Candace Owens is wrong about the Vitamin K shot (at least, in one regard)

By Easton Martin | July 29, 2026

The growing trend of parents rejecting the newborn vitamin K shot is just a small part of the current anti-vaccine trend in medicine. The argument in favor of the shot is that simple injection prevents catastrophic internal bleeding in infants. What should parents do? Answering that question is not in the scope of this article, but rather, we will examine a very odd, specific objection against the shot.

Infamous podcaster Candace Owens once summed up a common argument against the shot, claiming that giving it to babies is essentially saying God designed us wrong. What an odd thing to say, right? ​That statement betrays a total collapse of logic and a complete misunderstanding of basic theology and human nature.

​Regardless of the medical science behind the vitamin K shot, something I am intentionally not taking a stand on here, arguing against it on the grounds of “divine biological perfection” makes zero sense. Nowhere does the Bible say human bodies were created 100% complete, flawless, or immune to physical limitations. Scripture never claims that our physical mechanics are biologically perfect or self-sufficient.

​Human existence is defined by inherent imperfection and physical limits. We require outside food to survive, suffer from genetic flaws, and experience biological breakdown. In newborns, vitamin K does not easily pass through the placenta, and an infant’s gut flora takes time to produce it naturally. That is a perfectly unsurprising reality in Christian theology. 

​Using medical knowledge (hopefully correctly in this case) to protect a newborn from a fatal brain bleed applies our human reason to safeguard a fragile life at a point of vulnerability. There is nothing anti-Christian in acknowledging the necessity of medical intervention. 

​When commentators like Owens use sloppy logic in an argument against basic medical care, they reveal their own ignorance. Exercise caution around anyone who attacks standard medicine using this kind of theology. Claiming that intervention insults God is bad thinking, and often indicates a person’s lack of basic understanding of logic and theology. If one wants to argue against the Vitamin K shot, there is no issue with that, but do not hide your argument behind bad theology.