{"id":114642,"date":"2015-02-11T21:07:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T04:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mandatory-immunizations-split-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T21:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T04:07:45","slug":"mandatory-immunizations-split-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mandatory-immunizations-split-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory immunizations split lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A spokesman for Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said he supports a mandatory measles vaccination for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the science and concerns for public health, Sen. Bennet thinks there should be a legal requirement to vaccinate children against the measles,\u201d a spokesman for the senator told The Cortez Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., said the decision to vaccinate children should remain with their parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medical and scientific community overwhelmingly concludes that vaccinations are safe and effective for preventing disease,\u201d a spokesman said. \u201cCongressman Tipton believes that children should be vaccinated but doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019s the role of the federal government to force parents and their children\u2019s physicians to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., didn\u2019t not respond Friday to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman for Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said he supports a mandatory measles vaccination for children. \u201cBased on the science and concerns for public health, Sen. Bennet thinks there should be a legal requirement to vaccinate children against the measles,\u201d a spokesman for the senator told The Cortez Journal. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,13,23,25,291],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-114642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-u-s-rep-scott-tipton","tag-u-s-sen-michael-bennet","tag-vaccines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114642"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=114642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}