Brisbane Supreme Court Justice Jean Dalton ordered two parents to urgently take their 40-hour-old child to the hospital for Hepatitis B vaccinations because the child had a 20 per cent chance of being infected with the virus. The baby’s mother had a chronic form of Hep B.
Doctors said if the child was infected it was almost certain to develop cancer or liver disease.
The parents were opposed to vaccinations on religious and philosophical grounds (the father did not trust pharmaceutical companies) but Justice Dalton, whose decision was made last year but published today, found the child’s immediate welfare outweighed the concerns of the parents.
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I'm a little uncomfortable for the Government selectively making vacination compulsory. I was under the impression that vacinating your kids was a matter of choice in this country.
As the matter is now, you are always going to have "at risk" babies like the baby in the article not getting vacinated.
But in reality all unvacinated children are at risk of getting life threatening diseases.
Maybe it's time that the Government made childhood vacinations compulsory. Want a medicare card that allows you treatment in the Australian medical system? Prove that the child's vacinations are up to date, miss a vacination and your medicare card gets cancelled. How easy is that...
Well, if you are into big brother government activities like that, might I suggest you read 1984? It should provide you with lots of ideas.
Meanwhile, this is a free country, it would definitively be problematic to human rights for the government to force all people have their children injected with any substances!
Cant believe it's been 21 years since Victor Chang was killed. What an awesome man who left behind a great legacy.