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foxnews.com/us/states-seek-to-cut-off-religious-exemptions-for-vaccination
Connecticut's Attorney General gave state lawmakers the legal go-ahead Monday to pursue legislation that would prevent parents from exempting their children from vaccinations for religious reasons, a move that several states are considering amid a significant measles outbreak.
The non-binding ruling from William Tong, a Democrat, was released the same day public health officials in neighboring New York called on state legislators there to pass similar legislation . Most of the cases in the current outbreak have been in New York state.
[...] Connecticut is just one of several states considering whether to end longstanding laws that allow people to opt out of vaccinations for religious purposes. In the face of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, some have alleged religious exemptions have been abused by "anti-vaxxers" who believe vaccines are harmful despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
But the proposals to eliminate the opt-outs have also sparked emotional debates about religious freedom and the rights of parents.
Most religions have no prohibitions against vaccinations, according to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee. Yet the number of people seeking the religious exemption in Connecticut has been consistently climbing. There were 316 issued during the 2003-04 school year, compared to 1,255 in the 2017-18 school year.
[...] All 50 states have laws requiring students to have certain vaccinations. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, all but Mississippi, West Virginia and California grant religious exemptions. As of Jan. 30, the conference said 17 states allowed people to exempt their children for personal, moral or other philosophical beliefs.
(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Wednesday May 08 2019, @05:22PM (1 child)
I've checked the moderations that you have received to ensure that you are not being unfairly penalised and I'm afraid that they do not back up your statements. You have been modded down (for various reasons 9 times), modded up 16 times (including 'Insightful' and 'Informative'), and 78 times you have finished with a moderation of '0', which is the starting position for ACs. Whether the latter have been higher and lower before settling at 0 I cannot tell.
I know it can seem as if one is unfairly modded more often than it actually is (I have exactly the same problem) but I would say that the moderations that you have received are actually more positive than negative. Now I haven't gone through each of your comments to see whether the moderations were deserved or not (there are over 100 comments!) but I would suggest that you keep doing what you are doing as most of your comments seem to be accepted by the community.
I'm not quite sure why you would post nonsensical jabbering if that is your own view of it though... :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:35PM
Thanks.
1) Sometimes I read some nonsense elsewhere I think is funny and post it here to remember it
2) To see what response it gets from this community