By William Wagner
RenewAmerica

Excerpts:

You, not the State, hold responsibility and authority over decisions concerning the upbringing of your children. This timeless truth provides an objective moral standard essential to the preservation of liberty and good governance under the rule of law. Indeed, the Supreme Court repeatedly describes this self-evident truth as a fundamental constitutional liberty – both as a right to the free exercise of religious conscience under the First Amendment and as an implied right under the liberty protected by the 14th Amendment.

In a frightening example of statism, California plans, by force of law, to impose vaccinations on the children of California parents. Because the State ties its vaccination mandate to education, its decree removes their right to control and direct the upbringing of their child both as to educational choice and as to medical decisions in their best interest. To ensure its State-mandated decision for their child stands, the proposed law also abolishes all exemptions protecting religious conscience or personal belief (no matter how true the belief is).

Replacing the sacred parental right to responsibly decide a child’s vaccination need with an authoritarian mandate merely creates an illusion of a nation willing to protect fundamental freedoms. Such a course inevitably erodes essential foundations of good governance. Those who came before us built our constitutional democratic republic upon the foundations of faith, family, and freedom. The self-evident inviolable standard that parents are best equipped to make decisions in the best interests of their children is not subject to the morally relative utilitarian whim of shifting governmental regime preferences. Government is supposed to protect a parent’s freedom, not seize it and exercise it for them.

Read the Full Article here.

William Wagner is Professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights at Trinity Law School in Santa Ana.

National Vaccine Information Center Advocacy Portal

Register online (FREE) to receive updates from your state regarding protecting your right to informed consent to vaccination! Sign up for alerts from your state so you can take action when bureaucrats or health officials try to take away your rights to refuse vaccines!