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Amy Paulin’s bill A497a in Albany NY appears temporarily blocked according to The Autism Action Network. New Yorkers contacted their representatives yesterday to complain, suggesting that perhaps letting four-year olds decide that they want to get vaccines for sexually-transmitted diseases without their parents’ consent is not a good idea.

The result was that Amy Paulin’s bill A497a was pulled from the agenda of the Health Committee meeting. That doesn’t mean this bill is dead. Another pending bill requires meningitis shots for all seventh graders and new college students. Another bill that will change the law so that healthcare professionals can add New York adults’ vaccine records to the statewide database of vaccine records with only “oral” approval, rather than the current written approval. This may likely result in all records ending up in the database because there will be no mechanism to prevent that from happening.

The temporarily…

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