California Vaccine Bill Requires Kids’ Vaccination, Robert Kennedy Jr. Calls Religious Exemption A ‘Holocaust’

A California vaccine bill would require that all school children receive a vaccination, even if parents object on religious grounds. Some parents are upset because California’s vaccination law would take the choice out of their hands, except when it comes to exemptions where a child has certain health problems that may be aggravated by certain vaccines. Activist Robert Kennedy Jr. believes that allowing parents to have a choice has amounted to a “holocaust” based upon the deaths related to non-vaccinated children.

In a related report by the Inquisitr, a Michigan mom claimed school officials were bullying her non-vaccinated son for sending him home due to a chickenpox outbreak.

Kennedy is a supporter of the California vaccine bill, and he believes that a religious exemption should never be allowed. Kennedy even went so far as to compare the denial of vaccines by parents to the Jewish holocaust.

“This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country,” Kennedy insists. “The checks and balances in our democratic system that are supposed stand between corporate power and our little children have been removed. And there’s only one barrier left and that’s the parents.”

Parent Karen Kain believes that the California vaccine bill goes too far since she believes vaccines may carry inherent risks. As evidence for this belief, she told the story about how her daughter died of injuries from a mercury-tainted vaccine.

“I stand here today before you to share my story so you can all see and hear what happens when vaccines go wrong,” she said. “Who gets to make the choice now of whose babies are more important? Because there is risk, there must be choice.”

Dr. Dean Blumberg, a pediatrician who testified on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the California Medical Association, supports the California vaccine bill and believes the risks associated with forcing vaccinations is overstated.

“Unfortunately, there’s much misinformation about vaccine safety and effectiveness,” Blumberg said, according to CBS News. “Let me be clear: There is no scientific controversy about vaccine safety and vaccine effectiveness… This is not open to dispute among mainstream doctors and scientists.”

Do you think parents should have the right to determine whether or not their children receive vaccinations? Do you think childhood vaccinations are a public safety issue, and that Robert Kennedy Jr. is right to compare the situation to the holocaust?

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