Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, announced on Wednesday that the state would end all vaccine mandates, likening them to slavery.

Lifting the mandates would mean children would not be required to be vaccinated in order to attend school in Florida. It would be the first state to withdraw from the practice, which has been credited with increasing vaccination rates and lowering the risk of infectious diseases like measles spreading.

“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Ladapo said.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis endorsed the move and acknowledged that although the state can eliminate some vaccine mandates, it would need “changes from the legislature” to eradicate them all.

Ladapo is a known vaccine critic and has opposed mainstream scientific research

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