Sat Jul 16, 2022 – 8:30 pm EDTSat Jul 16, 2022 – 8:30 pm EDT
BOSTON (LifeSiteNews) – Medical freedom advocates in Massachusetts are celebrating the defeat of legislation which would have eliminated religious exemptions for children in K-12 public and private schools.
H.4813 would have removed existing Massachusetts law’s current language establishing that children cannot be kept out of school if a parent or guardian asserts in writing that a “vaccination or immunization conflicts with his sincere religious beliefs,” leaving only a medical exemption. It would have also imposed more stringent reporting requirements for school vaccinations.
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Massachusetts Family Institute argued that, on top of the infringement on freedom, the bill was unnecessary because “Massachusetts has the highest vaccination rates in the country. Of kindergarteners in Massachusetts during the 2021-2022 school year, only 0.87% of students claimed religious exemptions, down from 0.93% the previous year.”
“The religious exemption has been part of the statute for decades,” the group continued, “showing that Massachusetts has succeeded in achieving exceptionally high vaccination rates without resorting to punitive, anti-religion measures that discriminate against a tiny minority of religious
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