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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

ICAN MAKES HISTORY IN MISSISSIPPI

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

ICAN once again made history this week by winning yet another lawsuit, this time actually reversing the draconian ban on religious exemptions for vaccines in Mississippi. ICAN lead attorney, Aaron Siri along with co-founders of Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights, Lindey Magee and MaryJo Perry, join Del to recount their uphill battle that led to this historic victory.

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this last week I can't actually

0:03.5

made history, especially when it comes to the issue of medical freedom and

0:08.2

choice. This is what that looked like in the news.

0:12.0

A federal judge rules that Mississippi must join most other states in allowing

0:17.1

religious exemptions from vaccinations that children are required to receive in

0:22.0

order to attend school. This ruling comes as a result of a lawsuit filed last year

0:26.6

by several parents who say their religious beliefs have led them to keep

0:30.3

their children unvaccinated and out of Mississippi schools. The deadline for

0:34.9

the Mississippi Department of Health to allow religious exemptions is July 15th.

0:40.9

This is an incredible story we could just say there it is but I really want to

0:45.6

get into the details of it because so many of you out there have been working

0:48.9

with us trying to really make a difference in the space and make sure that we

0:53.0

maintain our right to body autonomy now and forever. This is going to be a

0:58.2

huge milestone in that journey especially for those other states that are

1:03.0

still suffering from the same type of authoritarian pressure when it comes to

1:08.2

your right to opt out of the childhood vaccine program. I wanted to talk

1:13.5

about how we got here because there's many years behind this work and a lot of

1:18.0

brilliant people that were a part of it. So this story actually begins for me when

1:24.1

I made the documentary Vax from cover up to catastrophe. We had made you know

1:28.9

got a bus that said backs on the side of it. We were traveling the nation and

1:32.6

people were signing the names of their injured children on the side of it. Well

1:35.9

one day we pulled the bus up into Mississippi and there it is you can see the

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