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Legislators Try and Fail 31 Times to Loosen School Vaccination Rules
by Brian Krans
An American Medical Association paper says legislative efforts to let more parents opt-out of vaccinations for their children have failed.
Legislative efforts to allow more parents to exempt their children from vaccinations required by public schools have largely failed, according to a research letter published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
From 2009 to 2012, there were 36 attempts in 18 states to change immunization requirements. Of those, 31 were intended to expand the scope of exemptions, typically for personal or religious reasons.
But none of the bills to expand exemptions passed, though three of five bills to restrict exemptions made it into law. Those bills were passed in California, Vermont, and Washington.
Mississippi, West Virginia, and New Jersey led the U.S. with a combined total of 16 attempts to allow for more personal belief exemptions—those not tied to medical or religious beliefs—but none of them passed.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/02/legislators-try-and-fail-31-times-to-loosen-school-vaccination-rules/
