Thu Sep 9, 2021 – 4:32 pm EDT
LONDON (LifeSiteNews) – The U.K. Health Secretary has confirmed that adolescents aged 12-15 will be able to override parental consent in order to receive COVID jabs, echoing a statement made on Sunday by the British Minister for Covid Vaccine Deployment.
U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid told Sky News on Wednesday that in case children aged 12-15 wish to receive the COVID-19 vaccine against their parents’ will, they will be able to do so, provided they are deemed “competent enough to make that decision.”
This comes just a few days after the British Minister for Covid Vaccine Deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, 54, gave conflicting statements on parental consent for the vaccination of 12-15-year-olds.
Last Sunday, after being asked by Sky News host Trevor Philips if he could “assure parents that if there is a decision to vaccinate 12-15-year-olds, it will require parental consent,” Zahawi replied with confidence: “I can give that assurance, absolutely.”
Zahawi later made a comment which greatly undermined that assurance when he told Times Radio host Tom Newton Dunn that teenagers will actually be able to go against their parents’ will if they are “deemed competent to make that decision.”
His exact words were echoed by the U.K.
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