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The Vaccine Push Mandatory Laws vs. Personal Choice by Linda Sechrist
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ront-page headlines Mandatory vaccines studies further identifies about questionable genetic factors that could pose the latest research, corpocause the development rate manipulations, of adverse effects to vacaffront to purchased politicians, cines. citizens’ right medical coverYet, “There is no ups and whistleblower available evidence on to informed reports have left Amerivaccines’ effectiveness self-government. that is placebo-concans feeling hoodwinked and skeptical. According trolled, plus the health to a new Pew Research Center study, effects of vaccines in combination the public doesn’t trust the information have never been studied, certainly they’re fed on issues such as genetical- not the 69 total doses of 16 types of ly engineered crops and now, mandavaccines given to children starting 12 tory vaccines. hours after birth through age 18,” says The current state of distrust of Sayer Ji, a member of the National scientific statistics and their impact on Health Federation board of governors our lives doesn’t bode well for lawand founder of GreenMedInfo.com. makers attempting to build consensus “Vaccine risks for anyone can for uniform mandatory vaccination range from zero to 100 percent, intervention. The current rush to pass depending upon one’s genes, microsuch legislation is largely due to 169 biome DNA, environment, age and cases of measles reported between health at the time of vaccination and January 4 and April 17, encompassing the type and number of vaccines giv20 states and the District of Columen,” advises Barbara Loe Fisher, presibia, all traced to a traveler infected dent and co-founder of the nonprofit overseas that then visited a California National Vaccine Information Center, amusement park. headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. Common sense and indepen “Vaccines are not safe or effecdent research counters the stance that tive for everyone because we’re not would rob individuals of their moral all the same and we don’t all respond right to conscientious, philosophical the same way to pharmaceutical and personal-belief exemption from products,” says Fisher. She notes that being subjected to vaccines. Hard responses to infectious diseases and evidence in a plethora of published the risk for complications can also
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vary, depending upon similar factors. Among the most prominent warnings on vaccine ingredients, concerned doctors, researchers and medical whistleblowers cite dangers of the toxin thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative used in some vaccines and vaccine adjuvants such as aluminum gels or aluminum salts added to elicit a stronger immune response against the germ the vaccine introduces into our body. Leading books citing telling research include Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mark Hyman; Vaccines: What CDC Documents and Science Reveal, by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny; Vaccine Epidemic, by Louise Kuo Habakus; and Science for Sale, by David L. Lewis, Ph.D. Top film documentaries include Shots in the Dark; Vaccination: The Hidden Truth; Trace Amounts; The Greater Good; and Vaccine Nation. Bought: The Hidden Story Behind Vaccines, Big Pharma and Your Food resulted from two years of investigative research in disaster medical management by Toni Bark, now an integrative physician. In interviews with practicing doctors, research scientists, former pharmaceutical sales representatives, attorneys and others, Bark exposes serious conflicts of interest. These include vaccine research funding, hiring between pharmaceutical and chemical industries and their government regulating agencies, sponsored scientific propaganda used to silence critics, and large-scale corruption within the billion-dollar vaccine industry. Plus, it points out problems with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 that Congress passed to give drug manufacturers, the government and physicians protection from lawsuits arising from injuries caused by childhood vaccines. “Since 1988, thousands of children and adults in America that have suffered brain inflammation and other long-recognized vaccine reactions have been collectively awarded $3 billion in vaccine injury compensation. There are thousands more that have been unable to secure federal compensation for their vaccine injuries,”