Unraveling the Anti-Vax Movement: Insights from Social Media and Legal Perspectives

Brandon Norwood Ulysses Mack ENG 1301 24/10/2025 The Anti-Vaccination Movement: Annotated Bibliography Badar, Mahrukh. "Calling the Shots: Balancing Parental and Child Rights in the Age of Anti-Vax." Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2021, pp. 325-348. Badar evaluates the global rise of the anti-vaccination movement from a legal perspective and the challenges faced by policy-makers in addressing the problem. The article shows the results of literature search on the role of the internet in increasing the opposition of vaccines by spreading pseudoscience and misinformation. High-income countries face the greatest health challenges related to anti-vaccination movements globally. The balance between the role of the government in improving community health and civil liberties pose a challenge for making vaccines compulsory to all children. The author shows that parental and children education on vaccination could provide a solution to increasing support for the anti-vaccination movement. The article sheds light on a critical issue of legal barriers to addressing the opposition to anti-vaccination. Providing quality health education to children and parents through schools would increase support for vaccination and related community health benefits. This source will be