West Virginia courts and public policy leaders continue to haggle over the state’s mandatory vaccination law. State Code 16-3-4 requires that children be immunized before admission to public, private and parochial schools. The law allows for a medical exemption, but not a religious one.

Earlier this year, the state Legislature failed to pass a bill that would have significantly expanded the exemptions to include religious or philosophical reasons. Governor Morrisey continues to try to block the vaccine requirement by use of executive order, but the state Board of Education has told schools to follow the existing law mandating immunizations.

In Raleigh County, three parents have won a temporary court order preventing their children from the compulsory school vaccinations with the religiou

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