THE VACCINATION EPIDEMIC
Parental Rights Getting Shot down
Landee Martin
Today we live in a world where parental rights
and freedoms are under siege. Laws requiring
parental consent have long been a part of our legal
system. However, within that system, the extraordinary legal scenario has been the one that bypasses parental wishes in order to administer medical
treatments deemed in the “best interest of the
child.” So if the state believes a child is in danger,
they abridge the authority of the parents, and order what they deem necessary medical treatment,
such as a blood transfusion, and more recently,
chemotherapy for a young teen. But are they taking it too far with forced vaccination laws?
This movement away from parental rights is exploding in recent legislation spreading across this
nation like an infectious disease. There have been
at least 110 bills introduced across 36 states since
the sensationalized Disneyland measles story in Los
Angeles, CA. Some states introduced Draconian
legislation, despite having only 1 measles case. This
appears to be an orchestrated attack on our rights.
There were only 166 confirmed cases of measles
out of 320 million people in the population- some
were vaccinated and some were not. Who’s sounding the alarm? There were no deaths due to this
outbreak and there have not been any deaths in the
US for over 12 years due to the measles. In contrast,
preventative medical mistakes are responsible for
hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. Where is
the legislation for safer medical practice?
Despite the realities of deaths due to medicine and
vaccines, and no true health emergency in the US,
politicians and their cohorts at Big Pharma, are
fast-tracking our rights down the drain. They are
lying to the mainstream and blaming the measles
outbreak on the unvaccinated population. They
are throwing around terms and theories like “herd
immunity” to convince the public more need to
be vaccinated, when we are actually at an all-time
high percentage of vaccinations. In CA, for instance, we have a 96% immunization rate for MMR.
That should sufficiently meet the “herd immunity”
requirements for this state. Herd immunity is a
myth, which can easily be dispelled by documented
outbreaks of measles in places like China, who have
a 99% vaccination rate. If vaccines were efficacious,
outbreaks like this would not be occurring.
We currently have a higher percentage of MMR
vaccination, both as a state and as a nation(96.1%,
91.9%) than we did when measles was declared
“eliminated” by the CDC in 2000(90.5%). If there
are increases in outbreaks, it’s clearly due to higher
vaccination rates. Every single outbreak has contained both unvaccinated and vaccinated persons.
Without a true public health threat and with vaccination rates at an all time high, CA Senators Pan
and Allen have introduced senate bill 277, which
removes a parent’s right to decline or delay vaccinations for their children due to religious beliefs
or personal conscientious objections. It is clear
they will go to any length to pass this unnecessary
Draconian bill.
I personally witnessed the underhanded politics
taking place at the capitol during the education
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