Legislative Updates
New Jersey—ACTION ALERT
Thousands gathered this week for "Occupy Trenton" to protest a bill that would repeal the state’s longstanding religious exemptions to vaccination. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gave an electrifying speech on the 6th. On the 8th, the NJ Senate voted to amend the measure to give private schools and child care centers the freedom to accept kids who aren’t vaccinated. thus securing enough votes to move the bill to the floor. On Monday, January 13, NJ legislators will vote on whether or not to repeal the religious exemption in NJ.
New York
On January 8, 2020, the first day of the legislative session and the same day as Governor Cuomo’s State of the State Address, parents and advocates joined Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the Capitol in Albany, NY, to educate lawmakers on a slate of Democratic bills that would add up to twenty new doses of vaccines to attend school (including Merck’s globally controversial HPV vaccine), and eliminate the right of parents to know which vaccines their children are given.
Listen as he passionately speaks about Merck, HPV vaccine, informed choice, and health freedom. He begins speaking around the one and one-half minute mark.
Arizona
On December 11, 2019, State Rep. John Fillmore (R-Apache Junction) prefiled House Bill 2050, which would give parents of children who are “pupils” under Arizona law the sole right to decide whether or not their children are vaccinated. It would also prohibit schools from requiring that pupils receive the recommended vaccinations and prohibit schools from refusing to admit, or from otherwise penalizing, pupils who have not received them.
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Colorado
Thanks to Sarah Carrasco and all the parents and advocates in Colorado who showed up on the first day of Colorado's legislative session to send a clear message to their representatives that they do not have a right to force free people to do anything.
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