“Vaccines, Trust, and Informed Consent After COVID” with Jay Richards | Ep. 16

In a post-COVID world, families are asking harder questions about vaccines and those questions deserve serious, ethical answers.

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I’m joined by Jay Richards, Vice President of Social and Domestic Policy and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, where he also chairs the Restoring American Wellness initiative. He is also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.

We explore how families can think clearly and ethically about vaccines after COVID. This conversation covers informed consent, risk-benefit analysis, parental responsibility, the updated CDC childhood immunization schedule, and the growing crisis of trust in public health institutions.

This episode is for parents, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and anyone trying to navigate vaccine decisions with both reason and conscience.

In this episode, we cover:

• Vaccines and informed consent
• Risk, benefit, and proportionality in medicine
• Parental responsibility and human dignity
• Trust in public health after COVID
• The updated CDC childhood immunization schedule
• Ethics, religious liberty, and vaccine mandates
• Shared clinical decision-making vs. one-size-fits-all policy