LANDMARK ANTI-VACCINATION DECISION IN NEW YORK
In many states including New York, it has always been relatively simple to
attend school without ANY shots if you have a religious exemption.
(http://doctoryourself.com/vaccination.html and
http://doctoryourself.com/vaccin_2.html )  But what about parents of
children that are already partially immunized, and change their mind? They
have been often been denied a religious exemption due to health department
or school officials' claims that their religious beliefs are not "sincerely
held" since they have already had vaccinations prior to their new request
for religious exemption.

In January, 2002, U.S. District Court Judge Michael A. Telesca wrote an
important precedent-setting decision: "This court may not pass on the wisdom
of belief, nor on the manner upon which she came to hold that belief,
provided that she maintains a sincere and genuine religious objection to
immunization." In other words, once a person decides, for reasons of
religious conscience, that they do not want any more shots, their decision
is valid even if they previously had their child immunized.

The case is also important because the family in question was devoutly Roman
Catholic.  The Vatican is not opposed to vaccination. This decision allows
individual members of a mainstream church organization to hold personal
spiritual beliefs in addition to their church's official doctrine.

What's more, the family had previously sought, and been denied, a medical
exemption from vaccination.  The judge's ruling renders this point
irrelevant.

(Tokasz, J (2002) Judge forces school to accept girl. Rochester, NY Democrat
and Chronicle, Thurs Jan 31, p B-1)

Much more on the compulsive immunization controversy is posted at these
excellent sites:
http://doctoryourself.com/informed_consent.html
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/Feb_8_02/Scandal3.htm
http://www.vaccinationnews.com
http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.909shot.com
http://www.thinktwice.com
http://www.redflagsweekly.com
http://www.vaccines.bizland.com/
http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/about.html
http://www.avn.org.au/

ALL INFORMATION, DATA, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR PROVIDED HERE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE.  THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.