A Florida teenager could be denied citizenship for rejecting the HPV vaccine which helps prevent an STD that leads to one form of cervical cancer.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Daniel Blomberg tells OneNewsNow that the case revolves around the principle that Christians should not have to violate their faith in order to gain U.S. citizenship. Gardasil, the vaccination given to girls as young as 12-years-old, is one that natural-born U.S. citizens are not required to take. However, it is a requisite that applies to immigrants seeking citizenship. "The facts of the case are that a 17-year-old British girl who has been adopted by her mother who is a U.S. citizen, they live in Florida, is now being required to get the HPV vaccination in order to receive full U.S. citizenship," Blomberg explains. "Miss Davis doesn't believe that she should have to do that, and it's a violation of her religious beliefs to be vaccinated against something that she can only contract through immoral activity." Davis believes this immoral behavior should be avoided altogether through the practice of abstinence. "The law that requires this vaccination also has a special exemption that says that if you have a religious or moral objection to receiving a particular vaccination, you don't have to receive it," notes Blomberg. Given this exception, it has been decided that Davis' beliefs do not include an objection to all vaccines, leaving officials to conclude that her opposition is based on medical reasons rather than religious ones. ADF is providing Immigration and Naturalization Service officials a written objection.
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