Vegan mother loses court battle over whether children should be vaccinated

By   chloe-chaplain

A mother who objects to vaccinations because she is vegan has lost her court battle over whether her children will be immunised.

A family court judge ruled that her two children – aged two and four – should be vaccinated despite their mother’s objections.

Judge Mark Rogers had been asked to settle a dispute over immunisation between their separated mother and father.

The woman said her children were “very healthy” and “fed only natural products”.

She said there was a “definite risk” with vaccination and said the potential risks were greater than the potential benefits.

But the youngsters’ father wanted them immunised and Judge Rogers ruled in his favour.

Detail has emerged in a ruling by the judge following a family court hearing in Lincoln.

“Vaccines contain products that I would not want my children’s bodies to accommodate,” the woman told the judge.

“It is not natural to be injected with metal elements and as a vegan it goes against my beliefs for my children to be injected with something that is grown on animal cells or something that has been tested on animals.”