May 10, 2019 | Opinion Pieces
My name is Carissa Bonham. I am a single mother of two active boys and I am self-employed. Both of my kids have medical reasons why they cannot receive any more vaccines than they already have. Despite their diagnosed medical conditions and medical histories...
May 10, 2019 | Opinion Pieces
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will cough up $29.6 million in the coming fiscal year for 112 grants nationwide for programs geared towards improving state vaccine registries’ capacity for “identifying under-vaccinated populations,” as well as, among...
May 6, 2019 | Opinion Pieces
Further evidence emerged over the weekend that State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner (D – Beaverton/Portland) is the driving force behind HB 3063. On Saturday, May 4, she sent an email to her colleagues in the Oregon legislature posing and answering questions about the bill....
May 5, 2019 | Opinion Pieces
The track’s laid, and coal’s being fed into the train’s firebox, State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward (D – Beaverton/Portland) manning the shovel as mandatory vaccine legislation for 11 diseases heads for a vote in Salem, Oregon. The Oregon House of Representatives is...
Apr 22, 2019 | Opinion Pieces
Among the 8.6 million people who live in New York City, there’s been 359 cases of measles since last September. On March 9, Mayor Bill de Blasio leading the charge, the city mandated the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine in four densely populated zip codes in...
Dec 22, 2016 | Blog entry, Opinion Pieces
It shouldn’t be this way, but every time you turn around, our civil liberty and one of the most fundamental human rights, universally recognized throughout the world, is in danger of being stripped away here in America, the so-called “Land of the Free.” The bedrock of...