Maine voters overwhelmingly support law barring religious exemption from student vaccination requirement
Maine is the latest state to wrestle with religious exemptions for vaccinations, joining Connecticut, Massachusetts and Texas.
Maine is the latest state to wrestle with religious exemptions for vaccinations, joining Connecticut, Massachusetts and Texas.
Two different vaccine refusal disputes led to two different outcomes. Michigan’s Memorial Healthcare agreed to allow employees with religious objections to receiving the flu vaccine to wear a mask during flu season, while Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s ruling in favor of the Northern Kentucky Health Department’s exclusion of an unvaccinated high school student from school and extracurricular events during a chicken pox.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill repealing the state’s religious exemption from vaccination requirements. “[O]ur first job is to protect the public health,” he explained.
The largest outbreak of measles in the United States in more than 25 years has led lawmakers in multiple states to rethink religious exemptions from vaccination mandates.
In Kentucky, a judge allowed a school district to continue enforcing its ban on unvaccinated students attending school functions during a chicken pox outbreak.