Vaccines, the League's proposal on stopping compulsory vaccination on the way to inadmissibility
Claudio Borghi's amendment to the waiting list decree being examined by the Senate
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The amendment presented by the Lega Nord senator Claudio Borghi to the decree on waiting lists to abolish the obligation for 12 vaccinations and return to the discipline prior to the Lorenzin law should be judged inadmissible for extraneousness of subject matter. The official decision will be taken on Tuesday by the Social Affairs, Health, Public and Private Employment, and Social Security Committee of Palazzo Madama. The amendment calls for the cancellation of the vaccination obligation for minors up to the age of 16 and unaccompanied foreign minors. In particular, that vaccines against measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox should no longer be compulsory, but only 'recommended', unlike the current law of 2017, approved by the centre-left. Another demand is to allow children who have not been vaccinated for those diseases to be enrolled in kindergartens (including private non-parity schools).
Wolves: stop vaccines nonsense
"Stopping compulsory vaccination for children is scientific nonsense that would have dangerous consequences and is not part of the government's programme to protect minors and the most fragile, both in the health field and in the economic and social field. It is the responsibility of politics to renew faith in medical research on a daily basis: if life expectancy has increased significantly today, it is because science has made new drugs and therapies available to us. To question trust in research is irresponsible'. This was stated by the president of Noi Moderati, Maurizio Lupi.
Fdi: ask the minister
"This is an argument that you have to ask, at the very least, to the Minister of Health (who is a technician and not a politician, ed.)," was all that the minister and exponent of Fratelli d'Italia, Francesco Lollobrigida, had to say to reporters who asked him about his party's position on the hypothesis of cancelling the compulsory vaccination for children, launched by the League with an amendment to the waiting list decree. Lollobrigida said this on the sidelines of the 'Forum in masseria' event that ended in Manduria (Taranto).
Opposition to attack
."Unfortunately, such proposals have nothing scientific about them. They only smooth the hair of the No Vax and undermine the trust between the citizen and the doctor. And this is the problem,' says former minister and mother of the 2017 law, Beatrice Lorenzin, commenting on the amendment signed by Borghi (League). The Dem deputy underlines that "epidemiologists, those working in the field, say that this is not the time to go back to the past. The vaccination obligation has worked and is working," she added, recalling that the rule was wanted "as a strong tool for the rapid achievement of the goal of 95% vaccination coverage." "These are just anti-scientific rantings by those who think they can profit from a few no-vax votes," added former Health Minister Roberto Speranza (PD).
The law in force
.The Lorenzin Decree Law of 2017, currently in force, provides that for minors between 0 and 16 years of age and for unaccompanied foreign minors, the following vaccinations are compulsory and free of charge - according to the specific indications of the National Vaccination Calendar relating to each birth cohort -:
