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Following Measles Outbreaks, Oregon House Passes Bill Banning Exemptions from Vaccines for Religious ReasonsAll 50 US states require that children be vaccinated for varied diseases for them to attend public school, unless they have medical reasons for exemption. Seventeen states currently permit philosophical exemptions for immunizations because of personal, moral or other beliefs.
The Oregon bill passed the House 35-25, the Oregonian reported, mainly along party lines, but with two Republicans voting for it and four Democrats against. Oregon's Democrat Gov. Kate Brown has said she would sign the controversial House Bill 3063, which is now headed to the Senate. The bill would allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children for documented medical reasons only, the report said. Most Oregon parents who decline to vaccinate their children currently do so with religious and philosophical exemptions. The law includes daycare and Head Start programs, along with other school-related activities. Children who attend school online or who are home schooled could still remain exempt from mandatory vaccines. Maine may soon follow the lead of Oregon in prohibiting parents from using religious or personal beliefs to forgo vaccines for their children. It's one of at least seven states with legislatures looking at similar laws allowing vaccine exemptions for medical reasons only and as determined by a doctor, according to Reuters... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading here. 
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