Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
J Law Health. 2020;34(1):129-154.
In 2019, the United States saw the single largest outbreak of measles in recent history. The measles crisis has prompted state legislative bodies to face a seemingly impossible dilemma: eliminate both religious and philosophical exemptions to mandatory school vaccination statutes or sit by idly and allow measles to continue to run its course. As of June 2019, five states have neither religious nor philosophical exemptions to their mandatory vaccination statutes. This Note argues that states should remove all religious and philosophical exemptions to compulsory vaccination statutes. The 2019 measles outbreak demonstrates that the anti-vaccination movement poses a legitimate risk to the health of the masses, especially to the most vulnerable members of our communities. If individuals continue to opt out of compulsory vaccination requirements, diseases that were eradicated decades ago will undoubtably return to the absolute detriment of those unable to protect themselves.
2019 年，美国爆发了近年来最严重的麻疹疫情。麻疹危机促使州立法机构面临一个看似不可能的困境：要么取消对强制学校接种疫苗法规的宗教和哲学豁免，要么坐视不管，任由麻疹继续蔓延。截至 2019 年 6 月，有五个州既没有宗教豁免，也没有哲学豁免来强制接种疫苗。本说明认为，各州应取消所有对强制性疫苗接种法规的宗教和哲学豁免。2019 年的麻疹疫情表明，反疫苗运动对大众的健康构成了合法的威胁，尤其是对我们社区中最脆弱的成员。如果个人继续选择退出强制接种疫苗的要求，那么几十年前被消灭的疾病无疑将再次出现，这对那些无法保护自己的人绝对不利。
