Immunization Exemption Bill Unlikely To Go To Vote
A bill that would expand the number of exemptions allowed for parents who don’t want their children to be immunized apparently will not go to a vote this year.
State Rep. Brenda Landwehr of Wichita said Wednesday that she doesn’t intend to have the House Health and Human Services Committee work on the bill. She told The Wichita Eagle that she sees little support on the committee for allowing more exemptions from mandatory immunizations.
The bill drew a large crowd for a public hearing two weeks ago. Dozens of parents said they wanted to be allowed to reject the immunizations for reasons of personal conscience.
But health officials told the committee that mandatory vaccine laws are critical to stopping the spread of disease.
What laws? There are “mandates” but it is not illegal to refuse vaccines PERIOD.
The mandate requires us to lie, we have to say we have a religious exemption for not wanting to inject our kids with poisons. There are a million good reasons why someone would refrain from certain injections at certain times. Health officials aren’t telling about the side effects and unknowns, they just keep upping the amount, ignoring the risks. It makes me furious that I have to lie to keep my kid from having to be shot up with vaxes for diseases that aren’t that dangerous, but face possibly horrible consequences.