State groups aligned with Focus on the Family say these bills protect religious liberty, conscience rights, informed consent and full bodily autonomy. But more anti-vax bills are winding their way through mostly red state legislatures, thanks in part to a network of 39 state Family Policy Councils that Focus founder James Dobson created four decades ago. asked the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, one of Family Policy Councils affiliated with the Family Policy Alliance, which recently quit listing its 39 affiliates on its public-facing website. Walsh is a graduate of the Statesmen Academy, the Family Policy Alliance’s training program for conservative Christian activists. The COVID pandemic poured gas on the fire, inflaming skepticism about vaccines, mandates and the scientific-medical-industrial complex.