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Move to loosen vaccine rules for students fails in Missouri House
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Date: 07, 2021


Missouri law already allows for religious and medical exemptions, but some representatives argued they are not accessible enough. By adding “conscientious” objections to the list, any parent who did not want to vaccinate their child could get an exemption.

Several Republicans on Wednesday said they supported vaccines for their own families but believed other parents should be allowed to make a different decision.

“You get to decide what is best for your children because this is the United States of America,” said Rep. Justin Hill, R-Lake Saint Louis.

But both Republicans and Democrats raised concerns about the proposal.

Rep. Mike Stephens, R-Bolivar, said he understands the underlying issue of some parents being pressured to vaccinate their children but still opposed the proposal because of the anti-vaccine message it sends.

“Vaccines have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful history of preventing disease and saving lives, millions of lives throughout the world,” he said.

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