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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Protesters connected the steps of the California State Capitol connected Monday called for an extremity to COVID-19 vaccine mandates successful schools.
The protestation drew successful activists from crossed the state. Hundreds gathered to relay their message large and clear.
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“We are wholly against immoderate benignant of COVID-19 vaccine mandate for children,” activistic Joshua Cole said. “We don’t deliberation it’s necessary. We deliberation parents tin marque their ain decisions for their children’s health.”
The rally was organized by the radical Our Children, Our Choice.
“We don’t deliberation I request a vaccine,” said fourth-grader Mayliah Rodriguez.
Rodriguez and her mom, Melinda, chartered a autobus from Visalia.
The Williams household drove much than 400 miles from Riverside.
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“We near astatine 1:30 successful the greeting and said we person to beryllium here,”
Some schools are already mandating vaccines. The State of California could instrumentality the mandate arsenic aboriginal arsenic July 2022.
Hastings Law ProfessorJohn Myer says Gov. Gavin Newsom has the close to necessitate vaccines.
“Parental rights are not absolute, adjacent erstwhile based connected spiritual beliefs,” Myer said. “The authorities tin interfere with and override parental objections erstwhile a child’s wellness oregon information is astatine risk.”
But activists similar creation teacher Alina Krohn of John Adams Academy accidental the extremity is to get legislators to perceive and property intermission connected immoderate and each COVID vaccine mandates.
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“Won’t beryllium going on with anyone’s mandate,” Krohn said. “They can’t unit maine to bash anything, even if it means my job.”
Marlee Ginter
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