Two California lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday morning that would eliminate parents’ ability to opt out of school-mandated vaccines because of personal beliefs.
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California is one of 19 states that allow parents to opt their children out of vaccines because of personal beliefs, the Mercury News notes. Pan sponsored a 2012 law that attempted to curb those exemptions by requiring parents seeking them to receive counseling and signatures from health care professionals, but loopholes — such as receiving counseling from alternative medicine practitioners — have stifled the law’s intentions.