WEST VIRGINIA PARENTAL RIGHTS THREATENED: Forced Medical Procedures on the Horizon
by Lori Lee, West Virginia Chair, National Vaccine Information Center; Board Member, VaxTruth.
WEST VIRGINIA PARENTAL RIGHTS THREATENED
Forced Medical Procedures on the Horizon
Compulsory immunization, a forced medical procedure and medication, required for school entrance without religious exemption, is practiced in only two states in the United States. According to the West Virginia State Director for the National Vaccine Information Center, Lori Lee, “West Virginia is one of these states falling nearly 50 years behind the rest of the United States in such legislation, but it is now apparent that the state’s health department’s agenda is to strip parental rights even further.”
In the August 31, 2012 edition of “The Journal,” the publication reports, “Lisa Carper, coordinator of student support and social services for Jefferson County Schools, confirmed earlier in the summer that from the state level, the county has been directed to file medical neglect charges with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services.”
West Virginia is unique in its legislative code, not only because it does not stand in line with the rest of the United States regarding parental rights and vaccines, but in that it states that parents who do not fully vaccinate their children are guilty of misdemeanors (one for each missed vaccine). West Virginia Bureau for Public Health states they are very happy with this current code, even though concerned parents and citizens have lobbied the legislature to change it for over a decade. Parents whose religious or moral code does not align with fully vaccinating their children and parents who have researched vaccines and choose to make educated, informed decisions are locked out of the school system and forced to home school or drive to a neighboring state, where non-medical exemptions are permitted.
The Bureau for Public Health has been sued by several West Virginia families whose children are being denied an education due to additions to the original legislative code 16-3-4. Bureau for Public Health tried to add additional vaccines to the code, but this failed in the West Virginia Legislature. However, they added them anyway misusing a process called Interpretive Rule.
In a Kanawha County Circuit Court hearing on September 5, 2012, Charlene A. Vaughan, Deputy Attorney General of the Attorney General, arguing for the Department of Health and Human resources suggested that perhaps these children need to be assigned a GAL, or Guardian ad Litem (as shown in video posted by WCHS on September 6, 2012). This comment is of great concern. A Guardian ad Litem is an attorney assigned to children when parents are not making sound medical decisions and gives the attorney rights to do so.
In this case, it can only be inferred that parents who do not fully vaccinate would lose the power to make these medical decisions for their children. The NVIC is quite concerned that West Virginia is moving backward, not forward regarding parental rights in their threats to strip parents of the right to make informed health care decisions for their children.
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The time is ripe for all parents worldwide to take to the streets with banners:
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It would be interesting to find out how many Big Pharma Corporations have made ‘contributions’ to various members of the West Virginia Legislative Bodies.
title 18 usc……provides for the death penalty for kidnapping under color of law
We welcome all former wast Virginians here in Texas, where people are free to make their own informed choices. There is always room for more liberty, and Texas has a lot of it.
I’m officially freaked out. I moved to WV 5 years ago and my son has NO vaccinations. He’s currently enrolled in a private school. They accepted a note from his doctor saying he’s on a delayed schedule due to chemical sensitivities. Now, I’m worried though….esp. since as a single (divorced) mother, I’m forced to use state medical insurance for him, so I AM in the system…
I think that law is great! Just because YOU don’t want to protect your child, doesn’t mean that MY child, my newborn baby, or my elderly parent should be put at risk. Personally I think all unvaccinated children should be kept out of school as well as any social aspect of life, sports, scouts, etc, Again, if you don’t care if your child gets a horrible disease, that is your business, we can’t make you care about your children if you don’t already, but the public should not be put at risk.
Jennifer:
Your position relies on the incorrect assumption that the vaccines 1) work, and 2) do not do more harm than good.
Thankfully, you are not the person who gets to decide what happens to other people’s children.
If the vaccines worked, the outbreaks of pertussis would not be occurring in populations that are 85% to 90% “fully and appropriately vaccinated” against the disease.
The vaccine is causing the outbreaks because it does nothing to prevent bordatella parapertussis -which is the strain that is causing the current and recent infections.
The vaccine is contributing to the increase in whooping cough. Please see the research synopsis from Penn State Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics:
http://www.cidd.psu.edu/research/synopses/acellular-vaccine-enhancement-b.-parapertussis
Vaccines are not perfect, yes they have recently discovered that immunity does wear off, but some immunity is better than no immunity. Pertussis can KILL. Period. That’s not propaganda, that’s not sensationalism, that’s pure and simple truth. I simply hope that all of these people refusing to vaccinate feel great when their child contracts one of the diseases that vaccines prevents, and passes it along to a newborn baby whom they meet in the street, or the Dr’s office, and that baby does not survive.
I’ve seen that ANYONE who is in support of vaccines is accused of workinfor “Big-Pharma” or profits from vaccines, I am in public health, TB specifically, but I am pro-vaccine, I have been for many years, way before I began my career, oh and I have a wonderful, beautiful, spectrumfied child, or as the death sentence you people make it out to be, Autistic.
Yes, pertussis can kill. Nobody here said that doesn’t happen. And when it does it is tragic.
It’s also tragic when vaccines kill, and that happens, too. More often than you are willing to admit. There is no use discussing vaccine-injuries or deaths with you, Jennifer. You have already made it clear you believe parents who seek compensation for their children’s injuries are trying to make a “quick buck” while looking for someone or something to blame.
Your nastiness is really unnecessary.
I have never said that ANYONE who is in support of vaccines is working for “Big Pharma” or profiting from vaccines. Some are. Others are in support because they truly believe vaccines work. You seem to fall into the latter category, although since you do work in “public health” your job is supported by the sale of pharmaceutical products, including vaccines.
I am glad to know that you find your child “beautiful.” It is so important that we love our children, regardless of their diagnoses – or the causes of them.
And for the record, nobody here has called “autism” a death sentence. It’s far from that. It’s also not purely genetic. If it was, it wouldn’t be reversible.
I suppose my frustration in referring to Autism as a “death sentence” is listening to people talk about Autism like it is just that. Frankly i would rather have an autistic kid than a dead kid. No, my job is not paid by big pharma, I believe I am paid out of a budget called “tuberculosis elimination”
How can someone say vaccines do not work? If they do not work then how does one explain the eradication of certain diseases in America, while those diseases still run rampant in countries where the vaccines are either not widely given, or not accessible?
I do believe the parent’s seeking compensation for “vaccine injury” simply want a scapegoat and some money. Vaccines are a medicine, and like all medicines, they are not for everyone, and some people can have a reaction. Believing that parents of children who have been diagnosed with Autism or any other ailment, and believe they’re entitled to compensation is like saying when a child who has no known allergies has a reaction to sulfa or other drugs has a reaction it is the manufacturers fault and they should pay. Should those parents receive compensation too?
I agree with your statement, “I would rather have an autistic kid than a dead kid.” Unfortunately, there are more children who die in this country from vaccines every year than ever died from such things as hepatitis B, chickenpox, or rotavirus.
There is no evidence that vaccines work. Period. Pro-vaccine folks frequently hold up smallpox and polio as evidence that vaccines work, while citing “herd immunity” as if there really is such a thing when it comes to vaccines. There isn’t. Smallpox was endemic throughout the world, with evidence of its existence dating back to early Egyptian times. Smallpox has “officially” been eradicated, but not because of the vaccine – only about 10% of the world’s population ever received the vaccine. If you look at the history of smallpox in the U.S., for example, the outbreaks in this country during the 1890s and into 1910-1920, the outbreaks were concentrated in areas of the northeastern U.S. where there were high concentrations of immigrants living in squalid conditions. They had horrific housing and over-crowding, with little to no access to clean water or nutritious food. They were living in the same kinds of conditions that are currently causing disease outbreaks in third world countries.
As for polio… the incidence of polio in the U.S. actually INCREASED after the vaccine became available and was used on a wide-spread basis. The government made it LOOK like the vaccine eradicated polio by changing the diagnostic criteria so that the vast majority of illness that would have previously been classified as “polio” was instead classified as “meningitis.”
If you look at the graphs of the mortality rates from infectious diseases in the U.S., it is very clear that vaccines had nothing to do with the improved health of people in this country.
I would suggest taking a look at this article:
http://vaxtruth.org/2011/09/proof-that-vaccines-did-not-save-us/
As for your comment about parents of vaccine-injured children, I’ve already responded to that. It’s hurtful and shows a great lack of compassion on your part.
Your comments comparing vaccines to other drugs shows your lack of understanding about this problem. People who are injured by drugs do have the right to sue the drug makers. It happens all the time… except when those drugs are vaccines. Vaccine-manufacturers are untouchable, and are protected from liability by the U.S. Government. When parents are awarded compensation (which RARELY happens), it’s not the manufacturers that pay; it’s tax-payers. The immunity from consequences removes all incentive for them to produce a safer product. And it is immoral for the government to mandate the use of a product while simultaneously refusing to protect citizens who are harmed by that product.
Jennifer: Your latest comment really adds nothing to the discussion and just rehashes your judgmental attitude toward parents of vaccine-injured children.
I do want to respond to one thing and that is your assertion that the amount of aluminum is a “trace amount.” You are way off.
I hope will look into it further.
Aluminum in parenteral solutions is limited to 4-5 mcg/kg of body weight. That’s because before these limitations were put in place, people were suffering from neurological damage and kidney failure from too much aluminum. This would limit the amount of aluminum for an infant to somewhere around 30 to 50 mcg. of aluminum per 24 hour period. The amount that is given to infants during “well-baby checks” if they are following the CDC’s vaccine schedule can be more than 1,000 micrograms within a matter of seconds. That’s not a “trace” amount and it’s not safe. The peer-reviewed medical literature is growing and is implicating aluminum in vaccines as a cause of the explosion of autoimmune disorders and kidney and liver disorders in children.
http://vaxtruth.org/2012/01/should-infants-be-vaccinated-against-hepatitis-b-how-much-aluminum-is-safe-for-infants/
http://vaxtruth.org/2012/01/aluminum-toxicity-and-a-primer-on-the-vic/
Jennifer, I am curious why you would want unvaccinated children to stay away from your children?
If you believe that vaccines work, shouldn’t your children be safe and protected?
If you don’t believe they are protected by the vaccines then why administer them?
Also, have you ever looked into what is in the vaccines? You would call poison control if your child ingested those same ingredients. Yet, it is safe to bypass the bodys natural defenses (to vomit) and put it directly into their blood stream? It doesn’t make logical sense to me.
Lastly, though it may not bother some people, the CDC admits that at previous times, aborted fetuses were used in the development of many vaccines still in use today. They no longer use them according to their website, but did at one time during the developmental stages of many vaccines. It’s something to think about long and hard, especially if you are a Christian. I personally do not believe that God would have me knowingly support such a tragic thing.
I realize it is scary to think of our children being hurt by a disease, handicapped, or even killed. But, we must also consider the true likelihood of such an occurrence. Most children survive and obtain life immunities to the diseases. That is something vaccines cannot offer. True immunity comes from your immune system, not a chemical cocktail.
Also consider the chances if them even being exposed and/or contracting an illness or disease. It’s slim.
It’s not the fact that vaccinations work or not. It still parents right to choose to do so or not. Not the government. It shouldn’t be anyway. The government does not raise our children we do. The should not act like the know what is best for our children when half the time they are wrong.