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.
A Kansas Senate committee has approved a bill that would stop pharmacists from refusing to fill ivermectin prescriptions. https://t.co/TPym3AJuVh
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