# Debate Over Parental Choice and the Hepatitis B Vaccine

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2091933570495295749
- Source account: [@ChildrensHD](https://x.com/ChildrensHD)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:11
- Published: 2026-08-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine) Do parents have the right to ask questions?

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=2) We already experienced what happened during COVID when we took away that right from parents. They were forced to give their kids COVID vaccines.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=7) They were forced- They were not forced to give their kids COVID vaccines ... Well, they were, they were pushed hard and oftentimes hindered from doing what they wanted to do, like going out socially, if their kids were not included in these programs. What we should, as a nation- There was no federal mandate.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=17) No, of course, it's not, it's not up to the state.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=19) It's not up to the federal government. It's up to the states. States do this.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=21) The request of the president is to make sure that states offer parents either eligibility because of religious beliefs or other reasons why they may not wanna have their kids take all the vaccines in order.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=31) Let's pick a specific example, Hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is a vaccine I happen to like.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=35) I got the Hepatitis B vaccine, but it helps adults avoiding issues if they're involved, for example, in my case as a doctor, if I were to hit myself with a needle with a patient, but it usually is for drug abusers and for people who are in- involved in- Or infants who could be exposed by a caregiver, by someone in their house, by a

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=51) parent unwittingly- Ex- ex- ... which is why it is provided to children ... extraordinarily, extraordinarily rare, and it's hard to design an entire program around just that possibility.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Cp858EdHyJRm/en/debate-over-parental-choice-and-the-hepatitis-b-vaccine?t=60) Mm-hmm. The reality is if a parent wants to delay this vaccine- Mm-hmm ... from the hour the child is born- Yeah ... for a few years because they don't think they're gonna be in those high-risk categories, why not give the parent that choice?