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Pediatrician concedes vaccine debate to vaccine rights attorney!

(NaturalNews) A live radio debate over whether or not vaccines should be mandated was scheduled to air on The Fairness Doctrine with Jennifer Sullivan of WMNF Radio in Tampa, Florida, on April 8, 2015. Both parties -- Pediatrician and Mt. Sinai Assistant...

How to eliminate employee influenza vaccine mandates

(NaturalNews) The Department of Health and Human Services "Healthy People 2020" initiative recommends that 90% of U.S. healthcare workers, and 80% of all other U.S. employees be vaccinated annually with the influenza vaccine by 2020. While it is *not*...

Employee Vaccine Mandates: Observations of a Vaccine Rights Attorney

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' "Healthy People 2020" initiative states a goal of vaccinating 90% of the nation's healthcare workers with the influenza vaccine annually by 2020,[1] a goal well underway. A separate DHHS...

Excluding Unvaccinated Children from School During Outbreaks: Standard Policy, But is it Legal?

(NaturalNews) A New York federal court recently dismissed a case brought by parents whose unvaccinated children were excluded from school during local outbreaks. The parents, whose children were exempt from vaccines on religious grounds, claimed that...

Vaccines: Child consent agenda pushes forward

(NaturalNews) Two U.S. states already have laws allowing children to consent to vaccines -- CA and NC -- and this could become a trend around the country, as more state legislatures, TX and NY to be specific, have introduced similar bills. Now, New York...

Vaccine Rights Attorney Challenges Colorado Legislature on Vaccine Exemption Bill

(NaturalNews) California, Oregon and Washington State all have recently enacted new vaccine exemption laws making it harder for parents to exempt their children from mandatory vaccines required for school and daycare. Colorado's House Bill 14-1288, if...

California's New Vaccine Exemption Law - Above the Law?

(NaturalNews) California's AB 2109 was passed into law in 2012 and takes effect January 1, 2014. The new CA law (http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) will require parents exercising an exemption to immunizations to provide a letter or affidavit to document...

Should bioethicist be liable for promoting vaccine injury and death?

(NaturalNews) Bioethicist Art Caplan, Ph.D. of New York University has argued that parents of unvaccinated children should be held liable for illness or death allegedly caused by their unvaccinated children.[1] This article rebuts Caplan's position,...

Attorney refutes Dr. Offit on vaccine religious exemptions

(NaturalNews) Pediatrician and pro-vaccine advocate Dr. Paul Offit has spoken out repeatedly against vaccine religious exemptions. For example, in one speech (http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org ), he implies that since the Old and New Testaments and the...

Vaccine legislative update: The vaccine police state is knocking

(NaturalNews) The National Vaccine Information Center's Advocacy Portal (http://www.nvicadvocacy.org) lists current vaccine bills throughout the U.S. Right now, it lists from one to six vaccine bills in each of 30+ states. Most of these bills, if passed...

2012-13 Healthcare worker flu vaccine review: A concern for us all

(NaturalNews) This past fall, I worked with about 150 healthcare workers in 26 states who were required to get a flu shot to keep their job. I'm happy to report that the vast majority were successful. But I gained some disturbing insights from this national...

Health care worker alert: ABC News misquotes vaccine rights attorney

(NaturalNews) Eight nurses who were fired by their hospital-employer for refusing flu vaccines got national attention earlier this year when ABC News reported on the event. This brought much needed national attention to a trend rapidly sweeping the nation,...

State Senator chooses hospital over constitution and parental rights

(NaturalNews) Every state legislator in the U.S. takes an oath to uphold their state and federal Constitutions. However, in the real world, those oaths can apparently be meaningless. Last year, I wrote about state laws that allow children to consent...

New Jersey joins national trend, seeks restrictions on vaccine exemptions

(NaturalNews) Health freedom-loving New Jerseyans are concerned by State Senator Loretta Weinberg's Senate Bill No. 1759 (http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/S2000/1759_I1.HTM). Introduced this past March, Senator Weinberg's bill is a bid to make...

Pregnant? How to avoid hospital Hep B vaccine woes

(NaturalNews) A recent news story described a newborn being taken away from her mother shortly after birth because of the mother's refusal to allow the child to be vaccinated with a Hepatitis B vaccine. In my law practice, I hear stories from time to...

Why NOT to give your doctor an anti-vaccine liability form

(NaturalNews) Every so often, information circulates around the alternative vaccine community recommending that parents ask their child's pediatrician to sign a liability form. Typically, these forms list vaccine ingredients and ask the doctor to assume...

Unconstitutional New York bills would give children the right to consent to vaccines

(NaturalNews) New York's A343 and S384, if enacted into law, will give children the right to consent to HPV and Hep B vaccines, without the knowledge and consent of their parents. Regardless of your position on vaccines, these bills set a disturbing...

Attorney challenges pediatrician's attack on vaccine religious exemptions

(NaturalNews) The following pediatrician's commentary attacking vaccine religious exemptions was published online in Raleigh's News & Observer (N&O) on February 24, 2012. As the N&O failed to publish my response, I'm publishing it here, where fairness...

ALERT: California's AB 2109 Would Make Doctors Gatekeepers for Non-Medical Vaccine Exemptions!

(NaturalNews) California's pending bill, AB 2109,[1] would require parents exercising a non-medical vaccine exemption for their children to get a health care practitioner's signature on a form signifying that the doctor has given the parent vaccine risk-benefit...

Vermont Legislature: Keep the Vaccine Philosophical Exemption

(NaturalNews) March 7, 2012, To: The Vermont Legislature Re: SB 199, An Act Relating to Immunization Exemptions and the Immunization Pilot Program Honorable Vermont Legislators and Concerned Others: SB 199 seeks to eliminate the Great State...

Pediatrician's refusal to treat unvaccinated kids: Legal and ethical ramifications

(NaturalNews) The following is a letter to U.S. Pediatricians who refuse to treat unvaccinated kids whose parents are exercising a legal exemption to immunizations. A copy of the letter itself is here: Open Letter to Pediatricians Attention: Pediatricians United...

Vaccine exemptions: Do they really put others at risk?

(NaturalNews) Parents who exercise a vaccine exemption for their children are often ridiculed for putting their own children and others at risk. However, legally and medically, unvaccinated children do not pose a significant health risk to themselves...

How hospitals violate healthcare worker vaccine rights - with impunity

(NaturalNews) Following swine flu emergency declarations in 11 states, Washington D.C., American Samoa and the entire U.S. in 2009, hospitals around the country began implementing new flu vaccine mandates for their employees. Healthcare workers who worked...

Colorado joins national trend to implement unconstitutional restrictions on vaccine exemptions: your state could be next

(NaturalNews) Colorado is among the growing list of states seeking to increase the number of mandatory vaccines while restricting access to vaccine exemptions. Previous recent efforts have occurred in WA, NY, NJ, CA and NC. (See Articles by Alan Phillips,...

Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines

(NaturalNews) A current California bill, AB 499, would "allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease."[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil...

Vaccine rights attorney responds to school vaccine contest

(NaturalNews) When I learned that a school district in NC was having a vaccine contest for students, I was very concerned. When I learned that it was my school district, I...

Navy revises vaccine exemption policy and regs by attorney request - twice!

(NaturalNews) Lawmakers can and sometimes do enact laws that are unconstitutional. They can do this for the simple reason that a law isn't technically unconstitutional until a court says it is. This makes sense, since anyone can cry "unconstitutional"...

Unconstitutional vaccine rights bills keep coming

(NaturalNews) Recently, Washington State voted to pass SB 5005, a law making doctors the gatekeepers of all vaccine exemptions -- medical, religious and philosophical. This law was passed despite SB 5005's Constitutional failings (for a legal analysis...

Proposed new limits on vaccine exemptions: Are they constitutional?

(NaturalNews) Health authorities around the country are set on further restricting vaccine exemption rights, probably due to the growing awareness of vaccine problems and increase in exemptions around the country. Currently, proposed laws in Washington...

Vaccine philosophical exemptions: A moral and ethical imperative

(NaturalNews) It is not enough to be informed about the many problems with current immunization policy and practice. We must effectively apply that knowledge to expand our right to make informed choices. Where the rubber meets the road with vaccine rights...
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