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Immunizing Against Addiction: The Argument For Incorporating Emerging Anti-Addiction Vaccines Into Existing Compulsory Immunization Statutes, Alexis Osburn
Cleveland State Law Review
This paper discusses the legal ramifications of incorporating anti-addiction vaccines into a state's existing compulsory immunization scheme. Part II explains the neurobiological and physiological factors that make addiction a medical disease and discusses the mental and physical damage caused by illicit drug use. It also introduces the reader to anti-addiction research and explains how anti-addiction vaccines work. Part III provides the reader with a brief history of state-mandated vaccination requirements, including a discussion of the leading cases that govern compulsory vaccination requirements. Part IV advocates for the amendment of state-mandated immunization statutes to include anti-addiction vaccines. It analyzes two tests …
Fetal Abuse: Culpable Behavior By Pregnant Women Or Parental Immunity, George P. Smith Ii
Fetal Abuse: Culpable Behavior By Pregnant Women Or Parental Immunity, George P. Smith Ii
Journal of Law and Health
The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the pressing need of the law to take decisive action in imposing tort liability for willful and malicious conduct by drug addicted women during their pregnancy. Liability should be imposed notwithstanding the warnings from civil libertarians that the enforcement of such a policy would most assuredly give rise to "prenatal police patrols".