Posted on 09/06/2025 11:43:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Florida continues to be a leader in the health freedom movement. Emphasizing “God-given” patient choice, Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo declared the state’s intent to eliminate all vaccine mandates.
Included vaccinations are those required for children to attend public schools — such as immunizations against measles, mumps, polio, chickenpox, and hepatitis B. This bold measure, announced at a September 3 press conference alongside Governor Ron DeSantis, marks Florida as the first U.S. state in modern history to abolish such mandates.
DeSantis proclaimed Florida “the national model for health freedom” because of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and because of its continuing commitment to promoting policies and laws that value medical freedom.
For over a century, vaccine mandates in schools have been one of the cornerstones of American public health. The Supreme Court upheld the authority of states to impose mandates as far back as 1905 in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. That precedent has rarely been questioned.
Advocating for the sacredness of bodily autonomy, Ladapo compared vaccine mandates to “slavery,” framing repeal as a profound moral and religious imperative based on parental choice and freedom to choose what “you put in your body.” He asserted that “every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” emphasizing that “our body is a gift from God.”
Ladapo explained that the Florida Department of Health can independently revoke several vaccine mandates via administrative rule changes, whereas others will require legislative approval. The process for administrative rule changes can take around 80 days once initiated.
According to reporting from governing.com and the Tampa Bay Times, “department rules require children to get four vaccines beyond what’s required in state law: Varicella, or chickenpox; Hepatitis B; Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib; and Pneumococcal conjugate, or PCV15/20.”
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If I were young and making choices, I would be willing to take vaccines for polio and smallpox. That’s it.
I think it bans the “forcing” of vaccines ...
Headline: “Ban vaccines”
Article: “Eliminate vaccine mandates”.
Big difference.
Banning vaccines is very different from banning vaccine mandates.
It’s the Democrat narrative
The vaccines are mostly to mitigate discomfort very few like the polio vaccine.
“Banning”? Or not making them mandatory.
During the early days of the Covid not-a-vaccine I kept thinking about that people should be able to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Informed decisions were not possible because most of the medical profession as well as the government were lying to us.
When they changed the definition of “vaccine” to accommodate the clot shot, peoples’ faith in ALL the products stared becoming doubtful.
Like everything else these godless, communist basstids touch, they destroy.
Lapado leapt right over the scientific jargon and even the legality of mandates, and grabbed the issue of morality.
In essence, he argued it is ‘wrong’ —immoral— to force a child to take an injected substance that their parents don’t want.
Yeah, what he said.
There are vaccines that make sense, but it will depend on the way the vaccines were produced and tested. No mRNAs for me, thank you! Only the tried and true are acceptable options.
Yep, the headline is serious clickbait.
They are not “banning” vaccines. They are making them voluntary.
Headline writers are stupid.
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