"New York county bans unvaccinated minors from churches, other public places, amid measles outbreak"

lifesitenews.com

As several areas of the United States are contending with outbreaks of measles, one county in New York has taken the dramatic step of banning unvaccinated minors from entering any public places – including houses of worship.

So from now until April 25, the county is forbidding unvaccinated minors from “enter[ing] any place of public assembly in Rockland County,” unless they are immune, medically barred from immunization, or younger than six months, according to the state of emergency declaration released Tuesday by Rockland County Executive Edwin Day. “A place of public assembly shall be a place where more than 10 persons are intended to congregate” for any reason, including “religious functions.”

Lyon said that the ban will be enforced not by proactively interrogating people in public places, but if an incident of measles infection is traced back to an area in which an unvaccinated minor was present. Parents in such cases will be referred to the district attorney and potentially face a $500 fine and six months in prison...

Nevertheless, Rockland Catholics are unlikely to get substantial support from church leaders; after a Catholic family sued Kentucky health officials for banning their 18-year-old son from finishing the basketball season because of their refusal to vaccinate him against chicken pox (due to the vaccine’s abortion-related origins), the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Life simply defended the use of abortion-derived vaccines until replacements can be developed.