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AVFCA Continues to Chip Away at SB277
with a Lawsuit to Allow Titer Testing
for CA School Vaccine Requirements...
We Need Your Help TODAY!
Titer testing measures the concentration of antibodies in the blood to determine if a person has immunity to a specific disease, either from past infections or vaccinations. On August 11, 2023 A Voice for Choice Advocacy’s lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of a plaintiff claiming that California’s School Vaccine Exemption laws should include the ability to opt out of vaccinations requirements if a child shows antibody levels that make them immune to a disease, and specifically that this would not require a medical exemption. Proof of antibodies through titer testing would be given to the school in lieu of vaccination records. Currently, in California a child’s doctor would need to submit the antibody lab results as a medical exemption to the CAIR-ME system. CDPH sometimes accepts these, but often does not, as evidenced in this case.
The child, whose mother is the plaintiff, has had the chickenpox disease and has been vaccinated with at least one vaccine for each of the other required diseases, and has positive antibody tests for all required diseases. So if the child were exposed to any of these diseases they would not get them. The child’s medical doctor wrote a medical exemption but the California Department of Health revoked it and thereby invalidated it. So while this child poses no threat to the other children at school, even if there was an outbreak of one of these diseases, by law the child is required to be vaccinated to attend school. Most other states, and other entities such as the University of California and California State University allow for titer testing in lieu of vaccination. SB 277 and CDPH’s regulations do not provide for such.
This case has been significantly delayed because the state requested it be moved from Sacramento to Sonoma County, where the child goes to school. This case was filed over a year ago and will see its first day in court on November 6th, 2024! Similar to our Religious Exemption case, the state has filed a Demurrer (aka a motion to dismiss) which AVFCA’s lawyers will be responding to in late October. (More info and background: https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/litigation/ca-school-vaccine-titer-testing-lawsuit/)
Lawsuits are very expensive. AVFCA's legal team is prepared to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court. While AVFCA's legal team generously charges us a discounted hourly rate, this lawsuit will require hundreds of hours of their time and will likely cost over one hundred thousand dollars. Thus far it has cost over $40,000, and we are right at the start! AVFCA has taken on paying for this lawsuit because of our passion for Health Rights and Medical Freedom. So we need your help TODAY. If you want to see a chipping away at school vaccine requirements in California, both through this lawsuit and our Religious Exemption lawsuit, please donate TODAY, so we can bring health rights and medical freedom back to California’s children. AVFCA does not often ask for donations, but this is one of those times...
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Over the last 9 years A Voice for Choice Advocacy, and our sister organization, A Voice for Choice, have been sustained only by grassroots donations, as well as my own significant donations. We are so thankful to everyone who has generously donated. However, AVFCA always needs your help to make our efforts sustainable. If you appreciate the work we do, AVFCA asks you to donate as generously as you can - no amount is too little or too great! If you are not already, please consider becoming a monthly donor: www.avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/donate
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Together we can make change happen!
C
Christina Hildebrand
President/Founder
A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc.
[email protected]
www.AVoiceForChoiceAdvocacy.org
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