The positions of the detractors of the vaccines have received in Galicia a new judicial varapalo. The Pontevedra Hearing has forced a mother from Vigo to vaccinate her children aged 11 and seven after the lawsuit filed by the father, in favor of children receiving this protection. The court wields that, although Immunization is not mandatory in Spain, its benefits "are undeniable" and in the event of a premium conflict "the best interest of minors."

The lack of agreement of the parents of these two minors occurred during their divorce process. The father, defended by the lawyer Guillermo Presa, requested that the children be vaccinated before the courts in June 2018 and the trial court already proved him right on November 20 with the support of the Prosecutor's Office. The magistrates now confirm that resolution after the appeal filed by the mother. In his car, dictated on July 22 and advanced on Tuesday by the newspaper Lighthouse of Vigo, they argue that "the right of parents to defend the beliefs they deem appropriate or the education and life system of their children that they deem most appropriate, but provided that it is not harmful to them" is not discussed.

To substantiate your decision, the court cites different documents of the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers that vaccines are "safe" and "one of the most successful and profitable health interventions known." "Not only has it not been proven from a medical point of view that vaccines cause harm to health, but that, by On the contrary, most scientific studies on the subject lead to the conclusion that the benefits of vaccines are undeniable both at the individual and population levels, "argue the magistrates

In the first instance ruling, it was stated that the mother's "reluctance" – which was not declared anti-vaccinations during the process because it is in favor of some -, instead, "are not supported by scientific or objective data." “It cannot be up to one of the parents to decide if they want to vaccinate the children and at what time,” adds the Audience of Pontevedra, who also argues that the non-vaccination of minors can leave them outside schools and sports facilities .

Vaccination will be compulsory for the first time in Galicia this course in nursery schools dependent on the Xunta. The Galician Government made this decision last March after its lawyers concluded that, although immunization is voluntary in Spain, “in this matter the priority is protection of children's health, as recognized in article 43 of the Spanish Constitution ”. According to that legal report, establish compliance with the vaccination schedule as a requirement to enroll a child in a nursery school "Does not in any way violate the ideological, religious or religious freedom of families".

With this measure, Galicia has joined Extremadura and Castilla y León, which also require that students in their public nurseries be vaccinated. At the beginning of the decade of 2000, two sentences of the superior courts of Catalonia and La Rioja already endorsed the refusal of two centers to accept the entry of some girls who did not have this protection. These two rulings were in fact cited in the judgment of first instance that forced Vigo's mother to immunize her children.