WA state vaccine exemption

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All of us in WA state who want to keep our freedom of choice intact should help with below actions on 3/24 & 25. By forcing parents to obtain a signature from a medical practitioner it exposes them to pressure, fear tactics and often an atmosphere with conflict of interest, hostility or refusal by the doctor treat them as patients any longer. It is also a 'hoop' to jump through - time and expense that was never necessary before.WA state has been doing so well in awareness and lower vaccination rates, therefore healthier citizens, this pressure has surfaced to counteract it. The logic is severely flawed that this gives the opportunity to understand the warnings of vaccinations, when the target group already know the risks and have chosen not to

take them. Other debates do not make sense either.

Liz

Dear Washington NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

We are calling on all families in Washington who care about their rights to be

able to use vaccine exemptions to take one simple but extremely important and

coordinated action against SB5005 to try and prevent you from being required to

obtain a signature on your philosophical exemption to state mandated vaccine

from a medical practitioner stating they provided you with vaccine education in

order for your exemption to be valid. We asking you to make some phone calls.

SB5005 has passed out of the Rules Committee and is about to be put on the

calendar for a full House of Representatives vote. It could come up as early as

this Friday March 25th! This is our last chance to do something to keep our

philosophical (and most religious) exemptions out of the control of medical

practitioners who are vaccine administrators. Parents who chose to delay or

decline vaccines are already well-educated and don't need a sales or

intimidation pitch by those who earn a living giving vaccines. We are at the

end of the road in the legislative process, so if SB5005 passes the House of

Representatives, it becomes law in Washington.

We only have two possible favorable outcomes at this point

1) get enough votes in the House to entirely kill the bill (less likely); or

2) amend the bill to remove the medical practitioner signature and education

requirement on the exemption and instead require the parent to have the form

notarized with a statement that the parent has reviewed vaccine benefit and risk

information. (more likely)

Key legislators in the House of Representatives have been identified for you to

start hitting them hard with phone calls immediately on Thursday as soon as you

get this email (leaving a message is fine too), again Thursday night maxing out

their voice mail, again Friday morning, again Friday evening maxing voicemail

again, Saturday morning (yes they will be working this weekend), again Saturday

evening and until we send out another note letting you know to stop. It would

also be very helpful if you would call your own State Representative too, but

only after you complete the list.

Your phone call or voice mail message could go as easy as this:

Hello. My name is [your name] and I am calling from [your town/city],

Washington. I am calling to ask Representative [Representative's Last Name] to

vote no on SB5005 or to amend it with the `notarized statement' model.

If you have time, you can further educate the Representatives by picking some of

these points to share:

· NO OTHER STATE in the entire country burdens a parent financially and

emotionally by requiring them to have to visit a doctor and obtain a signature

for verification of their philosophical exemption form.

· Instead, other states (like Texas) add the requirement of a

notarization on an exemption form with a statement that the parent has educated

themselves on the risks and benefits of vaccines.

· You are already well educated on the subject of vaccine risks and

benefits.

· You use medical practitioners not on the list of those eligible to

sign forms.

· Many doctors are openly hostile to families making educated vaccine

choices and aren't likely to sign the form or flat out throw families out of

their practice if they don't fully vaccinate.

· Parents should not have to be reliant on the pharmaceutical/vaccine

paradigm of healthcare in order to direct the upbringing of their children.

· Share any other personal reasons why this is important to your family.

Please forward this email note to everyone you know who cares about this issue

and if you are getting this email forwarded to you from a friend, please sign up

for the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org so you can receive

further updates.

You can post this link to your facebook:

http://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Resources/WAStopSB5005.aspx for a copy of this

email to share.

Please start calling through this list over and over again Thursday, Thursday

evening, Friday morning, Friday Evening, Saturday, Saturday evening and again

and again until we let you know it is time to stop.

Rep. Chopp

360-786-7920

Rep. Pettigrew

360-786-7838

Rep. Rolfes

360-786-7842

Rep. Sherry Appleton

360-786-7934

Rep. Moscoso

360-786-7900

Rep. Ryu

360-786-7880

Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos

360-786-7944

Rep. Fred Finn

360-786-7902

Rep. Blake

360-786-7870

Rep. Lou Dickerson

360-786-7860

Rep. Hans Dunshee

360-786-7804

Rep. Frockt

360-786-7886

Rep. Jim Jacks

360-786-7924

Rep. Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney

360-786-7818

Rep. Connie Ladenburg

360-786-7906

Rep. Mark Miloscia

360-786-7898

Rep. Jeff

360-786-7970

Rep. Larry Springer

360-786-7822

Your State Representative - Log into http://NVICAdvocacy.org and go to your

Washington State Team Page or link to

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx

*

This bill is coming right from the doctors. In case you need a little

motivation to pick up the phone, check out this opinion piece in the Seattle

Times:

Lawmakers should tighten immunization rules

Vaccines prevent life-threatening disease and disability. The state Legislature

is right to get tough on parents who don't understand the public-health

importance of immunization.

Related

PARENTS ought to be required to prove a health-care provider has informed them

of the benefits and risks of immunization before they can opt out of

school-entry immunization rules.

Immunizing children against nearly a dozen diseases is the best and most

cost-effective way to prevent life-threatening disease and disability. It works

best when most children are immunized.

Current immunization rules need the stronger safeguards offered in Senate Bill

5005 and House Bill 1015. Now, parents need only sign a school form claiming

religious, philosophical or personal opposition to be exempted from state

immunization law.

As health officials reported to lawmakers this week, the lax rule encourages

waivers based more on convenience than conviction. Parents faced with a delay in

school or day-care enrollment simply opt out of the vaccination requirements….

Continue for more at

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2014583799_edit24vaccine.html

[Guest guest]

All of us in WA state who want to keep our freedom of choice intact should help with below actions on 3/24 & 25. By forcing parents to obtain a signature from a medical practitioner it exposes them to pressure, fear tactics and often an atmosphere with conflict of interest, hostility or refusal by the doctor treat them as patients any longer. It is also a 'hoop' to jump through - time and expense that was never necessary before.WA state has been doing so well in awareness and lower vaccination rates, therefore healthier citizens, this pressure has surfaced to counteract it. The logic is severely flawed that this gives the opportunity to understand the warnings of vaccinations, when the target group already know the risks and have chosen not to

take them. Other debates do not make sense either.

Liz

Dear Washington NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

We are calling on all families in Washington who care about their rights to be

able to use vaccine exemptions to take one simple but extremely important and

coordinated action against SB5005 to try and prevent you from being required to

obtain a signature on your philosophical exemption to state mandated vaccine

from a medical practitioner stating they provided you with vaccine education in

order for your exemption to be valid. We asking you to make some phone calls.

SB5005 has passed out of the Rules Committee and is about to be put on the

calendar for a full House of Representatives vote. It could come up as early as

this Friday March 25th! This is our last chance to do something to keep our

philosophical (and most religious) exemptions out of the control of medical

practitioners who are vaccine administrators. Parents who chose to delay or

decline vaccines are already well-educated and don't need a sales or

intimidation pitch by those who earn a living giving vaccines. We are at the

end of the road in the legislative process, so if SB5005 passes the House of

Representatives, it becomes law in Washington.

We only have two possible favorable outcomes at this point

1) get enough votes in the House to entirely kill the bill (less likely); or

2) amend the bill to remove the medical practitioner signature and education

requirement on the exemption and instead require the parent to have the form

notarized with a statement that the parent has reviewed vaccine benefit and risk

information. (more likely)

Key legislators in the House of Representatives have been identified for you to

start hitting them hard with phone calls immediately on Thursday as soon as you

get this email (leaving a message is fine too), again Thursday night maxing out

their voice mail, again Friday morning, again Friday evening maxing voicemail

again, Saturday morning (yes they will be working this weekend), again Saturday

evening and until we send out another note letting you know to stop. It would

also be very helpful if you would call your own State Representative too, but

only after you complete the list.

Your phone call or voice mail message could go as easy as this:

Hello. My name is [your name] and I am calling from [your town/city],

Washington. I am calling to ask Representative [Representative's Last Name] to

vote no on SB5005 or to amend it with the `notarized statement' model.

If you have time, you can further educate the Representatives by picking some of

these points to share:

· NO OTHER STATE in the entire country burdens a parent financially and

emotionally by requiring them to have to visit a doctor and obtain a signature

for verification of their philosophical exemption form.

· Instead, other states (like Texas) add the requirement of a

notarization on an exemption form with a statement that the parent has educated

themselves on the risks and benefits of vaccines.

· You are already well educated on the subject of vaccine risks and

benefits.

· You use medical practitioners not on the list of those eligible to

sign forms.

· Many doctors are openly hostile to families making educated vaccine

choices and aren't likely to sign the form or flat out throw families out of

their practice if they don't fully vaccinate.

· Parents should not have to be reliant on the pharmaceutical/vaccine

paradigm of healthcare in order to direct the upbringing of their children.

· Share any other personal reasons why this is important to your family.

Please forward this email note to everyone you know who cares about this issue

and if you are getting this email forwarded to you from a friend, please sign up

for the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org so you can receive

further updates.

You can post this link to your facebook:

http://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Resources/WAStopSB5005.aspx for a copy of this

email to share.

Please start calling through this list over and over again Thursday, Thursday

evening, Friday morning, Friday Evening, Saturday, Saturday evening and again

and again until we let you know it is time to stop.

Rep. Chopp

360-786-7920

Rep. Pettigrew

360-786-7838

Rep. Rolfes

360-786-7842

Rep. Sherry Appleton

360-786-7934

Rep. Moscoso

360-786-7900

Rep. Ryu

360-786-7880

Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos

360-786-7944

Rep. Fred Finn

360-786-7902

Rep. Blake

360-786-7870

Rep. Lou Dickerson

360-786-7860

Rep. Hans Dunshee

360-786-7804

Rep. Frockt

360-786-7886

Rep. Jim Jacks

360-786-7924

Rep. Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney

360-786-7818

Rep. Connie Ladenburg

360-786-7906

Rep. Mark Miloscia

360-786-7898

Rep. Jeff

360-786-7970

Rep. Larry Springer

360-786-7822

Your State Representative - Log into http://NVICAdvocacy.org and go to your

Washington State Team Page or link to

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx

*

This bill is coming right from the doctors. In case you need a little

motivation to pick up the phone, check out this opinion piece in the Seattle

Times:

Lawmakers should tighten immunization rules

Vaccines prevent life-threatening disease and disability. The state Legislature

is right to get tough on parents who don't understand the public-health

importance of immunization.

Related

PARENTS ought to be required to prove a health-care provider has informed them

of the benefits and risks of immunization before they can opt out of

school-entry immunization rules.

Immunizing children against nearly a dozen diseases is the best and most

cost-effective way to prevent life-threatening disease and disability. It works

best when most children are immunized.

Current immunization rules need the stronger safeguards offered in Senate Bill

5005 and House Bill 1015. Now, parents need only sign a school form claiming

religious, philosophical or personal opposition to be exempted from state

immunization law.

As health officials reported to lawmakers this week, the lax rule encourages

waivers based more on convenience than conviction. Parents faced with a delay in

school or day-care enrollment simply opt out of the vaccination requirements….

Continue for more at

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2014583799_edit24vaccine.html