Vaccination: Consent is a privilege, not a right.
Americans love our freedoms. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are worth protecting…
California’s Senate Bill 277 (SB277) has had my mental and emotional self playing an endless game of tennis. Will informed consent no longer apply in the state of California when it comes to vaccinations?
The debate between pro-vaccination and anti-vaccination has been going on since the late 1800’s. It has been a long and heated debate that hasn’t lost any steam. There are those who are pro-vaccination, those who are anti-vaccination and those who fall in the large, grey middle-zone. No matter which person you are, doesn’t informed consent matter? (informed consent definition)
According to a 2003 study, to change your viewpoint requires energy. It requires far less energy from us to just go along with the flow of what we have been taught or influenced to believe than it does to ask questions or test the truth of our beliefs. (source) I would expect that it would be even more challenging to change your beliefs when you are being paid to think, or vote, a certain way. (find out more)
Californians who oppose vaccination, or at least like to have a choice to vaccinate or not to vaccinate, should not be shocked if SB277 becomes a law. Actually, Americans who oppose vaccinations or support ‘the choice to choose’ should not be shocked if this wave crashes and then breaks across all of the other states…
Being vaccination-free or partially vaccinated or vaccinated according to your self-developed schedule is not a right but a privilege, no matter where you live in the United States. The people who control this privilege are the Legislators; not the doctors; not the scientists; not the real life facts; not the you and me; and not even the Supreme Court. (source) The 14th Amendment cannot protect you here. Government supersedes religion and personal belief “under the pressure of great dangers” and when “the safety of the general public” and your individual liberty is not valid.
I find it interesting that MERCK, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, states that “Risks of vaccinations should be discussed with patients. Parents should give written consent for vaccination of their children. …” (The MERCK MANUEL Eighteenth Edition – p.1404). When the companies who make the drugs say parents ought to be consenting to these drugs being administered via a written notice, you would think Legislators’ would question how mandating vaccines and removing consent from the process is the absolute only sane answer.
If SB277 becomes a law, the choice to vaccinate will no longer belong to a child’s parent. Informed consent will no longer exist…
At the present moment, SB277 targets children, but any adults or elderly who think they are safe from being a future target of a similar senate bill are naive. In fact, the legislature has already proposed SB 792 in California that will mandate vaccinations for adults who work with children. Drug companies are developing hundreds of vaccinations for all ages. Having a law in place that ensures everyone uses their vaccines is smart business. Smart business equals dependable profit. (source)
The first vaccination was released in the 1790’s for smallpox. (history)
150 years later, in the late 1940’s, there were 2 vaccinations on the western market, smallpox & DTP (diptheria & pertussis). 30 years after that, in the 1970’s, there were 3 vaccinations on the market (DTP, MMR – measles, mumps, rubella and OPV – polio).
Today in 2015, there are 12 vaccinations available for our children (Hep B, Rotavirus, DTaP/Tdap, Hib, PCV13, PPSV23, IPV, IIV/LAIV (yearly vaccination till age 18), MMR, VAR, HepA, HPV, Hib-MenCY). (CDC schedule) If SB277 become law 6 of these vaccines will be mandated.
The Untied States spends more in health care than most developed wealthy countries, yet when it comes to infant mortality we rank 26th. (source) The United States also recommends infants receive 26 vaccine doses before they baby is even one year of age, compared to the average of 12 vaccine doses that most other developed countries recommend for their infants. (source)
The vaccinations SB277 will mandate are:
- MMR (measles, mumps, rubella)
- IPV (polio)
- DTaP/Tdap (diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis – whooping cough)
- Hep B (hepatitis B)
- Hib (haemophilus influenza type b5)
- VAR (varicella – chickenpox) and
- PLUS – any other disease deemed appropriate… (bill)
There are 6 vaccinations mandated by SB277, which is 3 more then I ever received as a child. The opportunity to add countless more vaccines has already been written into SB277 – “ANY OTHER DISEASE DEEMED APPROPRIATE”. No new law would need to pass to expand the SB277 mandated vaccine list. No discussions with the people would need to take place. It could happen over night. This is a dangerous door to leave open.
When you start mandating drugs, even drugs to prevent disease, scary things can happen. (one scary thing) The CDC has recently expanded who they recommend receives the HPV vaccine. At first this vaccine was only for females. They have now expanded the list to include males and homosexual males. I do not know why they specify males and homosexual males as different target groups, or why there are different age requirements for homosexuals, but I have watched too many episodes of The Good Wife and Scandal to think this is just for a saintly purpose. (another scary thing)
Bill Gates mentioned in a TED Talks noted that he felt that if ‘we’ do a great job with new vaccinations, we can cut our population by 10 to 15 percent in the future. If vaccinations indeed are safe and designed to help us as humans be healthier, stronger and more disease resistant, then how does our population decrease with the release of new vaccines and the enforcement of current ones? (source)
Even though there are still too many areas in the Untied States where people are living in and below the poverty line, where sanitation and living conditions do not meet modern standards, mandated vaccinations for the diseases on the CDC schedule is still rather ridiculous. (history) The simple fact is, a lot has changed since 1905 when the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts passed a law giving Legislators’ the power of vaccination over the people. (case law) Modern sanitation, upgrades in personal hygiene, condoms and STD/STI screening to catch diseases earlier, other advances in modern medicine all have allowed us, as a modern society to have much more control over the spread of infectious disease. If people would just stay home and fully recover when they are ‘under the weather’ or very obviously sick, imagine what other nasty air borne diseases we could stave off.
Homeopathy has been used to treat and prevent diseases such as polio quite effectively and with no adverse reactions since the 1800’s, even in large populations. This is a very safe and affordable method of disease prevention which gets little to no discussion in the United States and the public health community. Perhaps this viable options is not promoted because it will not generate the large profit gain that pharmaceutical drug vaccines can. (want to learn more?
I may not agree with SB277, I may not support SB277, but reviewing the case law history allows me to understand how SB277 has moved as effectively and swiftly as it has over the last few months.
There is huge battle ahead for the people who want to overturn current 1905 case law and take back the power to self-dictate medicine and health choices. It will not be an easy road, but the other option of unlimited mandated vaccines and pharmaceutical experiments is a horribly unsafe road to be traveling.
Choosing which vaccines you want to use for your family is a privilege… but this is America; we love our privileges. This privilege is worth protecting.
I urge everyone to keep informed consent alive and thriving.
Please take a moment to sign this petition for Jerry Brown to oppose SB277 and then pass it along to others in your community (oppose SB277 petition)
Thank you – Medicine For The People