KS Advances Blanket Exemption For Childhood Vaxxes

The Hill reports:

Conservative Republican lawmakers on Thursday revived a proposal to weaken Kansas’s vaccination requirements for children enrolling in school and day care and to make it easier for people to get potentially dangerous treatments for COVID-19.

The Senate health committee approved a bill that would allow parents to get a no-questions-asked religious exemption from requirements to vaccinate their children against more than a dozen diseases, including measles, whooping cough, polio and chickenpox.

The measure also would limit pharmacists’ ability to refuse to fill prescriptions for the anti-worm treatment ivermectin and other drugs for off-label uses as COVID-19 treatments.

Read the full article. The bill’s author, Sen. Mark Steffen, is a physician and is currently under investigation by Kansas medical authorities.