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"content": "\u003cp>In case you missed it … California has a new vaccination law on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 276\u003c/a>, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last week, cracks down on doctors who inappropriately issue medical exemptions that allow kids to skip some or all vaccines that most schools require. It gives power over the exemption process to public health officials and will create a vaccination database of all children with medical exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the law are pleased that doctors will no longer be the final authority on medical exemptions and could be investigated if they write too many. The more children who get vaccines, the safer schools will be for all kids, proponents of the legislation say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics fear the law will effectively shut down access to waivers for kids who could be harmed by vaccines, which carry some risk, or who need them for other medical reasons. Doctors may fear the investigative provisions of the law, opponents say, and thousands of children could even be tossed out of school if they are not fully up-to-date on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five things to know about the law, which goes into effect Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"vaccines\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. What does the new law do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, children are required to be vaccinated, or have a medical exemption, to attend school. The new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\">law\u003c/a> creates a review process that gives public health officials the final say on those waivers, with the authority to reject them. Reasons for medical exemptions must still follow strict guidelines, and doctors will now be barred from charging any fees for exams or forms related to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, the law’s author, said he was concerned when the number of medical waivers rose across the state after a previous law that he wrote eliminated personal-belief exemptions in 2016 but kept medical exemptions intact. Pan said his goal this year was to keep physicians from issuing waivers for payment or for reasons that are not allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, signed by the governor last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/blog/2019/09/09/senate-bill-276-and-senate-bill-714-vaccinations-and-medical-exemptions-questions-and-answers/\">requires\u003c/a> doctors to examine patients and submit their recommendations to the state Department of Public Health. State officials will then cross-check recommendations against guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/contraindications.html\">Practices\u003c/a> or the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the state is not involved in how students are granted medical exemptions. Parents get them from doctors and submit them to schools, and schools with kindergartens are required to submit aggregate data to the state each autumn. The state does not receive exemption forms or information about doctors writing exemptions, according to the Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next year, parents will continue to get waiver letters from doctors, as they do now, and submit them to schools. In 2021, the state is set to have a standardized form and a new submission process: Doctors will send exemptions\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>directly to the state for review and dissemination to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the law takes effect in January, state health officials will begin reviewing all medical exemptions at schools in which fewer than 95% of students are vaccinated. They will also review doctors who submit five or more exemptions in one year as well as schools that have not shared vaccination rates with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state determines a physician is “contributing to a public health risk,” it will report the physician to California’s medical board. The state will cancel waivers written by doctors who are under investigation by the medical board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my hope that parents whose vulnerable children could die from vaccine-preventable diseases will be reassured that we are protecting those communities that have been left vulnerable” by local doctors selling inappropriate exemptions, Pan said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids with medical exemptions issued before next Jan. 1 may keep their exemptions until they move into the next grade span. The spans are defined as birth to preschool, kindergarten to sixth grade and seventh to 12th grades. After July 1, 2021, students with temporary exemptions will need to receive a new one each year, and no exemptions will carry over when a child enters a new grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. How did we get here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations have been a hot issue in California for several years, even though nearly 95% of kindergartners were fully vaccinated in the last school year. At the same time, the portion of kindergartners with medical exemptions \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/02/california-made-it-hard-to-avoid-vaccinating-kids-medical-waivers-have-tripled-now-what/\">has been rising\u003c/a> since personal-belief exemptions were eliminated. Last year, nearly 1% of kindergartners — 4,812 of them — had exemptions. In some places rates are higher: The legislation notes that 16 counties had kindergarten vaccination rates lower than 90% in the last school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/a5d34577-fae8-4b96-9afe-c8f002f888c1?src=embed\" title=\"Vaccination Rates in California\" width=\"550\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan’s latest proposal drew opposition groups to the capital for weeks of protest, at times all but shutting down meetings and regularly scheduled operations in the Capitol building. Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, Physicians for Informed Consent and parents from across the state testified against the bill in committee hearings, saying their children had been injured by vaccines and that they didn’t want to be required to obtain more immunizations. Some also said their children had autoimmune disorders or similar conditions and many feared the bill would dissuade doctors from providing new exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-vaccination activists reacted similarly in 2015, when Pan first proposed elimination of personal-belief exemptions. At that time, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">agreed\u003c/a> that a medical exemption is absolutely up to a physician and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">argued\u003c/a> that parents would be able to find a practitioner to sign a form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, to the surprise some of the bill’s supporters, Gov. Gavin Newsom also had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-signals-opposition-to-tightening-13916178.php\">concern\u003c/a> about state involvement in the doctor-patient relationship. But after negotiations with the author and some amendments, Newsom said he would support the proposal. But\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>as the bill advanced through the Legislature, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1169027421930184705\">signaled\u003c/a> he wanted more changes. Pan agreed again and put them in a companion \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB714\">bill\u003c/a>. Newsom signed both bills into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes Newsom asked for allow kids who have medical exemptions before the law goes into effect on Jan. 1 to keep them until they enter a new grade span. Doctors also gained some breathing room in the amended version: Initially, Pan’s proposal said they would sign exemptions under penalty of perjury, but that clause was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. The vast majority of kids are vaccinated, so what’s the big deal?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A state Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"http://eziz.org/assets/docs/shotsforschool/2018-19CAKindergartenSummaryReport.pdf\">review\u003c/a> shows that California’s vaccination rates are high: 94.8% of kindergartners in the last school year were vaccinated, a slight decrease from the year before. Meanwhile, the slight increase in medical exemptions represents families who had previously sought personal-belief exemptions and switched to medical waivers, say parents who oppose the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new law, including the California Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics in California, say it will strengthen community immunity and that vaccines are safe and effective for keeping communities healthy. They also content that it will crack down on physicians “practicing outside the accepted standard of care,” said David Aizuss, president of the medical association, in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors who oppose the law say they are concerned about losing their right to say what’s best for their patients, and about the lack of liability for those injured by vaccines, explained Debra Schaefer, spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"https://www.physiciansrights.org/mission/\">for\u003c/a> Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC itself warns that there are risks involved with vaccinations, and where there is risk, there should at least be a discussion between a doctor and a patient, like with any other pharmaceutical,” she said. “This bill is nothing more than government overreach. … Doctors were scared to write (medical exemptions) before this bill; this is just creating an additional killing effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents say the law tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Instead, it may force thousands of children to leave school or quickly get caught up on vaccines even if they have legitimate medical exemptions, said Toby Rogers, an independent researcher and prominent critic of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are missing a single shot in this bloated schedule, you are considered noncompliant and kicked out of school,” said Rogers, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html\">CDC schedule\u003c/a> of vaccinations for children. In California, kids are required to receive 15-16 vaccine \u003ca href=\"https://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/\">shots \u003c/a>to enter kindergarten. Some of the shots carry combined doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers suggested the state focus instead on the larger percentage of children affected by such diseases and conditions as diabetes, asthma, autoimmune disorders and autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Are vaccines dangerous, as some critics say?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of the new law argue that it does not properly acknowledge the risk that vaccines pose. The law states that “for all but a small number of individuals, immunizations are safe and effective,” but does not elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents say the new requirements ignore the real needs of children who have been injured by vaccines and could be further harmed if forced into more. For example, they could have allergic reactions to vaccine components or have other underlying health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations also can have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm\">side effects\u003c/a>, ranging from fevers and seizures to very rare cases of death, according to the literature included with the medications and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1986, the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/98/6/1179\">created \u003c/a>the National Childhood Vaccine Injury \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/5546\">Act\u003c/a>. that freed pharmaceutical companies from liability in cases of such injury. Under that law, billions of government dollars have been paid to families with children harmed by vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group Physicians for Informed Consent, which opposes California’s new law, \u003ca href=\"https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/PIC-MBC-SB276-7-9-19.pdf\">says \u003c/a>it is partly based on misinformation. The organization argues that some of the vaccines required for school are for illnesses that are not contagious and therefore do not affect herd immunity or other children. Those include immunizations against tetanus and Hepatitis B, which is first administered to newborns for an illness \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hbv/bfaq.htm\">transmitted\u003c/a> through sex and intravenous drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also point to the Vaccine Adverse Effects \u003ca href=\"https://vaers.hhs.gov/\">Registry\u003c/a> and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html\">Program\u003c/a> as evidence that vaccination decisions should be left to physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>5. So is this fight over now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal opponent of the California law, said at a rally last week that his \u003ca href=\"https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/americans-can-handle-an-open-discussion-on-vaccines-rfk-jr-responds-to-criticism-from-his-family/\">organization\u003c/a>, Children’s Health Defense, intends to sue the state to block the law. And a group of opponents this week began the process of trying to overturn the new law through a ballot measure that would go to voters next November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In case you missed it … California has a new vaccination law on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 276\u003c/a>, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last week, cracks down on doctors who inappropriately issue medical exemptions that allow kids to skip some or all vaccines that most schools require. It gives power over the exemption process to public health officials and will create a vaccination database of all children with medical exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the law are pleased that doctors will no longer be the final authority on medical exemptions and could be investigated if they write too many. The more children who get vaccines, the safer schools will be for all kids, proponents of the legislation say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics fear the law will effectively shut down access to waivers for kids who could be harmed by vaccines, which carry some risk, or who need them for other medical reasons. Doctors may fear the investigative provisions of the law, opponents say, and thousands of children could even be tossed out of school if they are not fully up-to-date on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five things to know about the law, which goes into effect Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>1. What does the new law do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, children are required to be vaccinated, or have a medical exemption, to attend school. The new \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276\">law\u003c/a> creates a review process that gives public health officials the final say on those waivers, with the authority to reject them. Reasons for medical exemptions must still follow strict guidelines, and doctors will now be barred from charging any fees for exams or forms related to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, the law’s author, said he was concerned when the number of medical waivers rose across the state after a previous law that he wrote eliminated personal-belief exemptions in 2016 but kept medical exemptions intact. Pan said his goal this year was to keep physicians from issuing waivers for payment or for reasons that are not allowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, signed by the governor last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/blog/2019/09/09/senate-bill-276-and-senate-bill-714-vaccinations-and-medical-exemptions-questions-and-answers/\">requires\u003c/a> doctors to examine patients and submit their recommendations to the state Department of Public Health. State officials will then cross-check recommendations against guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/contraindications.html\">Practices\u003c/a> or the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the state is not involved in how students are granted medical exemptions. Parents get them from doctors and submit them to schools, and schools with kindergartens are required to submit aggregate data to the state each autumn. The state does not receive exemption forms or information about doctors writing exemptions, according to the Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next year, parents will continue to get waiver letters from doctors, as they do now, and submit them to schools. In 2021, the state is set to have a standardized form and a new submission process: Doctors will send exemptions\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>directly to the state for review and dissemination to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the law takes effect in January, state health officials will begin reviewing all medical exemptions at schools in which fewer than 95% of students are vaccinated. They will also review doctors who submit five or more exemptions in one year as well as schools that have not shared vaccination rates with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state determines a physician is “contributing to a public health risk,” it will report the physician to California’s medical board. The state will cancel waivers written by doctors who are under investigation by the medical board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my hope that parents whose vulnerable children could die from vaccine-preventable diseases will be reassured that we are protecting those communities that have been left vulnerable” by local doctors selling inappropriate exemptions, Pan said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids with medical exemptions issued before next Jan. 1 may keep their exemptions until they move into the next grade span. The spans are defined as birth to preschool, kindergarten to sixth grade and seventh to 12th grades. After July 1, 2021, students with temporary exemptions will need to receive a new one each year, and no exemptions will carry over when a child enters a new grade span.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>2. How did we get here?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations have been a hot issue in California for several years, even though nearly 95% of kindergartners were fully vaccinated in the last school year. At the same time, the portion of kindergartners with medical exemptions \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/02/california-made-it-hard-to-avoid-vaccinating-kids-medical-waivers-have-tripled-now-what/\">has been rising\u003c/a> since personal-belief exemptions were eliminated. Last year, nearly 1% of kindergartners — 4,812 of them — had exemptions. In some places rates are higher: The legislation notes that 16 counties had kindergarten vaccination rates lower than 90% in the last school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/a5d34577-fae8-4b96-9afe-c8f002f888c1?src=embed\" title=\"Vaccination Rates in California\" width=\"550\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan’s latest proposal drew opposition groups to the capital for weeks of protest, at times all but shutting down meetings and regularly scheduled operations in the Capitol building. Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, Physicians for Informed Consent and parents from across the state testified against the bill in committee hearings, saying their children had been injured by vaccines and that they didn’t want to be required to obtain more immunizations. Some also said their children had autoimmune disorders or similar conditions and many feared the bill would dissuade doctors from providing new exemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-vaccination activists reacted similarly in 2015, when Pan first proposed elimination of personal-belief exemptions. At that time, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">agreed\u003c/a> that a medical exemption is absolutely up to a physician and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95QW-kO_yo\">argued\u003c/a> that parents would be able to find a practitioner to sign a form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, to the surprise some of the bill’s supporters, Gov. Gavin Newsom also had reservations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, he expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-signals-opposition-to-tightening-13916178.php\">concern\u003c/a> about state involvement in the doctor-patient relationship. But after negotiations with the author and some amendments, Newsom said he would support the proposal. But\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>as the bill advanced through the Legislature, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1169027421930184705\">signaled\u003c/a> he wanted more changes. Pan agreed again and put them in a companion \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB714\">bill\u003c/a>. Newsom signed both bills into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes Newsom asked for allow kids who have medical exemptions before the law goes into effect on Jan. 1 to keep them until they enter a new grade span. Doctors also gained some breathing room in the amended version: Initially, Pan’s proposal said they would sign exemptions under penalty of perjury, but that clause was removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. The vast majority of kids are vaccinated, so what’s the big deal?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A state Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"http://eziz.org/assets/docs/shotsforschool/2018-19CAKindergartenSummaryReport.pdf\">review\u003c/a> shows that California’s vaccination rates are high: 94.8% of kindergartners in the last school year were vaccinated, a slight decrease from the year before. Meanwhile, the slight increase in medical exemptions represents families who had previously sought personal-belief exemptions and switched to medical waivers, say parents who oppose the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new law, including the California Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics in California, say it will strengthen community immunity and that vaccines are safe and effective for keeping communities healthy. They also content that it will crack down on physicians “practicing outside the accepted standard of care,” said David Aizuss, president of the medical association, in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors who oppose the law say they are concerned about losing their right to say what’s best for their patients, and about the lack of liability for those injured by vaccines, explained Debra Schaefer, spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"https://www.physiciansrights.org/mission/\">for\u003c/a> Advocates for Physicians’ Rights, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CDC itself warns that there are risks involved with vaccinations, and where there is risk, there should at least be a discussion between a doctor and a patient, like with any other pharmaceutical,” she said. “This bill is nothing more than government overreach. … Doctors were scared to write (medical exemptions) before this bill; this is just creating an additional killing effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents say the law tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Instead, it may force thousands of children to leave school or quickly get caught up on vaccines even if they have legitimate medical exemptions, said Toby Rogers, an independent researcher and prominent critic of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are missing a single shot in this bloated schedule, you are considered noncompliant and kicked out of school,” said Rogers, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html\">CDC schedule\u003c/a> of vaccinations for children. In California, kids are required to receive 15-16 vaccine \u003ca href=\"https://www.shotsforschool.org/k-12/\">shots \u003c/a>to enter kindergarten. Some of the shots carry combined doses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers suggested the state focus instead on the larger percentage of children affected by such diseases and conditions as diabetes, asthma, autoimmune disorders and autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Are vaccines dangerous, as some critics say?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Critics of the new law argue that it does not properly acknowledge the risk that vaccines pose. The law states that “for all but a small number of individuals, immunizations are safe and effective,” but does not elaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They sometimes borrowed the ACLU’s arguments to frame their questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed out that Mercy routinely performed hysterectomies on women for chronic pelvic pain or uterine fibroids, and that Minton’s doctors ordered his hysterectomy as treatment for his gender dysphoria, which his attorneys described as a serious medical condition “inextricably intertwined with Minton’s gender identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times, Justice Pollak asked Landsberg to confirm he was arguing that the hospital’s actions did not violate the state’s civil rights law. 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Sotomayor says she was drawn to his work because of his use of bold, vivid colors. “Coming from Mexico, I grew up surrounded by color,” López says. “Whether you’re in the market, or you were in the fields, or you were just walking around … You can see the buildings of Mexico that are painted so brightly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11771703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/soto-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/soto.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/soto-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To him, bright colors represent emotion and diversity. “The whole idea is that you’re bringing this explosion of color … this explosion of diversity that we ideally would like to have in a community,” López explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sotomayor says that the concept of the garden was important to her as she wrote the book. “Just the way gardens have different plants, and different trees, and different kinds of flowers, and different birds and animals that populate the garden, we in our society have different kinds of people, too, doing different kinds of things,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Sotomayor’s favorite scenes in the book shows a young girl named Julia winking at an owl. Julia has Tourette syndrome. “Sometimes I wiggle or make sounds that I can’t control,” Julia says in the book. López says this illustration was one of the most challenging for him to draw, but “there was this sweetness about this animal, this owl, connecting emotionally to Julia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11771704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/just-ask_int-4p5_custom-5b309a3cfe57f6f5248d687ed8ecbe455d5e5331-s800-c85-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/just-ask_int-4p5_custom-5b309a3cfe57f6f5248d687ed8ecbe455d5e5331-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/just-ask_int-4p5_custom-5b309a3cfe57f6f5248d687ed8ecbe455d5e5331-s800-c85-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López says one of the reasons that he connected to Sotomayor’s children’s story is because his son, Santiago, has autism. “He has taught me so much,” López says. “He’s made me a more patient person … he has made me a better listener, a more understanding person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two children with autism in the book — and Sotomayor says it’s important that they are depicted in very different ways: Jordon loves to talk about dinosaurs. 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She also advocates for people with her disease and other rare illnesses, traveling to Washington, D.C., to lobby for medical research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Bueso is fighting for her life once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration authorities previously told her and her family to leave the U.S. by mid-September — or face deportation to her home country of Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, USCIS \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-re-opens-previously-pending-deferral-requests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> the agency will reopen the pending cases of immigrants, often with severe medical conditions who were denied humanitarian relief to stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Bueso family called the news of USCIS reconsidering cases, “encouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see this as a first step in revisiting our status as U.S. residents and will be working with out local representatives to find a more permanent solution that guarantees Isabel’s life is never put at risk again,” according to the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS’ announcement comes as KQED and other media outlets reported her case. Members of Congress from the Bay Area also joined roughly 100 colleagues demanding answers about the agency’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is still unclear what will happen to the future of the medical deferred action program, which allowed Bueso and her family to stay in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m advocating for my own life,” Bueso, 24, of Concord, said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Pulling the Plug on a Respirator’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bueso and her family have lived in the U.S. under “deferred action,” a form of temporary humanitarian relief that they renewed every few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Maria Isabel Bueso, 24, of Concord']‘My mom and I, we started crying together. I started shaking. … It was just a shock for me because I depend on that treatment.’[/pullquote]When she was 7, doctors in the Bay Area invited Bueso to participate in a clinical trial for a new drug to treat her condition — mucopolysaccharidosis type VI. In 2003, her family moved to California from Guatemala. The clinical trial eventually led to federal approval for the treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with Bueso’s disease lack an enzyme that allows the body to break down certain sugars. The genetic mutation leads to very short stature, because the skeletal system cannot develop normally, as well as pulmonary, heart and other problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every week, Bueso receives an intravenous infusion of medicine at a hospital in Oakland. Her doctor said the treatments have extended her life many years beyond what Guatemalan physicians had predicted when Bueso was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the weekly treatment replenishing the missing enzyme, Bueso would die in six to 12 months, said Dr. Paul Harmatz, a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and Bueso’s physician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed Bueso had finally reached a sense of stability until mid-August, when she got a letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) informing her she was no longer authorized to stay in the country and had 33 days to leave or face deportation. The medicine she needs to survive is not available in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s devastating,” said Harmatz, who led the clinical trial Bueso entered 16 years ago. “I would never even contemplate stopping enzyme therapy on a patient with this type of disease. It would be literally pulling the plug on a respirator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bueso was getting her weekly IV infusion at UCSF when she learned of the initial news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom and I, we started crying together. I started shaking. I was pale,” said Bueso. “It was just a shock for me because I depend on that treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A Hunt to Restrict Immigration’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early August, USCIS stopped considering requests for medical deferred action. The only exceptions will be for military families, said an agency spokeswoman who declined to be identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Dr. Paul Harmatz, a UCSF pediatrician who led the trial in which Maria Isabel Bueso participated']‘I would never even contemplate stopping enzyme therapy on a patient with this type of disease. It would be literally pulling the plug on a respirator.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokeswoman previously disputed that the program was ending altogether, saying that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — the agency in charge of deportations — would now be handling medical deferred action requests instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bueso’s attorney, Martin Lawler, said ICE had not yet provided a way to apply for protection from deportation, and USCIS had not provided the family any more information as of last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no reason not to extend the status of people who are here who will basically die without the medicines that we provide them,” Lawler said about the initial notice Bueso and her family received from immigration. “They have private medical insurance, they are no burden to the taxpayer. Isabel’s father works and supports the family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy changes come as part of a series of new rules and interpretations of regulations by the Trump administration that are aimed at restricting new immigration and denying protections to immigrants already in the country, advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such recent policies include penalizing green card applicants who use certain public benefits, and making it much harder for thousands of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border to gain asylum protections. Many of these executive actions are being challenged in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='migrants' label='Related Coverage']“This latest decision is yet another indication that the Trump administration is seeking to close off all avenues of relief for people here in the United States,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst with the American Immigration Council. “There seems to be no guiding principle behind all of this except for a hunt to restrict immigration in as many ways as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) denounced the Trump administration’s policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that this administration will not stop looking for any opportunity to wage war on immigrants,” said Chu. “These families deserve the certainty of knowing that they can stay together and in one place while seeking treatment for diseases like cancer, HIV and cerebral palsy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not return requests for comment on how people can apply for medical deferred action, or why Bueso’s denial letter failed to mention she could seek a review of her case with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE reviews each case on its own merits and exercises appropriate discretion after reviewing all the facts involved,” said Paul Prince, an agency spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with USCIS say they receive about 1,000 non-military requests a year for deferred action on humanitarian grounds. Many are related to family support or medical issues, and most are denied, according to USCIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how many immigrants have received denial notices like Bueso’s. But attorneys in multiple states reported getting similar rejection letters from USCIS for pending applications, some of which were submitted months before the initial policy change, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. 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We left family, careers, friends behind in Guatemala for Maria Isabel,” said Bueso’s mother Karla Barrera, 50. “Getting a letter telling us that we have to leave the country in 33 days from the date of the letter is shocking. I’m still processing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bueso’s participation in the years-long clinical trial was important in getting the drug, called Naglazyme, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said Harmatz, who led the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be a devastating loss to our community,” said Harmatz. “It will be a tragic outcome for Isabel, after all she’s gone through, taking care of her disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bueso remembers watching as babies with her condition, also known as MPS VI, were given Naglazyme to help stop the disease’s progression early on and avoid some of the health issues she struggles with daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt really proud that I could help other people,” said Bueso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bueso and her family say if they are placed in deportation proceedings, they will fight their case as best they can. 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Besides chocolate’s quirks, chemists are working on extending shelf life, mimicking marijuana’s earthy aroma and making products safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marijuana business is at a crossroads in its push for legitimacy. The federal government still considers marijuana illegal, yet more than 30 U.S. states allow it for at least medical use. Even in those states, there are no recognized standard methods for testing products for safety and quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chemists working for marijuana companies and testing labs are developing those standards and some are legally protecting their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of cannabis-related inventions have received U.S. patents, said Boston attorney Vincent Capuano, who holds a doctorate in organic chemistry. 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