New Jersey parents protest mandatory flu shots
As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The decision should be the parents’, not the state’s, they contend.
Hundreds of parents and other activists rallied outside the New Jersey Statehouse on Thursday, decrying the policy and voicing support for a bill that would allow parents to opt out of mandatory vaccinations for their children.
“This is not an anti-vaccine rally — it’s a freedom of choice rally,” said one of the organizers, Louise Habakus. “This one-size-fits-all approach is really very anti-American.”
Obama extends campaign into Republican territory
WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama extended his front-running campaign into West Virginia, a bastion of white, middle-class voters who rejected his primary season appeals, and confidently broached the subject of victory in a presidential contest playing out on Republican turf.
GOP rival John McCain found himself looking for a break as he was largely forced to defend his standing in states that President Bush won four years ago.
“We are now 19 days not from the end but from the beginning,” Obama told the crowd at a New York fundraiser a day after the final presidential debate.
“You know, I’ve been in these positions before where we were favored and the press starts getting carried away and we end up getting spanked,” he said. Obama won the Iowa caucuses, only to lose the New Hampshire primary to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. “We want to make sure that we are closing strong, running through the tape.”
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