California Vaccination Law: 'Strip parents' rights'
Vaccine laws across the nation may be toughened, observers say, if California passes a fervently debated bill that would strip parents' rights to exempt kids from immunizations based on personal beliefs.
A potential end to California's opt-out provision gained ground Wednesday when the state senate's education committee voted 7-2 to require full vaccinations for almost all public school students.
The move came in the wake of "anti-vax" parents blamed for the Disneyland measles outbreak that sickened 147 people as it spread to at least five states....
Dr. Joel Beeke | 1/4/2009
