{"id":7025,"date":"2025-04-08T08:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:44:47","slug":"supreme-court-overturns-measles-vaccine-v-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/supreme-court-overturns-measles-vaccine-v-measles\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Overturns Measles Vaccine v. Measles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a landmark decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decades-old precedent set in the case <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Measles Vaccine v. Measles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The original 1963 decision established the legal right of the measles vaccine to inoculate people against measles and has directly caused a decline in measles rates from around 48,000 cases annually in 1960 to being officially eradicated in the US. Additionally, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Measles Vaccine v. Measles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> decision has been cited many times in similar cases, such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chickenpox Vaccine v. Chickenpox<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1996) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hepatitis B. Vaccine v. Hepatitis B<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1981).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the undeniable societal benefits, longstanding bipartisan support, and clear moral supremacy, the Supreme Court decided 6-3 that the 1963 decision had been in error. Writing for the Court\u2019s conservative majority in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Super Measles v. Measles Vaccine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Chief Justice John Roberts said \u201cit is the opinion of this court that despite persuasive arguments by the Measles Vaccine, we believe that it was the Founding Fathers\u2019 original intent for American citizens to contract measles and possibly die. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention a right to not get measles. We must conclude that whether or not one gets measles should be random, as God intended.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing for the minority, Justice Sonya Sotomayor said \u201cGuys. It\u2019s the measles vaccine. How could you possibly think that measles is in the right here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Writing for the Court\u2019s conservative majority in Super Measles v. Measles Vaccine, Chief Justice John Roberts said &#8216;it is the opinion of this court that despite persuasive arguments by the Measles Vaccine, we believe that it was the Founding Fathers\u2019 original intent for American citizens to contract measles and possibly die.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-scientific-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}