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Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com)
Ontario is considering making parents who choose to not vaccinate their children for non-medical reasons take a science class. The health ministry of Canada's most populous province has proposed a bill which would force those parents sit through the education session before applying for a vaccine exemption. In the class, they will be taught about the importance of vaccination for their children. Quartz offers more context: Ontario was the first province in Canada to introduce immunization laws (PDF) in 1982, which required children attending school be vaccinated against certain diseases -- including diphtheria, tetanus, polio, and measles -- unless they have a signed exemption. After routine immunization was introduced, cases of those diseases dramatically reduced.
Parents who apply for an exemption (PDF) for non-medical reasons risk having their child pulled from school if there's an outbreak, or the immediate risk of an outbreak, of a designated disease.
and this is when you realize that moderation on this site is completely crooked and 100% in line with the agenda of the publisher and the interests holding its leash
Your children aren't *yours*, they are individuals with a right to a minimum standard of care. If you can't or won't provide that standard of care, then they belong with someone who will.
You should go join ISIS with that viewpoint...
Seriously, you will reject that and not understand, but I'm more right than you'll admit...