On 26 Feb 2004 07:57:57 -0800, (Jonathan
Smith) wrote:

"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message link.net...
HOMESCHOOLERS TO HAVE NO CHOICE...

"[West Virginia's SB439] will make WV the first state in which homeschoolers
have no choice."
--Ingri Cassel, director of Vaccination Liberation

Homeschoolers everywhere should be working to end the pediatricians' obvious
vaccine promotion fraud!

Sec16-34 (c) states:
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(c) All children in this state entering school shall have been be
immunized against diphtheria, polio, measles, mumps, rubella,
hepatitis-b, chickenpox, tetanus and whooping cough, except that
health care providers may exempt a child from any or all immunizations
from the diseases enumerated in this subsection for medical reasons
consistent with commonly accepted practices.
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This comes from the new bill - did they change what "entering school"
means?

Of course not. This is typical anti-vaccine nonsense from lying
anti-vaccine morons. Sometimes they try really, really hard to use
multiple brain cells at once and this is what happens.

This "Ingri Cassel" is a typical anti-vaccine liar. The bill does not
say anything about homeschoolers. It is an update to the existing law
regarding vaccine requirements. The text that they think will suddenly
get homeschoolers arrested and fined for a misdemeanor if passed was
already enacted into law long ago and is not changed in this bill.

One update in this bill is to add a religious exemption, which
currently does not exist in West Virginia. You'd think the
anti-vaccine kooks would be happy about this, but they instead are
complaining that it's unconstitutional because one has to have a
clergyman sign off on the exemption. Again, you'd think they'd be
delighted at least to have something allowing a religious exemption
rather than nothing, but rational people can never understand
anti-vaccine freaks.

I suppose Ingri is just mad that they're updating the law instead of
repealing it, so she'll oppose it no matter what it says, and make up
sensational lies to spur more people into action. And I'll bet it
works -- many homeschooling parents will probably e-mail or call their
legislators without bothering to actually read the bill and see that
Ingri is full of it.

PF