by Barbara Loe Fisher
From flash to bang, it took the
politically powerful corporate, medical trade and government lobbyists
just six months this year to gut the human right to informed consent to
medical risk taking and the civil right to a school education in
California. They did it by enacting a new law (SB 277) signed by
Governor Jerry Brown on June 29, 2015 that denies parents the legal
right to file a personal belief exemption to vaccination for religious
and conscientious beliefs so their children can attend school.
In order to sign the bill into law, Governor Brown had
to abandon his long-standing legislative record as a champion of
parental and religious rights and school education. NVIC called him out
in a July 1, 2015 letter
for failing to protect California families from segregation and
discrimination based on vaccination and health care choices that parents
make in the best interest of their minor children.
Click the image on the right to read NVIC’s July 1, 2015 press release and make a comment below.
Brute Political Power Wielded by Government and Industry Fast Tracks Oppressive Bill Into Law
Consistently throughout the legislative process, the numbers of
California citizens testifying in opposition to the oppressive bill
vastly numbered those testifying in support. The ramming of SB 277
through the California legislature despite strong public opposition was
an impressive demonstration of the brute power that can be wielded by
the public-private partnership between government and industry
dominating the U.S. health care system in the 21st century.
Disinformation about the measles outbreak at Disneyland
and vaccine safety and effectiveness was used by mainstream media
outlets to forward the forced vaccination agenda in the legislature in
an attempt to neutralize the growing number of citizens standing up and
defending their human and civil rights in our nation’s largest state.
Even though thousands of men, women and children from all walks of life came again and again to Sacramento this year to attend public rallies
and testify against SB 277 in Senate and Assembly committee hearings,
the Senate voted 25 to 10 and the Assembly voted 46 to 30 to approve the
legislation after contentious floor debates.
Waking A Sleeping Giant
During the six months the bill was making its way through the
legislative process, many new grassroots groups focusing on health and
medical freedom issues were formed in the state with a common goal of
opposing SB 277. A longtime Sacramento lobbyist commented that he had
not seen so many citizens packing the halls of the state Capitol for
hours to testify and hold protests on the Capitol grounds since the
Vietnam war. Another observer commented that the forced vaccination bill
had awakened “a sleeping giant.”
Get Vaccinated, Homeschool or Go To Jail?
California now becomes one of only three states, along with West
Virginia and Mississippi, that denies children entry to daycare and
school unless they get dozens of doses of federally recommended vaccines
or a medical doctor grants a medical vaccine exemption, an exemption
that doctors deny to 99.99 percent
of children under narrow federal guidelines. Parents who do not comply
with the new law will have to homeschool their children and, if they
cannot homeschool for financial or other reasons, they may be subject to
truancy laws that include fines and imprisonment for failing to provide
their children with an education.
Incremental Steps on the Road to Medical Tyranny
In truth, the road to medical tyranny in California began in 2012.
That was the year that the same pediatrician-turned politician and
medical trade groups lobbied the legislature to pass AB 2109,
a bill to force parents to get a signature from a medical doctor or
state designated medical worker affirming the parent had been “educated”
about vaccination before filing a personal belief vaccine exemption.
NVIC opposed that bill because we knew it was an incremental step toward
ramming a forced vaccination law like SB 277 through the legislature
down the line, which is exactly what was done.
Citizens Push Back and Win in Other States
Vaccine use recommendations are made by federal health agencies and
medical trade groups but vaccine mandates are state laws. More than 100
bills were introduced in multiple states this year to restrict or
eliminate non-medical vaccine exemptions or add more vaccine mandates.
The majority did not succeed.
In Texas alone, more than 20 vaccine-related bills were defeated
because families across the state stood up and successfully defended
their informed consent and civil rights. Although California has lost,
temporarily at least, the personal belief vaccine exemption and Vermont
lost the philosophical belief exemption (while retaining one for
religious beliefs), citizens fought for their informed consent rights by
educating their legislators and blocked bills in Washington, Oregon,
Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maine and other states.
The Final Wake-Up Call
What happened in California in 2015 is America’s final wake-up call.
Forced vaccination bills like SB 277 that seek to eliminate all
non-medical exemptions are eventually going to be introduced in every
state and they will not be limited to school aged children. Adults will be targeted,
too, as government health officials, industry and medical trade groups
advocate for more societal sanctions that include loss of medical care
and employment to be applied to those declining to get every federally
recommended vaccine.
What is at stake? If the state can tag, track down and force us
against our will to be injected with biologicals of known and unknown
toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the
state can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.
Please get involved and actively participate in our democracy. If
we do not take freedom for granted, we can reclaim and protect our human
and civil rights in California and every state in America.
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