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To talk of amending such legislation is a mockery. 

 Absolute and immediate abolition is the only rational 

 course open to us. Every day the vaccination laws re- 

 main in force, parents are being punished, infants are 

 being killed. An Act of a single clause will repeal these 

 vile laws; and I call upon every one of our legislators to 

 consider their responsibilities as the guardians of the 

 liberties of the English people, and to insist that this 

 repeal be effected without a day's unnecessary delay. 



The successive Vaccination Acts were passed by 

 means of allegations which were wholly untrue and 

 promises which have all been unfulfilled. They stand 

 alone in modern legislation as a gross interference with 

 personal liberty and the sanctity of the home; while as 

 an attempt to cheat outraged nature and to avoid a zy- 

 motic disease without getting rid of the foul conditions 

 that produce or propagate it, the practice of vaccination 

 is utterly opposed to the whole teaching of sanitary 

 science, and is one of those terrible blunders which, in 

 their far-reaching evil consequences, are worse than the 

 greatest of crimes. 



