Democrat lawmakers in Massachusetts have proposed new laws to vaccinate children without their families’ consent by removing religious exemptions and stripping parental rights to object to vaccinations.
The state’s lawmakers are considering a bill to remove religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates.
They are also considering two bills that would allow minors to “consent” to “preventative care,” including vaccines, even if it goes against their parents’ wishes.
The grassroots groups Health Rights MA and Health Action Massachusetts are now sounding the alarm about the bills.
Versions of the bill seeking to remove religious exemptions were introduced in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate.
The bills are sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy and Rep. Andy Vargas, both Democrats.
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If passed, children whose families object to school-mandated vaccinations would be barred from attending public and private K-12 schools, even if the objection is based on sincerely held religious beliefs.
Massachusetts’ lawmakers are also considering An Act Promoting Community Immunity.
The bill would undermine religious exemptions for school-based vaccine mandates and remove parental consent for vaccines in some cases.
According to Health Rights MA, the community immunity bill would:
• Allow minors to consent to preventative care, including vaccination, without parental consent or knowledge.
• Allow private daycares, schools, and colleges to refuse religious exemptions and impose additional vaccines like the COVID-19 shots, which are not required by the Department of Public Health (DPH).
• Subject the religious and medical exemptions to state approval.
• Grant DPH expansive authority to change immunization and exemption requirements.
• Require doctors to sign religious exemptions.
• Allow DPH to publicly label programs with immunization rates below a state-defined threshold as “Elevated Risk” and exclude healthy, unvaccinated children, even in the absence of an outbreak or emergency.
In addition, Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a third bill that ostensibly aims at “enhancing access” to abortion.
Under the bill, children would be able to consent to “preventative care,” including vaccines, without parental knowledge or consent.
Democrats are pushing versions of the bill in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
According to Health Action Massachusetts:
“An Act Enhancing Access to Abortion goes beyond abortion-related care by granting minors the ability to consent to all forms of preventative care, including vaccinations and sterilization, without parental consent or knowledge.
“It does not include any age delineations or mental capacity guidelines for minors making these decisions.”
This third bill is overseen by the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, rather than the Joint Committee on Public Health.
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