Health and Immunization Law
York State Information about the state's vaccination law - and more.
Emergency Health Powers Act
NY weighs taking extraordinary powers
New York City
General Information on Changing the Laws Useful to those
inside and outside the Empire State.
The National Vaccine Information Center offers very useful information about
all state vaccination laws and
exemptions. NVIC (nvic.org) is tracking vaccination bills in many state legislatures. Join their
Advocacy Team and get details of the bills listed at https://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Home.aspx.
National Issues and Information
Basically understood as
the right to adequate information about the risks and benefits about any proposed medical procedure and the
right of the patient to refuse such procedure(s), "informed consent" would seem to have been nullified by
government mandated universal vaccination. Nonetheless, in Informed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice (1995), the
American Academy of Pediatrics presents its views on this noble principle and human right. They summarize:
In this statement, the AAP provides an updated analysis of 1) the concept of informed consent; 2) the
ethics of informed consent and the concept of the right to refuse treatment; 3) the concept of "proxy
consent"; 4) the concepts of parental permission and child assent; and 5) informed consent of adolescents.
The Law of Vaccination - Toward Radical Reform
Stan Lippmann (University of Washington School of Law)
"A basic question of justice is whether any harm can knowingly come to an innocent group member for the good of the group."