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<\/a>If the parents who were with their children at Allied Gardens Rec Center and park are any indication, neither of those alternatives will find much support among the general public.<\/p>\n
Jim and Lisa Fritz, along with their son Sean, who has all his immunizations, are all in favor of the new law.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s for the greater good, and I\u2019m fine with it\u201d Jim said. \u201cThere are places people can send their kids to school if they don\u2019t want them vaccinated,\u201d he said, referring to the private school or homeschooling alternatives available to people.<\/p>\n
Lisa and Sean agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to get sick because someone didn\u2019t get vaccinated,\u201d Sean said<\/p>\n
Stacy Irie was very happy to see that bill signed into law. She doesn\u2019t think either challenge to the law has much chance of succeeding.<\/p>\n
\u201cI support the new law, and I don\u2019t know anyone who doesn\u2019t,\u201d Irie said.<\/p>\n
One of the possible routes of challenge is to go to court and claim that children who have not been vaccinated will be deprived of their right to a public education if they are not allowed to attend the public schools.<\/p>\n
Michelle Roth, attorney and mother of an infant, doesn\u2019t think that one has that great a chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey might get it to a court, but this law is really for the greater public good,\u201d she said, noting that was not a legal opinion but just the opinion of a mother whose children will go to school.<\/p>\n
The other avenue vaccination opponents will try is to force a referendum in the ballot to repeal that law. That effort is being spearheaded by former assemblymember and gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly, who is now an archconservative radio talk show host. He has already filed and paid the fee to the California Secretary of State to begin gathering signatures for the effort. Once it\u2019s certified for the ballot, there will be a 180-day window within which 365,880 valid signatures will have to be gathered and verified. That will mean that close to a half a million signatures will need to be gathered in order to be sure to overcome all the likely duplicates, illegal and just plain phony names on the petitions. Election officials say that is a very heavy load to carry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m all for it,\u201d said new mom Jerica Alonzo. \u201cI\u2019ll make sure my little girl has all the vaccinations she needs. It\u2019s really important.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was one young woman who\u2019d heard what I was asking, and she caught up with me as I was leaving. She refused to give her name, saying she didn\u2019t want people to know who she is.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m upset about it, because I think it should be my decision about my children\u2019s health,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019d do, but private schools might be more than we can afford.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a factor that some parents are going to have to consider very carefully in the future.<\/p>\n