Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 11, 2008

Last November, hundreds of children were herded into a Maryland courthouse at gunpoint. There, surrounded by riot police and guard dogs, they were forcibly vaccinated. Their parents had been threatened with criminal charges, despite the fact that state law didn?t require childhood vaccination.

The case of nine-year-old Georgia resident Hannah Poling helps explain why some parents object to mandatory childhood vaccination.

Hannah suffers from autism as a result of a vaccination administered during a home visit by a social worker. Two of the shots contained thimerosal, a toxic mercury additive.

While insisting that there is no proven link between childhood vaccinations and autism, federal officials have made Hannah and her family eligible for payments from a vaccine injury fund.

Government officials insist that Hannah?s tragic situation is not typical, and that childhood vaccination offers huge public health benefits. They may be right on both counts. But Hannah?s experience underscores the need to defer to parental judgment regarding childhood vaccinations.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.