WHY IS INFORMED CONSENT TO VACCINATION
A HUMAN RIGHT?
Civil liberties. They include the legal right to exercise freedom of
thought, speech, conscience, and religious belief. Autonomy. Protection
of autonomy and bodily integrity includes the human right to exercise
informed consent to medical risk taking. What is informed consent?
Informed consent means you have the legal right to be fully and
accurately informed about the benefits and risks of a medical
intervention, including a pharmaceutical product, and be free to make a
voluntary decision about whether to accept the risk for yourself or your
minor child without being coerced or punished for the decision you
make. Informed consent has guided the ethical practice of medicine since
the doctors’ trial at Nuremberg after World War II.
