Specific to the COVID-19 vaccine, children under age 18 in most jurisdictions will require parental consent.[8] While the Supreme Court has noted that “[c]onstitutional rights do not mature and come into being magically only when one attains the state-defined age of majority; [m]inors as well as adults are protected by the Constitution and possess constitutional rights,”[9] in practice, the protections afforded by the Constitution are much more limited as a matter of… [read post]