The same thing was happening in Michigan, with @MI4VaxChoice bringing in @delbigtree to meet with mostly @MIGOP legislators about vaccine mandates. Bigtree used inflammatory, right wing rhetoric about freedom, parental rights, and government overreach. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/10/28/nobody-promotes-antivaccine-nonsense-in-my-statewithout-receiving-some-insolence-2016-election-edition/ … 8/
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I can’t help but take note of an off-the-cuff remark by Rep. Noble in the Q&A after the aforementioned antivax confab in my district last year in which he mentioned that the Republicans on the Health Policy Committee are the only ones receptive to vaccine choice initiatives. 18/
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Rep. Noble also complained that
@MichiganDems "won’t even consider" bills loosening vaccine mandates and want to “shove vaccines down your throat (or arm).” 19/Show this thread -
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@GOP has become sympathetic to antivaccine arguments and pseudoscience, thanks to the successful conflation of resistance to vaccine mandates with freedom and parental rights. 20/Show this thread -
It should therefore not surprise anyone wheat happened in the California legislature. 21/21
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