Children's Health Defense South Carolina senators debated two approaches to childhood vaccination Wednesday but ultimately sided with parental choice. A Senate panel advanced a bill blocking vaccine mandates for children under 2 and rejected a proposal to eliminate religious exemptions for the MMR vaccine. “Vaccine mandates need to be repealed, not entrenched,” said Dawn Richardson of the National Vaccine Information Center.
South Carolina senators clashed Wednesday over childhood vaccination policy, but ultimately sided with parental choice in two key votes, the South Carolina Daily Gazette reported.
A Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee voted 7-1 to advance legislation prohibiting vaccine mandates for children under age 2.
Minutes later, the panel voted 6-2 to reject a separate proposal that would have removed religious exemptions for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
Advocacy groups supporting parental rights called the outcome a major statement on constitutional protections.
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