And there we have it. So coercion for the measles. Under what penalty, pray tell? Jail? Loss of parental rights?
How about chicken pox/varicella? How about HPV/Gardasil? Government coercion for STD vaccinations too? What if someone thinks the CDC schedule is a little too much, or wants to delay some of it. What if it is made with fetal cells that I find morally objectionable?
You put the billy club in the state's hand, Hawthorn, and sooner or later you will find yourself at the business end of it.
No, just don’t send your kid to school where there are other children. You can home school.
It's up to the state governments. Under well-established precedents in constitutional law, going back well into the 1800's per the SCOTUS, vaccination and quarantine regulations are matters of "police power" at the state level. The law is absolutely settled.
>> What if someone thinks the CDC schedule is a little too much, or wants to delay some of it. What if it is made with fetal cells that I find morally objectionable? <<
It's not a matter of federal jurisdiction. CDC has no power to enforce vaccinations or quarantines. What you'll need to do is to move from a "vaccination-required" state, like Mississippi (the highest rate of measles vaccination) to a "vaccination-maybe" state, like California.
>> You put the billy club in the state's hand <<
And since when, in our federal system, have the states not had police power that allows them to coerce people when an epidemic disease threatens? They've had that billy club for well more than 100 years.
>> sooner or later you will find yourself at the business end of it <<
Your metaphorical billy club? Been there, done that. I was subject to a state-imposed quarantine in 1946 when I had scarlet fever, during a period when a couple of other kids in my neighborhood were diagnosed with polio. No complaints from me or my parents. And in fact, I survived OK.