Connecticut law requires that students receive certain vaccinations prior to enrollment in public or private school and removed a religious exemption to that law on April 28, 2021.  Plaintiffs in this case have argued that that the broad and neutrally applicable vaccine requirement designed to protect Connecticut’s children somehow infringes on their “[personally held] general religious belief” that “harming a child is morally wrong,” and that “all vaccines” are “morally wrong.”  CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief in response to those superfluous claims, arguing that the Connecticut General Assembly is constitutionally permitted to require student vaccinations to protect children and the community at-large, that children have a right to safe, preventative medical care, and that parents’ religious freedoms do not create a right to harm their children. The Disctict Court of Connectictut agreed with CHILD USA, and dismissed the lawsuit. Read the opinion here.