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Senate Bill
439
Senate Bill
439 was passed by the
Senate HHR committee on February 19, 2003. It was
amended on February 24, 2004 to include a religious
exemption, and passed on the Senate Floor on February 25,
2004. It was defeated in the
House HHR committee on
March 3, 2004.
Read the full text of SB439 here.
Read the language of
the amendment here.
What SB439
Adds:
eliminates medical exemptions where a physician can use
individual judgment outside of "commonly accepted practice"
adds hepatitis B and chickenpox to the list of mandatory
vaccines
require the use of
new "certificates of immunization" to document vaccination
history
increase penalties
for noncompliance
establishes
"compelling interest" for the state that supercedes
individual choice.
Homeschooling
parents could be charged with a crime for not vaccinating!
Problems with SB439
Read
HSLDA's analysis and proposed solutions of the bill.
Who Does
SB439 Affect?
Religious Exemption
Amendment
On February 24, 2004, the
Senate adopted an
amendment to allow religious exemptions from mandatory
vaccinations. But this
amendment is
unconstitutional.
The Vaccines
The Chickenpox and Rubella
(part of the MMR) vaccines use human diploid cell lines to
grow the viruses in. These human diploid cell lines are
derived from 2 fetuses that were aborted in the 60's and
70's. People who oppose abortion should be able to choose
not to buy or use these products that go against their
religious or philosophical beliefs.
Hepatitis B is a disease
that rarely affects school children. Parents should have
the right to choose not to take risks associated with the
vaccine until the risks of the disease are greater.
West Virginian parents must
have the right to object to these mandatory vaccines because
of religious or moral beliefs. |
