American Medical Association
Supports the Elimination of Parents’ Right to Make Vaccine Choices, and
California Takes Another Step Toward Medical Tyranny
June 23, 2015
Story at-a-glance
California bill SB277 eliminates the personal belief
exemption to vaccination for school entry, including
for religious and conscientious beliefs, effectively
forcing a 99.99 percent compliance with the
federally recommended vaccine schedule among
children
If passed, this new law will require children to get
more than 40 doses of 10 federally recommended
vaccines or be denied entry to daycare or public or
private schools, including college, and the only
option for parents will be to homeschool
The bill’s sponsor has made public comments
suggesting he intends to lobby to extend vaccination
requirements to the workplace
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently
voted to support the elimination of personal and
religious belief vaccine exemptions
By Dr. Mercola
In 2012, then California Assemblyman Dr. Richard Pan
(D-Sacramento)1
assured Californians that a bill he sponsored (AB2107) to increase
child vaccination rates in the state would not remove parental
rights to make vaccine choices for their children.
Now a state Senator, he's singing a different tune. This year he
worked with attorney Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) to fast
track a bill (SB277) through the state legislature
The bill would make it virtually impossible for California
children to attend daycare or get a school education without
receiving more than 40 doses of 10 federally recommended vaccines or
filing a medical vaccine exemption granted by a medical doctor.
If the bill is made law, parents and their children will pay a
hefty price. As Dr. Pan stated on his Facebook page2
on June 9:
"it is time for all state legislatures to step in... Yes,
parents have the right to refuse vaccination for their children,
but to protect other parents' and children's rights, these
families must then accept the consequences of their decision:
no admittance to public preschool, school, college, or
workplace. [Emphasis mine]
That's right; unless you vaccinate your child, he or she will be
denied a school education from preschool through college.
You'll have no option but to homeschool.
And, it sounds like Dr. Pan is not going to be content with
preventing children from getting an education but is also going to
lobby to deny employment to adults unwilling to comply with federal
vaccine recommendations.
Many of my readers were outraged after reading that satire piece.
They didn't realize it was a joke until they read my disclaimer at
the end of the article because it hit so close to the truth.
That really says something about the growing discomfort with and
deteriorating faith in oppressive and ineffective public health
policies and laws.
Threat of Forced Vaccinations May Unleash a New Wave of Activism
If SB277 passes, I believe California will experience a traumatic
backlash, as parents will have no recourse but to shrug and comply,
or flee like refugees to states where some semblance of medical
choice and parental rights still exist.
As noted by co-founder and president of the National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) Barbara Loe Fisher during her recent
Sacramento rally speech opposing SB277:
"The right of the State to tell us what to do to our
bodies and the bodies of our children ends where our right to
protect our lives and our children's lives begins.
No liability-free doctor inside or outside of government
should be given the power to punish us if we choose not to play
vaccine roulette with liability-free vaccines.
We believe every life is important. We will not look the
other way while those of us vulnerable to vaccine injury and
death are being sacrificed in the name of the greater good.
When the State considers one of us to be expendable, then
we are all considered expendable.
We will not give up our human rights for our civil
rights. We will not give up the human right to informed consent
to medical risk taking in order to exercise our civil right to
an education and medical care and employment..."
One Step Closer to Medical Tyranny: California Assembly Health
Committee Votes to Eliminate Personal Belief Exemptions for Vaccinations
It's important to realize that getting a
medical exemption is virtually impossible and is denied by
doctors to 99.99 percent of children under federal guidelines, which
is why personal belief (religious and conscientious) vaccine
exemptions are so important. Barbara Loe Fisher discussed this in a
recent article.
Even if your child is immune compromised or has suffered a
previous
vaccine reaction, which greatly heightens his or her risk of
serious vaccine damage, your child may still be ineligible
for a medical exemption—that's how narrow it is.
On June 9, the Assembly Health Committee in California held a
five-hour long hearing on SB277. Barbara Loe Fisher gave five-minute
testimony starting at just over 60 minutes into the meeting.
She also handled Q&A from the Committee along with Dr. Jay
Gordon, and George Fatheree, an education law attorney who has a
vaccine injured child. It is long, but I urge you to
listen to this hearing.
It will enlighten you about how legislators making decisions for
you and your family think and act when being lobbied by
pharmaceutical companies, medical trade groups, and government
health agencies determined to eliminate all informed consent
protections in US vaccine laws.
Not only was the opposition treated with hostility, the Committee
Chair ended the hearing with hundreds of parents and their children
still waiting in halls and overflow rooms to testify, many of whom
had traveled many hours to get there.
In the end, the Committee voted 12-6 in favor of passing the bill
to the Assembly. Votes were split down party lines, with all
Democrat committee members voting yes and all Republican members
voting no. One Democrat abstained from voting as she uses a modified
vaccine schedule for her child and files a personal belief exemption
(PBE) to get her child into school.
The Unbelievable Is Happening...
It's really unbelievable that a discriminatory and unnecessary
bill such as this is being permitted to move forward. It leaves
people no choice but to flee or fight, creating anxiety, anger and
citizen-led grassroots resistance that public health officials worry
about so much.
If signed into law, I believe this draconian bill will backfire
and turn citizens against government health officials and
pediatricians implementing a one-size-fits-all vaccine policy that
does not respect biological differences between individuals or honor
civil and human rights. When the state uses force rather than
reason, stronger resistance is created and I do not foresee this
ending well.
How did we even get to this point? Recent history shows that this
extreme legislation stemmed from misinformation and propaganda
propagated by Pharma- funded special interest groups and media. What
started this mess was the hype over measles cases reported at
Disneyland in early 2015. It is important to understand that NO ONE
has died in the US from measles in the last 10 years, but the
federal vaccine adverse events reporting system (VAERS) includes 98
reports of deaths associated with
measles containing vaccines (MMR or MMRV) in that time period.3
It's also worth noting that although the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 requires doctors and other vaccine
providers to report hospitalizations, injuries, deaths and serious
health problems following vaccination to VAERS, it's estimated that
less than 10 percent, perhaps less than one percent of all
vaccine-related health problems are ever reported to VAERS.4
Senator Pan wants to use a forced pharmaceutical model—ostensibly
to save lives, but if this was truly the priority, he would be
targeting a true deadly epidemic that is occurring right now. There
are several to choose from, including prescription drug overdoses,5
which is the result of an overreliance on the very drug model he's
pushing. In 2013, nearly two million Americans abused prescription
painkillers and nearly 23,000 Americans died from prescription drug
overdoses. Each day, almost 7,000 people are treated in emergency
departments for using these drugs in a manner other than as
directed.6
When you take a cold hard look at what's actually killing people,
both children and adults, it seems quite clear that all this talk of
saving lives is used for effect and little else. If the intention
was truly to save children's lives, wouldn't you start with the
issues causing the most deaths? If you are going to remove people's
right to education, with the threat to also remove employment
options unless you accept forced medication, shouldn't your argument
for doing so begin with body counts and damages?
Were that the case, a clear priority would be to prevent drug
overdoses. That is the leading cause of deaths of those under 18 yrs
old. Measles deaths are zero. It seems this is a case of supporting
the drug industry; not protecting children.
Yet the 134 Disneyland-related measles cases reported in
California in 2015 were used to further the pharmaceutical
industry's vaccine marketing goals. What most people don't know is
that 55 percent of the Disneyland measles cases were in adults and
only 18 percent were in school aged children and 30 percent of the
cases with vaccine records HAD been vaccinated!7,8
Remember, no one is liable in a civil court of law if
your child is harmed or killed by a government recommended and
mandated vaccine—not the doctor shaming and threatening you into
getting it, nor the drug company selling it, or the public health
official licensing, recommending and mandating it.
This insulation from product and vaccine injury liability makes
it all the more important for people to have the freedom to make an
informed, voluntary vaccine decision, but the freedom to make
medical care choices for yourself and your children is quickly
eroding—a pattern I've warned about for a number of years now.
Drug Companies have Donated Millions to California Lawmakers
Considering the radical and anti-democratic nature of this
proposed legislation, it should come as no surprise that money
appears to have played a role. The Sacramento Bee9
recently revealed drug makers donated $2 million to current members
of the California Legislature in 2013-2014. The article also lists
the dollar amounts received by each individual member. According to
Sac Bee:
"Nine of the top 20 recipients are either legislative
leaders or serve on either the Assembly or Senate health
committees. Receiving more than $95,000, the top
recipient of industry campaign cash is Sen. Richard Pan,
a Sacramento Democrat and doctor who is carrying the
vaccine bill.
In addition, the industry donated more than $500,000 to
outside campaign spending groups that helped elect some current
members last year. Leading pharmaceutical companies also
spent nearly $3 million more during the 2013-2014 legislative
session lobbying the Legislature, the governor, the
state pharmacists' board and other agencies, according to state
filings." [Emphasis mine]
Policy Change at the American Medical Association: Eliminate
Non-Medical Exemptions
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently voted to approve
medical policy changes to support the elimination of personal and
religious belief exemptions from vaccination laws. As noted by
California Healthline:10"Under the new policy, which was adopted at the AMA's annual
meeting, the physician group will support exemptions from
vaccinations only in medically necessary cases."
While the AMA is a medical trade group and not a government
legislative body and, therefore, cannot make law, it has issued
recommendations to state health departments and physicians
everywhere to root out non-medical exemptions, and is using its
political clout to persuade legislators to remove religious and
personal belief vaccine exemptions from public health laws
nationwide.
Does the medical system always know what's best for everyone? The
facts speak for themselves, I think. The medical system has
recklessly overused antibiotics, which has contributed to the rise
of antibiotic-resistant infections that now kills over 60 people
EVERY DAY in the US alone, and
medical errors have become the third leading cause of
hospital-related death in the US, causing more than 400,000
preventable deaths annually. I'd say the medical system is rather
prone to getting it wrong.
Glaring Omissions from Forced Vaccination Discussion
Unfortunately, most California legislators show no forward
thinking when it comes to acknowledging vaccine risks and failures
or the urgent need to protect vaccine choice. There's no admission
that
whooping cough (pertussis) has become resistant to the vaccine,
or that vaccinated individuals become carriers capable of spreading
whooping cough to others,11,12
including to both vaccinated and unvaccinated children and adults.
Despite that, an accusatory finger is always pointed at the
unvaccinated when a pertussis outbreak occurs. There's also no
admission that a high number of whooping cough cases are actually
occurring in vaccinated individuals and that, for example, 90
percent of the pediatric pertussis cases with vaccine records
reported in California in 2014 had been vaccinated.13
In March 2015, KSBW in reported that four students at Monterey
Park School in Salinas, CA were diagnosed with whooping cough
despite the fact that 99.5 percent of the students at Monterey Park
were vaccinated, including the four students who contracted the
disease.14
Health officials have also expressed concern over the fact that
most of the older children contracting whooping cough in the county
of Los Angeles have received five pertussis containing vaccines
(DTaP and Tdap) between the ages of two months and seven years—FIVE
doses! How many booster shots are really reasonable to avoid one
disease?
In the case of measles, there's no admission that over half the
Disneyland measles infections occurred in adults. This bill will
have no effect on preventing measles at Disneyland or in schools,
stores, airports and buses or in other public gathering places.
There's no mention of the sketchy history of Merck, the measles
vaccine manufacturer, in creating hit lists to "discredit" and
"neutralize" dissenting doctors criticizing the safety of its
products like Vioxx,15
much like this bill targets informed citizens with punishment for
criticizing the safety of its MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine
and refusing to use it.
Nor is anyone addressing the fact that Merck's own scientists
have accused the company of faking efficacy tests for its mumps
vaccine16
and the inconvenient fact that mumps outbreaks are occurring among
MMR vaccinated populations.17,18,19
During the mumps "epidemic" in the Netherlands, which occurred from
September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2012, nearly 68 percent of
those affected had received two doses of
MMR vaccine.
In the 2010
mumps outbreak in New York, the source was a fully
vaccinated boy who had recently returned from the UK, where a
mumps outbreak had spread to 4,000 people.
Food for Thought: When Forced Vaccinations Don't Prevent Disease
Outbreaks, What Then?
It makes me wonder, once vaccination rates reach 99.99 percent or
more (and nationally we're already at 95 percent coverage for six
childhood vaccines - diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps,
rubella)20
and there are no unvaccinated people left to blame, what measures
will our government resort to then to 'eliminate' outbreaks? And
what about the research21
showing that obesity weakens immune response to vaccines?
Now we're back in April Fool's territory, but if they're really
serious about having a successful vaccination campaign, they're
going to have to do something about obesity... Might they opt for
regulating food portions while having you weigh in daily?
How far could it go? Forced vaccination (if you want an
education, medical care and employment that is) is already
FAR beyond what most Americans would have imagined possible in this
day and age of America. So chances are, they'll dictate as much
of our lives as we let them...
The AMA is even considering testing older physicians to assess
their physical and mental health and their treatment of patients.
There's no mandatory retirement age among doctors, who can continue
practicing well into advanced age if they so choose, and this, the
AMA says, might put patients at risk. But, as astutely pointed out
by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS):22"Testing would give a pretext for sidelining doctors who follow
the old-time ethics of putting patients first, not the population or
herd, and who do not slavishly follow bureaucratically established
protocols."
If by now you expect a satire disclaimer at the end of this
article, you will be sorely disappointed, because this is all true.
The slippery slope toward medical tyranny and elimination of all
dissenters—be they within or outside of the medical system—has
sharply inclined in California, a state that is positioned to join
Mississippi and West Virginia if SB277 is made law, as one of only
three states to deny parents the right to make vaccine risk choices
in caring for their children.
And, they do so knowing that there is no civil liability for the
harm that WILL occur when children at high risk for vaccine damage
are forced to get vaccinated when their parents don't have the
financial or educational resources to homeschool and can't find a
doctor to write a medical vaccine exemption.
SB277 Is Just the Beginning...
What's worse, Dr. Pan has made public comments that this kind of
tyranny is only the beginning. He apparently plans to lobby for laws
eliminating vaccine choice for adults in California so they cannot
be employed unless they get all federally recommended vaccines,
which is the kind of oppression my April Fool's article predicted.
If Dr. Pan has his way, those not fully vaccinated per the
pharmaceutical model will basically be segregated and unemployed,
which will impoverish many citizens and their families and make it
impossible for them to function in society.
If this type of discriminatory legislation that violates civil,
human and parental rights spreads to other states, perhaps Americans
will have to start filing for "medical refugee" status in other
countries. And mind you, this is not another April Fool's
article; I'm being quite serious now. How far might this kind of
medical tyranny go?
Time is the ultimate variable. The same short-term thinking that
created antibiotic resistance is creating the situation where
overuse of vaccines are pushing childhood diseases into adulthood
and also contributing to the epidemic of chronic disease and
disability that we see among so many children today. There are also
multi-generational consequences to vaccinating when you consider the
effects of epigenetics, the emerging field of science that has
revealed our health is as much influenced by the environment and
lives of our ancestors, as it is influenced by our inherited DNA and
our life choices.
When doctors administer combinations of vaccines simultaneously
and repeatedly so close together, it becomes very difficult to trace
adverse effects on immune and brain function —especially if serious
health problems develop years later, let alone a generation later.
It's interesting to note that veterinarians know not to vaccinate
nursing animals, but the medical system doesn't even consider this
variable when vaccinating newborn infants – or pregnant mothers for
that matter.
"Early in life, immune protection is accomplished by
maternal antibodies transferred from mother to offspring.
However, decaying maternal antibodies inhibit vaccination as is
exemplified by the inhibition of seroconversion after measles
vaccination. This phenomenon has been described in both human
and veterinary medicine and is independent of the type of
vaccine being used... In lieu of immunizing the infant, the
concept of maternal immunization as a strategy to protect
neonates has been proposed. This approach would still not solve
the question of how to immunize in the presence of maternal
antibodies but would defer the time of infection to an age where
infection might not have such a detrimental outcome as in
neonates."
Many veterinarians also measure blood antibody titers for dogs
before revaccinating them,24
but pediatricians do not measure antibody titers for our children
before routinely giving them more booster shots. Why is that? It's
just a simple blood test, and it can tell parents whether a booster
shot is completely unnecessary, which could serve to radically
reduce the risk of vaccine injury and death for children.
Signs of Backlash Already Emerging
A Washington Times25
article suggests the backlash in California against government
overreach is already starting to show:
"The state capitol has been flooded off and on for months
with parental-choice advocates drawing thousands for protests
against Senate Bill 277, which would eliminate personal belief
or religious exemptions and require all children without a
medical exemption to be vaccinated before entering public
school. And the outcry has only grown louder as the bill nears
passage, spreading beyond the issue of vaccination safety and
morphing into a full-blown revolt against government
intrusion into civil liberties." [Emphasis mine]
Despite the public outcry with thousands of mothers and fathers
in California showing up in person with their children to testify
against the bill in committee hearings and protest at rallies,
Senator Pan insists that "most Californians" support the bill, and
that a Public Policy Institute of California poll shows two-thirds
of respondents support the requirement that children must be fully
vaccinated to enter school. Dr. Pan told the Assembly committee:
"This majority will not be silent. When more people are hospitalized
or die of preventable contagious diseases, they will hold us
accountable for denying the science of vaccinations if we refuse to
act."
This is the kind of disinformation and backward thinking that
will get our country into really deep water. Federally recommended
vaccines are made available for free to all those who choose to use
them in America.26,27
Vaccines are not being withheld from any parent who wants
to give them to their children.
How Can We Trust Health Authorities That Have No Liability for the
Outcome?
Suffering complications from an infectious disease is tragic and
so is suffering complications from vaccination. Every life is
important. Those who are injured or die from government recommended
and mandated vaccinations should not be treated as collateral damage
in a war on childhood infections that the vast majority of children
with normal, healthy immune function experience without
complications - and gain lifelong immunity from to boot.
Despite what public health officials would have you believe,
vaccines carry very real and serious risks. For some people, vaccine
risks are more likely to cause brain and immune damage or death than
the disease being vaccinated against. The evidence that vaccines
cause harm is indisputable and Congress knew it when the shielded
vaccine makers and doctors from vaccine injury lawsuits in 1986.
Consider this: more than $3 billion has been paid out by the
government since 1988 to children and adults for whom the risks of
vaccination turned out to be 100 percent.28
Yet, while public health officials routinely emphasize infectious
disease risks, they downplay vaccine risks and urge mainstream media
to do the same. For example, vaccine-related deaths rarely get much
media attention. However, in the last several weeks, I've come
across two alternative media stories about infants dying only days
after receiving a cocktail of vaccines. One four-month old baby girl
died after receiving seven vaccines at the same time29
and a six-month old boy died after receiving 13 vaccines all at
once.30
"I felt like it was my fault," Quavia Turner says in
her heartbreaking account.31
"After her reactions at two months old, I didn't want her to get
anymore vaccines, period. I felt bullied into it. I questioned
the shots because of her previous reactions to them and they
were like, "nothing will happen."...I thought I was doing the
right thing. Where we live in Tennessee, if you don't vaccinate,
they try to deem you unfit. You are made to feel you have no
choice what vaccines your child gets and when they get them...I
truly felt horrible, I felt I went against my better judgment
and trusted the doctors over my instincts as a mother."
How are people supposed to trust doctors who have zero liability
for their recommendations? As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher in her
testimony opposing SB277 in the California Assembly Health Committee
hearing:
"This bill is not about measles or pertussis. It is about
taking power away from mothers and fathers to make medical risk
decisions for their minor children and handing it over to
doctors to implement a one-size-fits-all policy with no personal
accountability for the children who become casualties of that
policy. It punishes parents with good reason to conclude their
children are already vaccine injured or vulnerable to vaccine
harm but cannot find a doctor to acknowledge that and write a
medical vaccine exemption."
Show Us the Research!
It's important to realize that not one single large prospective,
case controlled study has ever compared health outcomes of
vaccinated versus unvaccinated children. The argument used to defend
this indefensible fact is that it would be medically negligent to
deny vaccines to children participating in the "unvaccinated"
control arm of such a study. However, as noted by Dr. Dean Blumberg,
a pediatrician testifying on behalf of the American Academy of
Pediatrics and the California Medical Association, parents
who exempt their children from vaccinations tend to cluster
together, and in some California schools the opt-out rate is as high
as 50 percent.
Here's a ready-made study population of parents who do and do not
give their children government recommended vaccines, split right
down the middle. At the very least a prospective observational study
comparing the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children could
be conducted to evaluate whether there is a difference between the
two groups of children diagnosed with learning disabilities,
ADD/ADHD, developmental delays, asthma, diabetes and other brain and
immune disorders. There is really no valid argument for why such
comparative studies remain "unfeasible."
Completely unsupported arguments for vaccination continue to be
made, but in reality, no one actually knows how decades of
aggressive implementation of one-size-fits all vaccine policies in
America have impacted "the greater good." The idea that vaccines are
a beneficial public health measure may be a complete fallacy, but we
cannot know for sure without methodologically sound comparative
studies of vaccinated and unvaccinated children and adults.
In the meantime, it would behoove every single American to
consider the ramifications of forced vaccinations given the large
gaps in vaccine safety science.32
It is shocking that there is so little sound evidence published in
the medical literature to support federal recommendations that all
children should get 69 doses of 16 vaccines starting on day of birth
through age 18.33
Consider this simple question: Do you want the legal right to
reject vaccines that carry a risk of brain inflammation,
brain damage and death? How about the right to decline HPV
vaccine that can cause a chronic
autoimmune disorder or a flu shot that can cause Guillan-Barre
syndrome and
narcolepsy? In order to be able to make informed vaccine choices
and not be punished for the choices we make, we cannot have bills
like SB277 on the books.
Act Now to Protect Bodily Integrity and Freedom of Choice
If you want the legal right to protect your bodily integrity or
that of your child when it comes to vaccine risk-taking, if you do
not want to wake up one day and be forced to play vaccine roulette
when you have good reason to conclude that you or your child are at
high risk for suffering vaccine harm, you need to act now.
The Assembly Health Committee voted to pass SB277 and if the full
Assembly votes to approve it, the bill will go to Governor Browns
desk for his signature. The bill is being fast-tracked, so quick
action by Californians' is essential if there is any chance of
stopping it from becoming law.
Californians - participate in our democracy and ACT NOW
to protect your parental and vaccine informed consent rights. There
is no substitute for one-on-one personal contact with your own
Assembly member and Governor.Find the name and
contact info for your Assembly member here. Track SB277 and immediately
contact your Assembly member and Governor Brown on your cell phone,
tablet or computer by using the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal.
If SB277 becomes law in California, your only options as a parent
will be to (1) find a doctor to write an almost impossible to get
medical vaccine exemption for your child or (2) homeschool or enroll
your child in an independent study program. Under federal
guidelines, 99.99 percent of all children do not qualify for a
medical exemption.
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, it's critical to protect your right to make independent
health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to
vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and
fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in
state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is
to get personally involved with your state legislators and educating
the leaders in your community.
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY.
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal
level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the
state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights
can have the greatest impact. It is critical for EVERYONE to get
involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary
vaccine choices in America because those choices are being
threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade
associations, and public health officials, who are trying to
persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public
health laws.
Signing up for NVIC's free Advocacy Portal at
www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own
state legislators on your Smart Phone or computer so you can make
your voice heard. You will be kept up-to-date on the latest state
bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and get practical,
useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice
advocate in your own community. Also, when national vaccine issues
come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call to action
items you need at your fingertips.
Share Your Story with the Media and People You Know
If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine
reaction, injury, or death, please talk about it. If we don't share
information and experiences with one another, everybody feels alone
and afraid to speak up. Write a letter to the editor if you have a
different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local
newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show that is only
presenting one side of the vaccine story.
I must be frank with you; you have to be brave because you might
be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the "other side" of
the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not
back down. Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be
true about vaccination will the public conversation about
vaccination open up so people are not afraid to talk about it.
We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations
funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced
use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about
vaccination. The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet
and treated like nothing more than "statistically acceptable
collateral damage" of national one-size-fits-all mandatory
vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury
and death. We shouldn't be treating people like guinea pigs instead
of human beings.
Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More
I encourage you to visit the website of the non-profit charity,
the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), at
www.NVIC.org:
NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims: View
descriptions and photos of children and adults, who have
suffered vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths. If you or your
child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider
posting and sharing your story here.
Vaccine Freedom Wall: View or post
descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers,
and school and health officials for making independent vaccine
choices.
Connect with Your Doctor or Find a New One That Will Listen and Care
If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to
you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don't want, I
strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another
doctor. Harassment, intimidation, and refusal of medical care
is becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an
effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about
vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and
vaccination.
However, there is hope.
At least 15 percent of young doctors recently polled admit that
they're starting to adopt a more individualized approach to
vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of
parents. It is good news that there is a growing number of smart
young doctors, who prefer to work as partners with parents in making
personalized vaccine decisions for children, including delaying
vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day or
continuing to provide medical care for those families, who decline
use of one or more vaccines.
So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with
compassion and respect and is willing to work with you to do what is
right for your child.