The following comes from a May 14 Southern California Public Radio story by Rebecca Plevin:
The California Senate Thursday approved a controversial bill that would abolish the personal belief exemption and require almost all children enrolling in daycare or school to be vaccinated.
Legislators voted 25 to 10 in favor of SB 277, which would eliminate parents’ option to not vaccinate their children due to philosophical or religious beliefs. It would retain an exemption for kids who can’t be immunized for medical reasons.
The legislation now moves on to the state Assembly. If it becomes law, California will become the 32nd state to ban the personal belief exemption, and the third state to ban the religious exemption.
Senators voted to set aside amendments introduced by Republican senators, including one by Sen. Mike Morrell (R-Rancho Cucamonga) that sought to reinstate the religious exemption. The Senate also tabled an amendment offered by Sen. Joel Anderson (R-Alpine) that would have required disclosure of a vaccine’s contents to a child’s parents before immunization. Anderson is concerned that some vaccines contain cells from aborted fetuses.
During the debate on the Senate floor Thursday morning, Sen. Anderson questioned why the bill was removing the religious exemption to vaccinations. He asked, “why is it that a religious exemption is so scary to this Senate body?”
Allen responded, explaining that he called several religious leaders and asked if they had concerns about vaccinations.
“I was consistently told that the Catholic Church does not have an opposition to vaccinations,” Allen said. “In fact, many Catholic priests are working very hard in other parts of the world to vaccinate children and people to protect them from dangerous communicable diseases, as a matter of faith for them, because they care so much about the sanctity of life and the preservation of human health.”
No! Catholics should not support the anti- vaccine movement. The requirement to vaccinate children is a public health issue, not a religious one.
Catholics have a moral obligation to fight the use of aborted fetal cell lines in vaccines. Merck used to offer untainted vaccines, but they don’t anymore.
Wrong, Anonymous. They still use fetal stem cell lines in their vaccines. See cogforlife.org! MMR being the most common.
Sorry anonymous. You are correct. I read your post wrong. I humbly apologize!
Thank you RR for the apology, even though I’m not the one you were apologizing to. We could use more examples of that on CCD.
I have never heard Joel Anderson express concern that any vaccines contained cells from aborted infants, but that the cell lines used to grow certain vaccines were harvested from aborted infants.
A 1271-page confidential GlaxoSmithKline report (now available on the Internet)
This industry document provided ample evidence of adverse events from the vaccine, including five known cases of autism resulting from the vaccine’s administration during its clinical trials (see table at page 626, excerpt below).
Article source: https://www.blacklistednews.com/U.S._Media_Blackout%3A_Italian_Courts_Rule_Vaccines_Cause_Autism/41722/0/38/38/Y/M.html
PDF source: https://autismoevaccini.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/vaccin-dc3a9cc3a8s.pdf
Used in Italian case where family was awarded settlement following inoculation child developed autism.
If a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease (eg., Guardisil for HPV) is mandated, I support exemption by parents of the minor. For diseases that are not spread by sexual contact (measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, chicken pox), I do not support a religious exemption if the child is in school– public or private. If the child is home-schooled, I think an argument could be made for withholding vaccination.
The ‘Vaccination Debate’ has been pretty much Non-Existent, and SSADLY So.
Issues such as ‘Brittle’ (some vaccines) versus Lifetime Immunity (Having gotten & recovered from it) have gotten little coverage – despite the difference in how long the vaccination may last effectively.
Predictably – those with objections are lumped in to the ‘anti-Scientific’ camp of ‘religious wing nuts’ (Despite Valid Concerns) – and those who support the use of Drugs on Kids are Champions (even if their results are not overly effective).
However – New Developments have made the Vaccination Situation Far Far More Dire – given the increasing range of Diseases that may now be spread by a vicious new Mosquito Invading California. This One is Bad Folks, and Needs to be included in the ‘debate’ – as particularly in the Frisco Bay Area there are a lot of infectious diseases waiting for such an efficient Vector to spread,
SEE
Disease spreading mosquito species found in Hayward …
wn.ktvu.com/story/…/disease-spreading-mosquito-species-found-in-haywar…
The aedes aegygti is a tiny mosquito that can spread some pretty nasty diseases including dengue, chikungunya and yellow fevers…
The public needs to educate itself on this issue. There are vaccines that use aborted fetal cells to grow the viruses. There may be a link between the human DNA in those vaccines (yes, it is there, along with other known neurotoxins) and disease. A commonly cited study is one done on vaccines in Japan showing no increase of autism with vaccines such as the MMR. The Japanese MMR vaccine does not use aborted fetuses (it is grown on chicken cells) but the only MMR shot offered in the US does. Do we really think that there will be no bad outcomes from injecting ourselves and our children with the DNA of murdered pre-born infants? Familiarize yourself with Dr. Teresa Deischer’s site – SoundChoice.org, a catholic featured on EWTN and the site children of God for life.org
Well, if you are implying that the American vaccine causes autism, you would be incorrect. Vaccines do not cause autism, as has been shown in very many studies, and the original study that purported to show the linkage was shown to be very bad science and was formally withdrawn.
This is unscientific. There is no evidence at all of a scientific nature showing a correlation between vaccines and autism.
Once again The State dismisses the conscience rights of individuals. Soon there will be no individual rights at all, having been subsumed by the State. All Hail the Almighty State! All HAIL Big Brother!
There is no scientific evidence linking vaccines to autism.
There sure is. Sound Choice Pharmaceutical. To bad more researchers are not coming forward like Dr. Deisher. http://www.soundchoice.org
THere is no scientific evidence linking vaccines to autism that has not subsequently been withdrawn by the publisher.
I don’t understand why exemptions have to have a label or limitations attached entitled “Religious” or “medical.” As it stands now, parents can’t opt their child out of sex education classes very easily, can’t exempt them from many of the social studies classes, can’t exempt them from the mental health counseling and services, gym classes that legislators deem necessary for a socially sexually, mentally,nutritionally,”healthy” future member of society. I think education is becoming a place where graduation no longer means they have completed a course of academic studies, but a course of training to be worthily inducted into society as a certified resources for the workplace.
Vaccines have nothing to do with religion. What they have to do with is protecting the majority of innocent students and others from those who become ill with diseases. When I grew up, there were zero vaccines. As a result, we had polio every year when it got warm, and many children were in iron lungs. Annually, there was chicken pox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough. Guess where the children caught those diseases: At school from other children. If one joins the armed forces, one of the first things done to the person is vaccines. Never heard anybody complain. I was naturally immune to childhood diseases. At age 72 I could die from measles or chicken pox or other diseases, according to the doctor, should I become contaminated.
Actually, I think they do have something to do with religion. If your unvaccinated child harbors and spreads a disease to a child who succumbs to the disease, then you are guilty of their death, at least in remote part.
I know you vaccinate, John Patrick, so my post is not aimed at you, but I think the religion argument cuts squarely against those who do not vaccinate. They are a remote participant in the deaths of children, theirs and others.
The general public has NO IDEA about the poor level of science behind vaccine recommendations. The “experts” on vaccine advisory councils heavily profiteer from the pharmaceutical industry. Studies showing vaccine complications have been suppressed. Scientists who might disclose adverse vaccine events are heavily censored and will lose their jobs. The CDC itself profiteers from Big Pharma. Merck has suppressed better and untainted (from aborted fetal cell DNA) vaccines by buying up the licenses. AND vaccines have been proven to cause autism in a small number of individuals. This has been accepted in the US. vaccine court. The court exists because vaccine manufacturers are immune from lawsuits. A larger number of parents of autistic children have received millions of dollars in damages from the U.S. vaccine court. Their wins in the court were enhanced by not calling their child’s problem “autism” but instead using another term like “encephalopathy.” Yes, this is a true cover up and scientific fraud. Yes, vaccines are useful but we do not know the best schedule. The proper studies have NOT been done. Opportunities to research and identify individuals at risk for serious vaccine complications were missed and a strategy of massive vaccination with maximum vaccines adopted, with no attention to long term effects.
Did you know that vaccine reps from big pharma are actually the ones who shot JFK, and then a few years later they were the ones who faked the landing on the moon? I’m pretty sure they are also harboring Jimmy Hoffa and Elvis too.
Forced vaccines today, forced birth control or other unsavory practices in the interest of “public health” in the future.
Another reason to home school your precious children or move to another state. Big Pharma stands to make billions more with government cooperation.
The Very Best ‘Vaccine’ is and remains Mother’s Milk – which passes along all number of helpful antibodies and nutrients to the infant, as well as other Bonding factors which help the Infant (who only moments before birth was a legally non-existent mass of tissue, discardable at will) survive and indeed thrive.
As regards other vaccines – for Some the Risk of the Disease outweighs the potential complications (In the early days Some Children Caught Polio from the vaccine, although the formula has changed to pretty much eliminate that now – it still had a bad rap at the outset) – and for others, the condition (like Mumps) is relatively harmless and the immunity conferred tends to be much stronger and longer than ‘brittle’ vaccinations.
The days of Blind Trust in ‘medical science’ have mostly passed, and incidents such as Hemophiliacs being infected with Aids from tainted blood donations were just one factor.
There is a new ‘proposed’ ruling that would allow those who choose to engage in Homo-Anal Coprophile Behaviors to Donate Blood (currently there is a lifetime ban) = One Year after Reporting their last Homo-Anal Act. Naturally, we would need to take their word for it – and although the Testing Procedures for HIV presence have greatly improved, the Public Trust of those who must fear for their jobs if they dare dissent from the Gaystapo Party Line – puts a serious question over the whole pogrom.