"I think it’s not in my son’s best interest to be away from his mother"

Chicago mother Rebecca Firlit went to the media to complain about a judge’s decision to suspend her parental rights until she gets vaccinated against COVID-19, which she has resisted because she claims to have had adverse reactions rto other vaccines.

As the Delta wave continues to grow, the issue of vaccine mandates has become more and more central to efforts to combat the pandemic. Cook County Judge James Shapiro threw a new wrinkle into the works when he ordered that Mrs. Firlit be stripped of all parenting time with her son — custody if whom she shares wirth her ex-husband — until she gets vaccinated.

In an exclusive interview with Fox 32, Firlit said, of the decision, “”I think that it’s wrong. I think that it’s dividing families. And I think it’s not in my son’s best interest to be away from his mother.”