b'Rehnquist declared in his majority opinionpoint is especially relevant given thatvaccine can no longer achieve a vital regardingtherighttorefuselife-savingaFederaljudgeinIndianaappliedstate interest of stopping the spread of treatment,everyhumanbeingofadultJacobson in a lawsuit from college kids,a virus like it did with smallpox.years and sound mind has a right to de- who have infinitesimal risk, being co-termine what shall be done with his ownerced to get a shot that is particularlyTheJacobsonopinionmentionsthe body. The following is just a sampling ofdangerous to young males. legislature over a dozen times. For very established precedent that would beexample, the opinion reads, the legis-thrown out were we to resurrect Jacobson: ThecruxoftheJacobsonoutcomelature has the right to pass laws which, was a person having to pay a $5 fineaccording to the common belief of the Addington v. Texas, (1979)involuntary(about$150today).Thatisquitedif- people,areadaptedtopreventthe commitmenttophysiocratichospitalferentfrombarringsomeonefromspread of contagious diseases. Near-must be based on clear and convincingschool,employment,andvitalgoodsly all of the mandates being imposed evidence and services. Government has a strongnow are being done by executive fiat OConnor v. Donaldson, (1975)non-vio- power to tax, but not to coerce. As thewithout the input of the peoples rep-lent person cant be committed to men- MassachusettsSupremeJudicialCourtresentatives.tal institute noted(Commonwealthv.Pear;Common-Lovingv.Virginia,(1967)rightto wealthv.Jacobson,183Mass242,248Indeed,boththeapplicationof marry (1903), If a person should deem it im- Jacobsontothepresentsituationandthe Griswold v. Connecticut, (1965)right toportantthatvaccinationshouldnotendorsement of the decision itself are scan-contraception be performed in his case, and the au- dalous. Will they next say government can Roe v. Wade, (1973)abortion thoritiesshouldthinkotherwise,itisenslave us in pursuit of public health and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v.not in their power to vaccinate him bycite Dred Scott in support?Casey, (1992)abortion force, and the worst that could happen Prince v. Massachusetts, (1944)familyto him under the statute would be the relationships paymentof$5.Thisdichotomywas Moore v. City of East Cleveland, (1977) the central point in the Supreme Court family relationships upholding the individual mandate un-Lawrence v. Texas, (2003)right to sod- der Obamacare in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012).omyMeyer v. Nebraska, (1923)right to for- In1905,thesmallpoxvaccinehad eign language education been around for a while. In 1796, the Pierce v. Society of Sisters, (1925)theBritish physician Edward Jenner dis-rightnottobecoercedtoattendcoveredavaccinationforsmallpox, public school and it became widespread throughout Wisconsinv.Yoder,(1972)parentalthe latter part of the 1800s. It wasnt rights in educational freedom nearlyasnovelasthespikeprotein Glucksbergv.Washington,(1997) vaccines for COVID-19 today. It also physician-assisted suicide occurred long before we had standard procedures for regulating vaccines in ResurrectingJacobsoninlightofaccordancewiththedoctrineofin-anendlessstreamofcaselawcreat- formed consent. Daniel Horowitz is a senior editor of The-ingsuchstrongbodilyautonomyrightsBlaze newsletter and host of the Conserva-thatitcreatedarighttoassistedsuicideAllthesemandateswerepredicatedtive Review podcast. He writes on the most andabortionistheequivalentofresur- on the fact that the vaccine effectivelydecisivebattlegroundissuesofourtimes, rectingDredScott,Plessyv.Ferguson,orblocked the virus. Now it has becomeincludingthetheftofAmericansovereignty Korematsuin2021.However,asideclear that the vaccine absolutely doesthrough illegal immigration, the theft of Amer-fromJacobsonbeingoutofsyncwithnotstopinfectionandtransmission.ican liberty through tyranny, and the theft of ourmostfoundationalmodernjuris- The only debate is whether it providesAmerican law and order through criminal jus-prudenceonbodilyautonomy,therelong-termorjustshort-termprotec- tice reform.areseveralfundamentaldistinctionstionfromseriousillness.ButthatisThisarticlewasfirstpublishedatbetweentheCOVID-19mandatesandapersonalchoice.Jacobsonsaidthehttps://www.theblaze.com/blaze-news/ Jacobson that are being ignored. state must show a real or substantialhorowitz-why-dershowitz-is-wrong-to- relation from their regulation to theirap ply-jacobson-decision-in-support-of-vacc ine-You simply cannot deny that smallpoxstated goal. Based on CDCs own datapassports on August 2, 2021. Reprinted here was much deadlier than COVID-19. This(ironically,fromMassachusetts),thiswith permission.22 H ealtHF reedomN ews /s ummer2021'