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Williamson, Stanley
The Vaccination Controversy, 12/2007Book Chapter
Allen v. Worthyopened the floodgates. Parents objecting to the vaccination of their children found themselves in court time and time again, paying fines and costs that for many of them amounted to a severe financial burden. Refusal or inability to pay could result in their possessions being seized or sold off, or even a prison sentence. Typical of those who faced what was for them a desperate moral dilemma was a parent who ascribed his eldest childʹs death to vaccination, no doubt without justification, and felt he must resist the compulsory vaccination of a second child. He was summoned,
