article_snippet.sent: Anti-vaccine advocates delivered free tickets to the screening to every California lawmaker on Monday, and cordoned off three rows in the theater for Anti-vaccine advocates on Tuesday that remained empty.
article_snippet.sent: Senate Bill 277 was scheduled to have Senate Bill 277 first hearing Wednesday in front of the Senate Health Committee.
article_snippet.sent: If passed, the law will remove an exemption in the vaccination law that currently allows parents to cite personal beliefs in not vaccinating parents children.
article_snippet.sent: The anti-vaccination movement has been sweeping the country, and with more parents refusing common immunizations, many long-dormant illnesses like measles and whooping cough are breaking out in schools.
article_snippet.sent: Senator Richard Pan, a Democrat from Sacramento and a pediatrician, called Kennedy's endorsement of the anti-vaccine cause as dangerous. '
article_snippet.sent: I think it is dangerous that he is spreading misinformation about something that’s very important for public health,' Senator Pan told the Sacramento Bee. '
article_snippet.sent: we still haven’t figured out exactly what causes autism.
article_snippet.sent: we do know it’s not vaccines.'
highlights_snippet.sent: The California State Legislature is currently deciding a bill that would make vaccinations mandatory for all children - no matter their parents' beliefs .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The scientific community at large says vaccines are not dangerous .