Many people who stood in line next to me to await their turn to come up to the mic to express their sentiments on the bill used their smart phones to livestream the hearing that was being broadcast by the state of California. I didn't want to drain the battery in my phone and didn't bring my earphones to block out the crowd noise, so I chose not to watch and listen to the livestream

Below is a screenshot from the very short video that accompanied the Sacramento Bee report that was entitled, "Here’s the scene at contentious vaccine bill hearing at state Senate."

Anti-vaccine families crowd California Capitol to protest bill restricting exemptions
BY HANNAH WILEY | Sacramento Bee
APRIL 24, 2019 03:05 PM

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Hundreds of vaccine-skeptical families crammed into the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon where they battled a bill that would give the state authority over whether children receive medical exemptions for mandatory vaccines.

The massive crowd lined up for nearly four hours to oppose Senate Bill 276, authored by state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, at a hearing in the Senate Committee on Health.

The proposal would restrict how doctors administer medical exemptions for vaccines in California, taking that authority out of the hands of doctors and placing it with officials at the Department of Public Health.

Pan, a doctor, wrote the bill to constrain “unscrupulous physicians” who he argues have granted unnecessary medical exemptions for vaccines. Vaccines are most effective when a large majority of the population is immunized from preventable diseases, and he worries excessive exemptions put medically vulnerable kids at risk.

Anti-vaccine protesters called the bill “draconian” as they told personal stories about children who suffered illnesses after receiving vaccines. One accused lawmakers of being “brainwashed.”