To the editor:

Michael Knudson, in his letter of Aug. 29 argued that the leading Supreme Court precedent holding mandated vaccinations constitutional, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), is in conflict with the Court’s earlier holding in Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Botsford, 141 U.S. 250 (1891), purportedly quoting that Court's ruling as, “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body, and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient’s consent commits an assault, for which he is liable in damages.”

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The name is Theodore "Bosen"

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