If democrats don't want a religious exemption change the law. It's been the law for decades. Republicans didn't just pass it.
Meanwhile start prosecuting liberal parents who let children die rather than have vaccinations as well. No more double standards.
false there are just as many conservative parents who don't vaccinate because of religious reasons ..
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Measles Outbreak Proves Delicate Issue to G.O.P. Field
By
JEREMY W. PETERS and
RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAFEB. 2, 2015
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Vaccines: An Unhealthy Skepticism
Vaccines: An Unhealthy Skepticism
An outbreak of measles that started at Disneyland has turned a spotlight on those who choose not to vaccinate their children. How did we get to a point where personal beliefs can triumph over science?
Video by RetroReport on Publish Date February 1, 2015. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
WASHINGTON — The politics of medicine, morality and free will have collided in an emotional debate over vaccines and the government’s place in requiring them, posing a challenge for Republicans who find themselves in the familiar but uncomfortable position of reconciling modern science with the skepticism of their core conservative voters.
As the latest
measles outbreak raises alarm, and parents who have decided not to vaccinate their children
face growing pressure to do so, the national debate is forcing the
Republican Party’s 2016 presidential hopefuls to confront questions about whether it is in the public’s interest to allow parents to decide for themselves.
Gov. Chris Christie’s trade mission to London was suddenly overshadowed on Monday after he was quoted as saying that parents
“need to have some measure of choice” about vaccinating their children against measles. The New Jersey governor, who is trying to establish his credibility among conservatives as he weighs a run for the Republican nomination in 2016, later tried to temper his response. His office released a statement clarifying that “with a disease like measles there is no question kids should be vaccinated.”
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A map of counties where cases have been reported so far this year, and a chart showing how the number of cases compares to previous years.
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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a physician, was
less equivocal, telling the conservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Monday that parents should absolutely have a say in whether to vaccinate their children for measles.
“While I think it’s a good idea to take the vaccine, I think that’s a personal decision for individuals,” he said, recalling his irritation at doctors who tried to press him to vaccinate his own children. He eventually did, he said, but spaced out the vaccinations over a period of time.
The vaccination controversy is a twist on an old problem for the Republican Party: how to approach matters that have largely been settled among scientists but are not widely accepted by conservatives.
It is a dance Republican candidates often do when they hedge their answers about whether evolution should be taught in schools. It is what makes the fight over
global warming such a liability for their party, and what led last year to a widely criticized response to the Ebola scare.
strict quarantines of people who may have been exposed to the virus. In some cases, Republicans proposed banning people who had been to the hardest-hit West African countries from entering the United States, even though public health officials warned that would only make it more difficult to stop Ebola’s spread.
On climate change, the party has struggled with how to position itself, with some Republicans inviting mockery for questioning the established science that human activity is contributing to rising temperatures and sea levels.
There is evidence that vaccinations have become more of a political issue in recent years. Pew Research Center
polls show that in 2009, 71 percent of both Republicans and Democrats favored requiring the vaccination of children. Five years later, Democratic support had grown to 76 percent, but Republican support had fallen to 65 percent.
The debate does not break entirely along right-left lines. The movement to forgo vaccinations has been popular in more liberal and affluent communities where some parents are worried that vaccines cause autism or other disorders among children.
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