State bill to force parents to vaccinate schoolchildren stalls

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14. Most states have had religious exemptions for decades.

Sometimes many decades. With few problems.

Those believers, wrongly or rightly, simply won't have their kids vaccinated. Esp. now that the number of vaccinations has really increased.

That'll lead to an impasse. State requirements are for public education in many cases. If kids must be vaccinated to attend state schools, the state's setting up the parents for a problem: Essentially the state is just requiring that underage citizens be vaccinated. In court they'll have to show a compelling state interest in having that level of vaccination, and that's likely to fail. Since they won't be able to compel homeschooling, they'll have to set up a separate but equal school system for the unvaccinated or allow religious exemptions.

But it'll be an ugly and hate-filled process.