The mandates & exemptions regime -- Last tweaks -- Mobilizing for the nonmedical exemptions bill -- Social meaning and political conflict -- Drawing the wrong lessons from the history of mandates -- Powerful doctors and underfunded public health -- The ethics and public acceptability of mandates -- Policy limitations and America's institutions -- Conclusion : confronting dystopia.
Summary:
"The air was electric at California's Capitol. At a rally on the building steps, one speaker after another railed against a new bill to regulate parents' vaccination choices. If it passed, parents could no longer skirt California's daycare and school vaccine requirements by claiming religious or philosophical objections to vaccines. In response to attempts to eliminate these nonmedical exemptions (NMEs), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shouted to the crowd that "parents know best" when it comes to their children's health. Bob Sears, the pediatrician author of best-seller The Vaccine Book, called on parents to "Get out there and fight for your rights!" Protestors, many of them dressed in red shirts, chanted, "My Child, My Choice." Signs amplified their message: "Force my veggies, not vaccines" and "Protect the Children, Not Big Pharma.""-- Provided by publisher.
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