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Mandatory Vaccine Bill is Getting One Step Closer to the Senate

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By Nicole Ramirez

McIntyre in the Morning

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A bill that would require nearly all children in California to be vaccinated by eliminating “personal belief” exemptions advanced through the State Legislature.

The proposed legislation cleared the Senate Education Committee, Wednesday. The author of the California bill to require school children to be vaccinated for such diseases as polio and measles regardless of their parents’ personal beliefs said he would revive the measure, which stalled in the legislature last week.

Carl Krawitt, whose son is diagnosed with Leukemia, tells McIntyre in the Morning he’s happy that they’re one step closer to making this mandatory.

“The bill has passed the health committee and it’s passed the education committee and the next step is to go to the judiciary committee,” he said

Krawitt’s son, Rhett, 7, has been fighting Leukemia for 4 1/2 years. He is now in remission but now has to worry about the threat of measles.  Rhett cannot be vaccinated, because his immune system is still rebuilding. Until then, he depends on everyone around him for protection — what’s known as herd immunity.

Rhett lives in Marin County, Calif., a county with the dubious honor of having the highest rate of “personal belief exemptions” in the Bay Area and among the highest in the state.

At a meeting in Marin County that supported the vaccine bill, Krawitt said a woman verbally attacked him in front of his son.

“She just started shouting at me calling me a Nazi and said what are you gonna do now put us in concentration camp,” he said.  “I just told my boy to ignore them they’re just angry people they’re just trying to scare you.

Opponent’s claim the vaccine leads to Autism, but a new study out Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, proved that the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella doesn’t bring an increased risk of autism.

“The lawmakers can now really see through some of this noise that is being made by the opposition,” said Krawitt.