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:Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:11:24 -0800

Sandy Mintz

FW: [NVIC] Parent Groups Support TX La

 

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" Protecting the health and informed consent rights of children since 1982. "

 

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Contact: National Vaccine Information Center

Barbara Loe Fisher

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July 8, 2003

 

 

PARENT GROUPS SUPPORT NEW TEXAS VACCINE EXEMPTION LAW

 

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) and Americans for Vaccine

Safety and Accountability (AVSA) are joining with the Texas-based parent

organization, Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education (PROVE), in voicing

strong support for the new Texas vaccine exemption law. The new law allows

parents to exercise a conscientious belief exemption to vaccination.

Together, all three organizations represent more than 200,000 Americans

committed to defending the informed consent rights of citizens to make

voluntary health care choices when there is a risk of injury or death.

 

Parent and health care professional groups are responding to last week's

outcry by Texas pediatricians and public health officials, who criticized

passage of the new vaccine exemption in House Bill 2292, which was signed

into law by Governor Rick Perry. NVIC President Barbara Loe Fisher said

" Texas is joining 18 other states which allow this kind of vaccine

exemption, including every state bordering Texas. These other states are

not having raging epidemics of disease just because they respect a parent's

right to make educated choices about the benefits and risks of vaccination

for their children. It is a basic human right to be able to voluntarily

decide what you are willing to risk your life or your child's life for and

Texas should be proud to be among the enlightened states which recognize

this simple moral fact. "

 

Terry Rondberg, D.C., president of the World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA),

which is a member of the lobbying coalition, AVSA, said " Pediatricians

should be welcoming the opportunity to have open dialogue with parents about

vaccination so they can be partners, not adversaries, with parents in making

these important health decisions. No one should be forced to take a health

care risk they don't want to take. Only when you own a decision that

involves a risk can you take responsibility for it. "

 

Dawn Richardson, president of PROVE, who back grounded Texas legislators

for seven years about the importance of parental rights and informed consent

to vaccination, said " At a time when physicians and vaccine manufacturers

have lobbied so hard for further release of liability for the harm they

sometimes do, parents in Texas are grateful to the legislators who have

given them back control over which vaccine risks their child will take. I

was excited to receive a letter from Speaker of the House Tom Craddick,

after the Governor signed the exemption into law stressing the legislature's

strong support for parental rights. "

 

The Speaker's letter said in part, " This exemption should assist parents

who are subjected to any harassment at schools and day care facilities since

a signed notarized exemption form will not be disputable by officials.an

additional provision in HB 2292 prohibits any health and human services

agency from taking punitive action against a parent for not immunizing their

child. Thus, parental decisions will be protected and respected in the

future on this issue. "

 

The Texas legislature joins with the Arkansas legislature this past

session in providing parents with the right to conscientious or

philosophical belief exemption to vaccination. Internationally, there is

also acknowledgement of the importance of voluntary vaccination

decision-making. Last month the British Medical Association released a

report which stated, " Parents have a right to receive unbiased information

so that they can make an informed choice with regard to vaccination of their

children..Public health policies depend on social consensus. The UK

government currently recommends a national immunization schedule which is

not compulsory.. we do not believe that compulsory immunization is in any

way appropriate for the UK but that healthcare professionals should strive

to inform, educate and advise the public about the overwhelming benefits of

vaccination for their children and society in general. " That report also

noted that " across Europe the trend has been toward greater voluntary

participation. "

 

NVIC is a national, non-profit organization founded by parents of vaccine

injured children in 1982. It is the oldest and largest parent-led vaccine

safety group in the US, representing more than 30,000. PROVE is the largest

vaccine safety group in Texas, representing more than 3,500. AVSA

represents 14 state and national organizations, including NVIC, Autism

Society of America, Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition, Lyme Disease

Foundation, Massachusetts Citizens for Vaccination Choice, Missouri Citizens

' Coalition for Freedom in Health Care, Mothering Magazine, New Hampshire

Citizens for Health Freedom, Osteomed II, PROVE, Unlocking Autism, Vaccine

Awareness of North Florida, Virginia Families for Vaccine Information and

Choice and World Chiropractic Alliance (WCA). WCA, a member of AVSA,

represents 60,000 doctors of chiropractic nationally and internationally.

 

For more information on vaccine safety and informed consent issues go to

www.NVIC.org and for more specific information on the Texas law go to

www.vaccineinfo.net. To read the BMA article go to:

http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/PR%2Dbma+rejects+compulsory+immunisatio

n+%2D+29+Jun+2003?OpenDocument & Highlight=2,childhood,immunisation

 

 

 

 

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paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

 

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