{"id":86447,"date":"2017-10-13T18:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86447"},"modified":"2017-10-13T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T22:47:59","slug":"medical-mafia-forces-mother-to-jail-son-vaccinated-against-her-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86447","title":{"rendered":"Medical Mafia Puts Mother In Jail, Son Vaccinated Against Her Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jailed Mom \u2018Devastated\u2019 That Her Son Was Vaccinated While She Was Behind\u00a0Bars<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->CBS New York<\/p>\n<p><strong>(CBS Local)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 A Michigan mother who spent five days in jail for refusing to vaccinate her son says she\u2019s outraged and devastated to find out the boy has been fully immunized now.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Bredow of Ferndale was ordered by the\u00a0Oakland County Circuit Court to vaccinate her 9-year-old son at the request of the boy\u2019s biological father,\u00a0James Horne. When Bredow did not have the child receive the proper shots as she reportedly agreed to do as part of a November 2016 court case,\u00a0Judge Karen McDonald found the 40-year-old in contempt of court and sentenced her to a week in\u00a0the Oakland County Jail.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A mother was jailed for refusing to vaccinate her son. Now she\u2019s outraged he\u2019s been immunized <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oPktAJr57M\">https:\/\/t.co\/oPktAJr57M<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XovxsKPcQP\">pic.twitter.com\/XovxsKPcQP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Waterloo Region Record (@WR_Record) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WR_Record\/status\/918482914781696001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s father reportedly had his son given his vaccinations on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the worst five days of my life, except\u00a0for the fact that I just found out that he was vaccinated and I\u2019m not going to get him back today,\u201d Bredow said, via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/oakland\/2017\/10\/11\/mom-jail-vaccines-son\/751340001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Detroit Free Press<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s been a rough few days to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Following Bredow\u2019s release, Judge McDonald approved a recommendation to have the mother and Mr. Horne share custody of the child on a 50\/50 basis. \u201cShe\u2019s devastated,\u201d Bredow\u2019s attorney Steven Vitale said. Vitale added that he and his client were given 21 days to challenge the new ruling, which they reportedly plan to do.<\/p>\n<p>Bredow\u2019s husband and the boy\u2019s stepfather, Gary Bredow, also disagrees with the judge\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s horrific; to me it\u2019s a worst case scenario,\u201d he said,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/detroit.cbslocal.com\/2017\/10\/04\/mom-goes-to-jail-after-refusing-to-vaccinate\/\">per CBS Detroit.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cFor a mother who has done and followed all of the state exemption laws, never had her voice truly heard in this court\u2026I think it\u2019s absolutely horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michigan is one of 17 states that allows for medical, religious, and philosophical exemptions from vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Bredow told reporters that her decision to not vaccinate her child was part of her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2017\/10\/12\/a-mother-was-jailed-for-refusing-to-vaccinate-her-son-now-shes-outraged-hes-been-immunized\/?utm_term=.26084a4230d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">religious beliefs<\/a>\u00a0and she believes it was within her rights as the boy\u2019s mother to choose what kind of care he should have.\u00a0\u201cI still stand by my choices because I stand up for what I believe in,\u201d Bredow added.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2017\/10\/12\/mom-devastated-son-vaccinated\/\">http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2017\/10\/12\/mom-devastated-son-vaccinated\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed Mom \u2018Devastated\u2019 That Her Son Was Vaccinated While She Was Behind\u00a0Bars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}