Please vote “no” on Question 1 on March 3 in order to say “no” to overturning our new public health law. There is nothing more important than the health and safety of our children and of all Mainers. Because Maine’s vaccination opt-out rate for non-medical reasons has been especially high, the Legislature passed a new […]

I am one of four pediatric lung specialists from Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital who serve Maine’s most vulnerable children. My patients are premature infants, children with cystic fibrosis and toddlers with muscular dystrophy, among others. My extensive medical training occurred in states that have the lowest vaccination rates in the country, and I have witnessed […]

Mainers are fiercely independent, so it should come as no surprise that resistance to the mandatory vaccine law has been so strong. The law – mandating vaccines for all children and some adults – removes the right to make voluntary medical decisions without risk of punishment. We were told that this law was passed to […]

In 1979, I was a 20-year-old college junior studying abroad in Kenya working at a polio rehabilitation center for children who had been unable to be vaccinated against polio in a remote part of the sub-Saharan desert when there was an outbreak of pertussis. I learned firsthand why it is also called “whooping cough” and […]