European Court Of Human Rights Rules That Mandatory Vaccinations Are Legal
European Court Of Human Rights Rules That Mandatory Vaccinations Are Legal
BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, APR 09, 2021 - 05:00 AM Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
The
European Court of Human Rights has ruled that mandatory vaccinations are legal
in a significant judgment that could have a big impact on the rollout of the
COVID-19 jab.
The ruling was in response to a complaint
from a group of Czech families who had been fined and had their children denied
nursery care over their refusal to let their kids take mandatory vaccinations
against nine diseases including diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis
B and measles.
The parents argued that the law was in violation of Article 8 on
the right to respect for private life, but the court disagreed and said that
the compulsory jabs were in the “best interests” of children to ensure “every
child is protected against serious diseases, through vaccination or by virtue
of herd immunity.”
Mandatory vaccinations “could be regarded as being ‘necessary in
a democratic society’,” the court judgment read.
Although
not directly related to COVID, the ruling could have significant implications
given current debates over vaccine passports and whether workers in some jobs
should be forced to take the vaccine as a condition of employment.
This judgment “reinforces the possibility of a compulsory
vaccination under conditions of the current COVID-19 epidemic,” Nicolas
Hervieu, a legal expert specializing in the ECHR, told AFP.
It’s also worth noting that despite having left the European Union as a result of Brexit, the UK, which is currently in the process of planning for domestic vaccine passports, is still a member of the European Court of Human Rights.
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