Religious Exemption The 1st Amendment was created to protect your rights to worship freely. Parents’ rights are protected constitutionally through the 1st Amendment, giving the fundamental right to the upbringing of their children, including the rights to refuse mandatory child immunization. Vaccination is a requirement for all students, but there is also an exception granted with ”religious exemptions” for people who have religious beliefs against immunizations. Religious exception is the right given to individuals to stand against getting vaccination or immunization due to strong religious beliefs. If individuals are looking forward to using religious exemption to avoid the usage of vaccination, this exemption comes with requirements.
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If a parent promotes their child to participate in a sinful activity, it will give a reason for the child to commit more sins, making the religion less valuable in the eye of the child. If vaccines play a role in going against ones faith, the performance should not be taken. According to The History of Vaccines – An Educational Resource By The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the general religious objection towards vaccination is using human tissue cells to create vaccines, and the beliefs that the body is sacred, should not receive certain chemicals, blood or tissues from animals, and should be healed by God or natural means (“Cultural Perspectives on Vaccinations,” 2016) These beliefs are shared upon multiple religions like Christianity, Islam and the Jewish culture. After an individual is vaccinated, the individual has altered its body in ways that god has prohibited. This can lead to major sins for the people who practice such religions. Ingredients in a vaccine can also be a problem for some religions. Religions such as Islam and Judaism prohibit pork. According to University of Auckland – Immunisation Advisory Centre, measles, mumps and rubella, varicella, Rabies, shingles, typhoid oral, and varicella vaccines are known to contain gelatin. Gelatin is a substance derived from pork as a stabilizer for these vaccines. In
If a parent promotes their child to participate in a sinful activity, it will give a reason for the child to commit more sins, making the religion less valuable in the eye of the child. If vaccines play a role in going against ones faith, the performance should not be taken. According to The History of Vaccines – An Educational Resource By The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the general religious objection towards vaccination is using human tissue cells to create vaccines, and the beliefs that the body is sacred, should not receive certain chemicals, blood or tissues from animals, and should be healed by God or natural means (“Cultural Perspectives on Vaccinations,” 2016) These beliefs are shared upon multiple religions like Christianity, Islam and the Jewish culture. After an individual is vaccinated, the individual has altered its body in ways that god has prohibited. This can lead to major sins for the people who practice such religions. Ingredients in a vaccine can also be a problem for some religions. Religions such as Islam and Judaism prohibit pork. According to University of Auckland – Immunisation Advisory Centre, measles, mumps and rubella, varicella, Rabies, shingles, typhoid oral, and varicella vaccines are known to contain gelatin. Gelatin is a substance derived from pork as a stabilizer for these vaccines. In