kids opting for covid vaccine without parents permission

[bodsier]

Hi

just wondered what your thoughts were on this. Is this the trajectory going forwards? or just for this vaccination...would be hard to differentiate against other jabs wouldn't it ?

[BellendenBear]

This isn?t a new thing and it isn?t specific to vaccines. Young people can access health care without their parents knowledge and against their wishes providing they are deemed competent to make that https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/child-protection-system/gillick-competence-fraser-guidelines

[oimissus]

I don?t know how children of 12 can be deemed competent to know if a brand new vaccine is worth them taking with the side effects weighed up against the benefits with regards to a new disease. Plenty of adults are unsure about it! I certainly don?t think that school staff should be the ones to assess that competency.

[beck]

It won't be school staff it will be whoever is administering the vaccine.

[tarafitness]

I think it is morally bankrupt and sets a dangerous precedent. It should be up to parents what is injected into their children, particularly when it comes to experimental therapies that have no long term data, and whose risk profile is greater than that of the disease they purport to protect against.

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/13/covid-19-vaccines-for-children-hypothetical-benefits-to-adults-do-not-outweigh-risks-to-children/

[sweetgirl]

tarafitness Wrote:

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> I think it is morally bankrupt and sets a

> dangerous precedent. It should be up to parents

> what is injected into their children, particularly

> when it comes to experimental therapies that have

> no long term data, and whose risk profile is

> greater than that of the disease they purport to

> protect against.

> https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/13/covid-19-vacc

100% agreed!

> ines-for-children-hypothetical-benefits-to-adults-

> do-not-outweigh-risks-to-children/