Nursery school wins case against 'anti-vaccine' parents after denying son's enrolment
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 @ 1:43 PM
A JUDGE in Barcelona has upheld a nursery school's decision not to enrol a child whose parents opted not to vaccinate him in line with a dangerous new trend sweeping the USA and gradually creeping into Spain and the UK.
The playschool, based in an undisclosed location in the Maresme district of the province, was hit with legal action at the end of May after the family claimed its right to freedom of ideology was being violated by their son's being barred from nursery school due to their beliefs.
According to the council, which runs the Kindergarten, the parents claimed their values should be respected in the same way that no public service or business is permitted to discriminate against any citizen on the grounds of their religion, even though the decision not to give their child the essential infant innoculations is not based upon faith grounds.
Judge Laura Mestres Estruch said no violation of ideology was present, since nobody had 'forced' the parents to vaccinate their child – although stressed that these innoculations are obligatory in 'certain neighbouring democratic countries' on pain of civil or even criminal action being taken against the caregivers.
She added that those parents who decide not to vaccinate their children nevertheless benefit from the protection against potentially fatal childhood diseases afforded by the 'remaining 95% of the population' who do take up these free jabs for their kids.
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