{"id":20015,"date":"2021-09-23T21:52:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2021-09-23T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:58:23","slug":"netherlands-covid-boy-wins-court-battle-for-right-to-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/09\/23\/netherlands-covid-boy-wins-court-battle-for-right-to-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands Covid: Boy wins court battle for right to jab"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 12-year-old boy in the Dutch city of Groningen has won a court battle to get vaccinated against Covid-19 so that he can visit his dying grandmother, despite his father’s objections.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A judge ruled the jab would reduce his chances of passing on any infection to the woman, who has advanced cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vaccines have been approved for Dutch 12-17-year-olds but under-17s need the consent of both parents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vaccine scepticism is increasing in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Bart Tromp of Groningen District Court said that the boy should be vaccinated promptly because his interests were more important than the father’s concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Court papers said the boy wanted to spend as much time as possible with his grandmother, who has metastatic lung cancer and is “in the last stages of her life”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Tromp rejected arguments by the boy’s father that vaccines were “in a test phase” and posed risks to reproductive organs, saying they had no scientific basis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He also cited risks that, while children were less likely to be severely ill with the virus, they could develop long Covid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The risk of infecting others was also lower, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The boy’s mother has supported his court action. The couple are divorced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dutch law says that if the parents cannot agree, a judge should rule in the best interests of the child.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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