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VACCINE EXEMPTIONS

 

 

It is law in all US states that children be properly immunized before attending school.  However, in addition to medical exemptions offered in each state, 48 states allow for religious exemptions and 17 states allow philosophic or personal exemptions.

Mandatory Immunization Laws and the Role of Medical, Religious and Philosophical Exemptions, Daniel A. Salmon [August 2002]

McCarthy v Boozman, 2002 Ruling by Arkansas District Court that religious exemptions are unconstitutional.

Letter to Fay Boozman suggesting that it should not be easier to obtain philosophical exemption than comply with vaccination by Daniel Salmon, Neal Halsey, Andrew Siegel, and Eugene Gangarosa.

 

Exemptions by State:

religious exemptions:  All but Arkansas, Mississippi and West Virginia

philosophic exemptions:  California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin

  

 
updated
10.17.07

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