New Jersey Ready to Pass Vaccine Bill Eliminating Religious Exemption

New Jersey Ready to Pass Vaccine Bill Eliminating Religious Exemption
A doctor injecting a baby with a vaccine in a file photograph. Fred Tanneau/AFP/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
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New Jersey’s state senators gathered enough votes on Thursday to pass a bill that would eliminate religion as a recognized reason for parents to exempt their children from getting vaccinations required to attend public schools.

In a last-minute effort to save the bill that was one vote shy of the required 21 votes, Democratic state senators made a series of amendments to the legislation to convince a Republican senator to cast the deciding vote, allowing it to narrowly pass.

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