REVEALED: Pfizer paid $500,000 to two nonprofits that later urged Massachusetts to end religious exemptions for mandatory school vaccines.
Their demand: “remove the non-medical exemption from required school vaccines.”
Their demand: “remove the non-medical exemption from required school vaccines.”
The payments, in Pfizer’s own 2024 disclosure:
• $400,000 to the American Society for Meningitis Prevention.
• $100,000 to March of Dimes.
The stated purposes?
Meningococcal-vaccine policy work and a maternal-immunization policy campaign.

• $400,000 to the American Society for Meningitis Prevention.
• $100,000 to March of Dimes.
The stated purposes?
Meningococcal-vaccine policy work and a maternal-immunization policy campaign.


Both groups signed a June 1, 2026 letter urging Massachusetts lawmakers to pass H.2554.
Under the proposal, a parent’s religious objection would no longer exempt their child from required school vaccinations.


Under the proposal, a parent’s religious objection would no longer exempt their child from required school vaccinations.



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