[NVIC] Sticking It To Children in New Jersey

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Sticking It To Children in New Jersey

by Barbara Loe Fisher

It wasn't like any of the parents, who showed up in Trenton on Dec. 10,

2007 to witness members of the New Jersey Public Health Council vote on a

new vaccine mandates proposed by state health department officials, were

surprised by the thumbs-up 7-2-2 vote by political appointee members of the

Council. For the past two decades every time state health department

officials have pushed to require children to get another new vaccine to

attend school, the new vaccine has been automatically added to state

vaccine mandates under rule making authority held by state health officials

and without a vote by the people. Hoping to set precedent for other states

to follow suit, this time New Jersey officials are ramming through mandates

that will ban babies and toddlers from daycare or pre-school without two

doses of influenza vaccine and three doses of pneumococcal vaccine while

sixth graders will have to show proof by Sept. 1, 2008 that they have

gotten a dose of TdaP and meningococcal vaccine.

New Jersey is about to become the first state to make children get flu

shots despite a lack of scientific evidence that influenza vaccine is very

effective in preventing Type A or Type B influenza in children.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7574/912

If NJ Health Commissioner Fred s and NJ Governor Joe Corzine approve

the new requirements written by health department officials, then New

Jersey will lead the nation in vaccine mandates by forcing children to get

35 doses of 13 vaccines.

Federal and state health officials refuse to publish credible scientific

evidence that demonstrates it is necessary or healthy to force children to

get so many vaccinations by sixth grade. They also continue to deny that

the doubling of the numbers of vaccines mandated for child use over the

past quarter century has contributed to the dramatic increase in chronic

disease and disability among American children during that same time

period. Today, 1 American child in 6 is learning disabled; 1 in 9 has

asthma; 1 in 94- 150 develops autism; 1 in 450 is diabetic. New Jersey is

reported to have the highest autism rate in the nation: 1 child in 94

living in New Jersey develops autism.

http://www.northjersey.com/page.phpqstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyJmZnYmVs

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Sue , co-founder of the New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in

Vaccination (NJAICV at www.NJAICV.com) and longtime leader of a grassroots

effort to institute conscientious belief exemption to vaccination in New

Jersey, said that many parents oppose the new vaccine mandates: " We deserve

a choice, not a mandate. It's our right to decide what toxic substances we

inject into our children, " she said. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/1

1/nyregion/11vaccine.html?_r=1 & oref=slogin New Jersey Assemblywoman

Charlotte Vandervalk (R- Westwood), who is the sponsor of a bill to insert

conscientious belief exemption into New Jersey vaccine laws, told the

Council " Children of this state are assaulted with shot after shot before

they go to school, " she said. " Don't force it on those who have these

objections. This is America. What's happened to our freedom? "

http://www.northjersey.com/page.phpqstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVs

N2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MjMyMjk0JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==

The National Vaccine Information Center joins with NJAICV and other

organizations representing parents and children opposing the new vaccine

mandates and supporting the addition of conscientious belief exemption to

vaccine laws in New Jersey, including Advocates for Children's Health

Affected by Mercury Poisoning (A-CHAMP), Association of American Physicians

and Surgeons (AAPS), Autism One, Autism Research Institute, Children Having

Everybody Upset About Shots (C.H.E.R.U.B.S), Generation Rescue, Holistic

Moms Network, National Autism Association (NAA), Network Organization for

Vaccine Awareness and Choice (NOVAC), Talk About Curing Autism (TACA),

Taper Safely, Unlocking Autism (UA), and US Autism and Aspergers

Association (USAAA). Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD, Inc.)

supports replacing all state vaccine mandates with " opt-in " laws and

SafeMinds opposes continued use of mercury in vaccines.

The fate of the new vaccine mandates proposed by the NJ state health

department now rests with the retiring Commissioner of Health, Fred s,

appointed by Governor Joe Corzine and the Governor himself. Fred s is

expected to rule on the new mandates by Dec. 18 and can be contacted at

http://www.state.nj.us/health/commiss/contact.shtml. Governor Corzine can

be contacted at http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html

In addition, New Jersey residents who are interested in contacting their

state Assemblyperson or Senator about the need to secure a conscientious

belief exemption to vaccination, can find out how to do that at

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp . To help other parents

work in New Jersey on this issue, contact NJAICV's Sue at

www.NJAICV.com (See copy of NJ Conscientious Belief Exemption bill below).

To find out more about how to educate members of your community about

vaccination and the right to informed consent to vaccination, go to NVIC's

website at www.nvic.org or contact NVIC at NVICinfo@...

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Thursday, December 06, 2007

NJ Health Council Votes Dec. 10 On New Vaccine Mandates

by Barbara Loe Fisher

The New Jersey Public Health Council is scheduled to meet on Monday,

December 10, 2007 at 11 a.m. to vote on whether to approve adoption of

rules written by the New Jersey Department of Health that would require

children to get three doses of pneumoccocal vaccine and two doses of

influenza vaccine to attend daycare or pre-school and one dose each of

tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (TdaP) and meningococcal vaccine to attend

sixth grade. If the Council votes to approve the new mandates sought by

state public health officials, the mandates will apply to all children

entering daycare or school on September 1, 2008.

The NJ Public Health Council meeting will be held on Dec. 10 at 11 a.m in

the Auditorium (1st Floor) of the New Jersey Department of Health and

Senior Services, Market and Warren Streets, Trenton, New Jersey. New Jersey

would become the first state to require influenza vaccine for daycare and

pre-school and the first state to require meningococcal vaccine for sixth

graders if the new mandates are approved by the Council. The additional

nine doses of vaccines would be added to 26 doses of vaccines (diphtheria

(4), tetanus (4), pertussis (4), HIB (3), measles (2), mumps (1), rubella

(1), polio (3), hepatitis B (3), chicken pox (1)) the State already

requires for daycare or school, bringing the total to 35 doses of 13

mandated vaccines.

The NJ Department of Health has the power under rule making authority given

to the agency by the NJ state legislature to mandate new vaccines after

holding public hearings and taking public comments. A public hearing was

held on these proposed new vaccine mandates on Jan. 26, 2007 and the public

comment period ended on Feb. 16. 2007. A 125 page summary of the public

hearing and public comments received by the health department reveals that

the majority of the 103 comments from the public opposed the new vaccine

mandates.

http://nj.gov/health/commis s/bc/documents/phc_final_adoption_857_4.pdf

Supporters of the mandates included state public health and education

officials, the American Academy of Pediatrics and vaccine manufacturer,

Sanofi Pasteur, which markets three of the new vaccines that would be

required (TdaP, influenza and meningococcal vaccines), among others. In a

memo from retiring NJ Commissioner of Health, Fred s, M.D., J.D. to

Herbert Yardley, Chair of the NJ Public Health Council, s notes that

" Some parents rights groups, vaccine critics, autism advocacy organizations

and alternative medicine practitioners will likely continue to oppose

existing requirements, these recently adopted new vaccine requirements, and

future immunization requirements as they have since the mid-1980's....There

is increasing resistance from the public on new state vaccine mandates and

a demand for more informed parental choice in vaccinations for children.... "

http://nj.gov/health/com miss/bc/documents/phc_memo_adoption_857_4.pdf

Exemptions to vaccination in New Jersey include a medical exemption that

must be written by a medical doctor or a religious exemption, which

requires citizens to write a letter explaining how vaccination " conflicts

with the pupil's exercise of bona fide religious tenets or practices. " The

law makes it clear that a " general philosophical or moral objection " to

receiving one or more vaccines " shall not be sufficient for an exemption on

religious grounds. " The law further states that " religious affiliated

schools or child care centers shall have the authority to withhold or grant

a religious exemption " for students attending their schools " without

challenge by any secular health authority. " http://www.nvic.org/state-

site/NewJersey.htm

The citizens of New Jersey have not had an opportunity to vote, through

their elected representatives, on whether they want their children to be

required to be injected with nine more doses of vaccines or be denied an

education. The power to add or remove vaccine mandates currently resides

entirely in the hands of employees of the NJ Health Department and members

of the NJ Public Health Council.

NJ Health Commissioner Fred s can be contacted at

http://www.state.nj.us/health/commiss/contact.shtml

NJ Public Health Council Chair, Herbert Yardley, who is also the Health

Officer for Sussex County, can be contacted at hyardley@...

The Governor of New Jersey, Joe Corzine, can be reached at

http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html

If you want to change the way new vaccines are mandated in your state

and/or support the addition of conscientious belief exemption to state

vaccine laws, you must work with the state legislators you have elected to

represent you. If you are a resident of New Jersey and want to let your

state legislators know how you feel about nine more doses of vaccines being

added to vaccine mandates, go to

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch. asp

The National Vaccine Information Center has been working in New Jersey and

many states as well as nationally since 1982 to educate citizens and their

elected representatives about the need to institute vaccine safety and

informed consent protections in the U.S. mass vaccination system. Some

states have formed local groups, such as the New Jersey Alliance for

Informed Choice in Vaccination (www.NJAICV.org) headed by co-founder Sue

.

The National Vaccine Information Center stands with other parent

organizations such as ACHAMP, Generation Rescue, TACA, NAA, Holistic Moms

Network and others in opposing new vaccine mandates for children in New

Jersey and supports the addition of conscientious belief exemption to

vaccination in New Jersey and all states. If you are interested in working

to educate citizens in your community and state about vaccination and the

need for informed consent protections in your state laws, contact NVIC at

NVICinfo@...

To report a vaccine reaction, go to www.NVIC.org

and to post a vaccine reaction report on NVIC's International Memorial for

Vaccine Victims, go www.vaccinememorial.org

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