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Catholic Vote: Amish Children in New York Face Forced Vaccinations After Court Ruling – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Catholic Vote: Amish Children in New York Face Forced Vaccinations After Court Ruling

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Catholic Vote News Feed // A federal court this week upheld New York’s vaccine mandate, requiring Amish children to be vaccinated despite religious objections.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled March 3 in Miller v. McDonald that the repeal of religious exemptions for vaccines does not violate the First Amendment, The People’s Voice reported.

New York eliminated religious exemptions for vaccines in 2019 following a measles outbreak. Under the law, children must be vaccinated to attend a school — whether public, private, or religious — unless they qualify for a medical exemption.

According to the appellate court’s decision, three Amish schools (Dygert Road School, Pleasant View School a/k/a Twin Mountain School, and Shady Lane School) were fined after they didn’t comply with the law by requiring parents to present proof that students received vaccines. The schools, two school board members (Jonas Smucker and Joe Miller), and an elected representative for Amish schools in New York (Ezra Wengerd) sued the state in June 2023, seeking an injunction and claiming the law violated their rights under the first and 14th amendments. …

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