Your right not to get your kids vaccinated does not supercede my right not to get sick

[holly_evolving]

Article on the first mandatory vaccines in the U.S.

“the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person, to be, at all times and in all circumstances wholly free from restraint.”


http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/12/1215boston-school-vaccination-law

Comments

[wolf-nd-shadows.livejournal.com]

Wait, you mean our rights are not natural law, but based on some sort of social contract where we surrender some freedoms in order to maintain a properly functioning society?

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

Precisely my basis.