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Stop A837. They are coming after medical exemptions

The New York Assembly is back in session today and tomorrow. Only one bill of concern is on the agenda that was published on Friday. That is A837 (Dinowitz-D) .The bill requires all schools to report to the New York State Department of Health the number of students with medical exemptions from vaccine mandates attending the school, and it requires those numbers to be published on the NYSDOH website. Small problem, NYSDOH has been doing this since 2012.

A837 was on the Assembly agenda for weeks but no action was taken on it. Let’s keep it that way.

Those numbers show that New York has the lowest percentage of students with medical exemptions of any state according to the CDC.

The State launches punitive investigations of physicians who write medical exemptions. The giant corporations that have bought up most of the pediatric practices in the state in the last few years do not permit their employees to issue them. The result, fewer than 1 in 1000 students have medical exemptions. That is less than 1/25 of the national average. Families whose children need medical exemptions cannot get them and they join the exodus of families leaving New York for less repressive states, or take unnecessary risks with their children’s health to appease state policy makers.

The bill was originally introduced years ago by Jeffrey Dinowitz to put pressure on religious exemptions. As you all know, we no longer have religious exemptions in New York.

Dinowtz’s memo justifying the bill argues that we need to protect the people who cannot get immunizations for medical reasons who are threatened by the people who cannot get immunizations for medical reasons. This dolt is arguing that we have to protect people with medical exemptions from themselves!

Please click HEREto send a message opposing A837 to your Assemblymember.

Please call your Assemblymember and politely ask him or her to do what they can to stop A837/ Contact info should appear below.

Assemblyman David Weprin (D-NY-024)
(518) 455-5806 (Capitol)
(718) 454-3027 (District)

Please call Speaker Carl Heastie and ask that the bill is removed from consideration, and call the four sponsors and ask them to drop the bill.

Carl Heastie, Speaker of the Assembly

(518) 455-3791, (718) 654-6539

speaker@nyassembly.gov

LOB 932, Albany, NY 12248

Twitter: @carlheastie

https://www.facebook.com/carl.heastie

Jeffrey Dinowitz: (518) 455-5965, (718) 796-5345, Sponsor

dinowij@nyassembly.gov