Doctors, Educators Say Proposed School Exclusion Bad for America’s Kids – The Epoch Times quoting Dr. Sue McIntosh
“The basic question really is, ‘Who should have control over children? Should it be the parents or should it be the state?” says Sue McIntosh, M.D., a retired pediatric hematologist oncologist who was affiliated with Yale New Haven Hospital. ‘Parents must have the freedom to make medical choices for their young children.'”
Dr. Zach Mazone – Family Medicine Physician – Yes on 1 Maine to Reject Big Pharma’s Facebook page video
“We are to promote the general welfare, not mandate it. I believe that everyone should be given information about the risks and benefits offered by vaccinations. That all should have access to vaccinations. And that all should have their personal freedoms protected as they make their own personal informed choice about what they decide is best for their bodies and the bodies of their children.”
Don’t take away religious exemption for vaccines – Focus on non-coercive efforts to promote vaccinations by Dr. Sylvia Fogel
“We need to reconsider our assumptions about vaccine hesitancy, adverse events, and the religious exemption. Where there is marginalization and shaming, let there be empathy. Where there is coercion and censorship, let there be dialogue. Excluding families from school because they choose not to vaccinate is not the answer. We must retain the religious exemption for vaccination and focus on non-coercive measures to promote vaccination.”
Bellingham Rep. Soter questions timing of vaccine bills – Milford Daily News quoting Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
“Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a professor in the pediatrics department of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, said he is ‘pro-vaccine’ but also ‘quite aware of the limitations of vaccines.’ He said he’s witnessed adverse reactions to vaccines, including children who have lost previously-acquired speech or social skills. ‘I recommend against all these bills,’ he said. ‘They are medically unnecessary and discriminate against parental rights and the needs of vulnerable children.'”
Bogner: Vaccines are a choice not a mandate Opinion by Christian Bogner MD
“This year has brought a great deal of attention to mandated vaccines. MDHHS and CDC spend billions in taxpayer money trying to convince consumers that vaccines are safe and effective – yet they are neither safe nor effective for all. The continued denial of this fact, and lack of acknowledgement that vaccines can injure people – and can cause the same disease they are aiming to prevent – leads to distrust of government and health authorities on this issue. MDHHS advises to only focus on the ‘positives.’ What don’t they want you to know? With measles, per the CDC, 37 percent of measles strains identified in the year of the Disneyland outbreak (2015) were VACCINE-strain virus. Michigan, also, had its share of ‘vaccine-strain’ illness. In 1978, the Michigan Legislature added philosophical exemptions, during a year that the CDC reported over 8,000 cases of measles in Michigan – 27,000 in the U.S. What’s changed? Fact is, the vaccine program has some flaws. And this issue only deserves honesty and transparency – our children deserve this. Michigan parents demand this, Michigan law supports this. There are many reasons parents may choose to forgo, delay or spread out vaccinations. … The people of Michigan demand that the natural and fundamental right of parents to determine and direct the care, teaching and education of their children be respected, and this is supported in law by the state of Michigan.”
Open Letter On Vaccine Exemptions – Philosophical Exemptions as Behavioral Economic Signals of Fraud – An Open Letter from Edward F. Fogarty, MD
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the UN 12/10/48 and other succeeding international declarations rights to healthcare did not foresee the fraudulent racketeering of the profession of medicine. These charters and proclamations did vow the protection of individuals against state mandated procedures. They still stand as guideposts to why the children of the state of Washington and their families should have the continued ability to opt out of one, some, or even all of the recommended childhood vaccines because the industry has not been transparent with its safety records.”
In Perspective: Exemptions and Health by F. Edward Yazbak, MD FAAP
“…it seems unfair that in this Great and Free Nation some individuals or groups want to strip parents of their right to decide what is best for their children. Philosophic exemptions should remain available for the small number of parents who would prefer to use them.”
Mandatory vaccination is not the answer to measles by Bob Sears MD
“Let’s stop panicking over what measles might do and calmly examine what it is doing. It has a small and intermittent presence in our country. It makes people sick, then they get over it. It has complications, but rarely so. Vaccination is important and protective. But it cannot be forced; a parent must give consent.”
My Position on Vaccines by Sherri Tenpenny, DO
“I am frequently asked “my position” on vaccines. That position has evolved over time, but in a nutshell:
Measles, 2015: A Tempest in a Teapot by Janet Levatin, MD
“Get involved. I encourage everyone to take a deeper look at the issue of measles, other infections, and the vaccines for them. Become aware of your options and get legislatively involved to retain your rights to decline vaccines, an inherently elective procedure. Your family’s health and freedom depend on it.”
Vaccine Mania by Janet Levatin, MD
“I encourage everyone to fight this latest assault on our health freedom and health choices. Our liberty and our lives are at stake. Whether you wish to accept or decline vaccines, we need to maintain freedom of choice. I urge everyone to contact their state legislators and their senators and congressmen to express their views. Now that that SB277 is law in California, it is only a matter of time before a similar bill will come to your state.”
Vaccines Linked to Autism – Preserve Medical Freedom by Paul Thomas, MD
“We need to protect our children and preserve the right for freedom of choice, and the right to give informed consent when your child is about to get a vaccine.” In testimony before the Senate Committee, Dr. Paul stated that he does not give every vaccine to every child in his practice, and as a result, he has over 1000 children in his practice over the age of 3, and NONE of them have autism. The rest of the country is seeing a rate of about one out of 50 children on the autism spectrum. He states that the “science is not settled” linking too many vaccines to autism, and that doctors like himself should not be coerced by bills like this one proposed in Oregon to give up the right to informed consent in regards to vaccines.”
How vaccine hysteria could spark totalitarian nightmare – Exclusive: Lee Hieb, M.D., shares ‘dirty little secret’ immunization pushers don’t reveal by Lee Hieb, MD
“Medical ethics are clear: No one should be forced to undergo a medical treatment without informed consent and without their agreement to the treatment. We condemn the forced sterilization of the ’20s and ’30s, the Tuskegee medical experiments infecting black inmates and the Nazi medicine that included involuntary “Euthanasia,” experimentation and sterilization. How can we force vaccination without consent? Vaccination is a medical treatment with risks including death. It is totally antithetical to all ethics in medicine to mandate that risk to others.”
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“At the end of the day, the issue here is one of freedom, and freedom is the freedom to choose – even if we make a bad choice. The argument that I must vaccinate my children for the good of the community is not only scientifically questionable, it is an unethical precept. It is the argument all dictators and totalitarians have used. ‘Comrade, you must work tirelessly for the good of the collective. You must give up your money and property for the good of the collective, and now … you must allow us to inject your children with what we deem is good for the collective.’ If American’s don’t stand up against this, then we are lost. Because we have lost ownership of ourselves. Our bodies are no longer solely ours – we and our children are able to be commandeered for the ‘greater good.’”
Do Not Remove Vaccine Exemptions – Some Children Die from Vaccines by Toni Bark MD
“After Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg laws were changed to forbid forced medical procedures. The Helsinki accord is very clear; all patients have the right to informed consent prior to medical procedures.”
SB277 (California) Statement by Lynne R. Mielke, MD – April 8, 2015 (3 minute video)
“In these situations where medical vulnerabilities exist it is critical that we are not forced to practice government mandated medicine. SB277 could increase the number of vaccine injured children and will eviscerate the doctor patient relationship and medical informed consent. …. Informed consent is a basic medical and ethical responsibility and it is at risk here today.”
The Vaccine Safety Myth by Jamie Deckoff-Jones, MD
“Whatever you think about vaccination, think hard before you endorse the idea that the government should be able to mandate a profitable but invasive medical procedure without informed consent. This is a very dangerous precedent to set and one you may not be happy about when vaccines are mandated for adults to protect our ‘herd immunity’. It is not about the measles. It is about your freedom to choose what goes into your body and your child’s body.”
The Science Is Not Settled by Sandy Reider MD
“There is a considerable difference between giving a seriously ill child a proven life-saving medicine versus subjecting a completely healthy child to a drug that is known to cause severe, or even potentially fatal, adverse effects, however small the chance. This is an ethical issue that goes to the heart of our basic human right to informed consent to any drug treatment or medical intervention. Given the sheer volume of vaccine promotion and propaganda, coupled with the cozy relationship between government, industry, and media, there are sufficient grounds for a healthy skepticism. Individual parents have become the last line of defense (not offense, not a swinging fist), and their choices should be respected and preserved.”
Informed consent on vaccines is needed by Sandy Reider MD
“An open letter to Vermont Department of Health Commissioner Mark Levine … As physicians, we can acknowledge the fact that there is little reason to fear a few cases of measles, but we should all, physicians and patients alike, fear the denial of unfettered access to scientific information coupled with the loss of our right to consent, or not, to vaccination. Censorship of legitimate peer-reviewed vaccine science and perspectives (already a fact in mainstream media) is perhaps the best possible argument for a law, such as that proposed by H.310, that formalizes and guarantees to all Vermont citizens, and parents on behalf of their children, the right to full informed consent. The alternative is distressing to contemplate: a growing distrust between doctor and patient, progressive loss of confidence in our government and its health agencies, and ongoing denial of the reality and extent of vaccine injury.”
Measles Spread by the Vaccinated: Vaccines may be a Greater Danger than You Ever Knew! by Robert Rowen MD
“I don’t agree with the forced vaccine program. Herd immunity is now shown to be a failure. Plastic vaccine immunity wanes with time, rendering possibly a whole generation of vaccine-abused people vulnerable to diseases their bodies might have difficulty handling as adults, while deranging their immune systems for life. Please look to vaccine failure BEFORE condemning moms who rightfully don’t want to place their precious children in harm’s way with Pharma’s now discredited potions.”
Measles Matters by Michael W. Elice MD
“Does that justify USA Today publishing an article claiming that non-vaccinated parents should be jailed or sued or have their children removed from the home if they chose not to vaccinate their children against the measles? Does that justify the immediate vaccination of every child and adult in this country regardless of their immune status or overall medical health? Will the local pharmacies be hooking pedestrians into their stores for MMR vaccines as they have been doing for the less than effective flu vaccines?”
Should Parents Be Allowed to Decide About Vaccines? by Joseph Mercola, DO
“So, based on what you know, do you think parents should have the legal right to choose whether or not to give their children every one of the dozens of doses of 15 vaccines that health officials mandate for infants and children attending school and daycare? Do you want that right to know and freedom to choose for yourself which vaccines you are going to get? I cannot impress upon you strongly enough the importance of your active involvement when it comes to defending our legal right to make informed vaccine choices in America. In order to protect the health of as many children as possible, we cannot continue to ignore the signs that using vaccines as the nation’s primary disease prevention strategy may have been taken too far in the past three decades – to the point that we’re now seeing the health of too many children and adults being compromised.”
In Vaccines We Trust? by Suzanne Humphries MD
“If corporate medicine is going to be permitted to over-ride parental philosophical and religious objections, and invade the bodies of our children with dozens of vaccine antigens, chemicals, animal DNA, aborted fetal tissue, and cancer cells, the source of these laws must come under scrutiny.”
Testimony to the Maine Legislature – May 3, 2015 by Suzanne Humphries MD
“One look at these summaries should alert any reader that no parent can be guaranteed their child will be better off getting vaccinated. To force such vaccine policies and injections onto the children of Maine in my opinion is an egregious crime.
We have no studies looking at the long-term effects of this growing vaccination program as a whole, for cancer, neurologic disease, autoimmune diseases and allergies and other chronic diseases that have become epidemic in children at the same time the vaccine programs were ramped up in the 1980s and 90s.
If you think you are voting away the philosophical and religious exemptions of the parents of Maine, in order to create herd immunity and protect anyone, you just don’t have all your information.
And worse, if you vote to remove exemptions, you are naïve to the fact that you will be next in line for a barrage of vaccines as adults. If this legislation is passed then you are paving the way for not just the aggressive vaccine policy of today but of a future in which you will not be allowed to turn the clock back.”
Neurosurgeon’s Shock Warning: Vaccines Can Cause Serious Problems – Russell Blaylock MD
“Childhood vaccinations for viruses like measles and chicken pox should not be mandatory and, in fact, may cause serious health problems, says board certified neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock, editor of The Blaylock Wellness Report. ‘Absolutely not. It takes away one of the fundamental rights of people, individuals and families and certainly parents — and that is the protection of their children,’ Blaylock said Tuesday on ‘The Steve Malzberg Show’ on Newsmax TV. ‘You should not have the right to force my child to receive a vaccine when I think that that could cause severe damage to my child. ‘There’s compelling scientific evidence that vaccines are not as safe as they’re being proposed. In fact, there [can be] significant, serious problems, including death, seizures, encephalitis and severe brain damage. This is well documented in medical literature. … ‘The parents, in the case of every vaccine, should have that choice. Nobody should be forcibly vaccinated,’ he said.
Vaccine controversy shows we need markets, not mandates by Ron Paul MD
“If I were still a practicing ob-gyn and one of my patients said she was not going to vaccinate her child, I might try to persuade her to change her mind. But, if I were unsuccessful, I would respect her decision. I certainly would not lobby the government to pass a law mandating that children be vaccinated even if the children’s parents object. Sadly, the recent panic over the outbreak of measles has led many Americans, including some self-styled libertarians, to call for giving government new powers to force all children to be vaccinated.”
Vaccine Comments Are Latest Chapter In 136-Year-Old Debate – Rand Paul MD
“I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. I’m not arguing vaccines are a bad idea. I think they are a good thing, but I think the parent should have some input. The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children. And it is an issue of freedom and public health.”
Reminiscences of America’s Children in the 1930s as Compared with Today, and the Possible Role of Vaccines in Causing Retrogressive Changes (Written in Support of “Vaccination News” and its donation program) by Harold Buttram MD
“In my opinion, the time is long overdue for a total rethinking and redirecting of current childhood vaccine programs. Until the safety of such programs can be assured by thorough and dependable safety testing, any further mandating of childhood vaccines will remain morally and ethically untenable.”
Midwives And Health Professionals Against Vaccination – Harold Buttram MD
“Time may prove that vaccine programs went awry when they deviated from the most basic of all medical ethics, the right of a patient to accept or reject a medical therapy, or the right of parents to accept or reject vaccines for their children. Freedom-of-choice provides a system of checks and balances now lacking. At the very least, this would provide the parents with power to compel better safety screening of the vaccines. The remedy? Parents should be allowed the right of informed consent, or the right to accept or reject vaccines for their children based on full and uncensored disclosure of pros and cons.”
An Open Letter in Support of Parents Wishing to Limit or Avoid Immunizations for their Children by Harold Buttram MD
“In conclusion, with such a scenario as described above for current childhood vaccine programs, I do not feel there is any scientific or moral justification for the current mandating of childhood vaccines at any level. It is for this reason that, for many years, I have supported the freedom of choice of parents to accept or reject vaccines for their children based on informed consent. It is my belief that once this system of checks and balances is set in place for the vaccines, allowing parents the right of informed consent to accept or refuse vaccines for their children, vaccines will find their proper level in our health system.”
Expert Pediatrician Exposes Vaccine Myths – Lawrence Palevsky MD
“Dr. Palevsky says: ‘That’s something that needs to be left up to the individual parent. I am truly a proponent of informed consent, and I’m truly supportive of families who have done their homework and who have been able to make the choice.‘”
The Case Against Immunizations – Richard Moskowitz MD
“For the past ten years or so, I have felt a deep and growing compunction against giving routine vaccinations to children. It began with the fundamental belief that people have the right to make that choice for themselves.”
Forced Vaccinations: For the Greater Good? by Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD
“The argument of forcing a parent to vaccinate their child in the name of the “greater good argument” is flawed both scientifically and ethically.” … “…medical ethics demand that vaccination should be carried out with the participant’s full and informed consent. This necessitates an objective disclosure of the known or foreseeable vaccination benefits and risks. The way in which pediatric vaccines are often promoted by various health authorities indicates that such disclosure is rarely given from the basis of best available knowledge but rather, largely unproven and/or untenable assumptions on both, vaccine safety and effectiveness.”
An Open Letter to Legislators Currently Considering Vaccine Legislation from Tetyana Obukhanych PhD
“Taken together, these four facts make it clear that discrimination in a public school setting against children who are not vaccinated for reasons of conscience is completely unwarranted as the vaccination status of conscientious objectors poses no undue risk to the public.”
Genetic Vulnerability and Vaccination (PDF) by Richard C. Deth, PhD
“Until the necessary research into vaccine safety is completed and sources of individual vulnerability are better defined, we need to maintain caution and maintain accommodation for individual exemptions. This is a circumstance where the guidance of ‘first do no harm’ makes both scientific sense and common sense.”
@BenAllenCA http://t.co/Va4LzZcXQS
Vax decisions are between parents+peds
Legislators have no business here nor in women's health care.
— Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP (@JayGordonMDFAAP) March 2, 2015
https://twitter.com/drbrownstein/status/565753834300272640
Doctors’ Group Votes To Oppose Vaccine Mandates – Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc
“AAPS believes that parents, with the advice of their doctors, should make decisions about their children’s medical care — not government bureaucrats. This Resolution affirms that position.”
Measles and Cloudy Thinking by Ralph Campbell MD, retired board-certified pediatrician
“…all vaccines are not created equal. … Discussion of both the benefits and the risks of individual vaccines is needed. … what I see as a bigger problem: In general, the public is unwilling to question medical authorities. A public that accepts all public announcements from one or more of these organizations (American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC’s Communicable Disease Center, the World Health Organization) loses the art of discernment. … The authoritative medical bodies must end their arrogant stance and take an honest look at the literature they have suppressed. The public deserves better. Negative effects must be honestly brought to light. Legislative bodies need to do their homework and reject any thought of mandating vaccinations.”
AofA Q&A Interview with Cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson – Jack Wolfson DO, FACC
“Wolfson: ‘Dr. Wakefield is a researcher, he’s done published studies looking at measles, the MMR vaccine and gastrointestinal problems, and those people with autism. Myself, I read the studies, I do my own research, formulate my opinions, and sometimes I let those opinions be known to the public. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of medical doctors and D.O.s and chiropractors, and homeopaths, and naturopaths that are out there who believe in at the very least, the freedom of a parent to choose. Of course a lot of them are certainly very concerned about the issues of vaccine safety and vaccine-induced damage.’”
Don’t Mess With Texas Parents! No Mandatory Vax Part 2 (video) – Texas (R) Senator Donna Campbell MD
“…trying to mandate that everyone get vaccines is not our place. … I just do not feel it is the government’s role to mandate a human to have to take medicine.”
Herd Immunity: Fact or Fiction? by Kelly Brogan MD
“I see myself as a protector of women and children, a gatekeeper of sorts. For this reason, I bristle at the tactics of coercion used to move women out of their space of intuitive agency, and into a place of fear. There is no tactic as powerful as altruistic guilt, as insinuating that a woman is dangerous, reckless, and selfish if she chooses not to vaccinate herself or her child. … May patient autonomy trump all medical interventions, now, and forever.”
Immunocompromised children: what are their infectious risks from the unvaccinated? by Meryl Nass MD
“In the last few days there have been multiple news articles and testimonies in the Maine and Vermont legislatures about the need to impose vaccine mandates to protect immunocompromised children. … Let me repeat: vulnerable, immunodeficient children are susceptible to many viral, bacterial and fungal infections, but these are very rarely caused by child to child spread of microorganisms for which we have vaccines.”
Yes,parents have a God-given, "fundamental, constitutionally protected right" to decide what is best for their kids. https://t.co/OLbloMVw4x
— 𝙳𝚛 𝙼.𝙹. 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 🧠 (@DrMichaelMaster) June 20, 2015
#MandatoryVaccinations #SB277 Unethical. Eric's life before and after his #VaccineInjury: http://t.co/E3H8iz5uSw pic.twitter.com/PH7VB19VJx
— Cynthia Foster, MD (@DocFoster) July 2, 2015
#SB277 – Statement by Steven M. Rubin, PhD – Testimony with Senate Health Committee hearing, April 8, 2015 (video) – Transcript here.
200 Physicians Oppose California Senate Bill 277 – Offer Alternative Measures – press release – Physicians Opposed to California SB 277
“The physician-patient relationship is sacred. It is based on trust and confidence that doctors will make recommendations based solely on the patient’s best interests. The decision, however, always belongs to the patient. Coercive, one-size-fits-all medicine is abhorrent in a free and democratic society. It violates the oath that clinicians have taken to do no harm and runs counter to the international human rights standard affirmed in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights adopted by over 190 member countries of UNESCO in 2005:
Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. [Article 6]
We oppose SB 277 and similar bills in other states that seek to remove, or effectively remove, the rights of individuals to make their own health care decisions. This is not the kind of medicine that we want to give our patients, nor is it the kind of medicine that we want for ourselves and our families.”
I’m not opposed to vaccinations, I’m opposed to MANDATORY vaccinations by Susan McCreadie, MD
“My concerns lie beyond WHAT ingredients are present in vaccines. HOW we stimulate the immune system with subcutaneous and intramuscular injections and bypass our body’s built in protective barriers also concerns me. Another concern I have is WHO we vaccinate, without screening individuals for genetic variations with detoxification, for example MTHFR – methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. Please make your own informed vaccine decision. We have A LOT of decisions as parents to make on behalf of our children. I am often asked my opinion on vaccinations – do I recommend them or not? Every time I answer with the story above. I cannot make your decision for you. Every child is different. You know your child best. Some part of you knows.”
The Stacy Francis Show! with Dr Andrew Wakefield (video)
“Whatever vaccines are or aren’t it is not the jurisdiction of the government to determine whether parents vaccinate their children, how they chose to protect their children from an infectious disease, that resides exclusively with the parents and the totalitarian approach of Dr. Pan and [Ben] Allan, his colleague, in the California State Senate has been a disgrace. It’s been a disgrace because they were provided with full information about the fraud at the CDC as they were pushing that bill forward and they proceeded recklessly without care for the well-being of California’s children or parental rights. They had that information available at the time and I believe they should be held personally accountable for any child who is damaged whose parents have expressly said I do not want my child to go along with your vaccination policy that you are forcing on me.”
Prominent Medical Doctor Strongly Advises Against Forced Vaccination – Nicholas Gonzalez MD
“Benjamin Rush, MD, one of the leading Founding Fathers, a great physician in his day, warned that government involvement in health care decisions was a danger, to individual and societal health. He helped design provisions, like the Fourth Amendment, to protect us from government intrusion in our bodies and our health decisions. You should take this seriously. American survived quite well without mandated vaccinations for children and adults, and we will survive better without such mandates.”
Vaccine Mandates Can Be Contagious – Shira Miller MD
Repealing the law [SB277] by vote of the people will send a clear message to the rest of the nation that, no matter how good vaccines claim to be, no good is done by coercing parents to vaccinate their children against their better judgement. The threat to the loss of freedom and personal liberties is more dangerous than any disease we face. This is a battle about the right to think and decide for oneself and one’s own children what medical risks we are willing to take with our own bodies.
Dr. Paul Offit: The Bible is Irrelevant Today by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
“History has proven that the state will neglect and abuse the individual in the name of ‘the greater good’. My research in the vast literature on vaccine safety has led me to conclude that some people – a larger percentage than we are aware – are susceptible to injury from vaccines, and have mutations that make preservatives and adjuvants particularly unsafe for them. We should be spending time and money finding biomarkers of susceptibility, not arguing and shoving medical practices down people’s throats.”
Dear American Press: Enough with the Rhetoric. Tell the Full Autism/Vaccine Safety Research Story by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
“Do we really want to be a country that forces specific medical care upon patients without consent? Consent by coercion is not recognized as consent under any setting. The Universal Code of Human Rights – and the Nuremberg Code – both say that forced medical treatment is unethical. Ask yourself why would anyone want to force this medical, when they also know about the scientific misconduct – it’s entered into the Congressional Record thanks to Rep. Bill Posey (FL-R). I’m a demoncrat (that’s a joke, son), and I love Posey for bringing this issue forward. Don’t let them do this with vaccines – what else will they force on us in the name of easily justified profits from mass vaccinations? We should be overhauling our vaccine safety research programs instead.”
Parents Should Know Both the Benefits and Risks of Vaccinations by Eric L. Hurwitz DC, PhD
“Any potential unintended consequences of current and future vaccinations need to be acknowledged and adequately addressed through the sharing of data, resources and expertise by government agencies, vaccine manufacturers, researchers and policymakers. Until we can predict which children are at risk from current and future vaccines, voluntary, written informed consent rather than coercion through mandates may help to restore parents’ trust and maintain the public’s health.” (2001)
The End of Medical Ethics: “Informed Consent” is in Critical Condition – 22 minute video interview with Dr. Jane Orient
“The patient/physician relationship, dating back to the oath of Hippocrates is that the physician should do no harm, should not kill his patient. There’s nothing in there about being subservient to the good of the collective, or the good of the state. And physicians can be wrong, but they can only harm as many patients as they can see. If we have the government dictating policies to us and it’s the wrong policy, they can harm millions of people.”
The Case for Vaccine Choice; Asking the Right Questions by Joseph Cooney, MD
“The reason I emphatically support parents’ right to choose which vaccines to give their child and to decide at what pace to give them is because I believe, as our knowledge of health and illness continues to expand, we will see things differently and the scientific consensus will shift.”
Hemophilus influenzae Type B (Hib) Immunization by Karl-Reinhard Kummer MD
“As Albonico et al. demanded, every child and every situation has to be considered individually. The responsibility of deciding for or against immunizing a child lies with the parents. Full information and advice are essential. Changes in environmental conditions and in the constitution as regards health must be taken into account.”
Attention California Parents: Government mandated vaccination of your children will be required by law on January 1, 2016! by Kelly Sutton MD
“Studies are not done to understand the vaccines we have and the different levels of vulnerability in different people. Research money is instead spent developing MORE vaccines (300 + in the pipeline now). And lobbying money is spent to create more vaccine mandate laws in California and nationally. This serves pharmaceutical profits not national health. Proposed laws not only mandate vaccines, but would give doctors and clinics financial incentives for vaccinating exactly on schedule. How much pressure will that put on you in your well-child doctor visits? In this vaccine-happy climate, do you want to be without an exemption??”
Vaccines, Vaccine Injury, & My Perspective as a Doctor & Mom By Rachael Ross MD, PhD
“With what I now know, I cannot support mandatory vaccines for children. Some kids respond well to vaccines, but others do not. How can we be sure who will and who will not? Should we really sacrifice one for many? Parents have to have the right to choose! Parents have to make their own informed decisions. Parents deserve access to this information which has been buried so deep that even I, a practicing physician, hadn’t been aware of.”
Physicians for Informed Consent – We Oppose Mandatory Vaccination Laws – SB277, the mandatory vaccination law for both private and public school attendance in California, went into effect July 1, 2016. Your membership is crucial to help amplify our physician voice and stop mandatory vaccination laws across the USA.
Doctors and Scientists Unite to End Mandatory Vaccination Laws – Group Dedicated to Safeguarding Informed Consent – Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC)
“Parents and doctors—not politicians—should be making medical decisions for children. A newly launched nonprofit called Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) is now joining the cause to get the government out of some of the most important conversations parents have with their pediatrician. PIC is committed to protecting the rights of parents to make medical decisions for their children, and safeguarding doctors’ professional responsibility to act ethically and in the best interests of their individual patients.”
“We need to … support our children and our parents’ rights to decide what they are going to inject” – Dr. Bob Zajac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiJRUdY9l3E&feature=youtu.be
Vaccine concerns – letter by Howard W. Morningstar MD
“I am writing to express my concern about HB 3063 which, if passed, would eliminate religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions for Oregonians. I am a Yale-trained medical doctor and, after serving as a federal community health center physician, have been practicing family medicine in Ashland since 1996. … The vaccination issue is a complex one that cannot be answered by a one-size-fits-all government mandate. It is, in my opinion, unconscionable for the state to force these intrusive interventions on all families.”
Letter to the editor: ‘There are better ways to handle vaccine policy than the mandatory use of a specific MMR vaccine’ – Camas resident Douglas Tweet [PhD Physics] offers his thoughts on House Bill 1638
“I oppose HB 1638 now before the Washington State Legislature. This bill would remove certain exemptions to receiving the MMR vaccine in order for children to attend daycare or school, public or private. I am not anti-vaccine. However, I am pro-choice, on vaccines. There are better ways to handle vaccine policy than the mandatory use of a specific MMR vaccine, sold by one company, Merck, a monopoly.”
Colorado HB 1312 “Debate” – First Hand Report – Shelley O’Neill, MD
“This was my first time attending a legislative committee hearing and boy did I pick a doozy. The bill being heard was Colorado HB 1312, which essentially plans to treat vaccine injured families who want to decline even one shot, as ignorant criminals who need to be entered into a registry and tracked, forced into in-person meetings with state bureaucrats to be “educated” and forced into compelled speech by signing a form stating they are harming their child. People who decline one or more of the 72 required doses, would have their private medical information revealed to the state but those who accept all 72 doses get to keep their medical information private. It also wipes out 99% of medical exemptions, replacing the doctor’s authority for the state’s. It doubles the number of required vaccines and also applies to homeschooled children. This bill is a big stinking pile of garbage.”
Measles Outbreak, Fake News and Mass Hysteria – Jeffrey Dach, MD
“As Dr Poland mentions, if the problem is vaccine failure, then the solution is to design a better vaccine, not to remove the religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions by legislative mandate. Removing vaccine exemptions does not address the issue of primary and secondary vaccine failure which is responsible for recurring outbreaks even in highly vaccinated populations. However, in spite of this obvious problem of measles vaccine failure, the media is whipping up measles hysteria to push for legislation to remove vaccine exemptions. Fear makes people surrender their constitutional right to medical freedom, reluctantly agreeing to be coerced into medical procedures they would otherwise decline.”