The Family at the Center of Pennsylvania’s Measles Controversy

When the Amish man emerged from his barn to greet me, he had no idea that his newborn son’s death had become national news. The man wore a straw hat, black trousers, and suspenders over a long-sleeved blue shirt; one of his similarly dressed sons was guiding a horse-drawn plow in a nearby field. The man told me that,

The conflict, which largely falls along political lines, centers on the details of one of the deaths, in a newborn.