Stop Discrimination Against Minnesota Children And Families!

Help us defeat HF 3239 and SF 3439, which would eliminate the conscientiously held belief exemption for the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine in all Minnesota schools and child care settings, starting August 1, 2026.

If passed, these bills will bar children from child care, preschool, or K–12 education—public or private—unless they receive the MMR vaccine or have a medical exemption.

Families who object to this vaccine based on deeply held personal or religious beliefs will be forced to choose between violating their conscience or removing their children from school.

Authored by Rep. Mike Freiberg (HF 3239) and Sen. Liz Boldon (SF 3439), these bills were introduced on April 24 and 25, 2025 and referred to the House Health Finance and Policy Committee and Senate Health and Human Services Committee, respectively.

TAKE ACTION

Contact your Minnesota State Representative and Senator today. Ask them to OPPOSE House File 3239 and Senate File 3439.

Find your legislators here: https://www.leg.mn.gov/leg/legdir

SAMPLE SCRIPT:

“Hello, my name is _____ and I live in your district. I’m asking Representative____ to OPPOSE HF 3239 (or Senator_____ to OPPOSE SF 3439), which would eliminate the personal belief exemption for the MMR vaccine in Minnesota.

This is a clear violation of freedom of conscience and religious liberty. These bills discriminate against families who hold sincere beliefs and will result in healthy children being denied access to school and early education.

These bills strip away freedom of conscience, violate religious liberty, and set a dangerous precedent.

Please protect medical choice, support informed consent, and vote NO on HF 3239 (or SF 3439.)”

TALKING POINTS:

Keep your call or email short! Pick the 2 or 3 talking points that are most important to you, and be sure to explain why this issue matters to you personally.

One of the most basic human rights is bodily autonomy, as recognized by the Nuremberg Code. Ethical medicine requires prior, completely voluntary, and fully informed consent.

These bills violate the Minnesota Constitution, Article I, Section 16, which protects the right to worship according to the dictates of one’s own conscience. The state cannot force families to vaccinate their children against their beliefs in order to access education.

There is no public health emergency that justifies removing long-standing exemptions. Minnesota already has high MMR vaccination rates and low incidence of these diseases.

Families deserve options. Conscientiously held belief exemptions have been part of Minnesota law for decades and allow parents to make thoughtful, informed decisions without government coercion.

Vaccines carry risks. According to federal data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), there have been 2.6 million+ adverse events and nearly 50,000 deaths reported.

Vaccines are medical procedures that carry the risk of serious injury. The U.S. Supreme Court recognizes vaccines to be “unavoidably unsafe” and to cause injury and death to some recipients. The U.S. Government has paid out more than $5 billion to the victims of vaccine injury. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety-systems/vaers/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/

Vaccines have no long-term studies on their safety, genotoxicity, carcinogenicity, or effect on reproduction.

This is not just about MMR. If the state can remove exemptions for one vaccine, nothing stops it from expanding mandates for others in the future—Covid-19, HPV, or any vaccine the CDC recommends.

Denying a child education based on vaccine status is discriminatory and unjust. No child should be excluded from learning because of their family’s beliefs.

MORE INFORMATION:

Read the full text of HF 3239

Read the full text of SF 3439

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