Supreme Court accepts appeal over vaccine safety
Washington (CNN) — Parents who say that a range of preventive vaccines given their young children can cause serious health problems will have their appeal heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices Monday agreed to decide whether drug makers can be sued outside a special judicial forum set up by Congress in 1986 to address specific claims about safety. The so-called vaccine court has handled such disputes and was designed to ensure a reliable, steady supply of the drugs by reducing the threat of lawsuits against pharmaceutical firms. The questions in the latest case are whether such liability claims can proceed, if the vaccine-related injuries could have been avoided by better product design, and if federal officials had approved another, allegedly safer drug. Oral arguments in the dispute will be held in the fall. The lawsuit was brought by the parents of Hannah Bruesewitz, a girl from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. They said she was in fine health as an infant in 1992 when given a series of DPT shots — a combination of vaccines to prevent diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus. After the third series, according to court briefs, the child began having seizures and became disabled. Now a teenager, Hannah continues to suffer what is described as “residual seizure disorder.” The Bruesewitzes alleged Wyeth Laboratories failed to adequately warn them and other parents of the risks associated with the vaccine. The vaccine court rejected the initial claim, so the family tried to revive the lawsuit in the federal courts. Their lawyers said the 24-year-old law does not ban all lawsuits, especially those filed when the harmful side effects were avoidable. A federal appeals court eventually ruled for Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer Inc., concluding that all design-defect claims were barred under statute. Despite that victory, the company urged the high court to hear the case, saying it seeks final resolution on broader legal questions. The Obama administration also urged review and is supporting the company and the federal law in question. Wyeth and other drug manufacturers say their products are generally safe, but side effects can occur in very rare cases. They also say that the vaccine industry is generally not profitable, but that the health benefits for society in general have kept them in the business. For that, they say, legal protection provided by Congress is essential to ensure such drugs are widely available and affordable. The high court did not act immediately on a another related, pending appeal. The Georgia Supreme Court last year became the first appeals court in the U.S. to allow families to sue outside the special vaccine court. That case involved Atlanta-area parents who said their son Stefan Ferrari suffered severe neurological damage 12 years ago from booster shots, by Wyeth and GlaxoSmithKline, containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. Now 12, the boy is unable to speak, say his parents, Stefano and Carolyn Ferrari. The preservative has since been taken out of nearly all standard vaccines. Despite winning at the state level, the family has since withdrawn its case, but the liability on drug companies resulting from that decision remains in force in Georgia. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act was passed to establish a nationwide strategy to ensure a secure vaccine supply, promote safety and future research, and compensate innocent victims. Those goals were listed at the time as a “top public health priority.” Lawmakers acknowledged the vaccine supply was suffering under rising company costs from potential liability claims. Despite Food and Drug Administration approval for the vaccines, companies said they were being driven out of the market. The special federal court created under the legislation was a liability shield, designed to be a reliable, relatively quick, no-fault solution to various claims. Unresolved over the years is whether and when certain exceptions to liability should be in play in specific cases. The case accepted is Bruesewitz v. Wyeth (09-152). The pending case is American Home Products Corp. v. Ferrari (08-1120).
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“Actually, one quick powerful note on Leviticus 19:18 – “Never seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.” Jesus quoted the underlined portion of this Leviticus verse as we see in Matthew 22:36-40: “”Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, ” `You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: `Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the other commandments and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” “ One Year Bible Blog
February 20 2010 | 134,194 views
The UK Government is seeking to rid itself of a billion pounds worth of unwanted swine flu vaccine — because the “deadly” H1N1 epidemic never materialized. Major drug companies may have pushed the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn that swine flu could be a worldwide ‘pandemic’ killing tens of millions.
But even more shocking is the fact that the scandalous waste of public money, and the wild overreaction which gave rise to it, were both entirely predictable. It has long been clear that governments all over the world, led by the WHO, were in the grip of a hysterical panic over swine flu.
In the early days of the panic, the BBC Today program brought in a WHO ‘expert’ to predict that 40 percent of Britons would catch swine flu, while citing another unnamed ‘expert’ as predicting that up to 1.2 million could die.
Yet eight months later it was being reported by scientists that swine flue is only a tenth as virulent as ordinary flu, and only one 100th as virulent as that Spanish flu at the end of World War I.
In other words, swine flu — just like the bird flu which a senior WHO official said in 2005 was going to kill 150 million people worldwide (the true death toll turned out to be barely 200) — has predictably turned out to be yet another example of that all-too-familiar and very dangerous disease of our time, the ’scare phenomenon.’
These scares consistently follow an identifiable pattern.
They invariably begin with some misreading of the scientific evidence, which then gets picked up and inflated into some major threat to human health or well being. But the tipping point of any scare, the moment when it begins to create serious damage, is when politicians and governments get involved, buying the exaggerated threat wholesale and responding with a deluge of measures which end up costing billions.
Sources:
The Daily Mail January 12, 2010
The world has been subjected to a stunt for the greedy interests of the drug companies. Tens of billions of dollars were WASTED on the H1N1 vaccines, but the actual cost of the vaccines is almost a moot issue in light of the TRILLIONS of dollars that are being mismanaged on the financial crisis.
The more significant, and I believe the real, issue at hand here is not the money lost, but the damage that is being done to the population by injection of these vaccines. And now the precedent has been set for the government to institute vaccines for future fake or manufactured pandemics.
A ‘Fraudulent’ Pandemic
As you can see in this report I wrote in December, from Europe to Australia, to Canada to Asia, as well as in the US, the story was the same: people were reporting adverse events to the H1N1 vaccine in growing numbers.
Then, on January 4, 14 members from 10 countries in the Council of Europe stunned the world by calling H1N1 a FAKED pandemic!
In this motion asking the council to investigate the declaration of H1N1 as a pandemic, these members accused pharmaceutical companies of faking the pandemic and farming it out to the world, so they could fill their pockets with the proceeds:
“In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide.
They have made them squander tight health care resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to the risk of unknown side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.”
The motion, spear-headed by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), goes on to say:
“The “bird-flu“-campaign (2005/06) combined with the ‘swine-flu’-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health budgets, but also to the credibility and accountability of important international health agencies. The definition of an alarming pandemic must not be under the influence of drug-sellers.
The member states of the Council of Europe should ask for immediate investigations on the consequences at national as well as European level.”
As this intelligently written article in the Daily Mail has pointed out:
“Swine flu — just like the bird flu which we were told by a senior WHO official in 2005 was going to kill 150 million people worldwide (the true death toll turned out to be barely 200) — has predictably turned out to be yet another example of that all-too-familiar and very dangerous disease of our time, the ’scare phenomenon.’”
Yes, the scare phenomenon … the scare machine … the fear mongering that took hold of much of the world last year as government officials spread panic in the form of inaccurate swine flu statistics and worst-case scenarios has turned out to be a major scam.
The panic spread not only through the United States, but also much of Europe. In the UK, chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson estimated that 65,000 could die, a prediction that sent the media into a frenzy. Wrote journalist Simon Jenkins in The Guardian:
“If anyone dared question this drivel, they were dismissed by Donaldson as “extremists”. When people started reporting swine flu to be even milder than ordinary flu, he accused them of complacency and told them to “wait for next winter”… It was pure, systematic government-induced panic – in which I accept that the media played its joyful part.”
When all was said and done as of January 2010, 360 people died from swine flu, while that is tragic – it’s a far cry from the 65,000 originally projected.
Paul Flyn, Vice Chairman, Council of Europe Health Authority even said in news report reported by American Chronicle that “the world has been subjected to a stunt, for the own greedy interests of the pharmaceutical companies.”
Writes journalist Christina England in the same American Chronicle article:
“He [Paul Flyn] feels that this has caused mass panic and the stocking up of a vast quantities of needless vaccines. It is now believed that the drug companies have deliberately mislead Governments to the seriousness of Swine flu, to make them stock pile vaccines, this has caused them to buy billions of dollars worth of vaccines from pharmaceutical companies including Baxter, Glaxo Smith Kline and Sanofi Pasteur.”
Why Did WHO Change the Definition of a Pandemic?
As I have said from the very beginning, this so-called pandemic was never a genuine pandemic in the true sense. It only became a “pandemic” because the WHO decided to change the definition in May last year to make it no longer necessary for an enormous amount of people to have contracted an illness or died before a pandemic could be called.
Instead, under the new definition, it doesn’t matter how many, or how few, people are affected. All a disease has to do to be labeled a pandemic is move beyond a few countries’ borders.
By changing the definition, nations were compelled to implement pandemic plans and to purchase H1N1 flu vaccines, enabling drug companies to pocket billions of dollars on fast-tracked, untested vaccines.
Millions of Needlessly Vaccinated People
This pandemic not only is NOT a pandemic, but is causing a great deal of damage to some vaccinated people, as well as to the credibility of our worldwide, public health officials.
Angry that the World Health Organization could allow itself to be influenced into declaring a pandemic that wasn’t, Dr. Wodarg is lashing out in interviews, and promising a full probe into the cozy relationships that appear to exist between drug companies and the WHO.
On his website and in this interview in PharmaTimes, Dr. Wodarg speaks out against the WHO, accusing the agency of causing panic about the non-pandemic, and of forcing nations to waste money on needlessly vaccinating millions of people:
“The WHO’s ‘false pandemic’ flu campaign is one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,” Wodarg said. “The definition of a pandemic must not be under the influence of drug sellers.
The ‘false pandemic’ campaign began last May in Mexico City, when a hundred or so ‘normal’ reported influenza cases were declared to be the beginning of a threatening new pandemic… (when) WHO, in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists redefined pandemics.
These new standards forced politicians in most states to react immediately and sign marketing commitments for additional and new vaccines against swine flu. … In January we will arrange an emergency debate about the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the WHO.”
According to an article in Bloomberg, these plans are moving forward. The WHO is planning to conduct a review of its response to the swine flu, and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has confirmed that “false pandemics, a threat to health” will be a major theme of its next plenary session, with a debate slated for January 28.
Here in the US, Iowa state Senator Chuck Grassley issued a letter on January 12 to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in which he too is demanding answers about the H1N1 vaccines.
In my mind, there’s only one more question to ask: If they faked this pandemic, and the rules were changed just to satisfy drug companies, would that set aside the companies’ immunity to litigation under the national Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, and allow lawsuits and possible prosecution for deaths or injuries because of this vaccine?
Government Reported Side Effects Data Through the Roof
Around the world, people who believe that they, or someone they know, have been injured by the H1N1 vaccine are forming support groups and posting blogs like this one in an effort to share their stories and have their voices heard about what happened to them.
Their stories include everything from miscarriages to tumors to fainting spells and neurological problems.
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports are now beginning to show the disturbing truth about the 2009 H1N1 vaccines, which health officials swore were safe, or at least as safe as any other seasonal flu vaccine.
You can read them here on the VAERS website or here on the CDC’s website.
Or, you can go here, to medalerts.org, where Steven Rubin, who has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, has charted the numbers in an understandable graph comparing flu vaccine adverse events for 20 years and highlighting the months of September, October and November.
According to the CDC and FDA, an adverse event is a health problem that is reported after a person gets a vaccine or medicine. As of January 24, 2010, the VAERS database showed 5,400 adverse event reports in connection with the H1N1 vaccine.
Any Way You Look at it, Vaccine Side Effects are Extraordinarily High
“You will see that November’s numbers aren’t very high, but that is because this graph shows the month in which the vaccination was given, and many of the people injured by vaccinations given in November have not yet filed a report,” Dr. Rubin says.
“Since not everybody reports their injuries right away, and because the posting is always behind, the numbers for November will continue to grow through the coming weeks. But any way you look at it, the numbers are huge. They’re through the roof.”
When you look at Dr. Rubin’s graph below, keep in mind that the numbers are fluid – meaning they are constantly changing. Since the government updates ALL of its data weekly, going back to the beginning of when it started keeping adverse events records in 1990, Dr. Rubin re-calculates the events each week, too.
“I have been tracking seasonal flu reports (not H1N1) since August, and they show a flu season that started early and did more damage (in adverse event reports) than ever before,” Dr. Rubin said. “The November results confirm this.”
“There is an alarming red line on the right side that shows a terrible month in September 2009,” Dr. Rubin said. “This bar is nearly six times higher than it has ever been during September (2,203 events this year, as opposed to the previous high of 356 last year).”
To create the graph, Dr. Rubin combined the reports from both seasonal and H1N1 flu shots. That is because of the way the seasonal and H1N1 shots were offered this year, with the CDC advising not to get both at the same time. Also, it was impossible to compare H1N1 to anything because this was the first year for it.
“It is likely that many people stopped getting seasonal flu shots in October (when H1N1 became available) and switched to H1N1 vaccinations,” Dr. Rubin said. “So the right thing to do is to combine H1N1 and seasonal flu reports into a single graph.”
Doing this, Dr. Rubin showed that the damage from any kind of flu vaccines is through the roof, dwarfing all previous years.
“Critics will find two fallacies with my doing this,” Dr. Rubin noted. “One is that more people than ever before got one or both of the shots. The other is that, of course, combining the two will produce higher numbers.”
The point is, according to Dr. Rubin, that flu vaccines are represented here in total, regardless of whether they were H1N1 or seasonal. And I agree – after all, the CDC in August announced that it wasn’t keeping track of which flu was which, anymore, when it ordered medical providers to count every influenza-like illness as H1N1.
So it makes sense to combine the adverse events, as well. And those numbers are massive.
Reactions reported shortly after receiving the H1N1 vaccine range from a lung infection and swelling to miscarriages in pregnant women, along with at least one case of meningitis.
Ron Paul Eloquently Addresses the REAL Issues Here
“The more significant, and I believe the real issue at hand here, is the damage that is being done to the population by injection of these vaccines and the precedent that has been set for the government to institute vaccines for future fake or manufactured pandemics.
Is this a dream or a nightmare? Is it my imagination or have we lost our minds? It is surreal. It is just not believable. A grand absurdity. A great deception. A delusion of momentous proportions based on preposterous notions and ideas whose time should never have come …
Insanity passed off as logic.…Evil described as virtue. Ignorance pawned off as wisdom. Slavery sold as liberty. The philosophy that destroys us is not even defined. We have broken from reality, a psychotic nation. Ignorance with a pretense of knowledge replacing wisdom..
Money does not grow on trees, nor does prosperity come from a government printing press that escalates deficit that are being spent on a failed warfare and welfare system. A central bank that deliberately destroys the value of the currency in secrecy without restraint.”
The GOOD NEWS!!!
The reversal is achievable through peaceful and intellectual means, and fortunately the number of those who care is growing exponentially.
Finally, leaders of entire nations are recognizing how insidious Big Pharma’s influence is on the world’s policy makers, and are joining together to demand an accounting!
Until the umbilical cord between Big Pharma and the government is cut, healthcare/health policy reform will remain a dream. Until then, take what your government and your physician tell you with a grain of salt, and always read between the lines to find out the true motives behind any public health recommendations … especially those that are built upon fear.
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Interesting…
FROM:
Health Freedom Alliance
Childhood temper tantrums, teenage irritability and binge eating may soon rate as psychiatric disorders in the US, according to proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bible of the psychiatric profession. The proposals are the product of a 10-year effort to update the handbook, which influences the vast network of American healthcare providers, insurance companies, courts, prisons and universities. At stake are billions of dollars in insurance payments, pharmaceutical sales and medical fees. “It not only determines how mental disorders are diagnosed, it can impact how people see themselves and how we see each other,” Alan Schatzberg, president of the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the guide, told reporters. “It influences how research is conducted as well as what is researched. It affects legal matters, industry and government programmes.”
February 09 2010 | 3,784 views
by Barbara Loe Fisher
There are three basic facts you should remember when you are exercising your right to make an informed, voluntary vaccination choice for yourself or your child in America:
- Informed Consent is a Human Right: The right to voluntary, informed consent to a medical intervention, including use of a pharmaceutical product such as a vaccine that can injure or kill you or your child, is a human right.
While the State may have the legal authority to mandate use of vaccines, nobody has the moral authority to FORCE you to get vaccinated or vaccinate your child without your voluntary, informed consent
- Vaccine Laws Have Exemptions: In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the legal authority of state governments to pass laws requiring citizens residing in the state to use certain vaccines.
Today, all 50 states have enacted vaccine laws that require proof of vaccination for children to attend daycare, elementary, junior and high school and college.
Vaccine requirements vary from state to state and all 50 states allow a medical exemption to vaccination; 48 states allow a religious exemption to vaccination; and 18 states allow a personal, philosophical or conscientious belief exemption to vaccination.
To find out what your state vaccine law says and which exemptions you may take and how to take them, click here.
- Freedom is Not Free, Become a Vaccine Choice Advocate: Many state governments now require nearly three dozen doses of more than a dozen vaccines to attend school. Medical and religious exemptions are becoming harder to get and exemptions for reasons of conscience are under attack by proponents of forced vaccination.
The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens in states to expand or protect legal exemptions to vaccination.
Six Principles for Protecting Vaccine Choices
First Principle: It’s Your CHOICE
When exercising your right to voluntary, informed consent to vaccination for yourself or your child, remember that state vaccine laws contain:
- Legal requirements that school and health officials are responsible for enforcing
- Legal exemptions that you have the legal right to choose to exercise. (Public schools must allow vaccine exemptions outlined in state vaccine laws, but private religious or other non-state operated schools may reject vaccine exemptions.)
Most state vaccine laws do not allow unvaccinated students with vaccine exemptions to attend school during confirmed outbreaks of certain infectious diseases for defined periods of time.
Remember: Nobody has the moral authority to force you or your child to be injected with a vaccine without your voluntary, informed consent and you have the legal right to exercise exemptions to vaccination according to the laws in your state.
Second Principle: You Have the Right to KNOW
You have the legal right to know the risks and complications of vaccines BEFORE you make the choice of whether or not to allow your child to be vaccinated.
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Reagan in 1986, directed all doctors and other vaccine providers to give parents written information about vaccines BEFORE children are vaccinated.
Remember: All vaccines and other pharmaceutical products carry a risk of injury or death and those risks can be greater for some than others.
Never agree to use a vaccine, drug or other product without fully informing yourself about ALL risks.
The product information insert, which drug companies by law must include with every vial of vaccine provided to public health clinics and private doctors’ offices, includes a description of the vaccine’s reported reactions and precautions.
You can ask for a copy of that vaccine information insert from your doctor or state health department.
Third Principle: Be INFORMED and Prepared
Knowledge is power. Arm yourself with accurate information about vaccination and health. Do your own research and talk to one or more trusted health care professionals before you make any health care decision.
Become an educated consumer and you will be empowered to defend your right to freely make voluntary choices about health, including vaccination, for yourself and your children.
Remember: If you arm yourself with accurate information about vaccines and health, you will be prepared to intelligently and rationally discuss your vaccine choices with your family, friends, colleagues, doctors, elected officials and others in your community.
Fourth Principle: Take RESPONSIBILITY for Your Words and Actions
When you are standing up for your right to know, and freedom to choose, whether or not to vaccinate yourself or your child, how you go about exercising your rights will determine whether or not you will succeed.
In your contact with doctors, school or government health officials, remain calm but politely firm when explaining and defending the vaccine choice you have made.
If you are treated with disrespect or are harassed in any way by a doctor or government official, do not engage in an unproductive argument. You may want to contact an attorney, your elected state representatives or local media if you or your child are threatened.
To publicly post a report of harassment for your vaccine choice, click here.
Remember: Treat others as you want to be treated, even if you are being attacked or harassed for the vaccine choice you have made.
Protect yourself and your family by seeking legal or other expert counsel, if necessary.
Serve as an example for others in your community whenever you defend your right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination, including the right to decline to use one or more vaccines for yourself or your child.
Fifth Principle: Keep WRITTEN Records
Be sure to ask your doctor for copies of your medical records or your child’s medical records, including recorded information about vaccinations and illnesses. Under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, doctors and other vaccine providers are required by federal law to:
- Write down any serious health problems that occur after vaccination in a child’s permanent medical record
- Keep a permanent record of all vaccines given, including the manufacturer’s name and lot number
- Report serious health problems, hospitalizations injuries and deaths that occur after vaccination to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). (If your doctor won’t report, you have the right to make a vaccine reaction report to VAERS).
Remember: It is wise to keep written records of your interactions with doctors, school and health officials that involve vaccine choices you make, as well as copies of any vaccine exemptions you file with the state. You may have to hire an attorney to defend your informed consent rights when it comes to vaccination and it is important to have written records.
Sixth Principle: Be COURAGEOUS
It is not easy to stand up for the right to make informed, voluntary choices about vaccination when public health officials, the pharmaceutical industry and many medical doctors are putting pressure on all Americans, especially parents, to use every government recommended vaccine.
The fact that the numbers of doses of government mandated vaccines have tripled in the past quarter century, while the numbers of chronically ill and disabled children have also tripled, offers an opportunity to have a long overdue public conversation about the effects of vaccination on individual and public health.
Remember: Freedom of thought and exercise of free speech is protected under the U.S. Constitution.
You have the right to talk privately and publicly about any concerns you have about vaccine necessity, safety and effectiveness, and to work with your elected officials to modify the vaccine laws in your state.
Become an engaged, courageous citizen activist and protect your right to make vaccine choices.
Vaccination and U.S. Law: A Brief Summary
- Medical Exemptions: All 50 states allow medical exemption to vaccination.
Medical exemptions to vaccination must be written by a medical doctor (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathy (D.O.) and are usually reviewed annually by school or state health officials.
Since 1986, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have eliminated most officially recognized medical reasons for withholding vaccination (contraindications) so that almost no medical condition qualifies for a medical exemption to vaccination.
In most states, school or state public health officials can question or even deny a medical exemption to vaccination written by a doctor if it does not strictly conform to CDC and AAP contraindication guidelines.
The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens who want to change vaccine laws to prevent state school or health officials from questioning or denying a medical exemption to vaccination written by a doctor.
- Religious Exemptions: All but two states (West Virginia and Mississippi) allow religious exemption to vaccination.
These exemptions are worded differently in different states and require different forms of written documentation that must be submitted to state governments supporting a sincerely held religious belief opposing vaccination.
Some states require a notarized affidavit or letter from a spiritual advisor attesting to the sincerity of a person’s religious beliefs about vaccination. The religious exemption is under attack and, in some states like New York, parents are being grilled about the sincerity of their religious beliefs by state officials and denied religious exemptions to vaccination so their partially or completely unvaccinated children cannot attend public schools.
The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens, who want to protect their rights to religious exemptions, to add or re-write the religious exemption in state vaccine laws.
- Conscientious Belief Exemptions: 18 states allow conscientious, personal or philosophical belief exemption to vaccination. These states come the closest to protecting a citizen’s right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination in America. They are:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin
This exemption, like the religious exemption, is under attack by forced vaccination proponents who want to eliminate non-medical exemptions to vaccination in America.
The National Vaccine Information Center is working with citizens who want to protect or add conscientious belief exemption in state vaccine laws.
- Vaccine Exemptions for Military Personnel: All branches of the U.S. Armed Services provide medical and religious exemptions to vaccination, but those exemptions must be first declared before enlistment in the military.
If a military recruit does not clearly state a medical or religious objection to vaccination BEFORE joining the military, he or she gives up the right to object to vaccination during active military service. Failure to obey an order to vaccinate while on active military duty can result in demotion, imprisonment and involuntary discharge from the military, including dishonorable discharge.
After enlistment, legal assistance is often required to successfully object to vaccination without being subjected to sanctions.
Family dependents of active military personnel often must obtain approval from military officials to exempt children from vaccination for medical reasons or religious objections, especially if the children are attending military-operated daycare or schools or are deployed to foreign countries or re-entering the U.S. after living in a foreign country.
- Vaccine Exemptions for International Travel: Different countries have different laws requiring vaccines to enter or leave the country.
Most developed countries, including those in Europe, currently do not require visitors to show proof of vaccination. However, some countries in Africa, Asia and elsewhere may require certain vaccines to enter or exit. Click here to check the CDC website on travel vaccine requirements.
- Other Vaccine Exemption Issues: Vaccine choices also can affect adoption, immigration, child custody arrangements during divorce proceedings, eligibility for health insurance and government entitlement programs, and medical care.
Children adopted from foreign countries as well as in the U.S. may be required by US law and adoption agencies to receive certain government mandated vaccines.
Immigration laws also contain vaccine requirement provisions.
In cases of divorce, one parent may attempt to gain full custody of a minor child by using the vaccine choice issue as leverage.
Some families have been dropped from medical insurance plans or barred from eligibility for government funded medical care and food supplement programs if children are not given all government recommended vaccines.
Increasingly, pediatricians are refusing to treat children who are not fully vaccinated and, in some instances, medical personnel in hospital emergency rooms and physicians’ offices have reported parents to state child social services agencies for child medical neglect for refusing to vaccinate their children. In these circumstances, you may need to consult to protect informed consent rights.
Legal Options
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was passed by Congress to protect vaccine manufacturers and vaccine providers from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths in civil court.
If a child is injured by a government recommended or mandated vaccine, the child must sue the Secretary of Health for damages under the Act in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C.
If the vaccine injured child is turned down for federal compensation or offered too little to provide for the child’s lifetime care, a lawsuit may be filed in civil court against a vaccine manufacturer or negligent doctor with certain restrictions.
By 2009, about $2 billion had been awarded to vaccine victims for brain inflammation and immune system damage leading to permanent injury or death, even though two out of three children are turned away for federal compensation.
The Bottom Line
- When you or your child is injured by a vaccine, the risks are 100 percent, and you will be left to deal with the consequences. Those who make and give vaccines are protected from liability in civil court, and federal vaccine injury compensation is very difficult to get.
- There is no guarantee that a vaccine will, in fact, protect against an infectious disease or that exposure to an infectious disease will cause a complication, injury or death. Good health is about so much more than vaccination and preventing experience with infectious disease.
- Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry a risk of injury or death that is greater for some than others. The right to informed consent to medical risk-taking is a human right. Empowering ourselves with information and taking responsible action to protect the right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination in America is one of the most important actions we can take as citizens to protect our freedom.
- Don’t let anyone force you or your child to take a vaccine without your voluntary, informed consent.
- If a doctor denies you or your child medical care because you want to make vaccine choices, find another doctor.
- If a doctor threatens you, or if a government official denies a medical or religious exemption that you have legally filed, find an attorney to help you.
- If you don’t like the vaccine laws in your state, contact your elected officials and work to change them.
Together, we can educate the public and reform vaccine laws in America to protect the right to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions for ourselves and our children.
For More Information …
- Diseases & Vaccines — A list of diseases that have vaccines, selected stories about the diseases and the vaccines, and other links to find information about them.
- Vaccine Manufacturers’ Product Inserts
- State Laws & Vaccine Exemption Information
- Become a Vaccine Choice Advocate in your state to protect vaccine exemptions
- If you have been harassed for your vaccine choices, make a report here
About the Author
Barbara Loe Fisher is the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, and the author of “The Consumer’s Guide to Childhood Vaccines” and “Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic.”
Founding NVIC in 1982 with parents of vaccine injured children, she developed strategy for and led a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system.
Her book, DPT: A Shot in the Dark, which she co-authored with Harris Coulter, Ph.D., was the first major, well documented critique of America’s mass vaccination system calling for safety reforms and the right to informed consent to vaccination.
She has served as a consumer representative for more than 15 years on vaccine advisory committees and has testified in state legislatures and in Congress, as well as represented consumers in many scientific and other forums as an advocate for vaccine safety and informed consent protections in the mass vaccination system.
She is a consumer voice for vaccine safety and informed consent issues on radio, television and in print and Internet news reports on the science, regulation, policy, and ethics of vaccine policy and law. During the past three decades, she has debated more pediatricians and U.S. public health officials on the subject of vaccine risks and informed consent on television, radio and in other public forums than any other American.
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