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Parens Patriae and

Mandatory Vaccinations

What You Can Do to Protect Your Children

from Parents Against Mandatory Vaccines

s parents work to oppose laws requiring mandatory
vaccination, and take whatever steps necessary to

Aprotect their children from myriad toxins injected
into the bloodstream, many have wondered why there

is not more relief from the courts. After all, isn't forced
vaccination unconstitutional, and refusal to vaccinate a

fundamental religious right?

Most parents assume that their children belong to them and that they
have a moral obligation to bring them up according to their own beliefs and
standards. However, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has informed its
employees that this is not the case. Citing chapter 13 of their own guidance
documents, entitled "Vaccination Mandates: The Public Health Imperative
and Individual Rights," by Kevin M. Malone and Alan R. Hinman, CDC,
describe the key court cases that have removed these rights from parents,
as well as a little-known doctrine called parens patriae.

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