Guest guest Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 As if we don't have enough troubles chelating our child, recovering him, finding out about the Cell food debacle, things just seem to get worse. Today, we had a horrible experience. We live in NJ, a state literally owned by big Pharma, I venture to say more so than any other state in the union, every big pharma co., seems to have their headquarters here. We have a Govenor who has the dubious distinction of being the first in the country to require the flu shot for all kids 3 and up, along with prevnar, and a whole host of other vaccines now part of his " mandate. " I believe a conscientious exemption legislation to vaccines is languishing in our state assembly. Many other parents of kids on the spectrum that I know who have kids in our public schools have used a basic religious exemption/objection type letter to schools up until last year, to avoid further poisoning and harm to their kids from vaccines and have been able to still attend public school. This was a sacred type of thing here, as I understood it. Today, I had a truly horrifying close encounter of the worst kind. Into my business walked a woman whom we have known casually and liked for years, she worked in various capacities in the public school as an aide in the disabled programs etc. Today she announced that she now has a promotion and that she is a " compliance officer. " Her only role is to enforce compliance with the " vaccine laws " as she put it. Each school district will now have one of her, along with a lawyer they have hired to " enforce " vaccine compliance, so that they can get at these " reckless parents " as she put it who are " wilfully " refusing to vaccinate their kids for no good reason. This is the first year of this, and no longer will a letter of religious objection alone suffice. She knows our son is on the spectrum. We just said he has lots of allergies and can't get shots. She said, " does he have anaphylaxis, eczema, asthma,.. well documented allergies? " It was as if she had a litmus test, or laundry list of things she had been taught. We just said yes and did not get into it. She said starting this year, for the first time, the state is going to actively " go after " people who do not vaccinate. If you claim religion, they will examine the nature of your religion, visit your pastor and church, especially if you have already vaccinated extensively, which we have and they know about it in our school. Our son goes to a wonderful public autism pre school. We pay exorbitant school taxes to pay for it. NJ has the highest property taxes in the union and some of the best autism programs, as well as the highest rate of autism in the country, which now will only get worse with the Govenor's new mandate. What is a parent to do? We do not belong to an organized church. We believe in God, have come to not believe in vaccines for our son or ourselves, and have come to believe that intervention from the traditional medical establishment, is about pushing drugs on people to benefit big pharma and enrich doctors, and is downright, immoral, unethical and deadly to us. What organized churches share these views, and believe that vaccines and medical interventions are unnecessary as their basic tenets? Our son is 3, we will have to deal with the flu shot issue this fall. He is allergic to eggs, so we have an out right there I guess, without getting into religion. But he will be 4 in the spring, when the next immunizations will be due. If we need to join an organized church to prove to big brother that our beliefs are " real " somehow, we need to do so now, so that the " compliance " bureaucrats are satisfied, otherwise we will have to get a lawyer and fight this. Our resources are already stretched to the limit paying to recover our son. We are truly distraught. Can any of you out there give me some advice? Do any of you already live in states where they investigate religious exemption like this? Please help us, we are besides ourselves. Thanks. Irene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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