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It was literally the reason given to me by an acquaintance; her reason for not vaccinating her children was that she didn’t like what was in them based on a YouTube video she had seen. I asked if she claimed the religious objection because of fetal stem cell lines from aborted fetuses, and she said, “no, I just don’t like what’s in them.” And I think that’s why some states are trying to eliminate the religious exemption, because it’s being abused.

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If I don’t like what’s in a food product, I choose not to eat that food product. Maybe I could come up with a more eloquent way to say “I don’t like what’s in it,” but it seems silly or foolish to willingly consume something that has ingredients I deem to be harmful or suspicious. It is a shame we don’t have a pharmaceutical industry (or an actual food industry, but off topic…) that isn’t more transparent and forthcoming about the ingredients of their products.

I agree that the term “religious exemption” is sometimes misleading or inappropriate which is why I believe “conscience exemption” might be a more fitting category name. After all, one mustn’t be religious to object to fetal cell line use in vaccine derivation…

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