The New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians issued a statement Monday calling upon the Legislature and Gov. Kelly Ayotte to reject “unscientific and dangerous challenges” to the safe delivery of vaccines to children.
N.H. family docs urge lawmakers reject anti-child vaccine bills
The New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians also questioned if Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was fit to serve given what it called his "unscientific and dangerous" challenges to child vaccies.
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The group also joined its national counterpart urging President Donald Trump to reconsider whether Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is fit to serve because it charges that he has ignored or downplayed scientific evidence about matters of public health.
“To remain true to our mission, we no longer can remain silent,” the group said.
Legislators have submitted one bill request for the 2026 session that would repeal some child immunization mandates and another to remove Hepatitis B from the list of diseases for which immunization is required.
“These proposals mirror, in some cases exactly, the dicta of Secretary Kennedy and his hand-picked appointees,” the group said.
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Lawmakers seeking similar changes in the past maintain parents should get to decide which vaccines, if any, their children must receive to attend public school.
Currently, parents can get an exemption from the child vaccine mandate due to their religious beliefs or if a medical provider certifies that a specific shot would be detrimental to the child’s health.
[SRC] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/n-h-family-docs-urge-224600801.html
