Reacting to an ongoing measles outbreak, New York state has eliminated a religious exemption that allowed unvaccinated children to attend school.
outbreak, New York state has eliminated the religious exemption for not vaccinating children.
Most school systems require proof of vaccination to allow a child to attend class, but by claiming their religion doesn't allowNot everybody was happy about the new law. Parents of hundreds of unvaccinated kids protested in Albany claiming the law violated religious freedom. "People came to this country to get away from exactly this kind of stuff," Stan Yung, a Long Island attorney, told theThose who supported the bill said that religion shouldn't trump science. In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court said states can enforce vaccination laws.
When the bill was debated in the Assembly, members reminded their colleagues of the deadly disease prevented by
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