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A judge has just taken away a Chicago mother’s right to visit her child because she is unvaccinated, in yet another absurd example of COVID authoritarianism. On Aug. 10, Cook County Judge James Shapiro enquired about Rebecca Firlit’s vaccination status during a child support hearing via video call with her ex-husband of seven years to determine the terms of shared custody of their 11-year-old son. After Firlit informed the judge she didn’t get the vaccine because she’d had bad responses to prior immunizations, he ordered her parental rights to visit her son be taken away until she was inoculated. “I...

For the past two weeks, Firlit has been able to speak to her son on the phone and via video calls, but has not seen him in person. A mother from Chicago says a Cook County judge stripped her of her parental rights after learning she was not vaccinated against COVID-19. All parties agree that it is a very unusual and perhaps unprecedented move: A judge at the Daley Center in Chicago has stripped of custody of Rebecca Firlit for refusing to get a vaccination. Firlit and her ex-husband appeared in court through Zoom for a child support hearing involving...