{"id":45849,"date":"2017-10-05T05:57:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45849"},"modified":"2017-10-05T05:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:57:46","slug":"michigan-mother-jailed-refusing-vaccinate-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/michigan-mother-jailed-refusing-vaccinate-son.html","title":{"rendered":"Michigan mother jailed for refusing to vaccinate her son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan mother jailed for refusing to vaccinate her son<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Michigan mother jailed for refusing to vaccinate her son:- A mother in the US state of Michigan has been sentenced to seven days in jail after she refused a judge’s order to have her son vaccinated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebecca Bredow would not let her nine-year-old be immunised after initially agreeing with the father to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her ex-husband has now been awarded temporary primary custody in order to get the boy the jab.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michigan parents are legally allowed to skip or delay their children’s vaccinations due to personal beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Bredow fell foul of the law because she reneged on agreements with her former spouse dating back to November 2016 to have the boy immunised.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mother-of-two was sentenced on Wednesday for contempt of court after flouting a court order last week to have her son vaccinated.<\/span><\/p>\n

She and her ex-husband decided at the time of their child’s birth that they would space out and delay jabs for their son.<\/span><\/p>\n

The couple separated in 2008, according to ABC News, but they shared parental custody and the father still wanted the boy vaccinated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oakland County Court Judge Karen McDonald said that even though Bredow was the child’s primary caregiver: “Dad gets a say.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Bredow, from the Detroit suburb of Ferndale, said in court on Wednesday: “I am an educated vaccine-choice mother.”<\/span><\/p>\n

She argued that to immunise her son “goes against my beliefs”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I would rather sit behind bars standing up for what I believe in, than giving in to something I strongly don’t believe in,” Bredow added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-vaccination advocates – whose claims have been widely debunked by the medical community – fear the procedure exposes children to harm, and could be the cause of autism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Child immunisation rates in Michigan are among the worst in the nation, ranking 43rd among the 50 US states, according to Mlive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center, told the BBC this is not the first time a parent has been jailed for refusing to vaccinate a child.<\/span><\/p>\n

The federal government does not legislate child immunisation, only issuing recommendations while leaving requirements to states or local school districts.<\/span><\/p>\n

If a parent does not comply with a school’s vaccination guidelines, the child is not permitted to attend school and the parent can be jailed for the pupil’s truancy.<\/span><\/p>\n

For that reason, many anti-vaccine parents choose to home-school their children, Mrs Fisher told the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-41504796<\/span><\/p>\n

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