MSMA Supports AAP Guidelines for Vaccinations

For more than 30 years, MSMA has supported the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for immunizing children. MSMA adopted this policy in 1987 and works to ensure lawmakers who face legislation pertaining to vaccinations have scientific information on which to base their decisions.

In 2019, MSMA successfully lobbied to quash two bills that would have benefitted the anti-vaccine movement:

  • The first bill would have prohibited discrimination against unvaccinated children in schools and medical facilities (effectively requiring physicians to accept patients who are unvaccinated, even if the physician does not wish to expose their other patients).
  • The second would have created a long list of information that physicians would be required to present to their patients prior to providing a vaccination.

The anti-vaccine group is vocal in its advocacy efforts. MSMA must stay vigilant to ensure public health is not compromised by these misguided individuals and their efforts to sway lawmakers with pseudoscience.



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