Know The Vaccine Controversy

Most people are unaware that there is a  controversy about vaccination. They are unaware that there is another  point of view about the benefits of Vaccination. They are unaware of the risks  associated with this medical procedure. Where risk of injury or death is  acknowledged, it is believed to be rare and inconsequential compared to  the perceived benefits to individuals and society.

With growing evidence that vaccinations  may actually be causing chronic health problems and the attendant  realization that the right to informed consent is being denied, a  growing number of parents and concerned individuals are demanding that  questions about safety and appropriateness be addressed.

What are the perceived  issues?

On the one hand, there is a vaccination  policy whose goal is 100%  compliance and whose proponents believe that  vaccination is modern  medicine’s greatest achievement. Today every child born is expected to  be “inoculated” with some 30  vaccines by the age of 18 months and by the  age of five years old, have  up to 38 shots.

On the other hand, there are concerned  parents  and professionals who believe there are some flaws with both the  theory  and the application of our vaccine policy, who claim that  vaccines are  dangerous, and who may not want to comply with the above  stated goal.

In the middle of this schism, a growing  number of people are  getting wind that a debate about vaccines is  brewing. Many of these people would prefer NOT  to know there  are issues about vaccination, because the questions and  issues that are  being raised threaten the belief system that our  conventional health  care system is predicated upon.

While it may seem like The  Vaccine  Controversy is news, the issues surrounding this debate have  actually  been contested for decades. Whereas the proponents of mass  vaccination might have you think there  is a conspiracy of quacks and  unfit parents trying to thwart medical  progress, the truth of the matter  is that the mounting evidence of  malfeasance is undeniable as the  conspiracy of silence about this  conflict is brought to light.

At issue, of course, is whether   vaccines are safe. As the incidence  of autoimmune diseases  in our children rise to epidemic levels,  concerned people see a  credible correlation to vaccine history and want  the independently  researched scientific data that verifies both safety  and efficacy of  these medical products and procedures. Vaccine proponents, while they admit  there are some  risks, keep assuring us that vaccines are safe and  vaccination saves  lives. Those who question, they say,  forget or  are unaware of how devastating diseases were before the  advent of  vaccines.

Given that vaccines were conceived and  are  produced within the paradigm of Modern Medicine’s scientific method,   our faith in the policy of mass vaccination is nothing less than   steadfast and confident. With killer epidemics of infectious disease a   thing of the past, WHY NOT credit mass vaccination? Indeed, this assertion is taken at face  value even in  the Informed Consent Movement, even though statistics  show that better  nutrition and improved hygiene are as much contributing  factors to the  eradication of killer epidemics as mass vaccination is  purported to be.

The fact is, the stellar role that  mass vaccination is believed  to play in public health DOES NOT preclude a  possible secondary role in  ALSO being a cause of chronic, debilitating  and, in many ways, painful  immunologic and neurological disorders. Proponents of mandatory vaccination say  absolutely not. Parents of chronically ill children, a   growing number of medical professionals, and other reasonable people  are  beginning to wonder. Hence, the  Vaccine Controversy . . .

Many people would prefer not to go down   this road. It was easier when you  only had to deal  with the fear of getting an infectious disease. Vaccination put that fear out of your   mind. With Informed Consent, and knowing that the risks of vaccination   are actually higher and more diverse than you previously thought, it   seems we now have two fears to contend with. What to do?

To begin with, what is needed is proper   perspective. There are several  serious issues in  this debate that MUST BE RESOLVED, vaccine safety  being one, however

The FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE in  The Vaccine Controversy is not about  vaccine safety!

The fundamental issue in The Vaccine  Controversy has to do with the  government’s power to deny individual  rights. Simply stated, because vaccines are  mandated by law  individuals are not free to make choices about  vaccination for  themselves or their family members.

Because  vaccines are mandated, The Vaccine Controversy is about  the Right to  Informed Consent.

Vaccination is a medical  procedure that carries an inherent risk of  injury or death. Vaccination is the only   medical procedure &  medical product that is forced upon us by law.

Because there are  risks  of injury or death with vaccines, parents deserve to be given  truthful  and unbiased information about both the diseases and the  vaccines.

Informed  Consent means having  the right to choose or decline a medical  procedure that carries a risk  for serious injury, disability or death.

Because vaccines are  mandated, The Vaccine Controversy is about the Right to Choose.

Individuals have the  right to choose the type of preventive health care  they want to use,  including choosing whether to use one, ten or no  vaccines. See the Patient’s Bill of  Rights for more  information.

What is the  justification for mandated mass vaccination?

A common belief that the  majority of people have shared since the  advent of vaccines is that  vaccination improves public health and that mass vaccination  protects everyone’s  health.  The presumed logic is  that high  vaccination rates are necessary in order to prevent the return of  terrible diseases.  In order to  protect the  public, the public must be vaccinated.

It is not clear whether vaccination  became mandatory because the  public cannot be trusted to always fulfill  their obligations to  society, so laws were created to enforce  compliance, or whether because  vaccination is a medical procedure that carries risk of injury or  death, it must  be mandated. If the rationale that mass vaccination   protects everyone’s health was true, rational people would likely be   willing to take the risk of injury or death from vaccination, and people   everywhere would suppose that forcing this medical procedure upon   entire populations is noble, even though not ethical. In fact, this is  what we have believed  and why we have been so willing to sanction this  violation of civil  rights.

However, the variables have  changed,  and so, too, the outcome. We now have a new, more insidious   epidemic occurring, the consequences of which are not yet fully   understood or realized. The rising epidemic of autoimmune  diseases  and neurological dysfunction in our children begs, now more  than ever,  the question “is vaccination somehow to blame; is  vaccination a  contributing factor?” Yet, even as the credible empirical and   scientific data coming in suggests that it could be, our regulatory   agencies and the pharmaceutical companies that profit from vaccination   continue to assure us that injecting a plethora of diseases and toxic   chemicals into the bodies of our young children does not adversely   affect their immune systems and “not to worry.” In fact, they implore us  to ignore what  we see, what we read and hear about, and they remind us  of our  obligation to society. Because, you see,

The rationale for mandated mass vaccination  is based on the notion  that the risk of  injury or death from vaccine  is relative to the risk  of injury or death  without vaccine.

In  other words, the  perceived benefit of saving millions of lives from   the scourge of  epidemics by mass vaccination outweighs the purportedly   rare incidence  of death by vaccine. Thus, “the end justifies  the   means.”

This, as we learn from studying  history, is a dangerous  precedent  for government intrusion and leads to  unbridled, unchecked  and unlawful  power. Yet the majority of people think that  mandating  this risky  medical procedure is appropriate. Why?  Because “vaccination  is about  the  public health”, meaning that individual choice is no  longer  relevant.

If it were true that vaccination  protects  the public health and  improves immunity, one might be willing  to play  the vaccine game of  roulette in order to gain such a benefit. However, the science  simply does not  support this hypothesis any  longer. The truth is that  the justification for  compulsory injection  of toxic chemicals and  foreign proteins is based  on a flawed but  pervasive belief that  vaccination safely stimulates an  immune response  — yet the most  advanced science in immunity proves  that the human  immune system cannot  be tricked, suppressed, or  controlled into  accepting or tolerating any  foreign DNA or proteins –  whether by  infection, injection or  transplantation – without immunologic   consequences. Vaccine  technology is based on a two  hundred year  old theory and advanced  science simply does not support  this  hypothesis any longer.

With an epidemic of autoimmune diseases   literally crippling our next  generation of adults, there is no question   that vaccination is about  public health. Perhaps it is time to expand  our myopic  view that high  vaccination rates and low incidence of  infectious  disease alone  constitutes public health. The fact is, our  beliefs about  vaccination  are founded on precepts that are no longer  valid — the  variables have  changed, and so too the outcome.

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