Parents Have No Right To Refuse Vaccinations For Their Children Says NYU Professor

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New York University professor Arthur L. Caplan, PhD says that parents should not have a right to refuse vaccinations for their children.

He believes that what he calls the “vaccination rights” of children should supersede the legal right of their parents to exercise informed consent.

He offered his opinion on the question of whether children have “vaccination rights” during a video commentary which was published last month in Medscape.

The Vaccine Reaction reports: Dr. Caplan thinks that what he defines as the “vaccination rights” of minor children supersede the legal right of their parents to exercise informed consent to vaccination on their children’s behalf if a parent elects to decline one or more government recommended vaccines for whatever reason. He claims that vaccinating children represents a higher moral imperative than respecting the informed consent rights of parents.

“I want to point out a moral stance that I don’t think has gotten enough attention, which is that every child has the right to be vaccinated,” said Caplan. “We keep talking about parents’ right to say yes or no, to avoid mandates or requirements, or to do what they choose to do. Someone has to speak up and say, ‘Well, what about the kids? Don’t they have any rights?’”1

Caplan believes that if parents refuse to vaccinate their kids the government has the right to override the legal right of parents to make medical care decisions for their children. Caplan argues that the government has the duty to vaccinate the children without the consent of the parents and by force, if need be. “If the parents won’t do it, I think it’s the responsibility of the state or the government to do it,” said Caplan. “The presumption should be not listening to what parents who don’t want to vaccinate are saying, but starting out with a presumption that kids have a right to fight off deadly diseases, that kids who can’t be vaccinated have a right to protection. How do we move public policy forward from there?”1

Attempts to answer Caplan’s question about how to “move public policy forward” on the issue of parental rights regarding vaccination of their children are already well underway in the United States. Legislation has been introduced in states like California that would seek to give government the right to make health care decisions for children, even against the wishes of their parents, if the state deems the decisions to be in the best interests of the children.2 3

Such legislation would also allow government authorities to take legal physical custody of children in cases where parents refuse to comply with mandates forcing or coercing them to vaccinate their children.2 3

The thrust of Caplan’s thought process is that, at least when it comes to vaccination of children, parents should be stripped of their informed consent rights. Apparently, Caplan takes the view that the informed health care decisions that parents make for their children are just not relevant if those decisions conflict with government policy.

But it is precisely this “long held legal right to make informed, voluntary decisions about pharmaceutical products and medical procedures that carry risks for their children,” says Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), that is “all that stands between parents and exploitation of their children by those in positions of power in society with a personal or professional vested interest in forcing every child to use pharmaceutical products that are not safe or effective for every child.”4

References:

1 Caplan AL. Do Children Have Vaccination Rights? Medscape Oct. 22, 2018.
2 California’s SB-18 Seeks To Further Erode Parental Rights: Richard Acts For Pharma Yet Again. Age of Autism Dec. 9, 2016. 
3 Schmidt D. Sickening legislation: Senator Richard Pan wants to take away parental rights in healthcare decisions. NaturalHealth365.com Feb. 11, 2017.
4 Fisher BL. Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Children Are Being Taken. NVIC.org Sept. 5, 2011.

9 Comments

  1. So, children can get an abortion, but cannot prevent a vaccine that is possible to kill them. Since we KNOW that some people will die from vaccine, shouldn’t this be considered premeditated murder on the part of this professor? Remember, he is claiming that the government has the right to knowingly kill innocent children.

    I use the LEGAL definition of premeditated murder – meaning “a murder that was planned in advance and was carried out willfully.” You would have to change the death to “lawful” and therefore the right of the government to knowingly kill innocent children.

    FACT: Over half of the people who will die this year is due to medical negligence or medical mistakes. That’s > 50%, however, less than a half of a percent < .5% will die from the use of a gun.

    Change my mind.

  2. What a stupid “professor.” Read the US Constitution and Bill of Rights – that’s the law in the USA and it gives me full rights to accept or refuse. We choose to refuse pharma poisons. They’re designed to harm and kill – all part of the satanic NWO cabal eugenics program. Learn the truth, not the deceptions, lies and fraud.

  3. Education has been a tool of government for a very long time. Most Universities today are socialist communist and support the idea of big government with a central bank dictatorship. The fools remain brainwashed for their entire lives and are cowards reluctant to question the fraudulent scientific research funded by the pharmaceutical cartels.

  4. Dear Mr. Professor: you have NO RIGHT to tell me what I can and cannot do with MY child. How f’in dare you? I sure hope you have no children, you aren’t fit to care for a goldfish, let alone a child.

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