[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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www.NVIC.org

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

Americans 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

vaccination.

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

canonize 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

injury 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

compromise 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

REALLY 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

legislators 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.

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" 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)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603770_pf. html

" 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)

http://www.nytimes.com/20 08/06/10/health/views/10case.html?

partner=rssnyt & emc=rss

" 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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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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UK

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