{"product_id":"case-against-vaccine-mandates-9781510771031","title":"Case Against Vaccine Mandates","description":"\u003cb\u003eKent Heckenlively, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePlague of Corruption, \u003c\/i\u003e calls upon both common sense and legal precedence to fight against vaccine mandates around the country.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"My body, my choice!\" used to be the rallying cry of the left in the abortion fight. But now this same principle of bodily autonomy is the central argument of conservatives, such as that of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in fierce opposition to so-called \"vaccine passports,\" which would limit whether an individual could attend movies or other public events, work, or even go to school, if they chose to decline a COVID-19 vaccine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While cities like New York close their doors to unvaccinated people, the fight against vaccine mandates is cobbling together an unexpected alliance across the political spectrum, such as the Black mayor of Boston, Kim Janey, who recently claimed, \"there's a long history\" in this country of people \"needing to show their papers\" and declaring any such passport as akin to slavery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The starting point agreed upon by all parties as to whether the government can bring such pressure to bear upon individuals is the 1905 US Supreme Court of \u003ci\u003eJacobson v. Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e. In that case, a Lutheran pastor declined a smallpox vaccination and was fined $5, the equivalent of a little more than $150 in today's currency, or less than many traffic tickets. The \u003ci\u003eJacobson\u003c\/i\u003e case sparked a shameful legacy in American jurisprudence, being used as the sole reasoning by the US Supreme Court to allow the forced sterilization of a female psychiatric patient in 1927. This ruling paved the way for the involuntary sterilization of more than sixty thousand mental patients and gave legal justification to the eugenics movement, one of the darkest chapters in American medicine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Case Against Vaccine Mandates\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Kent Heckenlively, whose books have courageously taken on Big Pharma, Google, and Facebook, now points his razor sharp legal and literary skills against vaccine passports and mandates, which he believes to be the defining issue as to whether we continue to exist as a free and independent people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hot Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781510771031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168","brand":"Kent Heckenlively","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41132752601269,"sku":"9781510771031","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3cfb192a-2ae4-4144-a958-f1406198bb4b.jpg?v=1632833242","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/case-against-vaccine-mandates-9781510771031","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}