Christian Scientists helped create religious exemptions for medical-neglect laws.
A Christian Scientist named Dorothy Sheridan was convicted in 1967 of involuntary manslaughter for refusing to treat her child’s illness with antibiotics. The conviction promoted Christian Scientists to lobby the government for a religious exemption from state medical neglect laws. Massachusetts, where Sheridan was convicted, granted one in 1971.
Three years later, President Nixon’s Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued a ruling requiring states either to pass exemptions to child medical-treatment laws based on religious exemption or lose federal funds (H. R. "Bob" Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, the chief adviser for domestic affairs, were both Christian Scientists).
As a result, 44 states eventually passed exemptions. This requirement was removed in 1983. A religious exemption was added to the text of the law in 1996 but was again removed in 2003. The most recent reauthorization does not include a religious exemption. In 34 states (as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico), exemptions remain in the civil child-abuse statutes when medical treatment for a child conflicts with the religious beliefs of parents.
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It would seem then that today's anti-vaxx movement may have had some of its origins in the Christian Science cult.
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