Fwd: Attack on VT Philosophical Vaccine Exemption

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Please take a few minutes to write an email to each of these senators, because if they take away Vermont's philosophical exemption, who knows which state will be next. It only takes a few minutes if you click on the bills S199 or H527, and then click on the email for each of the members of the Senate Health Committee. You can also look up your own Senators at the NVIC site and send them one too while you're at it. Just write the email once and then copy and paste it at each email address and just change the name.

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January 19, 2012

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Photo Credit: Gilmore Philosophical Exemption Under Attack in Vermont NVIC Issues Call to Action to Defend Informed Consent Rights There is a serious threat to the philosophical exemption to vaccination in Vermont. Two bills (S.199 and H. 527) backed by 15 legislators in the Vermont state House and Senate propose to eliminate the philosophical exemption to vaccination for children attending school or college.

Vermont - The Healthiest State!

Vermont is one of 18 states in the U.S. that allows a philosophical, personal or conscientious belief exemption to vaccination. Vermont is ranked first as the "healthiest" state, according to America's Health Rankings and has a low infectious disease rate. States that currently have a philosophical/conscientious belief exemption are: CA, ID, WA, MI, UT, AZ, MN, WI, OH, CO, NM, ND, OK, TX, AR, LA, ME and VT. Pharma/Medical Trade Lobby Moving Fast

"We know that the Pharma/Medical Trade Association lobby is planning to mount an all-out effort this year to persuade state legislators to strip philosophical/conscientious belief exemptions to vaccination from state public health laws. NVIC is calling on all concerned citizens and organizations in the state of Vermont - and every state - to get involved and take action to protect the right to voluntary, informed consent to vaccination in America," said NVIC co-founder and president, Barbara Loe Fisher.

NVIC Director of State Advocacy, Dawn said, "We have to go all-out this year because those trying to take exemptions away are politically powerful and have unlimited financial resources."

Click here to read this article and learn more about what the Pharma/Medical Trade lobby is doing to strip informed consent protections from state public health laws.

Sign up for NVIC's Advocacy Portal and take action in 2012 to work with NVIC and defend yourself and your family from forced vaccination in YOUR state. NVIC Defends Health Worker's Informed Consent Rights Federal Committee Recommends Forced Flu Vaccination In a strongly worded statement, NVIC's president and executive director outlined reasons for opposing draft recommendations by a National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) subcommittee that would allow employers to force U.S. health care workers to get annual flu shots without their voluntary, informed consent or be fired:

"NVIC does not support these recommendations or any coercive government or employment policy, which condones the use of harassment and threat of denial of employment or job dismissal as a club to force health care workers with medical, religious or conscientious belief objections to get annual flu shots."

Influenza Vaccine Not Most Effective, Safe Flu Prevention Method

NVIC's statement to NVAC contains referenced information about the lack of scientific evidence that influenza vaccine is the most effective and safe way to prevent influenza, including in medical settings. NVIC also pointed out that a majority of polled subcommittee members personally supported either no influenza vaccine requirements or the inclusion of medical, religious and philosophical exemptions.

Click here to read NVIC's full referenced statement opposing the mandatory vaccination of health care professionals in America.

If you have suffered discrimination or harassment for making vaccine choices, you can post a report on NVIC's Vaccine Freedom Wall. In the News New Thriller Novel Spotlights Vaccine Safety Debate - Vaccine Nation, by best selling thriller author, Lender, is a new, fast-paced action novel that dramatizes the national debate over vaccine safety. Now available in both E-book, paperback and audio through Amazon, the book brings to life the crisis of trust haunting America's one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination program. In the tradition of Six Days of the Condor and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, it both entertains and makes you think. Even though the characters are fictional, the storyline involving drug companies protected from liability and doctors covering up vaccine injuries rings true.

Author Lender drew from his 25-year experience on Wall Street and the knowledge of his wife, Manette Loudon, who was a director/producer for the 2008 documentary film, Vaccine Nation. Lender lists NVIC in the book's Acknowledgements as among the information sources he relied upon for facts to anchor points made by the novel's characters about why vaccines and vaccine policies are not nearly safe enough. In a recent online interview, talks about his reasons for writing a page-turning thriller that is both thought-provoking and fun to read.

Dr. Oz Interviews Dr. Mercola Agree to Disagree - In a free-ranging interview that featured topics including the safety and effectiveness of statins, anti-depressants, tanning beds and flu shots, on his Jan. 4 ABC-TV show Dr. Mehmet Oz introduced Dr. ph Mercola as one of America's "most controversial" doctors. Dr. Mercola, who founded one of the largest health websites on the internet and urges people to "take control" of their health, talks about how high levels of vitamin D are essential to staying well and why the influenza vaccine is not the most effective or safe way to prevent the flu. Since 2008, Mercola.com and NVIC have partnered to publish written and video information about health and vaccination for the public.

Can B Vitamins Boost Your Memory? - Older adults who took vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements for two years had greater improvements on short- and long-term memory tests than adults who did not take the vitamins, according to the results of a new study from Australia.
The benefits were modest, but encouraging, indicating that the vitamins "may have an important role in promoting healthy ageing and mental wellbeing, as well as sustaining good cognitive functioning for longer on a community-wide scale," Janine , the lead author of the study and a researcher at Australian National University, told Reuters Health. Kerry Grens, Reuters/Huffington Post, Jan. 6.

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