Risks of Child Vaccination Outweighed By Health Benefits
27th November, 2020In the best traditions of a free society, vaccination is not compulsory in the UK and anyone is entitled to withhold consent to being inoculated. In an important ruling, however, the High Court overruled a mother's moral and safety objections to her four-year-old son taking part in the national child vaccination programme. The mother was an educated and principled woman who looked after her son very well. She was concerned about the ingredients of vaccines and the harm that they might cause to her son's health. Despite medical advice that...