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A Brooklyn judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an anonymous group of parents who argued the mandatory measles vaccination order imposed by the mayor earlier this month was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
\u201cA fireman need not obtain the informed consent of the owner before extinguishing a house fire. Vaccination is known to extinguish the fire of contagion<\/em>,\u201d Judge Lawrence Knipel wrote in his decision<\/a>, calling the mandatory vaccination order \u201ca rare but necessary step<\/em>\u201d and dismissing the parents\u2019 arguments that it violates their religious freedom, medical ethics, and \u201cinternationally accepted human rights principles such as the Nuremberg Code<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Five parents, identified only by their initials, challenged the constitutionality of the order earlier this week in Brooklyn Supreme Court, slamming the measure as \u201carbitrary and capricious<\/em>\u201d and demanding an immediate halt to enforcement. In addition to violating their right to \u201cindividual autonomy, informed consent and free exercise of religion<\/em>,\u201d they claimed<\/a> the city had failed to show evidence of a genuine public health crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n The emergency order mandates vaccination in anyone over the age of six months who lives, works, or attends school in several Brooklyn zip codes, home to large concentrations of Orthodox Jews. At least three parents of unvaccinated children have already been slapped with a $1,000 fine and threatened with another $2,000 penalty if they do not appear in court. Several Orthodox schools and preschools have been temporarily shuttered for failing to turn over their immunization and attendance records to city health authorities, while over 20 more have received warnings.<\/p>\n New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared the emergency almost two weeks ago, citing an alarming rise in measles cases and blaming \u201canti-vaxxers\u201d<\/em> for spreading \u201cfake science.\u201d<\/em> The disease has infected 329 New Yorkers since September, many of them children of Orthodox Jewish families living in Brooklyn, making it the worst \u201coutbreak\u201d<\/em> since 1991 \u2013 though some have argued that 329 cases of a non-fatal disease in a city of 8.6 million people does not rise to the level of a \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Brooklyn judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an anonymous group of parents who argued the mandatory measles vaccination order imposed by the mayor earlier this month was unconstitutional. \u201cA fireman need not obtain the informed consent of the owner before extinguishing a house fire. Vaccination is known to extinguish the fire of contagion,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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