Wed May 17, 2023 – 4:55 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Two children in Rhode Island have been vaccinated for COVID-19 against their father’s wishes and despite having acquired natural immunity from prior infection after the state’s Supreme Court sided with their mother’s demands that they receive the shots in a case stemming from the couple’s divorce.
The Epoch Times reported that the case concerns Lauren and Joshua Nagel’s divorce settlement, under which their daughters’ health decision are to be made jointly and “neither party shall unreasonably withhold his or her consent to medical treatment for the children or the administration of medication recommended by the pediatrician of the children.” But their mother wanted them to receive COVID vaccines based on the advice of their pediatrician, to which their father strenuously objected.
Rhode Island Family Court Associate Justice Sandra Lanni had ruled that it was in the children’s “best interest” to give Lauren “decision-making authority regarding vaccination of the children for COVID, including future boosters, as long as she follows the recommendations of” their pediatrician. Joshua appealed, noting that Lanni had admitted his concerns were “not unreasonable.”
But the Ocean State’s highest court reaffirmed Lanni’s ruling unanimously. “Contrary
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