The hallmark of ethical medicine is that of prior, completely voluntary, and fully informed consent. The U.S. has agreed to uphold and abide by this standard of ethical medicine on numerous occasions, beginning in 1947 with the signing of The Nuremberg Code. This international code of ethics was the result of the world becoming aware of atrocious medical experiments performed on human beings during WWII without their consent, and often without their knowledge. To ensure that such crimes against humanity would never occur again, the Nuremberg Code was written and it states that “the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” Additional, similar codes of ethics have been signed since then by the U.S., most recently including The Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights at the UNESCO Convention in 2005, which states in Article 6 under the section titled Consent:
Any preventive (which by definition includes vaccines), diagnostic, and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free, and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.
In Article 3 of this same Declaration it states: The interests and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science or society.
Vaccines mandates, in and of themselves, with or without exemptions, are in complete violation of the Nuremberg Code and other international codes of ethics, as is any form of mandated medicine.