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Georgia Supreme Court hears arguments about immunizations for children in state custody
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In 2021, the state removed three children from their parent's custody because of severe physical abuse by the father. The biological parents objected to their children receiving their routine childhood vaccines. They asked the Forsyth County juvenile court to stop the state from having the children immunized, claiming religious and philosophical objections.