Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This is scary...
no right to refuse ???
“Now Nana hold still...we’re going to give you a shot of poison to kill you cause you are old and useless...whether or not you want it...”
At 63, I hear that!
I don’t have a problem with “no right to refuse” when we’re talking about middle-schooler whose parents want him to get the vaccination.
It looks like the sheriff’s deputies and the school authorities were acting as the agents of the mother, who had requested ad arranged for the shots. Most children do not want to be stuck with a needle, but, just as in this situation, it is the parent’s decision not the child’s. It is unfortunate that the mother, having set everything up, failed in her duty to comfort and restrain her child and ran out on her son.