As states cut vaccine exemptions, skeptical parents may switch tactics.
When Vermont became the first state in the nation to eliminate personal belief exemptions for vaccines in 2016, some wondered if parents would claim religious exemptions instead, regardless of whether or not they were religious.A new study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, found that after lawmakers outlawed personal belief exemptions, there was a seven-fold increase in the percentage of Vermont kindergartners with religious exemptions, with exemptions growing from 0.
With the resurgence of measles in the United States, including outbreaks at Disneyland, in Minnesota and Brooklyn in recent years, the vaccine landscape has changed, as states tighten or eliminate exemptions in an effort to improve vaccination rates. Nationally, religious exemption rates have risen over time in states that allow religious exemptions only. Exemption rates among American kindergartners in those states tripled between 2005 and 2013, then plateaued for three years. Now, they’re starting to rise again.In a 2014 survey, 22.8% of Americans reported having no religious affiliation, compared with 16.1% of Americans who said they weren’t religious in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.
Williams worried about the unintended consequences of an uptick in religious exemptions as Americans simultaneously become less religious.There’s also the prospect that religious communities could be stigmatized for those exemptions, even if they’re not the ones claiming them.
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