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Yes, I know some people are morons who never do anything right. But that doesn't mean the government should be allowed to butt into their lives and force them to do things our government masters consider wise!!!!
And yes I know modern high tech things like vaccinations do save millions of lives. But the government shouldn't be allowed to force this stuff on people that don't want it. Arizona vaccination-waiver bill advances By Mary K. Reinhart The Republic | azcentral.com Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:34 PM Parents would no longer have to vaccinate their own children to be allowed to care for foster kids under a bill that cleared a Senate committee Wednesday. Senate Bill 1108, approved 5-2 by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, would let families whose children aren’t fully immunized still get licensed. The state Department of Economic Security retains authority about where to place foster children. An identical bill, House Bill 2348, is scheduled for a hearing today in the House Reform and Human Services Committee. A proposed amendment would eliminate state liability surrounding the immunization issue. Neither the DES nor the Arizona Department of Health Services has taken a position on the bill. The DES has said the immunization requirement protects children who have been removed from their homes because of suspected abuse or neglect and who may not be fully immunized. That includes newborns who aren’t old enough to have had any shots. A group of parents who were turned away from foster care sought the licensing change, saying they shouldn’t be disqualified because of their personal parenting decisions. In some cases, their children had medical reasons to forgo vaccinations. Democratic Sens. Katie Hobbs and Linda Lopez voted against the bill. Hobbs said she’s concerned about the growing number of parents who fail to immunize their children. “My bigger concern is a public-health concern,” Hobbs said after the hearing. “Everything that we do that chips away at immunization requirements puts more holes in the system.” She said she believes lawmakers should be more concerned about preventing children from coming into foster care. Arizona’s foster-care population has been steadily rising for the past three years, and a record 14,400 kids were in foster care as of Nov. 30, thousands of them living in group homes and crisis shelters. |