(NewsNation) — As Florida moves to become the first in the United States to drop all childhood vaccine requirements, critics have warned of the plan's potentially deadly public health consequences.

The move would scrap all required vaccine mandates for children, including those required for school attendance, such as polio, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis, mumps and tetanus.

The state's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a longtime vaccine skeptic, on Wednesday compared school vaccine mandates to slavery, calling them "immoral" intrusions on parents' rights.

“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body? I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God,” he said.

Ladapo said his department will repeal the mandates under his control, and the state Legislature w

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