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New Senate Bill to Give California Minors 12 and Older Vaccine Autonomy
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By Brandon Drey
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—California lawmakers introduced a bill on Jan. 20 designed to allow children 12 and older to receive any U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccination, including the recent COVID-19 vaccine, without parental consent.
The Teen Choose Vaccines Act, or Senate Bill 866, builds on an existing state law that gives autonomy for minors 12 and older to receive both the hepatitis B and Human Papillomavirus vaccine.
“Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health,” Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said in a statement.
Wiener, who co-authored the bill with eight other Democrat lawmakers, said parents and guardians who refuse to vaccinate their children are keeping them from participating in sports, extracurricular activities, or spending time with friends.
According to the statement, unvaccinated people are approximately 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the fully vaccinated, and about 28 percent of the legislation’s targeted age group, Weiner said, remain unvaccinated since the FDA approved the vaccine for children five and older.
Medical professionals, students, and non-profits statewide who advocated for Wiener’s proposal called it a step in the right direction for adolescents to learn an assumed responsibility for public health and safety.
Nyla, a 7th-grade student in San Francisco, was quoted in Wiener’s statement, “I can’t think of a good reason why laws shouldn’t let people my age choose to lower our risk of getting really sick. And vaccines not only make us safer, they keep our friends and family safe, too.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—California lawmakers introduced a bill on Jan. 20 designed to allow children 12 and older to receive any U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccination, including the recent COVID-19 vaccine, without parental consent.
The Teen Choose Vaccines Act, or Senate Bill 866, builds on an existing state law that gives autonomy for minors 12 and older to receive both the hepatitis B and Human Papillomavirus vaccine.
“Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health,” Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said in a statement.
Wiener, who co-authored the bill with eight other Democrat lawmakers, said parents and guardians who refuse to vaccinate their children are keeping them from participating in sports, extracurricular activities, or spending time with friends.
According to the statement, unvaccinated people are approximately 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the fully vaccinated, and about 28 percent of the legislation’s targeted age group, Weiner said, remain unvaccinated since the FDA approved the vaccine for children five and older.
Medical professionals, students, and non-profits statewide who advocated for Wiener’s proposal called it a step in the right direction for adolescents to learn an assumed responsibility for public health and safety.
Nyla, a 7th-grade student in San Francisco, was quoted in Wiener’s statement, “I can’t think of a good reason why laws shouldn’t let people my age choose to lower our risk of getting really sick. And vaccines not only make us safer, they keep our friends and family safe, too.”
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INSURRECTION!
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