Jessica Biel teamed up with anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to fight a California vaccine bill. The bill just passed.
Except apparently, Biel’s opposition wasn’t enough to stop the bill — it just passed.
A California Assembly committee approved the measure in a 9-2 vote late last week. Now, medical exemptions for vaccines in California will require more scrutiny and will be overseen by the state Health Department, making it harder for doctors to write medical exemptions for reasons that don’t actually have anything to do with vaccines.
Lawmakers who supported the new law said it was designed to stop “unscrupulous” doctors from granting medical exemptions when the kids in question actually have no medical reason for not receiving vaccines. “California cannot allow a handful of unscrupulous physicians to put our children in danger,” Sacramento Democratic Sen. Richard PanThis comes amid the largest measles outbreak the U.S. has seen since 1992 — 19 years after measles was declared eradicated in the U.S. in 2000. The disease has seen a resurgence in recent years, largely driven by high numbers of unvaccinated kids.
After reports that she was lobbying against the bill, Jessica Biel took to Instagram to deny that she’s against vaccinations.
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