Abstract
Although not required by the Constitution, US states have enacted many religious exemptions from health care for children, including exemptions from immunizations, health screenings, and medical care for sick and injured children. These laws deprive one group of children of protections the state extends to others. Many children have been harmed because of religious beliefs against medical care. Resurgence of vaccine‐preventable diseases has been costly to the public. Since 1990, eight states have repealed religious exemptions from medical care of sick children. In 2015 California repealed its nonmedical exemption from immunizations, and several states have added new requirements for getting nonmedical exemptions from immunizations in the same decade.
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