
What vaccine advocates need to understand about religious exemptions
CNN
The tension over vaccine requirements reflects historical debates about the appropriate balance among government authority, religious freedom and the public good, writes Nicole Hemmer. That history reveals how religious exemptions were co-opted first by the anti-vaccination movement and then by the increasingly radicalized American right.

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