THE POWER OF CHOICE
THE HEALTH FREEDOM MOVEMENT IS GAINING MOMENTUM Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Leah Wilson’s family was preparing to welcome their next foster child into their home in 2018 when they learned they were ineligible to do so, due to the vaccine status of her biological children. She and her husband were confused because they’d had foster kids before in their home, and their unvaccinated kids weren’t deemed as a threat to the welfare of the foster kids then.
Wilson had originally gone to law school because she wanted to fight for child welfare and advocacy issues. Knowing that every political grassroots issue could collectively influence policy, Wilson dove back into advocacy full time, focusing on commonsense public health policies. She is now co-founder and executive director of Stand for Health Freedom, a trusted resource for information on safeguarding basic human rights, constitutional rights and parental rights.
insulated the industry from any liability for harm or death. Following the passage of this act, vaccines surged to 68 doses between birth to 18, 36 of which are given by a child’s first birthday.
“We saw the vaccine program balloon when liability was removed by doctors and manufacturers,” says Wilson, who notes that there was another shift when a law passed stating that the pharmaceutical industry “It became clear that the most vulnerable could advertise directly to consumers, kids in our state were being used as pawns thereby influencing the messages people for an agenda of vaccine compliance, because there was nothing to show that my According to Wilson, in 1986, children were hear on mainstream television. getting 23 vaccinations between birth and kids were a threat scientifically or legally,” 18. Then, under the Reagan administration, “Those things have dramatically affected says Wilson. “We have foster kids in this the National Childhood Vaccine Injury free speech, access to information, and state who are sleeping on the floor of the the unequal control of what it looks like Department of Child Services because there Act was passed, which acknowledges that vaccines will be harmful to some, but to exercise any option outside of the one aren’t enough safe and loving homes.” are still necessary. The U.S. government pill/one ill model,” Wilson says. “And 10 / HOLISTIC MAGAZINE