Existing laws requiring students to receive controversial vaccines are based on a eugenics-era decision granting the State the power to forcibly vaccinate residents.<ref>Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).</ref> That decision, in fact, was the cited precedent for Justice Holmes' offensive "imbeciles" holding quoted above. | Existing laws requiring students to receive controversial vaccines are based on a eugenics-era decision granting the State the power to forcibly vaccinate residents.<ref>Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).</ref> That decision, in fact, was the cited precedent for Justice Holmes' offensive "imbeciles" holding quoted above. |