Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard criticised over vaccination comments

As California considers a bill that will make it harder for children to avoid vaccinations, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are making it clear that they’re firmly in support of it.

Bell and Shepard, who are parents to two daughters — six-year-old Lincoln and four-year-old Delta — both tweeted this week about the controversial bill.

Currently the law allows doctors to excuse a child from receiving one or more vaccinations for medical reasons.

Lawmakers allege that some doctors are granting too many exemptions for insufficient reasons, endangering the health of others and the famous couple couldn’t agree more.

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Kristen later retweeted him and added her own take.

While the Centres for Disease Control adamantly endorses vaccines, the comments on Bell’s post captured some of the criticism against them.

There was a lot of flat-out rejection of Bell’s statements, such as, “You popped out a kid, not a PhD.”

An angrier reaction: “Won't be joining you and the hell it will. Say hi to Dax before you block me also. Cowards.”

Bell’s message was also called ‘disgraceful’.

However, the overwhelming majority couldn’t have supported the couple more.

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“Kristen, I could hug you right now. Thank you for saying this,” a commenter wrote.

Others replied, “Thank you so much! Vaccines are a medical miracle and have saved millions of lives!” and “What we owe to each other.”

Bell and Shepard’s stance on vaccines is nothing new.

When their daughters were newborns, their friends could only hold them if they had been vaccinated.

"It's a very simple logic: I believe in trusting doctors, not know-it-alls,” the Good Place actress told The Hollywood Reporter in February 2015.

By Raechal Shewfelt, Editor, Yahoo Entertainment