Thu Mar 23, 2023 – 8:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal on behalf of children who are barred from New York public schools despite vaccine medical exemptions issued by their doctors in what Children’s Health Defense has decried as a “horrific” decision.
It is unknown how many Supreme Court Justices, if any, voted to hear the case. The votes of four Justices are sufficient to grant certiorari and have a case heard by the Supreme Court.
A group of parents sued in July 2020 after New York legislators tightened medical exemption requirements and granted school principals the ability to override doctors’ exemptions, effectively barring from school students in danger of a severe reaction to vaccines.
A law passed on June 13, 2019, required that school vaccine exemptions “be based on a nationally recognized standard of care, such as those contained in guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC],” according to Bloomberg.
It also repealed all religious exemptions to vaccination, forcing families to homeschool, move out of state, or vaccinate their children against their convictions.
The law was issued after a measles outbreak in
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