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...
Rita Swan: A Giant of Children’s Civil Rights to Health and Medical Care
Rita Swan, who passed away on October 4, 2022, was a giant in establishing children’s civil rights to health and medical care. We at CHILD USA will miss her dearly.
The Right’s Attack on Children
This blog was written by CHILD USA CEO and Founder Professor Marci Hamilton and published in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas on April 29, 2024. “Parental rights” are all the rage now in some quarters. But when parents gain rights, who loses them? Children. Remember the Dark Ages in America for...
Who is Watching Out for Those Children?
This blog was written by Mauri Rapp, CHILD USA's Content Manager, after her Q&A with Dr. Paul Offit on the importance of child immunizations, the alarming trend of anti-vaxxers, and how education is the key to ensuring the safety and health of our children. Dr. Paul Offit is the Director of...
AHMED v. WAHAN
This amicus brief was written in response to a trial court ruling to modify a parenting plan involving a child with disabilities, despite the trial court’s reliance on a Guardian Ad Litem report that did not prioritize feedback from current medical personnel. Issues include whether it is in the...
SEBELIUS v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC.
This amicus brief was written to challenge the constitutionality of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act where private companies sued the Secretary of Health and Human Services, claiming that the Affordable Care Act’s provision requiring private employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs...
Fabricating the Truth: Deception Around Vaccines is Putting our Children at Risk
Written December 7, 2023 by Jennifer Wilczynski, Esq., Staff Attorney, CHILD USA Fabricating the Truth: Deception Around Vaccines is Putting our Children at Risk The science of vaccination against childhood diseases was once widely accepted throughout the world, until former UK doctor Andrew...