Re: URGENT: Forced Vaccination Precedent Being Set

Hey Lapis;
I would like to pass on your words of warning to the newspapers in my area. I thought I'd better get permission to use "your words" in print, before doing so.
Here is the letter I have proposed, using some of your wordings and some from the website you included....
Mary Lunsford

*This could happen to US!  Publish:
SB439: URGENT HELP REQUIRED
http://www.wvve.org/SB439/SB439text.html

A devastating new bill has been introduced in West Virginia. It is SB439, introduced by Senator Prezioso of Marion County and Senator Minard of Harrison County. SB439 has already passed the Senate HHR Committee on February 19, 2004. It is expected to pass the Senate floor and House committees next week.

As written, the bill will require that all children in West Virginia be vaccinated, whether they attend school or are homeschooled, with no recourse for exemptions. Homeschoolers in all 50 states have always been able to choose not to vaccinate. They either are exempt from mandatory vaccination required to attend school, and/or they are offered religious exemptions. This bill will make WV the first state in which homeschoolers have no choice.

If passed, the bill will force all West Virginians who do not wish to vaccinate to move another state. It presents an unprecedented attack on parental choice and religious freedom. It is not only an insult to Free Mountaineers, but it treads on all rights we hold dear in America.

The bill reads:
Any parent or guardian who refuses to permit his or her child to be immunized against the diseases enumerated in subsection (c) of this section, or who cannot give satisfactory proof that the child or person has been so immunized or who falsifies a child's immunization record is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars.

Write letters. Write press releases. Talk to local reporters about this very dangerous legislation that subverts our parental right to choose what is best for our children.

Fourteen (14) current vaccines use human cells derived from ABORTED FETAL TISSUE.  Chickenpox and Rubella vaccines do not have abortion-free alternatives in the United States.  Both are mandated by SB439.  In order to act according to our conscience, West Virginians must have vaccination exemption because of religious and moral beliefs.

What ingredients can be found in vaccines?
The CDC has the complete list of vaccine ingredients 
Among these are:
Aluminum hydroxide:  a base that can dissolve tissue, like lye.  It is an adjuvant, which means it is used to "shock" your immune system into paying attention to the vaccine.  Aluminum has been linked to seizures and other neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease.
Formaldehyde:  preservative, main ingredient of embalming fluid.  Viruses and bacteria are soaked in this poison to kill them.
This poison is a known carcinogen (cancer-causing agent).
Ethylene glycol:  preservative, main ingredient in antifreeze. 
Thimerosal:  ethyl-mercury preservative.  Mercury is a very powerful neurotoxin that is known to "dissolve" nerve cells.  Thimerosal is thought to be linked to speech disorders and autism.

Vaccine Side Effects
What side effects can vaccines cause?

Vaccines can cause mild reactions such as a sore spot on the arm to severe reactions such as permanent seizures and autoimmune disorders.  In some children, vaccines are lethal.

The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was set up to help the financial burden of families whose children were injured or who died following mandated vaccines. The program has paid out over $1 billion in claims.  The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System receives between 12,000-14,000 reports of hospitalizations, injuries and deaths following vaccination every year.  It has been suggested by experts that only 10% of vaccine injuries and deaths are reported. 

What are the odds of suffering from a disease vs. suffering from a vaccine reaction?

The odds of suffering vaccine injuries and deaths vs the odss of suffering disease injuries and deaths disputed by experts and scientists. Parents should be able to research these risks, decide for themselves what they are, and allow other parents to do the same.

A child who dies from a vaccine should be no less important than a child who dies from a disease. A death is a death.  It is unknown which children are more at risk for developing serious side effects or for dying from a vaccine.  So parents are, in fact, playing a sort of Russian Roulette each time they vaccinate.  Medical authorities do not dispute this, but say the odds are in the millions.  All parents must be able to decide if they want to take the chance of being that one in a million, if in fact, those odds are even accurate.

Delegate Barbara Hatfield circulated a handout in 2003 against religious freedom and parental choice.
This tabloid handout threatens that exemptions will "kill your children and grandchildren."  It uses emotional blackmail instead of addressing the issues honestly and intelligently.  Most of these statistics are unsubstantiated and unreferenced.  We have a proven track record that exemptions are not killing children in the other 48 states.  However, it is a fact that vaccines do kill children.  Parents must be allowed to choose if they want to take that risk.

  Isn't public health more important than individual rights?
When determining whether a state has compelling interest over individual freedoms, a court will want to see the least restrictive method for protecting public health.  Our country has a strong 30 year history of allowing exemptions in 48 states without compromising public health.  If other states can protect both public health and individual rights, why can't West Virginia?

Many other countries, that do not claim as much pride over being the "land of the free" as the USA, either do not have mandatory vaccinations or allow exemptions.   Other industrialized countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and many other European countries, allow parents to choose freely for whatever reasons they wish and do not require vaccinations even to attend school.  These countries have not seen their herd immunity compromised or their public health threatened. 

  If public health is not at stake, then why pass laws that force people to vaccinate?

Money.  Stephanie Cave, MD, explained the system very well in her book, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Children's Vaccinations" (Warner Books, 2001).

"The CDC has given hundreds of millions of dollars to state health departments in the form of immunization grants since 1965.  When the hepatitis B vaccine was added to the recommended list, the states could hope to get some of that money if they enforced a mandatory vaccinations and tracked them...

"And the amount of funds is substantial.  The Comprehensive Childhood Immunization Act of 1993 gave the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) the authority to give more than $400 million annually to states that establish a registry that tags and tracks children as they recieve their mandatory vaccinations, including hepatitis B vaccine.  Each state receives between $50 and $100 per child who is fully vaccianted with all federally recommended vaccines. 

To help states establish a vaccine tracking system and enforce their vaccination mandates, each state is eligible for federal grants.  In addition, they also get monies from pharmaceutical companies, specifically vaccine manufacturers.  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Johnson& Johnson, which funds the vaccine program All Kids Count) is one such funding company.  Its vaccine ties are with Merck& Company, which manufacturers MMR, varicella [chickenpox] and hepatitis B vacciens.  In 1989, Merck joined with Johnson & Johnson to form Worldwide Consumer Pharmaceutical Companies....

...Once the electronic surveillance program is in place, it will allow the government to deny more citizens their rights if it believes the citizens are not following certain health policites in the interst of public safety....I believe this medical registry erodes privacy, medical freedom, and the right to self-determination...."

Our state legislature must not be the pawn of a federal agency that seeks to violate constitutionally protected rights indirectly by bribing state health departments to do it for them.

State health departments provide many useful and vital services.  But when they try influence the legislature to force people to buy products that give them kickbacks, they are no longer speaking for the best interests of our children, but for the best interests of their own funding.  The state legislature needs to make it clear that our parental rights to protect our own children's health and our religious freedoms cannot be bought by pharmaceutical companies and the federal government, and indeed, our state legislature refuses to sell them.
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