SPRINGFIELD – Illinois parents will no longer have the option to refuse mandated vaccinations – any vaccine, for any reason – if Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago) is successful getting SB 3668 to Governor Pritzker's desk.
Alongside Steans' effort is another House bill to do with vaccines – forcing 6th grade boys and girls to get the HPV vaccine. It's HB 4870, sponsored by a former co-director of one of Chicago's biggest abortion providers, the Chicago Women's Health Center for seven years, State Rep. Robyn Gabels.
Here's what Illinois Family Institute has to say about the proposals:
Late last week we sent an email alert about a dangerous Illinois House bill (HB 4870) mandating that ALL 6th grade students in Illinois receive the unnecessary and highly controversial HPV vaccine – both boys and girls. Politicians have no business mandating medical treatment for all children to prevent a disease that’s contracted solely through sexual activity. Parents should be outraged! But it gets worse.
On Friday the other shoe dropped, as Illinois Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago) introduced SB 3668, which repeals all religious and medical exemptions for school immunizations and authorizes minor students, 14 years of age or older, to be vaccinated without parental consent. It also eliminates protections for parents who adopt children.
More HERE and more to come in the days ahead on Illinois Review.
