Re: Coercive and Mandatory Immunisation: how ethical is this policy?

February 22, 2010

I'm getting sick and tired of having my childrens' drs telling me constantly

that my kids need hepatitis a vaccine, influenza vaccine, h1n1 vaccine and

menningitis vaccine, they DO NOT! I wouldn't get them any vaccines if I wasn't

forced to just to have them go to school! Then when I tell the dr no we don't

want that one, they say " oh well I will just write down that you refused them

then " , and that " the law will soon require them to have it for school anyway so

they will just have to catch up " . When my kids were babies and little I didn't

know any better, but I do now, and I shouldn't have to give my own kids vaccines

that they don't need or that are unsafe. Especially the flu and H1N1 vaccines. I

refuse them too. It is bad enough I let them give my 12 yr old the menactryn

menningitis vaccine so he won't need it to go to college later on in life. If he

gets cancer from it will be my fault and someone will be sorry for killing my

kid!.

>

> australia - In 2006 the NSW government, without

> public consultation, implemented mandatory

> immunization policies for Health Professionals

> (10). The government should be required to

> demonstrate a serious risk to the community

> without these vaccinations before we lose the

> right to decide what we inject into our bodies.

>

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%20Immunisation%2C%20Ethics.pdf>Coercive

> and Mandatory Immunisation:

> how ethical is this policy?

>

> Vaccination is a medical procedure for healthy

> individuals and not sick individuals. It is a

> procedure that injects weakened pathogens and

> chemical substances into the tissues of healthy

> individuals to produce an antibody response.

>

> Chronic illness in children has risen

> dramatically in the last two decades. In 2004 41%

> of 0-14 year olds had a chronic illness (1).

> Statistics in Australia indicate there has been a

> five-fold increase in life-threatening food

> allergies in children in the decade from

> 1994-2005 (1). Autism, asthma, learning and

> behavioral difficulties and autoimmune diseases

> have all increased significantly during this time

> (1). This coincides with the governmentâ€™s push

> to increase vaccination rates in Australia to 95%

> with the implementation of the Immunize Australia Program in 1993 (2).

>

> Thiomersal, a mercury compound and neurotoxin was

> present in most infant vaccines prior to 2000

> (3). Scientists have known since 1966 that the

> adjuvant used in vaccines – aluminium

> hydroxide/phosphate – and antibiotics (in

> vaccines) cause hypersensitivity reactions in

> humans (4). Yet we are injecting antibiotics,

> adjuvant, thiomersal and other compounds into the

> tissues of infants at the most vulnerable time of their development.

>

> Many adverse reactions to vaccines occur which

> vary in severity amongst individuals due to

> genetic factors (5). It is now known that an

> individual can be pre-disposed to a disease by

> having the gene for that disease but expression

> of the gene can depend upon an environmental

> factor (6). Factors thought to be responsible for

> activating genes include heavy metals, chemicals,

> viruses, bacteria, nutrition and emotional states

> and stress (6). Many of these triggers are found in vaccines.

>

> Veterinary scientists have correlated the

> increase in autoimmune diseases and sarcomas in

> dogs and cats to increased vaccine use (7).

>

> Long-term health studies showing the effects of

> multiple vaccines in infants have not been done

> in humans or animals (2). Greater emphasis is

> being placed on short-term epidemiological

> studies (statistical) with selective parameters

> investigating one vaccine at a time than the

> science that includes biological, clinical and

> ecological evidence that is showing a possible

> link with chronic illness in children (5) (8). In

> addition, twentieth century public health

> officials did not claim vaccines controlled infectious diseases (9).

>

> The underlying ethical principle of health

> practitioners is to first do no harm. If it is

> biologically plausible that using multiple

> vaccines in infants and adults could cause

> significant harm to a proportion of the

> population as a result of genetic predisposition

> and epigenetics, then the onus is on policy

> makers to provide conclusive evidence to the

> contrary before coercive vaccination policies are implemented.

>

> In 2006 the NSW government, without public

> consultation, implemented mandatory immunization

> policies for Health Professionals (10). The

> government should be required to demonstrate a

> serious risk to the community without these

> vaccinations before we lose the right to decide what we inject into our

bodies.

>

> Precautionary Principle: The burden of proof of

> harmlessness of any new technology/chemical is on

> the proponent NOT the general public.

>

> References:

>

> 1) Australian Government, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS),

> iv) 4829.0.55.001 Health of children in Australia: A Snapshot, 2004-05

> 2) Australian Government, Department of Health

> and Ageing, Immunise Australia Program 2004.

> 3) Kirby, D., 2005, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in

> Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical

> Controversy, St. â€™s Press, New York.

> 4) Greville, RW. , 1966, Recent and Future

> Development in Immunising Vaccines, The Medical

> Journal of Australia, May 21, p. 908.

> 5) Commonwealth Department of Health, National

> Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), 1954

> – 1986, Report of the Session, No. 338 – 101.

> 6) Ravel G, Christ M, Horand F, Descotes J, 2004,

> Autoimmunity, environmental exposure and

> vaccination: is there a link? , Toxicology, 196(3) : 211-6, Mar 15.

> 7) La , W.R., 2002, The Hayward Foundation

> Study on Vaccines; a possible etiology of autoimmune diseases.

> 8) Commonwealth of Australia, 1991, National

> Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC),

> Immunisation Procedures (fourth edition),

> Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

> 9) Burnet, M.,1952, The Pattern of Disease in

> Childhood, Australasian ls of Medicine, Vol.1, No. 2: p. 93.

> 10) NSW Department of Health, Occupational

> Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against

> Specified Infectious Diseases, Policy Directive No. PD2007_006

>

> Judy Wilyman – PhD candidate

> <mailto:j.wilyman@...>j.wilyman@...

> Telephone: 9360 2328

> It is dangerous to be right on a subject on which the established

> authorities are wrong. ~ Voltaire

>

> Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

> Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

> Vaccines -

> http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/

> Homeopathy http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

> Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes &

> Homeopathy Online/email courses - next classes start February 24 & 25

>

February 22, 2010

yes it makes us sick...................but stop going to the doctors

then. That is all they know - drugs, vaccines & surgery

they are not about health

Many have STOPPED seeing peds as the well baby visits are primarily to

vaccinate (take it from me, a former peds nurse)

And most parents are first to find a problem, not the ped.

Once you decide you don't want vaccines, you also will discover you won't

want much else peds have to offer - meds, meds and more meds.

Many have switched to Naturopaths, Homeopaths, Holistic MD's, or

Chiropractors

Sometimes Osteopaths are more open; and sometimes Family Practice

Doctors

Homeopaths - email me for referrals

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians

206-298-0126

Referral number: 206-298-0125

www.naturopathic.org

American Holistic Medical Association

703-556-9245

www.holisticmedicine.org

American Naturopathic Medical Association

702-897-7053

http://anma.net

Holistic Pediatric Association

707-237-5312

http://www.hpakids.org

Another source is the International Chiropractic Pediatric

Association:

http://www.icpa4kids.org/locator/index.php

If you're not sure about chiropractic and how it may help your

child,

you can find answers here:

http://www.icpa4kids.org/why.htm

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Typing in your town, or nearest major city should get you some good

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Sheri

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I'm getting sick and tired of having my childrens' drs telling me

constantly that my kids need hepatitis a vaccine, influenza vaccine, h1n1

vaccine and menningitis vaccine, they DO NOT! I wouldn't get them any

vaccines if I wasn't forced to just to have them go to school! Then when

I tell the dr no we don't want that one, they say " oh well I will

just write down that you refused them then " , and that " the law

will soon require them to have it for school anyway so they will just

have to catch up " . When my kids were babies and little I didn't know

any better, but I do now, and I shouldn't have to give my own kids

vaccines that they don't need or that are unsafe. Especially the flu and

H1N1 vaccines. I refuse them too. It is bad enough I let them give my 12

yr old the menactryn menningitis vaccine so he won't need it to go to

college later on in life. If he gets cancer from it will be my fault and

someone will be sorry for killing my kid!.

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start February 24 & 25

February 22, 2010