Jessica Biel heard that people were canceling her right and left, and she decided to “clarify” her position. To recap, this week Jessica joined Robert Kennedy Jr. in Sacramento to lobby the state legislature to NOT pass a certain vaccination bill. The bill would put tighter controls on which parents/children get “exempted” from getting vaccines. Basically, the bill would make it harder (if not impossible) for a parent to simply refuse to vaccinate their child because of fake science. As I understand it, the bill would still ensure that if medical doctors agreed that there would be a good reason to avoid vaccination, the child could not be vaccinated. It would be more of a case-by-case basis in which the doctors would have more control, and the parents’ ill-informed whims would carry less weight. Well, here’s Jessica Biel clarifying her position on vaccines:
This week I went to Sacramento to talk to legislators in California about a proposed bill. I am not against vaccinations — I support children getting vaccinations and I also support families having the right to make educated medical decisions for their children alongside their physicians.
My concern with #SB277 is solely regarding medical exemptions. My dearest friends have a child with a medical condition that warrants an exemption from vaccinations, and should this bill pass, it would greatly affect their family’s ability to care for their child in this state. That’s why I spoke to legislators and argued against this bill. Not because I don’t believe in vaccinations, but because I believe in giving doctors and the families they treat the ability to decide what’s best for their patients and the ability to provide that treatment.
I encourage everyone to read more on this issue and to learn about the intricacies of #SB276. Thank you to everyone who met with me this week to engage in this important discussion!
[From Jessica Biel’s Instagram]
Basically, she’s not against vaccinations, she just thinks that… more kids should be exempt, and that parents and doctors should be in agreement. Which I’m pretty sure is the exemption within the bill. As I said in the original post, California is experiencing a public health crisis from all of these unvaccinated kids running around. There are communities who are, right now, in 2019, dealing with new cases of measles, mumps, rubella, polio and more, all because there have been too many parents refusing medical advice and refusing to vaccinate their kids.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Instagram.
So, either she’s anti-vax, or didn’t read the bill. Which is it, Jess? Like Kaiser said the concern she has is exactly what the exemption would be. If your friend’s Dr agrees their child would have a medical issue with vaccinations, they would be under the exemption. This bill would keep the Jenny McCarthys from giving more kids deadly diseases that should have been eradicated decades ago.
Andanyone tying themselves into Robert Kennedy Jr’s work should definitely be given the side eye.
from what I’ve read, it sounds like she wants the parents’ opinion on the exemption to carry MORE weight than the doctor.
she may state is as “the doctor and parents decide together” but I’m betting what she means is “the parent wants an exemption and should be allowed to find a doc who they can get to agree with them” rather than the DOCTOR making the determination on the possible exemption.
This whole idea that the parent’s opinion should matter with regards to vaccines is so annoying. I don’t think MDs are gods, and certainly if they are suggesting something that seems “off” to the parent, the parent should do some research and seek a second opinion from a different doctor. That’s reasonable for things where your kid is already sick and there are multiple treatment options (say, your kid needs surgery and you want to know if it is worth going to a hospital that specializes or if the local hospital will be just as good for that particular procedure), but for something like vaccines where you are going to have to seek a LOT of second opinions before you find a doctor who will say not vaccinating is a reasonable decision, it’s just stupid.
I made the mistake of going on her instagram feed and the messages of support are making my blood pressure go through the roof – the praise she is getting from equally stupid people, mostly women makes me despair. They are all shrieking about how it should be the choice of the parents and only the parents and claiming they are the only one who’ve read the bill. As I said below, my understanding is the bill is ensuring that if medical exemptions are required, it has to be proven before its given, the bill is closing a loophole that is being abused by idiot parents like her.
What will it take for these morons to see the light? Am not sure a massive out break would do it, all they would do is blame and sue the gov over their wilful ignorance. Its only a matter of time before something horrible like this happens.
Oh, the old: You misunderstood me! Please don’t cancel me as I have nothing to be cancelled from!
She’s an idiot and she’s now trying to cover her ass by talking around it all and throwing in a sob story about a friend. Sorry, sweetie, you’re a terrible actress and now you’re not such a great mom for not vaccinating your own child. Like, if your very good friend’s child can’t be vaccinated, doesn’t that mean you should definitely be vaccinating your own child to protect the other kid?!
THIS!!! : Like, if your very good friend’s child can’t be vaccinated, doesn’t that mean you should definitely be vaccinating your own child to protect the other kid?!
Another idiot spouting off without thinking and then trying to clean up the mess she just made and no one is believing her.
Too late, Jessy. You are still going to get “cancelled left and right,” deservedly so.
I think people who are against vaccines are crazy and dangerous because they don’t seem to understand those illnesses can make a comeback and that they not vaccinating their kids puts other kids at risk too. so, I am not sympathetic to that. but I also hate the ‘cancel’ trend. that so stupid. people make mistakes and also do good stuff. unless somebody is a criminal, I’m against it. you can’t cancel people just for making mistakes. I am still furious about her stupidity, though.
This proves this moron didn’t bother researching the bill prior to deciding she was against it! The bill acknowledges the for real medical reasons that would allow a child to be exempt . If you’re gonna backpedal make damn sure it isn’t into a wall. CANCELLED
Exactly! There have always been kids who are exempt due to legitimate medical reasons and that will be the case going forward. She is so full of shit.
And those are the kids everyone else needs to protect – by getting vaccinated.
Nope. Not buying what your are trying to sell Jessica.
She’s a fool and so is anybody attempting to frame this as a “individual rights” issue. Your individual rights stop at the point where you infringe on the literal existence of other people. You want to take up the cause of individual rights, go fight for socioeconomic equality or civil equality ffs. Those are doing way more damage to our society’s freedom and liberties than vaccines.
God, this discourse makes me so angry. I’m pulling out before I let my temper get the better of me.
I wasn’t in a great mood this morning anyway, and reading about Trump and this dumb bimbo isn’t helping. And now she will furiously backpedal but it won’t help because her true colors are out there for everyone to see.
This ‘individual rights’ attitude seems to be rooted in this persistent American approach towards private life and property, in which children are simply extensions of their parents legally and emotionally, not their own persons. There will be times when the rights of the parents to make decisions for their children must be subservient to the child’s own personal right to quality of life and health.
Veronica S. you made some excellent points in the updated Biel Anti-vax article. I find solace when I read the CB comments attached to these asinine current events. Reading the thoughts and opinions of many reasonable people on this site is a ray of light in this shit storm.
What an imbecile.
Cancelled.
In country neighbouring to mine, somewhere around 10 kids died from measels just this spring. The stupidity of people should not be encouraged by any means. Just…she’s cancelled.
Question is, is her son vaccinated? If she answers no all that she just said is bullsh!t
Did you vaccinate your kids Jessica?
Give us a straightforward answer, that’s what I’d like.
Yes, let’s hear the answer.
I thought it was fairly common knowledge that she & JT don’t vaccinate their son? I could be wrong, but I seem to recall reading that somewhere. If that’s true then, yeah, her whole “my friends kid” argument it utter bullshit. It’s probably utter bullshit either way. And I’m completely convinced, as opposed to suspicious, that she really is just a pretty face with barely 2 brain cells to rub together.
If you find yourself on the same side of an issue as Robert Kennedy Jr., you probably ought to rethink your position.
He is an awful, awful person.
1000% this.
Her defense conflicts with itsself. With mandatory vaccinations, the herd immunity would be up. Which – would be a lot safer for children with health issues and suppressed immune systems. For herd immunity to work properly you need a VERY high percentage of kids to be vaccinated.
Beyond that – correct me if I’m wrong – but aren’t medical exemptions still possible? From what I had read it seemed like belief related exemptions wouldn’t be acceptable anymore, but medical exemptions would still stand. So if that’s the case – her friends child must not have a condition that would require a medical exemption. The problem is that once the religious belief exemption went away, people started shopping for doctors who would happily write up a medical exemption.
“Before California’s immunization law took effect, just a fraction of 1% of the state’s schoolchildren had medical exemptions. By last school year, 105 schools, scattered across the state, reported that 10% or more of their kindergartners had been granted medical exemptions. In 31 of those schools, 20% or more of the kindergartners had medical exemptions.”
Honestly, at this point, something needs to give. This is insane. Biel clearly went to the school of “Kat Von D Apologies” if she thinks this is helping her case.
wow so exemptions went up after the passing of the bill? sorry if I’m misunderstanding.
“My dear friend has a child who would qualify for an exemption under the law I’m trying to keep from passing but I’m trying to keep it from passing because of my friend”
Oh honey..
Yeah I wasn’t sure what she was getting at, she’s caught in a web of her own stupidity.
Lol, right, just doing this “for a friend”
She’s too old for an imaginary friend…
The dear friend is her, as I understand it the law she doesn’t want to pass would mean they would have to prove medical exemption as opposed to ‘asking’ a ‘sympathetic’ Dr to write a note with a fake ass medical reason just because Mummy and Daddy are anti-vaxxers. Its basically closing a loophole she and her fellow brand dead morons are taking advantage of.
Oh Jesus. She’s lucky she has a smoking bod because the brains are missing
She’s exempt from brains. She is not anti-brains, but she wishes more people had fewer brains.
Comment of the WEEK RIGHT HERE!
Does this make her pro or anti zombie?
Trump logic. If i say it, it’s true. The bill is her interpretation not the words actually written.
The bill would not effect “her friend” who does not exist (let’s be real). She just doesn’t want to vaccinate her kid.
When I get so irritated about her that I could scream, I need to remember that this is the woman who thought that her astounding beauty had kept her from being hired more. I don’t want to be rude, but…She’s stupid y’all!
I support anyone’s right not to vaccinate. Once they make that choice, putting their own uneducated opinions over public safety, I also support their inability to access public services.
If you don’t vaccinate for non-medical reasons you should be barred from public school, libraries, public events, etc.
I would go as far as saying if you don’t participate in public health you don’t get to participate in public events.
correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Mexico does this. i.e. if children are not vaccinated then they cannot access school, public health care, etc, and they have made real efforts to reach the entire population.
I would be interested to see a comparative study of countries which mandate vaccination and their rates of various diseases, versus the US.
On the other hand, this might also be a terrible idea because xenophobic sentiment in the US almost always seizes on the idea that it is immigrants carrying disease into the country, thus the reason why we need more walls and border violence.
Luckily, it’s against the law not to vaccinate you kid in my country. I think we were the first ones to implement that. Matters like this shouod not be left to uneducated idiots.
I always find it ironic that it’s the vaccinated parent, who will live a long healthy life, deciding they want to basically play Russian roulette with their children’s lives. Morons.
Yep, I’d really love to know if she has been vaccinated and how it negatively effected on her life *eye roll*.
Oh OK, I totally understand now….
She’s not just stupid, she’s reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly stupid.
Thanks for the clarification.
I do not understand who people who literally google search for a while think they know more about vaccines than medical doctors and research teams?! Ugh.
The World Health Organization has put anti-vaxxers on its list of top ten threats to global health. It’s gotten THAT bad.
Along with Timberlake’s music
If her “dearest friends'” child really has a medical condition that requires an exemption, they’ll get one
Exactly. Wow, I can’t believe what an idiot she is.
What gets me is people who claim that vaccines contain mercury—and then feed their kids tuna fish sandwiches! (No mercury in vaccines, lots of mercury in tuna fish!)
yeah no one said americans make any sense?
Too late. She already squandered the good will she received from her performance in The Sinner and while few people would have watched her new Facebook Watch show, I’m sure the execs behind it told her she needed to say something.
You are either anti-vaxxer, or pro, there is no “in between”, Mrs Biel.
I trust medical professionals not know it alls
Still cancelled af
Like “super well educated” anti-vaxxers can’t get a doctor to sign some paper that says their child can’t get a vaccine. This bill they are trying to pass should be obvious and mandatory everywhere. When are these people going to understand that they don’t live in a bubble and that their choices puts everyone at risk? If you are not against vaccinations you’re not lobbying in Congress with a famous anti-vaxxer, Jessica.