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Michigan Guts Vaccine Exemptions
While Ohio Saves Them
Just
before Christmas, the powerful Pharma-Public Health-Medical Trade lobby
launched an orchestrated attack in Ohio and Michigan to restrict the
legal rights of parents to make voluntary choices about vaccination for
their children. NVIC was able to warn parents in Ohio in time for them
to take action and protect vaccine exemptions, but forced vaccination
proponents in Michigan pulled a fast one and succeeded in gutting
vaccine informed consent rights in that state.
Ohio Citizens Take Action
During the first week in December, NVIC issued an Action Alert via the online NVIC Advocacy Portal and NVIC Newsletter
warning that the forced vaccination lobby was pressuring Ohio state
legislators to create new vaccine requirements for daycare attendance
and require parents to get approval from a doctor or other state
designated medical worker before filing non-medical vaccine exemptions
for children. Ohio residents responded to NVIC's call to action, which
was reposted on Facebook and through different online forums including
the Mercola Newsletter, Health Impact News, Autism Action Network and others.
Ohio Vaccine Exemptions Protected
Although Ohio legislators did pass a law (HB 394)
in December that requires children attending daycare to get every CDC
recommended vaccination while also giving pharmacists the green light to
administer vaccines, legislators were responsive to protests from Ohio
citizens defending non-medical vaccine exemptions. The new law leaves
non-medical religious and conscientious belief vaccine exemptions
intact, with one Ohio lawmaker emphasizing during floor debates the need
for "flexibility and protections for people's rights in their personal beliefs."
Another legislator stated "the same exemptions that apply today for
entrance to kindergarten would still apply for those kids entering
licensed child care facilities... so for those parents who have a
religious or conscientious objection, they still may do that."
Michigan Health Officials Abuse Rule Making Authority
In
contrast to Ohio, where the public was allowed to participate in the
lawmaking process, Michigan state health department officials abused
their rule making authority so they could fly under the radar to limit
citizen participation and sneak vaccine exemption filing changes through
the back door. Without notifying long-recognized vaccine stakeholders,
such as Michigan Opposing Mandatory Vaccines
and NVIC, and without any legislative hearings, state health officials
quietly gutted the non-medical vaccine exemption filing process by
burying a rule change notice in on page 166 of a 240-page document
published in the Nov. 1, 2014 Michigan Register.
As of Jan. 1, 2015, Michigan parents filing a non-medical exemption form for their children first will be required to ask a health department official to certify
that they have received one-sided state vaccine "education." Without
that health department "certification," a non-medical vaccine exemption
will not be accepted by a day care facility, school or other
state-funded activity program.
NVIC Opposes New Michigan Rule
NVIC
State Advocacy Director Dawn Richardson said: "In Michigan, state
health officials abused their rule making privileges and failed to
adequately inform the public and solicit feedback from families
negatively impacted by restriction of non-medical vaccine exemptions.
The Michigan legislature should make it a priority in the new session to
quickly rescind the new rule, which endorses state-sanctioned
discrimination against and coercion, harassment and intimidation of
families making informed vaccine choices by assuming they are ignorant
and in need of re-education."
Stand Up in Michigan and Your State Today!
Learn
more about what NVIC is going to do in Michigan in the New Year and
what YOU can do in Michigan and other states to protect vaccine
exemptions by signing up today to use the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal. As
a Portal user, you will receive email updates about vaccine legislation
pending in your state and have direct electronic access to your own
state legislators so you can make your voice heard. You will also have
immediate access to NVIC Advocacy Portal updates as vaccine bills move
through the legislative process.
No
matter what state you live in, please understand that the forced
vaccination lobby could descend on your state unannounced in the coming
year. Be prepared to fight back by being among the first to get NVIC
Action Alerts about proposed changes to vaccine laws in your state and
learn what you can do about it.
Share Your Vaccine Reaction, Failure and Harassment Experiences
Please
take a few moments to report your own vaccine reaction, failure and
harassment experiences to NVIC so we can share them with legislators and
post them on NVIC.org to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths and help advocate for reform of vaccine policies and laws in the U.S. It is easy to make a report to NVIC through the online reporting forums on NVIC.org:
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Happy New Year!
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