A federal appeals court ruled Friday against a group of New York parents who sued after the state made it more difficult for children to get a medical exemption from school immunization requirements, which were tightened after a major measles outbreak in 2019.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by families and Children’s Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group.
The lawsuit challenged state rules adopted in 2019 that did away with religious exemptions for vaccines and narrowed eligibility for medical exemptions down to children with just a few rare conditions, like severe allergic reactions to a previous dose of vaccine or certain, severe immune system diseases. The state’s allowed exemptions follow guidelines from a federal advisory panel.
The families argued the regulations violated their rights because school officials could deny requests on behalf of vulnerable children even when a doctor certified a medical need for an exemption.
The appeals panel rejected that argument, writing in the decision that “the new regulations require requests to comply with evidence-based national standards for the purpose of ensuring that physicians do not recommend medical exemptions in conclusory fashion or for non-medical reasons.”
New York’s longstanding vaccination rules don’t include a mandate for children to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Sujata Gibson, an attorney for the plaintiffs, who hailed from a variety of school districts around the state, said she was disappointed in the decision.
“The real question here is: Who decides when you are looking at medical exemptions?” she said. “Is it the treating physician, or is it the school principal?”
Resistance to vaccines helped fuel a measles outbreak that sickened nearly 1,300 people in 2019, the highest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992.
Vaccine hesitancy persists in some of the New York communities that were the epicenter of that outbreak. Earlier this month, health officials in Rockland County, northwest of New York City, reported that an unvaccinated young adult had become infected with polio in the first U.S. case of the disease in nearly a decade.
(AP)
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Because everyone comprehends that vaccines save lives.
You heard me correct:- Saves lives:- Even sleepy joe has been inconvenienced twice back to back, but at no point has this sleepy 79 year old had his life in danger from Corona, because of his 2 boosters & 4 jabs.
“Resistance to vaccines helped fuel a measles outbreak that sickened nearly 1,300 people in 2019, the highest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992.” This is opinion.
Measles are a typical childhood illness that should be allowed to express itself if it occurs. Big Pharma cunningly saw an opportunity in developing another useless – and harmful vaccine campaign, bent on repressing childhood measles. This is not traditional healing philosophy – it is opportunism at the people’s expense.
New York has become a ‘bought’ state, as has become California, which was the first state to repeal ‘vaccine exemption choice’ under its fearful Governor in ‘2016. Several other currently ‘despotic democratic’ states have now also succumbed to Big Pharma’s coercions – last year Connecticut and Maine repealed their exemption laws for now also.
Fortunately, New Jersey citizens were successful in ‘2019 in avoiding Big Pharma’s attempted takeover of their exemption laws by marching on Trenton in great numbers several times. New York has not yet succeeded in undoing the repeal we are now shackled under. Our sole legal option to protect our children from vaccinations in New York state is either sending them to schools out-of-state, or home-schooling. Or perhaps, by moving to Florida!
This is tyranny and should not be accepted. The Nuremberg Laws demand ‘informed consent’ for any medical procedure as a right for all persons. Many of our ancestors perished under tyrannies that occurred with chemical ‘delousing’ and other abuses before these laws were put into place and recognized.
We must ask ourselves what we are doing to protect ourselves and our progeny toward the future to come! Repeal of laws empowering ‘vaccine exemptions’ in schools and in the workplace is not a sound idea in any way whatsoever!
“Measles are a typical childhood illness that should be allowed to express itself if it occurs.”
Prior to the vaccine, hundreds of children died every year in the US alone from measles and even more suffered from encephalitis which can cause permanent brain damage. There is no treatment and no cure. It is so contageous that there is no real way to prevent every single person from getting infected who comes in contact with another infected person even indirectly.
In addition to California, New York, Connecticut, and Maine, both Mississippi and West Virginia also prohibit non-medical exemptions from vaccination. Those states care about the lives of their children and ignore ignorant anti-science rants like yours. To compare lifesaving vaccines to the Nazi medicine is the worst kind of false witness, one of the things explicitly prohibited in the Ten Commandments.
Lastword, shut up. You are spouting dangerous nonsense, and on top of that you’re discrediting all those who are justly concerned about the Wuhan “vaccine”, by making them look like they’re against real vaccines too.