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Connecticut legislature considers ending religious exemptions for vaccines


CNA Staff, Apr 20, 2021 / 20:41 pm (CNA).
The Connecticut House of Representatives has advanced a bill to end the religious exemption from childhood vaccine requirements, beginning in 2022.
The bill to end the religious exemption for childhood vaccines advanced by a bipartisan vote of 90-53. It has the support of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont but still needs to pass the state Senate.
Connecticut’s Catholic bishops took no position on a similar bill in 2020, but stressed the importance of vaccines, the need for sound public health policy, and the need to scrutinize any attempt to remove religious exemptions.
About 7,600 K-12 students now have religious exemptions from the state’s vaccination requirements. The bill was amended to ensure it would not apply to any of the several thousand K-12 students with a current religious exemption. Some critics have questioned what would happen to the 683 children in pre-K and daycare who currently have exemptions. ....

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Split over abortion divides Catholic Church and disability rights activists in right-to-die fight in Connecticut legislature. Groups will hold separate rallies Wednesday.


Split over abortion divides Catholic Church and disability rights activists in right-to-die fight in Connecticut legislature. Groups will hold separate rallies Wednesday.
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Cathy Ludlum, from Manchester, is a leader with Second Thoughts, a disability rights group.
Disability rights activists and the lobbying arm of the Catholic Church in Connecticut have long been allies in the fight against legislation that would allow physicians to help terminally ill patients end their lives.
But the two groups are now parting ways over abortion.
The measure won the endorsement of the legislature’s public health committee last month and is now awaiting action in the House of Representatives. ....

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Lawmakers Hear Impassioned Pleas During Aid-in-Dying Hearing


“When you’re dying your choices are gone,” said Shimer, who also watched his mother die of lung cancer in 2015. “I think if you have the choice to say you want it or at least feel like you have it that gives you the dignity back.”
Jason Smith of Greenwich said his aunt took her own life when the pain of her illness became unbearable.
Jason Smith said his Aunt Rachel may not have taken her own life by suicide if Connecticut had a more compassionate, lawful way to aid sufferers.
“She suffered the most ungracious, undignified and horrible death imaginable,” said Smith who heads the Completed Life Initiative. ....

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