The actress joined the anti-immunization activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Sacramento.
On June 11, Jessica Biel became the latest celebrity face of the anti-vaccine movement when she surfaced in California’s capitol to lobby against a state bill that would limit medical exemptions for immunizations without approval from a public health officer. Accompanying her was controversial activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the founder of Children’s Health Defense, which has claimed that vaccines are dangerous and unnecessary.
Multiple members of the State Assembly and Senate welcomed her to Sacramento, posting grip-and-grin pictures to their social media accounts. Kennedy himself thanked her for being “courageous” on “a busy and productive day.” Senate Bill 276, now making its way through the legislature, is meant to crack down on doctors who provide what sponsoring senator Richard Pan describes as “fake” medical exemptions.
Biel joins a high-profile cast of Hollywood names — including Robert De Niro, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy — to Earlier legislation to bolster vaccination rates among schoolchildren was first enacted following a statewide epidemic of whooping cough in 2014 and a prominent outbreak of measles that began at Disneyland in 2015. An investigation at the time by that state-reported vaccine exemption rates at some preschools in wealthy, industry-oriented areas of L.A.
The U.S. is currently in the midst of a major measles outbreak, the worst in two decades. California has been spared the worst of it and experts believe the state’s recent exemption legislation
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