[NVIC] A No-Brainer: Obey the M.D. With the Needle or My Conscience?

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A No-Brainer: Obey the M.D. With the Needle or My Conscience?

by Barbara Loe Fisher

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I know and respect a number of enlightened

medical doctors working with Moms and Dads as

equal partners in making health care decisions

for children, which may include making informed

vaccination choices that do not necessarily

conform with government policy. I also admire

responsible, insightful journalists who do their

homework and write astute and balanced articles

about vaccine safety and informed consent to

vaccination. However, these tend to be the exception and not the rule.

As the vaccination debate becomes more

contentious and the divide continues to widen

between those who worship at the alter of medical

science and those who prefer to kneel at a

different kind of alter, caught in the middle are

ordinary

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being forced to choose between obeying their

conscience and obeying a medical doctor wielding

a needle. Some journalists are desperate to be

part of the intellectual elite calling the shots

(no pun intended) and go to great lengths to

characterize those, who place spiritual faith and

conscientious beliefs above the doctor's orders,

as ignorant. The desire to discredit people

refusing to have blind faith in the opinion of a

medical school graduate is most intense when it

comes to the issue of

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During the past 26 years that I have studied and

written about vaccination and the informed

consent principle, I have been fascinated by the

lack of knowledge that doctors giving orders and

some journalists, who dutifully assist them in

persuading others to follow orders, possess about

the subject. Lacking knowledge, they often prefer

to

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medical doctors promoting use of multiple

vaccines in early childhood and try to

marginalize those who do not believe in

non-evidence based pronouncements that " Vaccines

are safe and effective and the benefits always outweigh the risks. "

Despite the attempt by medical doctors heading up

federal and state health agencies to persuade

people that vaccination is, in fact, the new

" sacrament " (brilliantly labeled by that medical

heretic, the late great Mendelsohn, M.D.),

vaccination is a medical intervention performed

on a healthy person that has the inherent ability

to result in the

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or death of that healthy person.

There are hard facts to consider when making a vaccine decision:

1) There can be no guarantee that the deliberate

introduction of killed or live microorganisms

into the body of a healthy person will not

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the health or cause the death of that person

either immediately or in the future;

2) There are very few biological predictors that

have been identified by medical science to give

advance warning that injury or death may occur from vaccination;

3) There is no guarantee that a vaccine will,

indeed, protect a person from contracting or

transmitting an infectious disease; and

4) There is an absence of adequate scientific

knowledge about the way vaccines singly or in

combination act in the human body at the cellular

and molecular level, including whether certain

genes predispose some individuals to a greater

risk than others for suffering vaccine injury or death.

Therefore, vaccination is a medical procedure

that could reasonably be termed experimental each

time it is performed on an individual, whether

that individual is healthy or has an undiagnosed

health condition or genetic predisposition that

could raise the risk for being harmed by vaccination.

Further, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and drug

companies marketing vaccines openly state that

the number of human subjects used in

pre-licensing studies are too small to detect all

vaccine side effects. So mass use of a new

vaccine after the federal government licenses it

and recommends it is a de facto uncontrolled

scientific experiment. In this regard, the

ethical principle of informed consent attains

even greater moral, medical and legal significance.

Although doctors take offence when their opinions

are challenged, they

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get mad when an ordinary Mom questions the value

of injecting vaccines into her child 48 times in

the first six years of life (now, with the CDC's

addition an annual influenza shot and more

vaccinations to the adolescent vaccine schedule,

it is 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age 18). The

arrogant, patronizing response by those doctors,

who are intent on mindlessly implementing

government policy before taking into

consideration the potential risks of vaccination

for the 1 in 6 highly vaccinated child in America

already suffering with immune or brain

dysfunction, is to throw the mother and child out of the office.

It can be especially infuriating for the medical

school graduate practicing pediatrics to be

confronted by a Mom (or Dad) who knows more about

the toxic components, potential high risk factors

and life altering side effects of vaccines than

they are getting paid by parents to know. But

that outrage does not compare to the outrage of

mothers and fathers being told by

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doing the bidding of Big Pharma that an elitist

group of CDC-appointed M.D.'s and Ph.D's holding

a few meetings in Atlanta should be given the

power to make state laws forcing children to get

every new vaccine that the pharmaceutical industry creates and sells.

And this is where faith and reason comes in: the

reconciliation of faith and reason that leads to

a conviction which may be guided by prayer but is confirmed by conscience.

The club that medical doctors use to keep the

people ignorant and bound to them by a golden

chain from birth is fear: fear of microbes; fear

of infection; fear of nature. Like primitives

drawing menacing creatures on the walls of caves

to ward off evil spirits, the men and women with

M.D. written after their names get out their

needles and poke them into babies to ward off the

evil microbes they believe are out to get us.

Giving themselves different names -

vaccinologists, pediatricians, infectious disease

specialists, public health officials - they are

convinced they must fight a war with microbes and

believe the only way to save humanity is to force

everyone to get injected with more and more of

those lab-altered microbes over and over and over again.

Then they tell us we must have faith that every

time something bad happens after vaccination, it is only a " coincidence. "

Let's see. Shall I consult the Merck Manual or

the intelligence God gave me? Shall I obey the

medical school graduate or my conscience?

For me and a lot of parents who have watched our

once healthy children suffer life-altering

vaccine reactions, it is no-brainer. I will stand

up for the human right to use the intellect,

heart and soul God gave me, pray for guidance,

and obey my conscience when it comes to using a

pharmaceutical product that could kill or injure

me or my children. No government official or

medical doctor has the moral authority to take my

life or the life of my children to prop up a

one-size-fits- all government policy that does

not acknowledge biodiversity within the human

species or respect individual human life.

Time

..

" Two weeks ago, a Northern Virginia-based group

called the National Vaccine Information Center

launched a campaign calling for " broad exemptions

for medical, religious and conscientious belief

reasons. " According to Barbara Loe Fisher, the

group's co-founder, " forcing vaccination is a

violation of human rights. " .....Fisher said her

older son had a bad reaction to a childhood

vaccine, and " I was very afraid that I would have

another child this would happen to, " though her

pediatrician recommended the girl be immunized.

" I prayed about whether God wanted me to do what

this physician wanted me to do, " she recalled.

After a three-hour meeting, she said, her

Lutheran pastor signed a statement in support of

her exemption. " He said he didn't have to agree

with me but that I had a sincere religious

belief. " School officials accepted it, she said.

Although she is aware that some parents might

manufacture religious objections, Fisher said she

doesn't recommend it. " If you are going to take a

religious exemption, you have to have a sincere

belief and be true to the spirit and intent of

religious exemption, " she said. land

officials say they are watching immunization

trends. Ed Hirshhorn, chief of the state's

Vaccines for Children program, said that although

he thinks the religious exemption requirement is

" too easy, " officials are reluctant to seek

stronger requirements in the absence of an

outbreak of disease or dramatic increase in

parental refusal. " You're always opening

Pandora's box, " he said. " - Boodman,

Washington Post (June 10, 2008)

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" It wasn't the boy I had a problem with. It was

his mother. We had met a few months earlier, when

I gave her 14-year-old son a diagnosis of mild

asthma. I didn't mind her tough questions, but

her tone of voice put me on edge. She seemed

suspicious, almost angry. Still, in the end I

decided she was just a smart, assertive parent,

and I let it go..... This time, she was more

confrontational. She complained she had been

" forced " to bring in her son for a physical

because his school needed a doctor's clearance

before he could play sports.... bit my tongue and

tried to tell her why I thought they belonged

here. Yes, he was probably very healthy. But an

annual checkup could help him learn to take

charge of his own health as he grew up, and it

would give me a chance to encourage healthy

choices and to get a good sense of his emotional

health during these challenging years. Finally, I

pointed out, he was due for a tetanus

booster....She was unimpressed. " I don't believe

in preventive care, " she said. " I'll treat him

for tetanus if he needs it. " The rest of the

visit went more smoothly, mainly because Mom left

the room so I could examine her son.....I thought

about our conversation on the tetanus booster,

when the mother said she didn't believe in

preventive care. I'm a pediatrician - prevention

is in my DNA. If I accepted her view, I'd be

compromising my conscience and my professional

ethics. I couldn't do that. I wrote a letter

addressed to my patient's mother and sent by

certified mail. I kept it brief: " Sometimes, a

patient or family and doctor aren't compatible.

.... Therefore, I will be dismissing you from my

practice. " - Rahul K. Parikh, M.D., New York Times (June 10, 2008)

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" I have four children and never vaccinated any of

them, " East Stroudsburg resident Spannagel

said. " I come from a holistic family. My father

was a chiropractor and my family always had a

natural approach to health. " Parents have a

choice regarding vaccinations and many are now

speaking up on the subject. By the age of 6, most

children have been injected with the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation

of 48 doses of 14 different vaccines, not

including optional immunizations. With that

number of shots, parents are taking a

critical-thinking approach to vaccinations and

making themselves aware of the pros and the

cons.....The National Vaccination Information

Center is another organization dedicated to

vaccination issues. The nonprofit was founded in

1982 by Jeff Schwartz, Barbara Loe Fisher and

Kathi who are parents of vaccine-injured

children. " We are parents whose kids were injured

in the early '80s by the DTP vaccine. My son was

injured at 2½ years old and was left with ADD and

multiple learning disabilities, " co- founder and

president of NVIC Barbara Loe Fisher said. " We

aren't necessarily anti-vaccination but are

instead pro-education, " Fisher said. Although

Fisher said she feels that we have come a long

way in public awareness, there is room for

improvement. " My son had the vaccination and

changed from a happy, high- functioning child to

a sick child that regressed and no longer knew

his alphabet or numbers. He became frustrated

easily and was emotionally fragile. He stopped

just short of autism, " Fisher said. " I watch this

now and it is happening in greater frequency.

There is enough evidence now that vaccines can cause death or injuries. " Ho

" We are parents whose kids were injured in the

early '80s by the DTP vaccine. My son was injured

at 2½ years old and was left with ADD and

multiple learning disabilities, " co-founder and

president of NVIC Barbara Loe Fisher said.

" We aren't necessarily anti-vaccination but are

instead pro-education, " Fisher said.

Although Fisher said she feels that we have come

a long way in public awareness, there is room for improvement.

" My son had the vaccination and changed from a

happy, high-functioning child to a sick child

that regressed and no longer knew his alphabet or

numbers. He became frustrated easily and was

emotionally fragile. He stopped just short of

autism, " Fisher said. " I watch this now and it is

happening in greater frequency. There is enough

evidence now that vaccines can cause death or injuries. "

Holistic Family Healthcare in Hackettstown, N.J.,

is one of a few facilities in the region that provides natural medicine.

" I am a primary care provider that allows my

patients to not vaccinate. I do not offer

vaccinations in my office, " said Elaine Hardy, a

family nurse practitioner and owner of the

facility. " I think it needs to be a parent's

choice, an informed choice. I am not against

vaccinations at all. I am into doing it in a safe

and controlled manner though. "

Some parents feel that delaying vaccines until a

child is older is the better way. " I am all for

delaying vaccines. It is smarter, " Hardy said.

" I believe that vaccines are an amazingly good

health measure for the general public, but I just

feel that at the very least, we need to back off

the frantic pace of getting all the inoculations

as soon as possible, " Dellicker said.

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