Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights calls for choice
Bills allowing options eyed in both chambers
by Jimmie E. Gates
ClarionLedger.com
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Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights says it’s time for the state to allow parents to have the legal right to select, delay or opt out of vaccines.
About 30 members of the group rallied [January 22nd] at the state Capitol in an effort to push for a bill this year to allow exceptions to the state’s immunization law. Mississippi doesn’t allow philosophical or religious exemptions from immunizations.
“There are 48 states that allow that right,” said Mary Jo Perry of Pelahatchie, co-director of Parents for Vaccine Rights.
Currently, the only way parents have of getting around the vaccines required to enter school is to homeschool their children.
Perry and others in the group said they aren’t anti-vaccine; instead, they are concerned about the rapid, piggy-back schedule of the vaccines.
“Some parents would like to slow it down,” Perry said of the vaccination schedule. “We want to have that option.”
Perry said her son suffered a grand mal seizure, which she said she believes it was due to a vaccination since it occurred within hours of her son getting the shot.
She said it is difficult to get a waiver for health reasons from the vaccinations.
Lindey Magee, co-director of Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights, said the group has heard from some parents who won’t move to the state because of the lack of a vaccine exception in law.
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