April 7th 2012
The following pediatrician’s commentary attacking vaccine religious exemptions was published by Raleigh’s News & Observer on February 24, 2012. As the N&O failed to publish my response, I’m publishing it here, where truth is welcome, following the pediatrician’s article immediately below.

Read rest of story here: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/attorney-challenges-attack-vaccine-religious-exemption

5/14/2012
In the first five months of 2012, NVIC staff and volunteers have helped citizens in Vermont and California take a stand in the historic state-based fight against Big Pharma, medical trade associations and government health lobbyists pressuring legislators to eliminate the legal right to exercise personal belief exemptions to vaccination in America. Personal belief exemptions include those for sincerely held religious, conscientious and philosophical beliefs.

The proliferation of new vaccines that have been added in the past 25 years to the government mandated child vaccination schedule, coupled with growing awareness that many highly vaccinated children are chronically ill, is powering the new citizen activism. Educated mothers and fathers have joined with enlightened health care professionals and are publicly defending the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking, which includes the legal right of parents of minor children to weigh the benefits and risks of vaccines and make voluntary vaccination decisions.

Educating One Legislator At A Time

Ground zero this year has been Vermont (S199) and California (AB2109). NVIC Director of State Advocacy, Dawn Richardson said, “We are educating one legislator at a time. Many are telling us that they have never taken a critical look at vaccine mandates and are surprised at what they are learning. They see smart, articulate parents taking a rational and principled stand for the freedom to make voluntary decisions about vaccinating their children and it is changing their views. They realize that a lot of the information being given to them by lobbyists, who are trying to take away personal belief exemptions, is just plain wrong.

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Today, everybody knows somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated and was never healthy again. Among America’s highly vaccinated child population, today 1 child 6 is learning disabled; 1 in 9 is asthmatic; 1 in 88 develops autism and 1 in 450 becomes diabetic. Children are paying a high price for being forced to submit to one-size-fits-all vaccine mandates as many American parents are placed in the untenable position of choosing between protecting the health of their children and educating their children.

Read rest of story here: http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/May-2012/americans-fight-for-vaccine-choices.aspx

Thursday, 04/12/12 5:50pm
Vermont Public Radio

(Host) After several hours of debate, the House last night rejected an effort to eliminate the philosophical exemption to the state's mandatory childhood immunization law.

The vote on the amendment was 93 to 36.

VPR's Bob Kinzel reports:

(Kinzel) This bill has become one of the most emotional issues facing lawmakers this year because it pits public health concerns against the rights of parents to determine health decisions involving their children.

There are three exemptions to Vermont's mandatory childhood immunization law; for medical reasons, for religious beliefs and for philosophical concerns.

Read rest of story here: http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/94125/house-rejects-effort-to-eliminate-philosophical-ex/

26 September 2011
The Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento, California is in financial trouble.* They’ve cut teacher salaries. Employees are being forced to take time off without pay. Class sizes are getting bigger and bigger. But when it comes to vaccinations, the sky’s the limit. The district is now doing door-to-door vaccinations. Unannounced. And they’ve taken a news crew around with them. Here’s a video showing it:

Read rest of story here: http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2011-09-26/california-district-is-doing-unannounced-door-to-door-vaccines/

Updated: Oct 27, 2010
A Southwest Florida father is suing the Lee County School District over its immunization policy.

Acupuncture physician Robert Murdoch has not had his two teenagers vaccinated.

After extensive research, he's decided vaccines are not effective and even down-right toxic because some include mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde.

"People are being coerced into a medical treatment that has very suspect science behind it," he explains.

The school district granted his kids exemptions so they could go to school, but you'd never know you had that right by looking at the district's website.

Robert made a personal appeal to Superintendent Browder in hopes of making the exemptions known to parents, but his request was rejected.

And that's why he is suing, he wants you to know there are exemptions to the immunization requirement.

Read rest of story here: http://www.fox4now.com/global/story.asp?s=13392496

Updated: 10/18/2010 11:38:14 AM
... Currently, seven hospitals in the state mandate vaccination, including Georgetown Hospital Sys­tem and Hospital Corpora­tion of America facilities along the coast, including Colleton Medical Center, Grand Strand Regional Medical Center and Tri­dent Medical Center, he said. HCA reports a 40 per­cent lower mortality from flu among patients infected in the health-care setting as a result.

Another 20 hospitals have policies that require vaccination or declining in a signed statement and wearing a mask to prevent spread of the flu, Foster said.

Read rest of story here: http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=103024&catid=291

Administrators turned away hundreds of students in an Oregon county who did not comply with a previous ruling of mandatory vaccinations earlier this week.

School officials thought it would be appropriate to give children a green sticker of approval if they (and their parents) succumbed to the pressure imposed on them to receive the highly controversial flu vaccinations. Those without the sticker were told to go home.

Read rest of story here: http://preventdisease.com/news/10/102110_vaccinations_mandatory.shtml

Received December 2, 2003.
Participants. A total of 151 720 children sampled between 1995 and 2001, 795 of whom were unvaccinated.

Results. Undervaccinated children tended to be black, to have a younger mother who was not married and did not have a college degree, to live in a household near the poverty level, and to live in a central city. Unvaccinated children tended to be white, to have a mother who was married and had a college degree, to live in a household with an annual income exceeding $75 000, and to have parents who expressed concerns regarding the safety of vaccines and indicated that medical doctors have little influence over vaccination decisions for their children. Unvaccinated children were more likely to be male than female. Annually, ∼17 000 children were unvaccinated. The largest numbers of unvaccinated children lived in counties in California, Illinois, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, and Michigan. States that allowed philosophical exemptions to laws mandating vaccinations for children as they entered school had significantly higher estimated rates of unvaccinated children.

Read rest of story here: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/114/1/187.abstract

The question
What are the characteristics of children who have received no vaccinations compared with those who are undervaccinated and to those who are fully immunized?

The findings
In 2001, 62.8% of US children 19 to 35 months of age were fully immunized with all the vaccines that were recommended at that time. It was estimated that 3 children per thousand had never received any vaccines (unvaccinated). The study found marked differences in the characteristics between children who were completely unvaccinated, those that either received some vaccines, and those who were fully vaccinated as recommended.

Children who had received some but not all recommended doses (undervaccinated) tended to be black and had a younger, often-unmarried mother who had less education than fully immunized children. These underimmunized children were more likely to live in a household below the poverty level, with more children, and had moved across state lines.

Compared to undervaccinated children, unvaccinated children were more likely to be non-Hispanic white, have a mother who was older, married and who had a college degree. These children were more likely to live in a household with an annual income exceeding $75,000.

Read rest of story here: http://www.immunizationinfo.org/science/demographics-unvaccinated-children

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