Monday, December 31, 2018

I am philosophically opposed to my child receiving liability free vaccines.

By Ginger Taylor, MS
Vaccine refusalIt is a phrase that I first read in a comment by “cmo” here on Age of Autism in 2010, and we should have been using it this whole time.
We have all heard it from our peers (and our elders) when we say that we are not vaccinating any more because the vaccine program is corrupt and high risk.
“But I was vaccinated and I am fine.”
Then we attempt to launch into a 30 minute educational session on the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, Hannah Poling, Poul Thorson, William Thompson, Thomas Verstraeten, Julie Gerberding, HHS's failure to do their legally mandated vaccine safety research for 32 years, and no this is not really about Andrew Wakefield.
In an attempt to stop having to tell my story over and over again, I even managed to get a Johns Hopkins bioethics journal to print my very wordy reason for “No,” so that I could just hand it to people rather than explaining over and over and over.

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: “Families are Under No Obligation to Put Their Children at Risk By Participating in the Corrupt Current US National Immunization Program”
I ended my piece with this statement:
“The controversy surrounding vaccinations will never be resolved until the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act is repealed, and until families 7th amendment rights to have their complaints heard in civil court, under established legal procedure and ruled on by a jury, is restored.
Until there is a way to force public health officials, vaccine industry representatives and medical professionals to testify under oath, and under penalty of perjury, to either defend or retract their fraudulent claims, to pay for the damages done to children (including my child) for their institutionalized abuse and negligence, I will never consent to another member of my family participating in the vaccine program under any circumstances.”
I could have put it more succinctly by just saying, “we won't use liability free vaccines any more.”
After doing this for 15 years I am a bit exhausted by the whole exercise of explaining, and expounding, and reminding, so as we here in Maine start up our fight against what promises to be an “SB277” type bill coming to our legislature, I have decided there is a more simple way to make this case without a 30 minute conversation, 30 times a day.
As there has not been a simple “vaccine” administered to a child for school entry since the 80s, I am going to stop talking about “vaccines,” and talk about “liability free vaccines.”
I am going to point out that what the Maine mandatory vaccine law was written before 1985, was applicable to “vaccines,” when families had legal recourse against vaccine makers for corruption and hidden risks, and that current law should not apply to “Liability Free Vaccines.” Which is what we have now.
I am philosophically opposed to my child receiving liability free vaccines. Boom. Done.
“But you HAVE to! Do you want polio to come back?!”
No, I don't have to. If you were really afraid of polio coming back, you would replace liability to vaccine makers and fix the corruption in the vaccine program. You have not done your job to protect my children for the last 30 years. I'm out.
What I received as a child, even though in some cases they may be sold by the same company under the same brand name, was a fundamentally different product than what my children were given.  Vaccine makers were subject to liability to harm from their products. That ended the year I graduated from high school.
Justice Sotomayor and Justice Ginsburg have correctly pointed out that vaccines free from liability when they are defectively designed, give no reason for vaccine makers to improve design, to mind how they are distributed, or to even keep up with basic or emerging science:

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 09–152
RUSSELL BRUESEWITZ, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. WYETH LLC, FKA WYETH, INC., FKA WYETH LABORATORIES, ET AL.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
[February 22, 2011]
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE GINSBURG joins, dissenting.

Vaccine manufacturers have long been subject to a legal duty, rooted in basic principles of products liability law, to improve the designs of their vaccines in light of advances in science and technology. Until today, that duty was enforceable through a traditional state-law tort action for defective design.In holding that §22(b)(1) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Vaccine Act or Act), 42 U. S. C. §300aa–22(b)(1), pre-empts all design defect claims for injuries stemming from vaccines covered under the Act, the Court imposes its own bare policy preference over the considered judgment of Congress. In doing so, the Court excises 13 words from the statutory text, misconstrues the Act’s legislative history, and disturbs the careful balance Congress struck between compensating vaccine-injured children and stabilizing the childhood vaccine market. Its decision leaves a regulatory vacuum in which no one ensures that vaccine manufacturers adequately take account of scientific and technological advancements when designing or distributing their products. Because nothing in the text, structure, or legislative history of the Vaccine Act remotely suggests that Congress intended such a result, I respectfully dissent.
Legislatures are ignorant of vaccine liability protection, and think vaccination has not changed since the mid-20th century. 
“But I was vaccinated and I am fine.”
But you were not given liability free vaccines.
It is a fundamentally different product line, subject to minimal oversight, and vaccine makers have no impetus to design them well or even manufacture them cleanly.
It is up to those who are advocating for vaccine mandates to defend the use of these products, and defend their mandates for school.
So let's start calling these products what they are, “Liability Free Vaccines” so that nobody can possibly confuse them with the vaccines made once upon a time by manufacturers who could have been sued for a faulty product.

I am philosophically opposed to my child receiving liability free vaccines.

About the Author: Ginger Taylor, MS, is the director of the Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice.



Comments


cia parker

Laurie,
I have read Dissolving Illusions and many more books on vaccines. The tetanus vaccine is VERY effective at preventing tetanus. There were thousands of deaths from tetanus from battlefield conditions in the Civil War and WWI, but there were NONE among American troops in WWII because ALL of the American soldiers had been given the vaccine. There were MANY among German troops in WWII because they did NOT get the vaccine. The tetanus vaccine is usually very safe, although like all vaccines it has caused severe reactions and even death. My daughter and I are going to finish the meningococcal nosode series next week and then we'll start the graduated nosodes to prevent tetanus. There are many studies showing how effective they are and that's by far the best way to prevent potentially dangerous diseases. I also bought the pneumococcal meningitis series, and I'm thinking about getting the Hib nosodes.
I just saw a video on Youtube about triplets who all reacted with autism as well as deafness and blindness within hours of the Prevnar vaccine. I'm always turning over and considering the information I have about vaccines and the diseases. I said here the other day that I was reconsidering the Prevnar vaccine after learning that there used to many more deaths from it than I had found several years ago when I researched it. Now I'm going back to continuing not to recommend it, mostly because of the video. I think, though, that all parents should give their babies the nosodes to prevent pertussis, Hib, pneumococcal, and meningococcal disease.
It's very important to read information from both sides. A lot of vaccine critics go too far and hold that none of the VPDs is dangerous enough to receive the vaccinations for them. In the First World, at least. It's important to remember that there are few cases and few deaths from the VPDs BECAUSE nearly all children are vaccinated against them. You've got to bear that in mind as you think about the issue. If there were a thousand deaths a year from tetanus and/or diphtheria in the US, then I guarantee you that everyone would get the vaccine, and they would also wonder what else the vaccine critics had been wrong about. If there were a hundred children crippled by polio, same thing. I wouldn't want people to go too far in the other direction and think they need to believe everything provaxxers say and get the MMR, varicella, hep-B, hep-A, vaccines, etc.
I believe in free choice regarding vaccines, preferably extremely well-informed free choice. But not give in to the temptation to believe everything that ANYONE says about vaccines. You've got to research every disease and every vaccine yourself.

Morag

Very good article,and Laura Hayes presentation as well, does not miss the important points and "Hit the wall behind them " How could we have been such "Stupid days " to accept the raspberry served up on top of a dollop of sheep's droppings ?
The Three Stooges - I'll Never Heil Again youtube

Anita Donnelly

This is brilliant . Of course vax were dangerous to some before liability was removed and before the ridiculous overload but the people we are trying to wake up will never discover that until we wake them up to the basic point. Only liability-free I think you need the hyphen. Excellent.
We need elevator speeches and this is a good one.
We also need open records from VAERS and the court.
We also need folks to envision their worst enemy running the US and determining what is in vaccines and which you need even if they profit.

Barry

But beyond that, it has to be a well-informed, personal choice. Tetanus still has a very high death rate when it occurs, even with hospital care.
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In the interest of being 'well-informed', you might want to consider the following hypothesis WRT a possible connection between tetanus, and autism.

Angus Files

Great article Ginger thanks.The bit that`s verging on tripping,is when someone thinks they are `outing` you as anti vaccine..eye roll eye roll.
Black Adder adding with Boldrick looks easy, except the exercise to be taught usually retrospectively and coterminous is the cumulation of cluster -vac, vaccines.
Baldrick Adding

Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP

Laurie

Cia Parker; I appreciate that you are against mandates and liability immunity. But you are not versed on the actual facts and science/history of vaccines. Research Dr. Russell Blaylock for example re tetanus vaccine. And know that vaccines actually do not "usually protect from the disease." The book Dissolving Illusions by Dr Suzanne Humphries M.D. is a great starting point. Best wishes!

Shelley Tzorfas

Ginger brings up some great points. It is sad to watch the demise of Maine if they fall into the same mannerism as SB277 where Los Angeles Kindergarteners saw a 17% increase in Autism as a result of the new laws in just the first 3 months of school. My experience of talking about vaccines with Baby Boomers and others is that as soon as they hear the word Vaccines, the discussion is over because they believe that vaccines saved people from Polio and other illnesses which is a far cry from the truth. More people get seizures, are injured or die from vaccines than from illnesses they are supposed to prevent. 54% of our children are chronically ill and I believe that number to be underestimated at this point in time. It has become harder to have a conversation about vaccines than to talk with a member of a religious cult, so I too will try Ginger's approach to see if that helps.

Hera

Hi Ginger, good point. Also, I find it helps to point out that the vaccine schedule they got as kids is nothing like the amount of vaccines given today, and they don't know if they would have survived getting 50 doses of 14 vaccines by age 6. It helps to tell older adults that anyone who took exactly the same vaccines as they did, would today be considered an "anti vaxxer" and potentially banned from school.

Jeannette Bishop

No more liability free vaccines, incentivized to fail, harm, and remove "herd immunity!"

MARK WAX

I agree with Ginger completely, but have taken a different approach to the final goal. For years I have tried to influence my Congressional House rep ( as well as other representatives from other districts) to take up the mantel of revising the NCVIA rules as administered in the USCFC. There should be no statute of limitations ( essentially now 36 months) for any minor allegedly injured. Rather they should be entitled to "tolling" until they reach the age of majority and then a statute for bringing the claim. In the case of an individual who never is "competent" under the law, NO statute of limitations should ever be placed for that individual, unless they (miraculously) regain competency. My proposition is consistent with law ( in the first case with all 50 states) and for both ( in several states) where both minors and those of majority are seen as deprived of due process otherwise. The SCOTUS has refused to hear the merit portion of the Cloer v. HHS case and in so doing has implied that the Congress needs to make such laws. 
Once the Congress sees what damages and havoc they have wrought by "immunizing" the vaccine makers, after the payouts skyrocket and USCFC is deluged with claims, ( remember the Omnibus whitewash), the Congress should then by lobbied to allow the U.S. District Courts to hear these claims, either by class action or however the plaintiffs bar can most successfully prosecute these allegations. 
Right now, we will all have to gain the attention of the House Reform and Oversight Cmtee, in order to effectuate such a 2 step solution.

cia parker

I was about to say about the same thing as Linda. Vaccines weren't safe even before they were liability-free. See DPT: A Shot in the Dark and Vaccine Roulette, also all the damage from the smallpox, scarlet fever (short-lived efforts), polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and early MMR vaccines. I don't think anyone had a clear understanding of their risk. My mother reacted to the diphtheria vaccine in the '30s with Asperger's and bowel disease for the rest of her life. My brother and I reacted to our first DPT with screaming syndrome for several days (me) and beating his head on the bars of his crib for months (him), and both of us developed Asperger's as a result. Both he and I have autistic children (post 1986).
But then the issue is the same as it has always been. Do you want to take the risk of one or more vaccines and in most cases get vaccine protection from the diseases or not take the risk and take your chances with the diseases? That is a very personal calculation which everyone must be free to make and then accept or reject. In my opinion, for most people it would be a good idea to get the DT series after the age of two, maybe three, years old. Polio only if it comes back here, the Hib series for babies that HAVE to be in daycare in their first year, starting at four months old, not three. I've been reading about pneumococcal disease and Prevnar, and I think maybe I underestimated the number of deaths caused by the disease. I'll have to look at the links again where I got my information on mortality from the disease before the vaccine and compare it with the figures I read the other day, much higher. I haven't gotten beyond that point yet, and recognize that the vaccines for both are often very dangerous.
I am against vaccines being liability-free, also against any vaccine mandates ever, for anyone. But beyond that, it has to be a well-informed, personal choice. Tetanus still has a very high death rate when it occurs, even with hospital care. Lower, probably MUCH lower, with IV vitamin C treatment, but still. It wouldn't be sensible to reject all vaccines because they're liability-free, but then die of tetanus. Or Hib disease. You can't guard against all eventualities, but you should bear in mind that some of the VPDs are very dangerous and it would still be possible to die of them. As my mother would say, cutting off your nose to spite your face. But there's also always the option of homeopathic nosodes. And homeopathic treatment in conjunction with allopathic treatment where necessary.

Linda1

Great idea to refer to vaccines as liability free vaccines. Will start doing that. But the pre 86 vaccines were not less harmful than what came after. If those pre 86 folks did fine, they'd be able to understand.

Debi

And there you have it!

Laura Hayes

Even more importantly, our message needs to begin with:
I am opposed to mandated medicine.
From my recent presentation in Utah:
“1) Why is it legal to mandate even one, much less scores of, invasive medical procedures that include long lists of serious, often permanent, risks, including death, chronic illness, and severe disability? Bear in mind that mandated medicine makes informed consent impossible. If there is no choice, then voluntary consent is made null and void. Remember, informed consent involves a formal opting in, and should never require a formal opting out…a simple “no thank you” should always suffice when one wants to decline or refuse any medical treatment or procedure for oneself or one’s child. Additionally, mandated medicine makes the ethical practice of medicine impossible. The hallmark of ethical medicine is that of prior, completely voluntary, and fully informed consent. Coercion, force, mandates, penalties, and the elimination of individual and parental rights can have no part in the practice of ethical medicine. Perhaps most importantly, mandated medicine, which includes vaccine mandates, violates a most fundamental human right, the right to decide what one allows, or doesn’t allow, into oneself and one’s child. To quote legal scholar and human rights activist Mary Holland, “Without that right, what meaningful right do we have?” So we must ask, why is it legal to mandate vaccines in a free and ethical society?”
For anyone interested to watch or read the entire presentation:
“Why Is This Legal?” by Laura Hayes

cmo


Well written Ginger... it is almost like there has been a WALL BUILT around the VACCINE INDUSTRY to PROTECT THEM.
As things are a bit slow in Washington DC right now, perhaps the President should write up a few simple EXECUTIVE ORDERS to help move some things along. Perhaps a sign on a WALL might help.
1) Pediatricians should be required to have a POSTER in waiting rooms of the entire CDC Vaccine Schedule which “clearly states” that NO ONE can be held responsible for ANY DAMN VACCINE in the United States. (even those shipped in from China )
2) The poster should also state than NONE of the DAMN VACCINES have ever been tested for possible harmful combinations.
3) It should show that SIDS peaks for SOME DAMN REASON at 2 - 8 months of age.
As both “bought out political parties” would oppose anything with the TRUTH, they might then decide to work together on a partial WALL to protect the US of A.

Barry Stern

Vaccines should also be "liar free" to protect us from the manufacturers, pediatricians and politicians that continue to sell the myth that vaccines are good for you, the more the better.