[Martina]

My thinking is if you don't vaccinate your kid, you don't get access to public schools. End of debate. Or it should be. If you want to home school or have access to private schools and feel that strongly about it, I do not want the government to physically seize your child and force medication into her or him. But you don't get to put them in public schools.

To hell with the religious exemption. It should not exist. I had whooping cough. It lasted for nearly four months. I lived in Northern CA at the time, a place where many people do not immunize. I saw in the NYT that something like 50 percent of the students in the Petaluma School District are not fully immunized. The religious exemption is not being used by Christian Scientists but by privileged people who participate in alternative health practices. Fine. Do whatever. Just stay out of the public schools is all I ask.