How big a medical decision / process is vaccinating ?

[Lenny]

I don't believe it should be classified as a special medical procedure along side sterilization and gender reassignment.
I am happy to change my mind if the evidence resoundingly supports this mother.

I sometimes wonder if the parents can't just put all their energy that they use for fighting each other into just loving the kids. Perhaps the outcome would be different.
No winners. Just all losers. ( ETA I don't mean they are losers in a mocking sense, just that they cannot consider a ruling in their favour much of a victory)

[meow]

I sometimes wonder if the parents can't just put all their energy that they use for fighting each other into just loving the kids.

Loving your child doesn't stop the other parent abusing your child. It seems this mother loves her children very much to keep trying to fight to protect them against what she perceives to be a very serious threat to their health and wellbeing.

Given the potentially serious ramifications/known side effects of immunisation I think she has a some what valid case that this should be perceived as a serious medical procedure that can't just be decided upon by one parent.

[Lenny]

You assumed I meant that the mother was the one focusing her energy in the wrong direction.

[meow]

Haha! Nah- I just get her point of view more personally. By the same token you could flip my words and say that the father loves his children and doesn't want to see them suffer the abuse of medical neglect.

[Amity]

Immunisation is not, and will not be, determined as a "special medical procedure".

There is significant case law in the opposite direction.

The Courts regularly overrule anti-vaccination parents - although often a delayed vaccination schedule is adopted on the basis of expert reports.

The only time I have seen it (non-vaccing) supported is where one parent has been given sole parental responsibility - that is, the sole decision-making person is one parent, and the other parent has been excluded (for very good reason).

It is highly unlikely that she will be successful. ALthough it is not a Melbourne case - we will have to wait and see - but in Melbourne I don't know any judge who would support such an application.

[meow]

in Melbourne I don't know any judge who would support such an application.

That really demonstrates the bias doesn't it? That we could know the judges decision before the case starts. This stuff really annoys me when we mix law and medicine. We need medical court with trained scientists and medical professionals presiding.