Fight Against Vaccination Bill Finds Ally in ACLU
Interesting attack angle from the ACLU, but everyone’s right to safety trumps a handful of children’s rights to public education. Also the state could create and provide an online homeschool curricula and testing for the unvaccinated if push comes to shove.
The bill they came to defeat would end “personal belief exemptions” and require almost all California children attending public or private school to be immunized. Children with legitimate medical reasons, such as compromised immune systems due to chemotherapy, are excused. So are home-schooled children.
After the bill was amended to include multiple-family home schools and public school independent study programs in the definition of home-schooling, it passed easily out of committee.
The moms, who were wary of me but willing to make their case, will be back at the Capitol next week when the law is taken up by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
This time, they will have an unexpected ally: the ACLU.