Corporate Media Blackout On AB 2109 Threatening Vaccine Rights

Corporate Media Blackout On AB 2109 Threatening Vaccine Rights

On Feb. 23rd, 2012, an assembly
bill (AB 2109) was submitted to the California Legislature by state
assemblyman and pediatrician, Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), which
will make it harder for parents to refuse to vaccinate their children.
The bill is sponsored by the California Medical Association (CMA),
the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the California Immunization
Coalition.

Right now in California if a child
is enrolled in school their parents are legally required to have them
vaccinated. However, exemptions may be obtained by parents who
object for religious or philosophical reasons if they sign the
portion of the immunization record that says immunizations are
contrary to their beliefs and that they understand that in the case
of an outbreak of a ‘vaccine-preventable’ disease the child may be
temporarily excluded from attending school/child care institutions
“for his/her protection.”

If Bill AB 2109 passes, by July
1st, 2013, parents who wish to opt out will be required to bring
with them on the day of enrollment a written statement from a medical
doctor or conventional “health care practitioner” that states they
have been informed of the benefits and risks of vaccines and the
communicable disease they are said to prevent. The parent would also
be required to submit a written statement that indicates that he or
she received the information from the health care practitioner.


As first reported by Dr. Tim O’ Shea in the Feb. 23rd Doctor Within Newsletter:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">"This bill, if passed, would require parents
to obtain the signature of a 'health care practitioner for a
personal beliefs/religious exemption. MDs, nurse practitioners, and
physician's assistants can sign.

Naturopaths and chiropractors cannot. The signature will need to be
obtained on a separate form provided by the Department of Public Health
which states that the health care practitioner has provided risk and
benefit information to the parent."</blockquote>

Thus far, there has been virtually
no mainstream media coverage of Bill AB2109. This is a curious fact,
considering that if it passes it will be illegal not to submit your
children to a medical procedure without the explicit permission of the
conventional medical system. Is this not the very antithesis of the
meaning of health freedom, in a country that prides itself on its
freedom-loving, Constitutionally underwritten principles? As Dr. Tim
O’ Shea explains: <blockquote>Let's remove the word vaccination
from the whole discussion for a minute here. Let's pretend this
whole issue isn't about vaccines at all, but rather about any other
medical procedure. Got that picture?

OK so then tell me, what kind of political system, or medical system
anywhere on earth would presume to make it a law for you to obtain
permission to opt out of any medical procedure, which decisions are
completely your choice in the first place? Permission not to get
medicine? See what I'm getting at here?</blockquote>
If Dr. Tim O’ Shea’s predictions are correct and California falls, like Washington state recently did with the loss of their philosophical exemptions, the rest of the domino states are likely to follow suit in the next 2 years.

In
other words, this stealthily submitted and barely noticed bill is
setting a dangerous precedent and may represent the beginning of the
end for philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions in the United
States -- with mandatory vaccinations likely following close behind.
Now that children, according to the CDC immunization guidelines, are
required to have an increasingly suspect 60 vaccines by age 6 (with
dozens of additional vaccines in the developmental pipeline) how can
we stand by idly while their health and health rights, and those of
all future generations, are being serious jeopardized and legislated
away into oblivion?

Please help to spread the word about Bill AB 2109 now, before it is too late.

Sources:
Assembly Bill 2109
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2101-2150/ab_2109_bill_20120223_introduced.pdf

Dr. Tim O’ Shea’s Feb. 23rd Newsletter
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/end-vaccine-exemptions-california



Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/03/corporate-media-blackout-on-bill-ab2109.html