Carrey was referring to new California law which requires almost every school child to be vaccinated, previously parents could exempt their son or daughter for personal or religious beliefs.
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Previously, California parents enrolling their children in school could state that vaccinations conflicted with their religious or personal beliefs.
Under the law that takes effect January 1, 2016, California children will be required to receive vaccinations for a variety of diseases such as measles, pertussis and varicella in order to enter public or private schools as well as child care centers. “While it’s true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community”, Brown said in a signing statement.
California joins just two other USA states – West Virginia and Mississippi – that allow only medical exemptions as reasons to not have vaccinations.
The new law aims to boost immunization rates by requiring that children be vaccinated to attend public or private daycare or school.
“The science remains unequivocal that vaccines are safe and vaccines save lives”, said Sen. Inspired by a measles outbreak in California that started at Disneyland in December, the bill triggered heated debate and passionate testimony on both sides.
Comedian condemns new law that he claims is “poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum”. “I think the word is out that vaccines protect our kids and protect our communities and that these diseases are still around”, said Nelson Branco, M.D., with Tamalpais Pediatrics. “Children, pregnant women, seniors and people with cancer, organ transplants and other conditions are counting on us to make sure science prevails”.
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She says that the modern-day resistance movement shares its roots and rhetoric with the social movements of the 1960s and ’70s, including feminism, environmentalism and consumer rights. Many said it infringes on parental rights and issues of informed consent. The amendment would allow doctors to use a family’s medical history as an evaluating factor. According to the Marin Department of Health and Human Services Immunization Program, the number of exemptions more than doubled from 3.7 percent in 2002 to 7.8 percent in 2012. Critics of the legislation also objected to what they saw as restrictions of religious and personal beliefs.
