Jessica Biel lobbies in opposition to California vaccination invoice

The anti-vaxxer motion has a discovered a brand new ally in Jessica Biel.

The Each day Beast stories that Biel appeared on the California State Meeting on Wednesday to foyer in opposition to SB 276, a California state invoice that might restrict medical exemptions from vaccinations with out approval from a state public well being officer.

Biel was joined by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmentalist and outstanding determine within the anti-vaxxer motion. In an interview with The Each day Beast, Kennedy stated, “The most important downside with the invoice, which is one thing I feel Jessica is anxious with, is that a health care provider who has made a willpower—if he has discovered youngsters on this state whose docs have decided that they’re too fragile to obtain vaccinations—this invoice would overrule the docs and pressure them to be vaccinated anyhow.”

“She was a really efficient advocate,” Kennedy stated of Biel. “She was very robust and really educated. Extraordinarily well-informed. An especially efficient advocate. She is aware of what she’s speaking about… She’s upset about this problem due to its explicit cruelty. She has associates who’ve been vaccine-injured who could be compelled to go away the state.”

A 2015 article in In Contact Weekly reported that Biel and her husband, Justin Timberlake, didn’t plan to vaccinate their youngsters. “She feels that vaccination might trigger issues,” a supply near the actress advised In Contact Weekly on the time.

Leah Russin, government director of Vaccinate California, which co-sponsors the invoice, stated in an announcement to The Each day Beast: “A Hollywood celeb and the top of an environmental group shouldn’t have credibility on a problem about find out how to regulate the medical occupation, when an amazing variety of medical professionals assist this invoice. It’s the Jenny McCarthy present another time.”