The northern Kentucky teenager who sued his school over refusing to be vaccinated against chickenpox wound up getting chickenpox.

Despite it all, Jerome Kunkel and his parents say they have no regrets about not making any effort to have prevented his contracting chickenpox.

Eighteen-year-old Kunkel, who was banned from Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Assumption Academy, refused the chickenpox vaccination due to his religious beliefs. The ban came during an outbreak in which at least 32 pupils at the school got sick.

Kunkel’s lawsuit argued the vaccine is “immoral, illegal and sinful” and that his rights had been violated. His lawsuit against the school was unsuccessful.

“These are deeply held religious beliefs, they’re sincerely held beliefs,” family attorney Christopher Wiest said. “From their perspective, they always recognized they were running the risk of getting it, and they were OK with it.”

The lawyer said the school was at fault. According to the lawyer, Kunkel would have contracted chickenpox earlier if state health officials had not intervened.

“The ban was stupid,” Wiest said. “He could have contracted this in March and been back to school by now.”

There are some ultraconservative Catholics who oppose chickenpox vaccinations because it was developed during the 1960s from cell lines of two aborted fetuses.

“The teenager’s father, Bill Kunkel, said the vaccines were derived from aborted fetuses, which went against his family’s religious beliefs. Some viruses used to make vaccines are grown with cells descended from matter that was sourced from two human fetuses electively aborted in the 1960s,” The BBC reported.

“Earlier this year, opponents of mandatory vaccinations seemed to pick up support from Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who admitted he’s exposed all nine of his children to chickenpox,” NBC News reported. Bevin, however, has urged parents to get their kids vaccinated.