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** A Parent’s Perspective on Virginia’s Bill to Mandate All Vaccines on the CDC Schedule
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By Mary Holland, CHD Vice Chairman and Marsha Lessard
On February 18, more than fifty parents crowded into the Virginia (VA) Senate Health Subcommittee room to testify regarding required school immunizations. The bill they considered would make every vaccine on the CDC’s recommended list, except annual flu shots, automatically required of VA schoolchildren. Future CDC-recommended vaccines would be added to VA’s requirements too, without further deliberation.
The Subcommittee voted 5-0 with one abstention in favor of the bill. Notably not a single parent testified in favor of the bill — only physicians and medical representatives with professional and financial interests at stake. It’s not too late to contact your lawmakers and tell them what you think.
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** New in the Mandates Toolbox
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At this time of heavy legislative activity to take away philosophical, religious and/or medical vaccine exemptions and put mandates in place, Children's Health Defense is striving to provide research-based materials advocates can use to educate their communities and elected representatives. To this end, we have just published two new brochures.
"A Summary of Key Ideas: Vaccine Injury in the African American Community ([link removed]) ." With sources provided, this four-page brochure covers 10 key facts about vaccination in the African American community including higher instances of autism, stronger immune response, and higher infant death rates.
"Top Ten Facts for Consideration Regarding the Health Impacts of HPV Vaccination in Children ([link removed]) ." Bills in many states would require all children born after January 1, 2008 (those now aged 13 through 18) in schools, public or private, to receive two doses of Merck’s Gardasil 9 vaccine, the only human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine on the US market. Other bills would allow these children to get Gardasil 9 without parental knowledge or consent. This new flyer brings attention to the adverse events including death and infertility, lack of testing, and the flawed rationale to give the vaccine to boys.
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