Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) expressed anger at President Donald Trump’s recent executive order reforming childhood vaccine mandates, calling the measure “dangerous” and nonsense.
“Donald Trump’s new executive order changing the childhood vaccine schedule against the advice of pediatric experts is dangerous and makes no sense,” Rep. Frankel said in a statement.
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The Palm Beach Democrat’s reaction comes after President Trump signed a presidential directive seeking to modify childhood immunization schedules by separating the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three single-disease shots, additionally calling for the vaccines to be given during separate medical visits.
According to President Trump, the reason for the separation is due to “the possibility that they are quite lethal” together.
The order also aims to circumvent the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2024 immunization recommendations by reducing the recommended number of vaccinations from 18 to 11.
According to the White House, "immunizations no longer recommended for all children are now recommended for shared clinical decision-making, ensuring that parents have all options available to them."
“Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today. In those times, people were much [healthier], and of course, the high rates of autism now observed did not exist,” President Trump said during the signing ceremony. “So there’s a reason for such epidemic rates of autism, and we’re going to bring it back to where it was.”
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"Vaccines have saved millions of children from diseases that once killed, paralyzed, and disabled them,” Rep. Frankel affirmed. “These changes could mean more sick children, more trips to the doctor, and higher health care costs for families.”
“Our grandchildren should not be guinea pigs for political ideology or conspiracy theories. As a grandmother, I am furious. Our kids deserve medical decisions based on science, not politics,” Congresswoman Frankel asserted.
