Overview
- AP identified more than 420 measures introduced in 2025 that target science-based public health protections, including at least 350 focused on vaccines.
- At least 26 anti-vaccine laws were adopted in 11 states this year, with additional proposals still pending.
- Four national groups — MAHA Action, Stand for Health Freedom, the National Vaccine Information Center, and the Weston A. Price Foundation — supported most enacted bills and mobilized activists with coordinated alerts, calls, and testimony.
- Proposals ranged from discrimination protections for the unvaccinated to creating a criminal offense of “vaccine harm,” requiring blood banks to test for vaccination evidence, imposing 48-hour waiting periods, and copycat bills like Minnesota measures falsely labeling mRNA vaccines as “weapons of mass destruction.”
- Vaccination coverage is declining and measles and whooping cough are resurging, with an Indiana family’s April loss of their 8-year-old and local data showing one in five kindergartners out of compliance underscoring the risks.