Should vaccination be required by law?
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After the recent measles outbreak, even more attention has been focused on the debate over vaccines and the declining rate of childhood vaccination in many areas.
All 50 states allow medical exemptions for vaccines that would otherwise be required for a child to attend schools. Most other states offer parents the ability to claim exemptions on the grounds of personal or religious beliefs as well. In California, however, a bill has been proposed that would eliminate “personal belief exemptions” and only allow medical exemptions, reports the San Jose Mercury News. This would would also exclude all religious-based objections to vaccines as grounds for an exemption. Mississippi and West Virginia currently allow only medical exemptions.
So this week we’d like to ask you: Do you think that some vaccines can or should be required by law? Should vaccination be made mandatory for children? For adults? If you think there should be exceptions other than medical ones, what would they be?
Answer in the comments.
Read the answers to last week’s question: Have you met any lawyers like Saul Goodman?
Featured answer:
Posted by DeadHead: “Any lawyer who has practiced in a district court level has met these guys. I am old, but I never noticed a woman doing it back in the ’80s, but I could see a niche there. In Louisville, they would hang out beginning at 8, waiting for clients who were on the 9 o’clock docket. It was cash on the barrel head. Same for the 1 o’clock docket, then off to Churchill Downs for the rest of the day. It was an interesting introduction to that aspect of the practice of law, and the stories never stop. I am keeping details to myself, even though some of the actors are passed.”
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