The pediatrician we previously used in Columbia MO told me that if I did not follow the immunization schedule, they would not treat my child and I would have to find care elsewhere. This happened January 2007.
I have since found caregivers who are more understanding of my choice to not expose my child to the toxins in immunizations. I am horrified that such a large and powerful medical association will now be dictating who does or doesn't receive care.
Where are the scarlett I's?
--- On Thu, 6/19/08, MCC-FHC <email@...> wrote:
From: MCC-FHC <email@...>
Subject: [MCC-FHC] Fw: [NVIC] AAP Leadership Fights Informed Vaccine Choices
To: MCCFHC@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 4:04 PM
NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter
June 19, 2008
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In another fit of pique aimed at the growing number of vaccine-educated parents questioning pediatricians about the safety of vaccines, the largest private medical organization representing medical doctors treating children - the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) - recently announced to its membership that it will fight doubting parents in their offices, in the media, on the internet and through a partnership with other wealthy and powerful organizations funded by a pharmaceutical industry committed to doing the same thing.
On May 30, the AAP leadership reports that it met with the leaders of 15 allied organizations in Elk Grove, Illinois to discuss the growing refusal of parents to vaccinate their children according to recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and AAP. A recent
letter to AAP members stated:
"The group agreed that recent attacks on vaccines have left parents confused. The rates of exemptions are climbing, and the protection of communities from vaccine preventable diseases is in jeopardy. Participants identified several factors that promote anti-vaccine information:
- Parent-to-parent spread of myths,
- A public that does not understand the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases,
- Internet and media exposure that is not balanced,
- Decreased trust in the government and health care providers,
- Slow response to negative news coverage, and
- Increasing calls for philosophical exemptions.
The group recognized strategies that have worked in the past to address these drivers, agreed to jointly promote the positive value of vaccines, and will come together again in July to develop a cohesive message for dissemination. This message will be disseminated in mainstream media, through professional organizations, and via Internet tools. Materials are expected to be available by fall 2008. The group will formally be known as the Immunization Alliance."
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This link is to information on the AAP website that gives pediatricians instructions about what to do with parents who refuse to obey the doctor's orders, including a sample letter to parents that states:
"By not vaccinating your child you are taking selfish advantage of thousands of others who do vaccinate their children, which decreases the likelihood that your child will contract one of these diseases. We feel such an attitude to be self-centered and unacceptable. We are making you aware of
these facts not to scare you or coerce you, but to emphasize the importance of vaccinating your child. We recognize that the choice may be a very emotional one for some parents. We will do everything we can to convince you that vaccinating according to the schedule is the right thing to do.
However, should you have doubts, please discuss these with your health care provider in advance of your visit. In some cases, we may alter the schedule to accommodate parental concerns or reservations. Please be advised, however, that delaying or "breaking up the vaccines" to give one or two at a time over two or more visits goes against expert recommendations, and can put your child at risk for serious illness (or even death) and goes against our medical advice as providers... .such additional visits will require additional co-pays on your part. Furthermore, please realize that you will be required to sign a "Refusal to
Vaccinate" acknowledgement in the event of lengthy delays.
Finally, if you should absolutely refuse to vaccinate your child despite all our efforts, we will ask you to find another health care provider who shares your views. We do not keep a list of such providers nor would we recommend any such physician."
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Educated parents of America attempting to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions for your children be warned: your pediatrician is out to change your mind about vaccination or teach you a lesson you will never forget.
Hang on to your child because the doctor you have trusted with your child's life might just try to make you out to be a bad parent and not only throw you out of the office but notify state officials to charge you with child medical abuse if you don't agree to give your child every one of those 69 doses of 16
vaccines that doctors working for the Centers for Disease Control say all children from birth to age 18 must get.
Be prepared that the doctor, who you pay to keep your child well, may dutifully obey recent orders given by the AAP leadership to implement one-size-fits- all government vaccine policies: no questions asked. The next time you visit your pediatrician and attempt to ask a question about vaccine reactions or suggest your child get fewer or no vaccines (especially if your child has already suffered serious vaccine reactions your doctor refuses to recognize) be prepared to be humiliated, harassed, threatened and thrown out of the office.
The message from the AAP leadership to vaccine-educated parents is: you WILL give your children every vaccine that industry produces even it brain damages or kills them. You DO NOT have the human right to protect your child from vaccine injury and death
because you MUST sacrifice your child for what AAP and government officials have decided is the "greater good." Your child does NOT belong to you and if you don't agree to do exactly what we say, we will make sure your family is denied medical care.
Sounds like a smart plan to me, pediatricians of America, if you want to fatally compromise the last remaining shred of trust that mothers and fathers have in your knowledge about vaccine risks and how to minimize them for the children they love more than anyone in the world.
In the words of Jim Carrey: "How stupid do you think we are?"
Twenty-six years ago, the co-founders of the National Vaccine Information Center came to the table with the AAP leadership to talk about compensating children injured by mandated vaccines because the AAP said it was a matter of "simple justice for children." We believed the AAP leadership really
cared about minimizing vaccine risks for the individual child rather than just wanting to pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 for the purpose of protecting drug companies and pediatricians from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths so they could continue to implement one-size-fits- all vaccine policies. Time and time again over the past quarter century, the AAP leadership has demonstrated that they betrayed the trust of parents then and now by refusing to work with parents to minimize vaccine risks.
In 1982, it was far easier to sweep vaccine injured children under the carpet because 1 in 6 American child was not becoming learning disabled and 1 in 150 child was not regressing into autism. Today, there are so many highly vaccinated children who are sick and disabled that there is no place to run and no place to hide.
The vaccine safety and informed consent movement has been led by
educated middle class mothers and fathers who DO know how to tell a bad scientific study from a good one; who DO know how to calculate the amount of mercury or aluminum in a vaccine; and who DO know the difference between being told a lie and being told the truth about vaccine risks.
AAP: we are not stupid. We will not stand by and watch our children and grandchildren become vaccine damaged because you are obsessed with forcing every child to use every vaccine that Pharma produces with no concern for protecting the children who cannot use every vaccine safely. You can deny us medical care and try to take away our human right to voluntary, informed consent to vaccination but you will never win the war you have declared on millions of vaccine-educated parents in America.
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AAP Spearheads New Immunization Alliance
On May 30, 2008, leaders from 15
organizations met
at the American Academy of Pediatrics headquarters
in Elk Grove Village, IL, to discuss recapturing the
public's trust in immunizations. The meeting was
called by the Academy's Executive Director, Errol
Alden, MD, FAAP, in response to the #1 resolution
from the Annual Leadership Forum, which
resolved, "that the Academy lead the development of a
coalition of health professional, public health,
scientific and other organizations to develop a media
campaign to market directly to parents the value of
immunizations and the importance of child health
recommendations based on credible scientific
evidence."
The group agreed that recent attacks on
vaccines have left parents confused. The rates of
exemptions are climbing, and the protection of
communities from vaccine preventable diseases is in
jeopardy. Participants identified several factors that
promote anti-vaccine information:
- Parent-to-parent spread of myths,
- A public that does not understand the risk of
vaccine-preventable diseases,
- Internet and media exposure that is not balanced,
- Decreased trust in the government and health care
providers,
- Slow response to negative news coverage, and
- Increasing calls for philosophical exemptions.
The group recognized strategies that have
worked in the past to address these drivers, agreed to
jointly promote the positive value of vaccines, and will
come together again in July to develop a cohesive
message for dissemination. This message will be
disseminated in mainstream media, through
professional organizations, and via Internet tools.
Materials are expected to be available by fall 2008.
The group will formally be known
as the Immunization
Alliance. The Alliance plans to continue to work
together to address immunization issues as they
emerge both now and in the future.
More information will be in the July issue of AAP
News. In order to support its members in the
meantime, the Academy has developed several
resources for parents and pediatricians posted on the
CISP Web Site at
http://www.cispimmu nize.org/ pro/pro_main. html
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