Aaron Siri opened his Kennedy Center address with a fact that stops most people cold: vaccines are the only product in America where you cannot sue the manufacturer for making a safer version that could have prevented your child's death or injury.
That protection came from the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Before that law, only three routine vaccines existed: MMR, DTP, and OPV. The injuries caused by those three products were so severe that every company making them either went out of business or stopped production. Every other industry facing that outcome is forced to make a safer product.
Congress chose a different path for vaccines. It eliminated liability entirely, not just for those three vaccines, but for every routine childhood vaccine developed from that point forward.
"No person may bring a civil action against a vaccine administrator or manufacturer for damages arising from a vaccine related injury or death."
That is the foundation everything else is built on.
To make clear how critical this right is, think about it this way: if you cannot go to school, get a job, enter public spaces, or utilize public transportation or commercial airlines if you refuse a medical procedure the government requires, then you basically have no rights. You become a prisoner in your own home, unable to get an education, earn a living, or participate in civil society. That is why the right to choose whether to get a medical procedure, without any coercion, is a fundamental right.