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Exploring The Politics Of Mandatory HPV Vaccinations - Whose Children Are These?

July 25, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Who has the ultimate say over how your children should be raised? Is it you who conceived and bore or adopted them...or is it the government?

Many in the fields of education, medicine and politics believe that all parents must answer to society for the final product. Many spokespersons for foundations seem to believe that parents are merely the custodial caretakers and that these caretakers must be held accountable to the state for the end product.

In researching the ramifications of AB 499, "Minors: Medical Care; Consent," one comes across statements that would have been incomprehensible only a few years ago.

As an example, two Harvard researchers, Dr. David Ludwig and Lindsey Murtagh, writing for the Journal of the American Medical Association - JAMA, on the subject of childhood obesity - which they claim is a health problem of epidemic proportions, claim that "inadequate or unskilled parental supervision" is in part, to blame and that "extremely obese children should be placed, temporarily, at least, in foster care." They further add that, "state intervention may serve the best interests of many children."

I guess these two have not heard about the problems and scandals in finding adequate foster parents who are any better skilled than the parents whom they scorn.

Dr. Arthur J. Caplan, Director of a Foundation for Bioethics Research, while countering this extreme move, is quoted in BioEdge http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9633/ as saying "the law gives a lot of authority to parents, and rightly so."

Wait, read that again. The law gives authority to parents? I thought the purpose of our Constitution was to recognize and codify rights granted to us by God, among which is the tradition that parents have authority over their children? Was there some sort of election that changed all that?

AB 499's language implies that the guidance and rearing of children is a power which naturally belongs to the state and therefore it's only through an act of bureaucratic graciousness whereby parents are granted permission to raise the government's children.

Googling the search term "Affordable care Act" + "school based clinics" brings up grants.gov which lays out the process whereby school based health centers are established and funded.

Interventionism: An Economic Analysis (Lib Works Ludwig Von ...

Interventionism provides Mises’s analysis of the problems of government interference in business from the Austrian School perspective. Written in 1940, before the United States was officially involved in World War II, this book offers a rare insight into the war economies of Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy. Mises criticizes the pre-World War II democratic governments for favoring socialism and interventionism over capitalist methods of production. Mises contends that government’s economic role should be limited because of the negative political and social consequences of the economic policy of interventionism.

Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. He earned his doctorate in law and economics from the University of Vienna in 1906. In 1926, Mises founded the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research. From 1909 to 1934, he was an economist for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Before the Anschluss, in 1934 Mises left for Geneva, where he was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 1940, when he emigrated to New York City. From 1948 to 1969, he was a visiting professor at New York University.

Bettina Bien Greaves is a former resident scholar, trustee, and longtime staff member of the Foundation for Economic Education. She has written and lectured extensively on topics of free market economics. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Human Events, Reason, and The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. A student of Mises, Greaves has become an expert on his work in particular and that of the Austrian School of economics in general. She has translated several Mises monographs, compiled an annotated bibliography of his work, and edited collections of papers by Mises and other members of the Austrian School.

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