While all states continue to have medical exemptions to getting vaccinated, more and more are eliminating their religious exemptions.
New York is one of the states that is eliminating their religious exemptions for vaccines.
Do you find that surprising?
Why Are States Eliminating Religious Exemptions for Immunizations?
If you do, it might change your mind once you realize that no major religion is actually against immunizations.
“One is morally free to use the vaccine regardless of its historical association with abortion. The reason is that the risk to public health, if one chooses not to vaccinate, outweighs the legitimate concern about the origins of the vaccine. This is especially important for parents, who have a moral obligation to protect the life and health of their children and those around them.”
The National Catholic Bioethics Center FAQ on the Use of Vaccines
Has Bobby Kennedy Taken Over the Anti-Vaccine Movement?
What did he have to say?
“It’s a sad day for California. And it’s a sad day for our country. And I have asked a question and I would like to ask this legislature who voted for this God awful bill. If we can give government and big industries the right to inject untested medical products that are zero liability into our children coercively, where does the power of government end? What else can they order us to do? Can they do the same thing that they do in China? Which is to tell people that they have to abort their babies for “the good of society?” Can they euthanize people for “the good of society?” Where is the legal boundary?
Bobby Kennedy
It is a sad day when a Kennedy is spouting this kind of stuff…
Vaccines are well tested and everyone has a choice on whether or not to get vaccinated. Mandates to attend school do not force parents to vaccinate their kid.
Comparing these mandates that protect those who can’t be vaccinated to forced abortion and euthanasia is unconscionable.
“We have signed treaty after treaty after treaty saying you can not force an American citizen or any citizen of the civilized world to take a medication or to submit themselves to a medical procedure without informed consent. What has happened to the Democratic party? What has happened to the party that used to stand for listening to women? Why are they listening to pharmaceutical companies and not to the women?
Bobby Kennedy
What has happened to the Kennedys?
Again, vaccine mandates do not force anyone to get vaccinated and protected.
“And yet, you have all of the members who voted for this and none of them can answer the question – where is all of the autoimmune diseases coming from? If it’s not the vaccines, then where is it coming from? We have, from my generation, according to HHS, 12% of the people in my generation, prior to 1986, had chronic diseases. Today, 54% did. Let’s pretend all of those hundreds and hundreds of studies aren’t there that say it’s the vaccines.”
Actually, let’s not, because it isn’t true. Although often cited by anti-vaccine folks, the number comes from a 2011 report, A national and state profile of leading health problems and health care quality for US children: key insurance disparities and across-state variations, but doesn’t mean what most people think it means.
“An estimated 43% of US children (32 million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions assessed, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays are included; 19.2% (14.2 million) have conditions resulting in a special health care need, a 1.6 point increase since 2003.”
Bethell et al on A national and state profile of leading health problems and health care quality for US children: key insurance disparities and across-state variations.
Is obesity a vaccine injury?
Where are the “hundreds and hundreds of studies… that say it’s the vaccines?”
“Let’s pretend that all the vaccines, everyone of those diseases, the autoimmune diseases – Guillain-Barré syndrome , cerebral palsy, diabetes, Rheumatoid arthritis. The neurodevelopmental diseases, ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, tics, Tourette syndrome, ASD, autism. The allergic diseases – allergies, food allergies, eczema, asthma, anaphylaxis. Where can we find those listed? In two places. One in the list of chronic diseases that are now epidemic among American children and on the vaccine inserts. And why would the company put them on the vaccine insert? They put them there because the only way you can sue them under NCVIA is if they know or suspect of an injury being caused by a product and they failed to put it on the insert. So it’s the one place where their honest. For many years they told us, well, just because we put it on the insert, it doesn’t mean that it is actually a vaccine adverse event or caused by the vaccine. But the code of Federal regulations says you can not put it on an insert unless you believe that it’s caused by the vaccine. So they are lying.”
Bobby Kennedy
Well, someone is lying…
Although listed in the vaccine insert, if they are in the Adverse Reactions section, they may not actually be caused by the vaccine.
What goes into a vaccine insert is dictated by the FDA, specifically the Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, and Section 314 of the NCVIA, after consultation with the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, including:
Warning and Precautions – all adverse reactions and safety hazards that may occur after getting the vaccine and what you should do if they occur
Adverse Reactions – this section includes clinical trials experience, post-marketing experience, and voluntary reports, and it is very important to understand that it is not always possible to establish a causal relationship to vaccination for these adverse effects. So just because something is listed here, whether it is SIDS, autism, drowning, or a car accident, doesn’t mean that it was actually caused by the vaccine. Updated in 2006 to require that only adverse events “for which there is some basis to believe there is a causal relationship between the drug and the occurrence of the adverse event,” it still doesn’t mean the adverse event was definitely caused by the vaccine.
As a lawyer, you would expect, or at least hope, that Bobby Kennedy understands how vaccine inserts really work…
“This state is doing something horrendous. It is stepping between a doctor and the 4000 children in this state whose doctors have told them you can not afford to get a vaccine because it could kill you or it could cripple you. Their doctor, who has known that child often-times since birth, who has reviewed the medical records, who has done all of the tests on that baby, who knows the family, has said it is dangerous to receive this product. Don’t ever do it. And yet, the State of California, is going to come in, a bureaucrat, between that doctor and that child, and say that we are going to give it to him anyway. This is criminal.”
Bobby Kennedy
This is probably one of the biggest myths about California’s new vaccine law.
Did Ron Kennedy know these kids since birth and think that vaccines would kill or cripple them because they had a learning disability or food allergies?
And the problem hasn’t typically been the legitimate medical exemptions from doctors who have known kids since birth, but rather inappropriate exemptions from doctors who advertised medical exemption consultations and appointments for new patients.
“Big pharmaceutical companies are the most evil companies on earth. Who are commoditizing our children. Who are giving our children this tsunami of chronic disease and then making the money to try and tell us that we are going to get rid of infectious disease, like chickenpox and measles, but we are going to trade that for rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes and autism and ADD and ADHD. And all of those infectious diseases are treatable and curable, usually within a week, and none of the chronic diseases that they are causing are treatable or curable. And they are making $50 billion dollars selling our kids these mandated vaccines that are untested and liability free, but they are making $500 billion a year selling them the epi-pens, the seizure medications, the Prozac, the albuterol inhalers, the rhumatoid arthritis medication, the diabetes medications that our children are now addicted to for life because of these vaccines. ”
Bobby Kennedy thinks the pharmaceutical industry is in “a war against our children.” Do you?
So what’s their next plan?
Lawsuits.
Lawsuits so that they can help keep kids unvaccinated and unprotected.
“We are an insurgency. They can not stop us now. We are not going to go away.”
Bobby Kennedy
Of course the anti-vaccine movement is not going away. It has been around since before we had the first real vaccine, when folks were getting variolated to protect them against smallpox.
“You know this is the most important battle, probably in human history.”
“What we have to understand is that the domination of business by government is called communism. The domination of government by business is called facism. And what we’re fighting for is the essential tenets of American democracy, which is free market capitalism, which we don’t have. They destroyed the markets didn’t they. There’s no market for vaccines because they couldn’t sell them, so they had to disable the markets and force us to take them against our will. And for democracy and they’ve taken democracy from us. And they’ve taken the institution of Justice directly. They have gotten rid of the 6th and 7th amendment guarantees. The Federal Constitution guarantees of a jury trials. We are the only people in our country who you can injure – a private corporation can injure and disable and you can’t get a jury trial.”
Bobby Kennedy
Except that you can’t usually get a jury trial if you think you have a vaccine injury. The only thing is that you have to go through the Vaccine Court first.
SB276 in California will not be the strictest vaccine law in the country.
But is SB 276 the strictest vaccine law in the country?
Is California Considering the Strictest Vaccine Law in the Country?
To be sure, California is one of the few states that doesn’t allow non-medical exemptions. But that was accomplished with SB 277, a vaccine law that eliminated personal belief vaccine exemptions in California back in 2015.
So why are they back with a new vaccine law?
Do you know why California needs a stricter vaccine law?
But far from becoming the strictest vaccine law in the country, SB 276 simply catches California up with a few other states that don’t allow non-medical exemptions.
Several states require approval of medical exemptions, which can help cut down on abuse.
I say catch-up, because unlike California under SB 277, these states have strict rules about what counts as a medical exemption.
Doctors in these states can’t abuse the system and write unnecessary or fake medical exemptions for kids whose parents are simply scared to get their kids vaccinated.
Which states?
West Virginia and Mississippi are the main states that have not allowed non-medical exemptions.
“Requests for a medical exemption from vaccine requirements shall be reviewed and approved or denied by the State Immunization Officer. “
West Virginia Medical Exemptions Information
They have recently been joined by New York and Maine.
“May be detrimental to the child’s health means that a physician has determined that a child has a medical contraindication or precaution to a specific immunization consistent with ACIP guidance or other nationally recognized evidence-based standard of care.”
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations Section 66-1.1
But since all medical exemptions in California, under SB276, won’t have to be approved, California is hardly considering the strictest vaccine law in the country.
To be clear, SB 276 does not eliminate medical exemptions.
So what does California’s new vaccine bill do?
“This bill pressures doctors into giving more vaccines to a child you may know might have a severe reaction, and that’s a tragedy.”
Bob Sears SB 276 Assembly Health Committee Testimony
Despite Bob Sears‘ testimony when he appeared as an expert witness for anti-vaccine folks and gave testimony against SB 276, it basically helps to stop some doctors from writing fake medical exemptions.
“I would imagine a lot of you would not want to give your child more doses of the vaccine if they had a seizure, or a nerve injury, or severe eczema, or any other kinds of dozens of other severe reactions. So that’s all under SB 277 and that’s how I’m practicing now.
My concern with this bill, is that it’s going to take every exemption I’ve ever done under those guidelines, which are not restricted to CDC contraindications – under those old guidelines, they can now review every single one of my exemptions I’ve done and disqualify each and every one of them and kick those kids out of school. They are sort of retroactively changing the guidelines – so all of the exemptions that I’ve ever done, and other physicians have ever done, and to me that’s a very very concerning precedence for a government to go back like that and negate years of medical care that’s been done legally and properly under the guidelines of 277. “
Bob Sears SB 276 Assembly Health Committee Testimony
Legally and properly?
Another complaint has been filed against Bob Sears with the California Medical Board for writing inappropriate medical exemptions.
And that’s why some of them might not want to keep vaccinating their kids in these situations.
So that kids aren’t put at risk to get a vaccine-preventable disease though, it’s incredibly important to understand that these aren’t typically vaccine reactions, except maybe if a child has febrile seizures. But even then, having febrile seizures wouldn’t usually be a reason to stop getting vaccinated.
“It’s incredibly important to understand what those CDC guidelines are and that the Senator did answer that the only CDC family history guideline is if a mom or dad, a first degree relative, has a severe immune deficiency, and that the children might have that. And that only exempts you from MMR and chickenpox vaccine.
That’s the only family history factor in all the guidelines that are in this bill.”
Bob Sears SB 276 Assembly Health Committee Testimony
Fortunately, we typically do know about these conditions by the time a child is ready to get these vaccines. And no, it’s not just by asking about the child’s family history. These types of immune system problems cause severe symptoms that have usually showed up well before a child gets these vaccines.
“There’s a small family history factor about seizures. If someone’s had seizures, you can’t get this one brand of vaccines, but you can get other brands that qualify, so that doesn’t work.”
Bob Sears SB 276 Assembly Health Committee Testimony
What is he talking about?
“A personal or family history of seizures is a precaution for MMRV vaccination; this is because a recent study found an increased risk for febrile seizures in children 12-23 months who receive MMRV compared with MMR and varicella vaccine.”
Vaccine Recommendations and Guidelines of the ACIP
The warning is about febrile seizures and ProQuad, the combined MMR and chickenpox vaccine. You can safely get the vaccines though, as the separate MMR and chickenpox vaccines.
This works well!
And parents should know that if their child is having seizures, they will easily qualify for a temporary medical exemption.
“Vaccination should be deferred for persons with a moderate or severe acute illness. This precaution avoids causing diagnostic confusion between manifestations of the underlying illness and possible adverse effects of vaccination or superimposing adverse effects of the vaccine on the underlying illness.”
Vaccine Recommendations and Guidelines of the ACIP
In addition to not giving the DTaP vaccine to a child with a progressive neurological disorder or uncontrolled epilepsy, the general guidelines about deferring vaccination for children with moderate or severe acute illness would likely mean that they wouldn’t get other vaccines either.
“So there’s only one family history factor. So you guys have to realize for example, I’ll see a family, the mom had a seizure after vaccines, her first child had a seizure after vaccines — and she has a new baby and she doesn’t want to give that baby vaccines. And as her doctor, I would agree. That’s a good family history reason not to vaccinate that child — or maybe do we delay them, or do we wait until years later, I don’t know. Maybe it’s temporary exemption because they’re a baby.
There is no single CDC guideline that would allow me to write that exemption under this new law. There is no family history involved whatsoever that that would justify me writing and exemption for that family because that is not in the CDC or the AAP or the ACIP guidelines.
And I appreciate that that the assembly members have asked a lot about family history. You have to realize how narrow that is. This new amendment did not broaden that in any way except for the select few as in the ladies example. Right, so there’s so many – but I mean I could list so many severe reactions I’ve seen moms or dads have or their first kids have after vaccines that I will use as legitimate family history to write an exemption for new baby in that family that will all go away under this new bill – those will all be disqualified. I think that’s important for you guys to understand that…”
Bob Sears SB 276 Assembly Health Committee Testimony
Why does he think “that’s a good family history reason not to vaccinate that child” and leave them at risk to get a vaccine preventable disease?
What are all of these severe reactions he has seen?
Does he see a lot of serious reactions after vaccines because he thinks everything is a vaccine injury?
There is a reason that having a family history of a vaccine reaction shouldn’t be a reason to skip or delay your child’s vaccines. It certainly shouldn’t be a reason for a doctor to write a medical exemption.
And that’s simply because the risk of having a severe vaccine reaction, even if a family member has had a severe vaccine reaction, is very low.
While Dr. Bob might think a family members having seizures after they were vaccinated is a legitimate reason to put a baby at risk to get one or more vaccine-preventable diseases, it isn’t.
Not only is a family history of an adverse event to a vaccine not a contraindication to getting vaccinated, it is commonly listed a false contraindication!
These are the type of medical exemptions, only those based on invalid criteria, that would be eliminated under SB 276.
“Of the cases that the Board has investigated to date, there have been no fraudulent medical exemptions found. The idea of rampant fraud is a scare tactic to advance SB 276, and a fantasy.”
Mary Holland on SB 276 Will Violate the Doctor-Patient Relationship by Eliminating Medical Exemptions
Interestingly, Bob Sears, who is already on probation, is still under investigation by the California Medical Board for writing fraudulent medical exemptions. So are many other doctors. Why hasn’t any fraud been found? The California Medical Board has had a hard time getting medical records to prove their cases! SB 276 will change that.
