‘They’re Chipping Away.’ Inside the Grassroots Effort to Fight Mandatory Vaccines

Christina Hildebrand went down a rabbit hole and emerged at the statehouse in Sacramento.

That's how she describes it--going down a rabbit hole--and in her case it happened 14 years ago, when she was pregnant with her first child. In a world filled with chemicals and toxins, processed foods and GMOs, she decided her baby would be brought up as naturally and chemical-free as possible. It was when she was researching how best to achieve that goal that she bumped into vaccines.

Christina Hildebrand went down a rabbit hole and emerged at the statehouse in Sacramento. That's how she describes it--going down a rabbit hole--and in her case it happened 14 years ago, when she was pregnant with her first child. In a world filled with chemicals and toxins, processed foods and GMOs, she decided her baby would be brought up as naturally and chemical-free as possible. It was when she was researching how best to achieve that goal that she bumped into vaccines.