SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Assembly has approved a hotly contested bill requiring that nearly all public school children be vaccinated.
It’s one of the last major obstacles before one of the nation’s strictest vaccine bills heads to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk.
The bill aims to increase immunization rates after a measles outbreak linked to Disneyland in December sickened over 100 people in the U.S. and Mexico.
The measure passed on a bipartisan 46-30 vote after weeks of vocal opposition, with thousands of parents donning red shirts in protest of the bill at the Capitol.
The Senate already approved the bill once, but still must approve amendments before it is sent to the Democratic governor.
Brown has not said whether he would sign the bill authored by Democratic Sens. Richard Pan of Sacramento and Ben Allen of Santa Monica.
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Is it me or does the title of this article seem to imply exactly the opposite of what the article says.
My only disappointment is that the “crushing blow” in this headline is a figure of speech.
Good! Hope he does sign it.
Yea really.
Reminds me of a quote by Richard Nixon: “I know you think you understood what you thought I meant I said but I don’t believe you understood what I really meant to mean.”
Not just you. Apparently the headline writers haven’t yet been taught that clarity is better than creativity every time. Nice to be literate and creative with words, but there have been far too many headlines on this site lately that completely skew the meaning of the article, or at least are completely foggy on the ideas being described. If the writer needs to learn how to craft heads to clearly indicate what is said, that’s one kind of training needed. If the writer doesn’t grasp the article, that’s another whole thing.
Edited for typo.