has never had a vaccination 
for ANY disease. This began because of my being a sickly infant and our 
family doctor advised that I should not have vaccinations. As a result, 
my parents ensured that I (and in fact my elder brother and younger 
sister) had none of the vaccinations when they were provided for most 
children in school.
Of course, back in the 1950's and early 1960's when I would have been 
due for them, there were not so many vaccinations offered. Since I left 
school the subject has never come up for me.

I did have almost all of the childhood diseases: measles, chickem pox, 
mumps, german measles, whooping cough  etc, and my uncle had polio - but 
made a full recovery. Fortunately his wife and children escaped getting 
it from him.

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God bless

Michael Bishop
rev at michaelbishop.name

Rector of Boylestone, Church Broughton, Dalbury, Longford, Long Lane, Sutton-on-the-Hill & Trusley

Diocese of Derby, England

On 31/08/2016 16:42, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> Quite a lot of parents are absolutely convinced that if their children 
> are vaccinated they'll become autistic, nothing to do with religion.
>
> I still decorate a couple of stones in my family plot of an aunt and 
> uncle who died at the ages of 4 and 8 of diphtheria, around 1900.  I 
> noticed this week in the "100 Years Ago" column in the local paper 
> (news stories pulled from the local papers of the week in 1916), that 
> there was another case of typhoid in the county, making only two that 
> summer, of which the first was well on the way to recovery.  The 
> doctor opined that this second kid had caught his swimming in a creek 
> or pond, that the wells were clean.
>
> On 8/31/16 9:34 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>
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