Maine Residents Could Restore Vaccine Exemptions by Popular Vote on March 3 Ballot
On May 24, 2019, Maine’s House of Representatives passed a bill (LD798) removing religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions to block…
Reject Big Pharma’s Vaccine Mandates in 2020
Opinion | Since 2015, we’ve seen the slow and steady erosion of vaccine informed consent rights across the U.S., as…
Trojan Horse of Measles—More Vaccines With the Mandate
Opinion | Bills to either remove or restrict vaccine exemptions have been filed across the U.S. in 2019. One of the…
Illinois Mandates Insurance Coverage for EpiPens
Illinois has become the first state to pass a law requiring health insurance companies to cover the cost of medically…
Disabled Child Denied Medical Vaccine Exemption Kicked Out of NY School
Nine-year-old Ameer Hamideh has been kicked out of the CHC Learning Center in Buffalo, New York because he does not…
Judge Denies Injunction of NY Law Repealing Religious Vaccine Exemption
On Aug. 23, 2019, New York State Supreme Court Judge Denise Hartman issued an Opinion upholding a law passed by…
North Carolina Pharmacists Now Can Give Flu Shots to Younger Children
North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed legislation (HB 388) into law that allows children over 10 years of age to…
HPV Vaccine Mandated for All 10-Year-Old Girls in Costa Rica
In October 2017, the government of Costa Rica added the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to the country’s national vaccination program.…
New York Bill Removing Religious Vaccine Exemption Turned Into Law on One Day with No Public Hearings
On June 13, 2019, the New York legislature quickly pushed a bill (A2371) to repeal the religious exemption to vaccination…
Dentists in Oregon Are Vaccinators Now
Governor Kate Brown of Oregon signed a bill on May 6, 2019 that will allow dentists in that state to…