[quote]Last Thursday, a state law was introduced that, if passed, will eliminate the “personal belief” exception to California’s vaccination law.
Right now, under California law there are two ways to get out of having a child vaccinated: one is if you have a medical reason, and two is if you have a “personal belief” that prevents vaccination. The law proposed last week would leave that medical exception in place and get rid of that “personal belief” part.
The lawmaker who authored the bill is State Senator Richard Pan, who is also a doctor. He’s concerned about the outbreak of measles in California since December and the high numbers of people opting out of vaccines using the personal belief exemption.
The law as it is written so far does not have any religious exemption. And one might not be required. According to a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case, “the right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death.” In fact, West Virginia and Mississippi do not have religious exemptions.
[u]To be clear: the police don’t come to your house and check to make sure children are vaccinated. In California we find out about a child’s vaccination status when you try to enroll them in school.[/u]
[u]Legally, you can’t enroll children in school without vaccinations or an exemption. So, let’s assume that the personal belief exemption goes away, parents could still avoid vaccination by homeschooling their children. But that would still probably be a smaller number.[/u]
I believe that some version of it will pass. It already has 26 sponsors, mostly Democrats, but 2 Republicans have also signed on. Politically, here’s what’s most important: for years there has been a small, vocal group of parents who oppose vaccination and there wasn’t a huge “pro-vaccination” outcry. But that has all changed. In recent months, there has been an uproar of pro-vaccine voters demanding higher rates of vaccination and and politicians are paying attention. It’s not just California, either – lawmakers in Washington and Oregon are considering closing some vaccine exemptions as well.[/quote]
Good news!
Note: the freedom of religion does not give you the right to perpetuate a public health risk and put unvaccinated people at risk.
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Can someone explain me where this "Anti-Vaccines" movement(or whatever it is) comes from?
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This is good.
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If kids get sick with the measles because their dumbass parents didn't vaccinate them, I feel that the parents should be injected with measles. Just to be fair.
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I don't have any kids of my own yet so I can't really understand why someone wouldn't want to vaccinate their child. I mean if anyone could explain why they wouldn't then that would be appreciated.
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California, big government pricks that decide your life for you. No one should be able to force you to take medicine. Also illegal immigrants bring in many diseases
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Edited by BlaqSpiral: 3/3/2015 4:00:41 AMSo ignoring peoples' religious views is not bigotry, but requiring random drug testing for government assistance is racist...
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Well seeing as how in boot camp I got stuck with 20 different needles containing God knows what and got flu the first time in my life ever...id say vaccines are iffy at best
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Now to make it nation wide
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I hope California leaves the union. Along with anyone not believing in freedom to choose how they live their life. I don't want to wear a seatbelt how am I hurting anyone. I didn't want to get filled up with medications as a kid but I didn't get to choose. I have never had a flu shot never had the flu, had to get one this year got the flu. I believe it should be the choice of the persons what happens to them. Even kids over 12 should be able to make their own choices. Infants are a different story they can't choose so it should be the job of the primary care physician and the parents. Government is over stepping its boundaries.
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So…max is moving to California
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Good. Should be a federal movement
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I approve.
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This is a good video that explains why anti vaxers are a bad thing. Also the logic behind anti vaxers. It's not all their fault it's part of how people are wired.
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I think most of us can read the news ourselves
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I approve of this post
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If you don't vaccinate your kids or are one of those retarded Neanderthals that believes vaccines are satan then you should just be thrown in a volcano.
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If I was conspiracy theorist, I would probably say the measles outbreak could have been set off on purpose so as to push through a bill that would sell more vaccines.....
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There is no reason a student should be allowed in a public institution without being properly vaccinated.
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Edited by BenjyX55: 3/2/2015 11:56:04 PM"Personal beliefs." I'd like to see which Bible verse says "Thou shall not vaccinate." It's pure stupidity, nothing else. Not that they'll be able to enforce this.
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Pic related
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Hell yeah!
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I don't like the West Coast that much anyways...
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Edited by Kernel Kraut: 3/2/2015 4:40:03 AMReading it, what in the fuck does this bill even accomplish? "You can't enroll your kids in public school if they are not vaccinated. But you can get away with it if they are home schooled because we'll never put in any effort to care." This was the case before this. Feelgood legislation at it's finest. Lets pass more laws that are unenforceable because it'll look good to the voters.
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[quote]Note: I'm a gigantic self-righteous tool that believes he's smart because I can parrot what the government wants me to parrot[/quote] fix'd. You won't be able to see if since you mute anyone who doesn't subscribe to your narrow thinking Max.
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So were just going to pretend like the Tuskegee Experiments didn't happen and that our government officials actually care for anyone other than themselves? Fuuuuuuuck….