: Forced COVID vaccinations violate UNESCO Declaration on
: Bioethics and Human Rights
: High-ranking officials and public figures have voiced their
: support for making the coronavirus vaccine mandatory.
: Thu Dec 3, 2020 - 4:21 pm EST

: By Emily Mangiaracina
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: December 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — In contrast to the current
: push in countries across the globe to make a coronavirus
: vaccine mandatory, the 2005 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics
: and Human Rights declares that “medical intervention”
: requires the “free and informed consent of the person
: concerned.”

: The UNESCO declaration states in Article 6, “Any preventive,
: diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to
: be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of
: the person concerned, based on adequate information.”

: Although the text itself appears to have an obvious meaning,
: the United Nations themselves have provided both
: interpretations and actions contradicting the literal
: meaning.

: In a document which elaborates upon the application of the
: declaration, UNESCO states that consent for medical
: treatment, as opposed to medical research, “is generally
: regarded as less critical, since the patient is in need of
: help and often does not have much choice. Although the
: patient must in principle consent to treatment and have the
: right to refuse it, in most cases implicit consent may be
: sufficient.”

: It is unclear what is meant by “implicit consent.”

: UNESCO’s document on the declaration also pointed out that
: there are “communitarian” interpretations of Article 6,
: according to which “individual rights are regarded as
: secondary to the needs of the community or the state, who
: has the obligation to guarantee law and order, stabilize
: social structures, set health policy goals, and so on.”

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: Article 6, which has recently been shared and censored on
: Twitter, even appears to have been flouted by the UN’s own
: Population Fund (UNFPA), which is reported to have been
: complicit in China’s family planning policy of forced
: abortions and sterilizations through the donation of
: resources that were used by China to enforce their coercive
: “population policies.” A UNFPA official in China was also
: reported to have operated out of the Office of Family
: Planning in Sihui.

: Medical intervention without consent is not only applauded in
: countries known for human rights abuses, such as China.
: Influential figures in countries like the United States and
: Great Britain are proposing forced medical intervention in
: the form of state-mandated COVID-19 vaccines.

: The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently
: hosted a discussion in which legal and public health expert
: Joanne Rosen cited the 1905 Supreme Court case Jacobson v.
: Massachusetts as precedent for mandatory vaccines. The
: Supreme Court stated at the time, “It is within the police
: power of a State to enact a compulsory vaccination law.”

: Famed American lawyer and Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz
: argued earlier this year that we “have no right not to be
: vaccinated,” and that “if you refuse to be vaccinated, the
: state has the power to literally take you to a doctor’s
: office and plunge a needle into your arm.”

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: A recent resolution passed by the New York State Bar
: Association (NYSBA) proposed consideration of a mandatory
: COVID-19 vaccine once it is available.

: The NYSBA resolution also proposed a “state emergency health
: powers act” to address “gaps in existing laws in New York,
: drawing upon the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act
: (MSEHPA) drafted in 2001.”

: The MSEHPA, which was prepared by The Center for Law and the
: Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins
: Universities for the CDC, states, “To prevent the spread of
: contagious or possibly contagious disease the public health
: authority may isolate or quarantine, pursuant to Section
: 604, persons who are unable or unwilling for reasons of
: health, religion, or conscience to undergo vaccination
: pursuant to this Section.”

: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said early on in
: April that he needed time to “reflect” on the possibility
: of making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory in Canada.

: British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Nov. 16 that the
: government would not rule out mandatory vaccines, even if
: it was not proposing it at the moment.

: Alan Dershowitz, Bioethics, Coronavirus Vaccine, Covid-19
: Vaccine, New York State Bar Association, Unesco, United
: Nations

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