Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has reportedly signed a bill ending most non-medical exemptions for mandatory childhood vaccines, just days aft...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has reportedly signed a bill ending most non-medical exemptions for mandatory childhood vaccines, just days after the first confirmed measles case hit the state.
House Democrats in the state said Friday that Mills had signed the bill, according to multiple local reports. The law eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions in Maine, local ABC affiliate WMTW reported.
Under the new law, only doctors and pediatric primary care givers can determine if a child should receive a medical exemption.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention will also release reports on safety and effectiveness of vaccines for transparency, the outlet noted.
Maine becomes the fourth state to eliminate religious exemptions for vaccine requirements, joining California, Mississippi and West Virginia.
The new law will go into effect 90 days after the state legislature adjourns, WMTW noted. Unvaccinated students already enrolled in schools have until 2021 to get their required vaccines.
The state legislature voted on the legislation earlier this month, with supporters arguing that non-medical exemptions are a public health risk that especially targets people with weakened immune systems.
Opponents argued that the bill infringes on a parent’s right to make medical or religious choices for their children.
“We are pushing religious people out of our great state,” state Sen. Lisa Keim (R) said earlier this month, according to the the Portland Press Herald. “And we will also be closing the door on religious people who may consider making Maine their home. We are fooling ourselves if we don’t believe an exodus would come about.”
Maine has one of the highest rates of non-medical vaccine exemptions in the country.
The kindergarten vaccination opt-out rate was 5.6 percent for the 2018-2019 school year, more than three times the national average of 1.8 percent, according to the Press Herald.
The measles outbreak spreading across the country has now hit 25 states, with Maine becoming the latest state to see a confirmed case.
The nationwide outbreak is the largest since measles was declared eliminated in 2000.
Maine is also battling an outbreak of whopping cough, which can be combated with a vaccine.
Sieg Heil mein Fuhrer! Insane in Maine. Apparently Maine has gone full Bolshevik?
ReplyDeleteCouple of minor points; there are two types of measles and multiple strains (38 cited in an India study), their vaccination covers 4-5. The other three States with "no" exemptions also happen to be the three with the highest incidence of SIDS in the US. When Japan CEASED vaccinating infants, their SIDS rate dropped by half.
ReplyDeleteTime to charge LEGISLATORS with "practicing medicine without a license".
Get ready for a mass exodus from the tyrannical state of Maine. The nerve of any government to force vaccinate us. Screw them!
ReplyDeleteMY body, MY choice, MY rights. Freedom of CHOICE. Right to CHOOSE.
ReplyDeleteAbortion up to and including live birth: My body! My right!
"They" demand the right to decide what goes on with their body until YOU want the SAME THING over vaccines. Refuse vaccines with severe risks clearly printed on insert: Are you trying to get us all killed!?!?!?
If ONE person gets a vaccine, say for mumps, then that person should be able to circulate through a Mumps Ward with no fear of contracting Mumps. So why are these Thugs soooooo worried about Everybody has to have the Mumps vaccine? Get all the shots you want and you don't need to worry your pointed little head about ME.
"Children who are not vaccinated are in danger of catching diseases and can spread them to those surrounding them and be the center for outbreaks of serious diseases that can have tragic results," Moalem-Refaeli noted. REALLY??!! Then your "vaccines" DO NOT WORK.
https://sputniknews.com/society/2018112110...accinated-children/
Government proposes obligatory vaccines. Note logic failure above: if vaccines are effective, what danger do the vaccinated risk if some among them are not vaccinated?
So the libtards scream that they should be able to kill babies in the womb (and out, but that's another story) under the mantra that they should be able to control their bodies but when it comes to vaccinations they throw that theory out the window and support forced vaccinations? These people are so effing stupid it's a wonder they can breath on their own.
ReplyDelete"whopping cough, which can be combated with a vaccine."
ReplyDeleteYes if you want to kill the children.
Study in 1980s: Infants With DTP Vaccine 5 to 10-Times More Susceptible to Dying
Total Mortality
“A team of Scandinavian scientists has conducted such a study and the results are alarming. That study,funded in part by the Danish government and lead by Dr. Soren Wengel Mogensen,
was published in January in EBioMedicine. Mogensen and his team of scientists found that African children inoculated with the DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) vaccine, during the early 1980s had a 5-10 times greater mortality than their unvaccinated peers. The data suggest that, while the vaccine protects against infection from those three bacteria, it makes children
more susceptible to dying from other causes.” Study: Infants With DTP Vaccine 5 to 10-Times
More Susceptible to Dying
As more and more Mothers figure out the "vaccination" SCAM; more and more FORCE has to be used. Sounds like Tyranny and murder to me.