@Leila wrote:
Some thoughts: First, I just don't understand the controversy. When I was growing up in New England, along about March, when the snow had melted, we would all get into the car and drive to the woods. We would gather brakes. We would put them in the car. Then when we got back home, of course we would take the brakes out of the car. My mom would peel them and cook them for supper. What is the fuss involving a mechanic with brakes?
Ohhh...THOSE brakes...and this is actually about vaccinations? Well, arguments about the right of individuals to not be vaccinated actually is settled unless someone runs it up the courts to the Supreme Court again. In Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court ruled that the state could tell you that you must be vaccinated. This was in1905 and it was about smallpox vaccinations. Still in effect for other diseases, though.
My comment here is that I see politicians that I suspect know that this is settled law out there trumpeting to their voters that this is a “family choice.” Someone already noted in another article comment, that if that is their argument, then abortion also should be a “family choice” for them. Ha! As if. Anyway it's pretty amazingly slimy of them considering their own children are vaccinated. Another situation where what they are really saying is, “I've got mine, too bad about you.”
Leila