Thu Jul 27, 2023 – 10:37 am EDT
JACKSON, Mississippi (LifeSiteNews) — Public health officials in Mississippi must allow parents to obtain a religious exemption from mandatory school vaccination – but the process is far from simple and supportive of parental rights.
The new exemption policy comes after a federal judge ruled that the state must allow for religious exemptions from vaccines. It is the only Republican state that did not offer religious exemptions besides West Virginia. Republican leaders in the state killed a variety of vaccine exemption bills during the last legislative session, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.
The “religious exemption request” form from the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) requires parents to sign a statement affirming they “have been advised that not vaccinating my child with the vaccination(s) specified above can endanger their life or health, and the life or health of other children; the religious reasons for not vaccinating my child outweigh the advice I have been given regarding any risk of death or disability to my child or other children from the vaccine preventable disease.”
This form cannot simply be mailed into the local school district or county health department. Instead,
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