![]() ![]() “I would argue, and most rabbis would argue, that it’s not only acceptable to get the measles vaccine, but a religious obligation,” he says. ![]() But Grodin, who is also core faculty of Judaic Studies and a member of the Division of Religious Studies of the College of Arts & Sciences, says that Judaism and the rest of the world’s major religions overwhelmingly support vaccination. ![]() Michael Grodin says that is a good idea: “Religious and philosophical exemptions to the vaccine should not be allowed.” He is a professor in the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the School of Public Health, a professor of psychiatry and of family medicine at the School of Medicine, and a psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center.Īlthough growing anti-vaccination sentiment is mostly based on debunked claims about vaccines causing autism, religious exemptions have come into the spotlight with the current measles outbreak, which has been most pronounced in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in New York State (which eliminated its religious exemption this month). At the beginning of June, Massachusetts State Representative Andy Vargas filed HD 4284, a bill that would leave only a medical exemption. (Massachusetts is not among the 15 states that allow exemptions for “personal or moral beliefs.”) That may soon change. Like the majority of states, the Commonwealth has a religious exemption for schoolchildren immunization requirements. The US, which declared the disease eliminated in 2000, has had over 981 cases confirmed in 26 states this year, including two cases in Massachusetts. ![]()
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