California Bill Would Repeal Personal Belief Exemption For Vaccines

Two California lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday morning that would eliminate parents’ ability to opt out of school-mandated vaccines because of personal beliefs.

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.

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