Sept. 5, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: Florida’s state Well being Division intends to eradicate all vaccine mandates for teenagers, saying the transfer will increase parental rights in medical choices for his or her children (“Florida moves to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates,” Sept. 3). Lt. Gov. Jay Collins mentioned, “We’re … getting authorities out of your lives.”
And but, in 2023, the state handed a regulation banning gender-affirming look after minors. A lot for getting the federal government out of our private lives.
Kathy Harty, Sierra Madre
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To the editor: My mother and father didn’t imagine in vaccines and I used to be at all times excused from vaccinations at college. Seeing images of little children in iron lungs and strolling with leg braces made me understand I actually wouldn’t need to get polio, so I obtained my very own vaccine (a sugar dice in a paper cup) once I was 16.
Listening to Florida Surgeon Normal Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s ridiculous diatribe — “immoral,” “slavery,” “they don’t have the precise to inform you what to place into your physique” — made me suppose that possibly, he ought to have a slogan: “Palms off my physique.” Oh wait, that’s already utilized by abortion rights activists. Not like vaccines, an abortion impacts solely the one who is getting it, not her classmates, neighborhood or normal inhabitants.
Kathy Hicker, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Why doesn’t Florida additionally outlaw its vaccine requirements for pets?
The unhappy half is, I can think about extra outrage if these vaccine necessities had been lifted than what the Florida surgeon normal is doing now to people.
Tom Friel, Camarillo
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To the editor: Ladapo’s declare that vaccine mandates are akin to “slavery” is why museums and faculties should proceed to show what slavery was.
In fact, the measles vaccine is harmful — in case you’re a pressure of measles.
Gary Davis, Los Angeles
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To the editor: When a toddler dies in Florida from a preventable sickness as a result of they didn’t get vaccinated, I’m positive Gov. Ron DeSantis, Ladapo and Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will take speedy motion by “providing our heartfelt prayers for the household.”
Rex Altman, Los Angeles
