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- Title
DECOUPLING VACCINE LAWS.
- Authors
REISS, DORIT RUBINSTEIN
- Abstract
School immunization requirements are an effective way of increasing vaccine rates and reducing outbreaks, but they may have a dark underside. Although such mandates protect the general public, the availability of exemptions may be open to exploitation as a tool to try to undermine other avenues for protecting the vaccine-deprived children themselves. This essay argues that exemptions from school immunization requirements should not be understood to limit the protections available to children due to a decision to withhold vaccines. The existence of an exemption should, however, prevent criminal prosecution if a child dies from a preventable disease, because a parent can justifiably believe they were acting legally.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VACCINATION of children laws; EXEMPTION (Law); EDUCATIONAL law &; legislation; VACCINES; PARENT-child legal relationship; DECISION making in prosecution; PREVENTIVE medicine; PUBLIC health laws; RELIGION; EDUCATIONAL law cases; MEDICAL laws
- Publication
Boston College Law Review, 2017, Vol 58, p9
- ISSN
0161-6587
- Publication type
Article