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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

RFK JR, HHS, ALIGN WITH PARENTAL CONSENT

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, News

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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A major shift in federal policy is emerging as HHS moves to strengthen parental rights, religious exemptions, and informed consent in children’s medical decisions. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Office of Civil Rights is investigating reports of a child with a religious exemption being vaccinated without parental consent. At the same time, several states are pushing bills that would allow minors to be vaccinated without their parents’ knowledge, highlighting a broader medical-system struggle—from childhood shots to psychiatric drugs for veterans—over consent, transparency, and personal autonomy.



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0:00.0

You look at mandatory vaccinations.

0:03.0

You look at the recommended childhood schedule.

0:06.0

What's the opposite side?

0:07.0

It looks like it may be going in a little different direction.

0:10.0

Well, the opposite of that, we know this here very well at ICANN, is informed consent.

0:14.0

It's parental choice.

0:16.0

And we had Kennedy come out and do something recently that we seem to be in somewhat alignment with,

0:22.3

and he's fortifying the strength of the religious exemption. Take a listen. A parent's right

0:28.3

to guide their child's health decisions. That right is not optional. It's not negotiable,

0:34.6

and under the Trump administration, it will not be ignored.

0:38.3

HHS has launched an investigation into a troubling incident in the Midwest.

0:43.5

A school administered a federally funded vaccine to a child without the parent's consent

0:49.2

and despite a legally recognized state exemption.

0:53.1

When any institution, a school, a doctor's office, a clinic,

0:57.7

disregards a religious exemption, it doesn't just break trust. It also breaks the law.

1:03.9

It fractures the sacred bond between families and the people entrusted with their child's care.

1:10.2

In addition, our Office for Civil Rights has the issued a letter reminding health care providers

1:15.6

of their clear legal duty to give parents access to their children's medical records.

1:22.6

If a provider stands between you and your child, HHS is going to step in.

1:28.3

Let me be clear, schools and healthcare systems

1:31.3

cannot sideline parents.

1:33.3

If a provider ignores consent,

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