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Introduction
The
purpose of this Advocacy Report is twofold:
- To provide the essential historical, legal, and policy
analysis necessary for a legislative campaign to repeal
the Massachusetts religious exemption law.
- To identify and rebut the primary arguments used
by groups opposing repeal of the Massachusetts exemption
law.
Proponents of religious exemption laws have developed
many unsupported, yet reasonable sounding arguments which
they skillfully employ to influence public and legislative
opinion. This Report seeks to expose, in detail, the many
contradictions and distortions contained in the arguments
of those who demand that parents have the right, for religious
reasons, to deprive their children of necessary medical care
even at the cost of preventable suffering, disability, and
death.
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