“So if such parents had the kind of moral scruples parents should have, Perry’s policy would require them to essentially swear to a lie about the nature of their objections. “
It is generally the case that government likes to define our conscientious objections for us: you may say you object to this if you object under these grounds, but not on these. This essentially denies the role of conscience for the individual, unless he has enough money and or will to fight the entire system.
You may object to Social Security if you are a minister, and if you believe that ministers should not be beholden to the governing authority, but for no other reason (such as an ethical objection to participating in a Ponzi scheme).
You may not object to vaccination on the grounds that many of them require you to submit your children to a greater individual risk in order to provide possible benefit to the whole.
You may object on religious grounds if you know that many vaccines are grown in cell culture lines from aborted babies (not avian eggs as we were misled to believe) - specifically HEK-293, WI-26, RA-273, MRC-5, WI-38 - but not in some cases if you are Catholic, because some writings from some Catholic sources seem to justify their use in such circumstances.
Courts have used the acceptance of Polio Vaccine as an indication of acceptance of the practice of using Fetal Cells, while ignoring the fact that the public at large, and many doctors, is unaware of what it is “accepting.”
Freedom of conscience, indeed.
Additionally, off topic:
There are court cases (!)and studies disproving an autism-vaccination link based upon mercury, but the following article raises the question of a link between vaccination and autism based upon dramatic spikes in incidence coinciding with introductions of new vaccines containing fetal cells, and questions of whether they may contribute (in combination with genetic factors) to the condition.
Journal of Immunotoxicology, January-March 2011, Vol. 8, No. 1 : Pages 68-79
Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes—A review
Helen V. Ratajczak
(doi: 10.3109/1547691X.2010.545086)
of relevance:
The human DNA from the vaccine can be randomly inserted into the recipient’s genes by homologous recombination,a process that occurs spontaneously only within a species. Hot spots for DNA insertion are found on the X chromosome in eight autism-associated genes involved in nerve cell synapse formation, central nervous system development, and mitochondrial function (Deisher, 2010). This could provide some explanation of why autism is predominantly a disease of boys. Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that residual human DNA in some vaccines might cause autism.
This article is available in several places on the web, but being unsure of the copyright of any of them, I’ll cite it and let you follow it up (access at the source is 43 per day).
Autism is such a burden, and one that is much bigger in numbers today than I saw as a kid and young adult. I’m talking true autism.
What is the cause? So many tie it to vaccines. Despite the denials of the industry, vaccinations remain as likely suspects.
Public health vaccination policies today need wholesale review and re-boot. It also goes to the professional medical and drug class action industry, and juries of citizens who simply should not be juries for intellectual incompetence and moral weakness.
WE DO NOT NEED TO VACCINATE SO MANY WITH SO MANY! A targeted vaccination policy would be so much better and reduce the lifetime toll on those who come down with autism and other lifetime disorders whose initiations occur coincidentally with vaccinations.
The Public Health Laws regarding vaccines were made in an era of true very serious public health risks: Smallpox, Polio, Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Typhoid! Each a dread slaughterer of a disease. It is right to compel vaccination for these.
Measles? Mumps? Warts? Hep-B? These are not mass slaughterers like the others. Dangers and sometimes deadly. All except high-risk sub-populations should be allowed easy opt-out on these, without compulsion on threat of lack of access to some establishment fearing lawsuits.