Stop NY State Mandatory Vaccinations from Washington

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Hi Health Activists,

There is a bill in Albany Submitted by the Governor's Health Department to

Mandate the entire Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization

Policies (ACIP)

without any state review of it's validity. This could mandate flu

vaccination for all students,. HPV for girls and many others, flu vaccine for

all and

health care workers.

Ask to stop A10942 Compulsory Vaccination bill.

A5468/S3031 should be supported broadening and clarifying conscientious

personal exemptions.

The attached Memorandum of Support detailing the legitimate Medical concerns

expressed in The Journal of the Amercan Medical Association , Money Magazine

and the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons refers to bills in a

prior session the current bills are A5468/S3031.

Call your Assemblymenber and State Senator.

 

 

The bill summary is available here:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10942

 

Find assembly legislators here:

_http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/_ (http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/)

For State Senators

_www.senate.state.ny.us_ (http://www.senate.state.ny.us) no bill number is

available yet in the Senate-one could be introduced since the State Health

Department wants it.

 

 

Activists/parents,

 

I received word that this bill may get on the agenda and move, with or

without minor revisions.

 

People should be encouraged to write to their Assembly Member and State

Senator (although I do not see a Senate bill, but it could come out), and the

chairs of the corresponding Health Committees, where the bills would go (the

Assembly bill is there), besides the Governor. But it was the Governor's

Health

Dept that put it in. Perhaps the unfunded mandate is issue could resonate

with the Gov., but one would assume that he is ok with the bills his staff is

advancing.

 

Organizations should actively fight the bill, focussing on issues that

concern them the most.

 

For example, Dawn Richardson in Texas makes a good point on unfunded

mandates in a tough economy, here:

 

 

QUOTE

Beware of the unfunded mandate, especially in today's economy (good argument

to use on legislators). The state will have to come up with the money for

the vaccines delivered by social services programs and the increase in

insurance premiums to cover all kids of state employees etc at the whim of

unelected

unaccountable members ACIP. The state only has so much money which means

other programs will have to be cut to fund new mandates that legislators won't

decide on. The economic arguments are where I would go with people that

don't understand why this is just plain wrong.

UNQUOTE

 

 

Another argument you can make is that this bill will render the NYS

legislature impotent. The bill relegates to federal health agencies what had

used to

be decisions by the NYS legislature. Ask the rhetorical question, what has

changed that warrants taking away their power and responsibility for NYS

residents? Ask, if the legislature had jurisdiction over the health

requirements

of state residents, what is the justification for relinquishing it now? Ask

them which other states have relinquished its sovereign powers.

 

 

Another argument on this issue of state sovereignty, can be extended to

include the following Constitutional point:

 

 

QUOTE

There's a reason that there are no federal laws mandating vaccination for

any child in the U.S. Because unenumerated powers are reserved to the states.

Public health laws are not mentioned in the Constitution, so it is the

jurisdiction of each state to mandate or not mandate vaccinations.

 

Under Federalism though, the central government can make recommendations to

the states. That's why the CDC will occasionally draft model legislation for

the states to adopt. But it's ultimately a state matter. The reason

schools were designated as the enforcement agency is because schools are an

existing structure through which children must intersect.

 

However, Bill A10942 will violate the concept of Federalism. It will make

NYS schools a direct enforcement arm of the federal government, circumventing

the state's sovereignty. How many other states thought this would be a great

idea? None.

UNQUOTE

 

 

There are health and medical issues you can raise:

 

 

One argument is that legislators will be subjecting their own children to

the fanatical whims of public health officials, whose sole mandate is to

maximize vaccination levels, and with as many vaccines as possible. The

intention

of having representatives of the people have the final decision in making a

vaccine compulsory or not was to inject a moderating factor in the

decision-making process. The legislature reflects the wishes of the public.

And in the

future, there may be another controversial vaccine in which the public and

medical authorities outside of government oppose, yet health agencies approve.

Ask legislators what they would be able to do to protect their own child

from a risky vaccine that federal authorities mandate for NYS?

 

 

Finally, a good argument relating to the medical aspect is that federal

health agencies do not use appropriate criteria for making vaccine

recommendations for vaccines, nor are the different sources of recommendations

uniform and

in agreement. More importantly, vaccine recommendations were never intended

to be mandated by law. Please elaborate on these points from the text in the

attached pdf file.

 

Gary Krasner, Director

Coalition For Informed Choice

188-34 87th Drive, suite 4B

Holliswood, NY 11423

718-479-2939

CFIC

www.CFIC.us

 

" For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over

public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled " . . . Richard P. Feynman

 

 

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PEOPLE WHO CAN TRAVEL TO ALBANY:

 

From Rita Palma:

 

I went to Albany last week.

 

IT IS IMPERATIVE WE GET TO ALBANY IN A GROUP on June 10th. Bill 10942 is

being pushed by many parties with $BIG MONEY$ . There was an Assembly Health

Committee Meeting yesterday. Bill 10942 was discussed. The meeting was too

crowded for me to to get in. But the pharmaceutical company lobbyists arrived

early and got seats along with the attention of the lawmakers. THEY WANT THIS

PASSED- RIGHT NOW THERE IS NOTHING TO STOP THEM.

 

The link to 10942: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10942

 

The bill is frightening. Mandatory flu shots are right around the corner.

They did it in NJ-they can do it here.

 

TOGETHER, WE CAN SHOW THEM NEW YORKERS WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS

 

More points:

 

1.) Sheldon Silver, Assembly Speaker (518) 455-3791, is the single biggest

roadblock to the Philosophical Exemption Bill. Silver needs to be pushed.

Fifty people in his office is a PUSH IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

 

2.) I was told, point blank, by a member of the Health Committee that a

parent's right to choose DOES NOT trump public health (or this parties

perception

of public health).

 

3.) The media WILL cover 50 people with a common cause. COVERAGE IS

ESSENTIAL. I have lots of media contacts at this point- they will all be

invited.

 

4.) My visit made a difference yesterday- people noticed, lawmakers

listened. BUT WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TO GET IT DONE.

 

I know leaving your life for a day is tough- I had to jump through hoops

yesterday. BUT THIS BILL WILL DIRECTLY AFFECT OUR LIVES AND FREEDOM AS SOON AS

IT IS PASSED. So far, there are 13 people committed to go. We need 37 more!

 

I am attaching a flyer for the 'BUS TRIP TO ALBANY.' Call friends, family.

Print the flyer and hang it in local stores. Forward this e- mail to everyone

you know- the more we get the word out, the better our chances are of getting

it done. E-mail natural healers, doulas, chiropractors, pregnant women,

health food stores etc. Forward, forward, forward. I've already rec'd three

emails from people Upstate who are willing to meet us on the 10th so forwarding

is

the way to go- - free, quick, effective.

 

Let me know ASAP if you can make the 10th!

 

Rita M. Palma

www.mykidsmychoice.com

ritapalma

Dedicated to Informed Rights of Parents

 

 

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This article below contains the basic infromation on the bill:

 

 

Article excerpted from SoHo Journal 5/28/08

http://www.sohojournal.com/?p=943

 

Act now to stop the worst vaccine law ever proposed in New York since the

invention of the mandatory schedule. Assembly Bill 10942 would make all

vaccines recommended by the CDC mandatory for all children to attend school

and, and for the first time vaccines would become mandatory for infants and

toddlers.

 

The bill was introduced in Rules Committee at the request of Richard Daines,

the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. The Rules

Committee in the personal committee of the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver

(D-Manhattan).

 

A-CHAMP is calling for rejection of this bill and is demanding the passage

of A5468/S3031, a bill that would give individuals a right to a

philosophical exemption from vaccine mandates. This is no time to transfer

vaccine decisions away from individuals and elected officials answerable to

the voters and give it to obscure bureaucrats with financial ties to the

vaccine industry.

 

Here are a few features of the proposed bill:

 

.. Our elected New York representatives would no longer determine the

mandatory schedule of vaccines to attend school; decisions made by the

federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would automatically

become mandatory.

 

.. All children, infants and toddlers included, in New York would be required

to get all vaccines recommended by the ACIP according to the ACIP schedule

 

.. All children in New York up to age 18 would be required to get annual flu

shots.

 

.. All girls in New York would be required to get a human papilloma virus

shot.

 

.. All junior high school children and college students would be required to

get meningococcal shots.

 

.. Doctors would be required to issue certificates for every shot given and

parents would be required to maintain the records and provide them to school

and other authorities.

 

.. The rules committee claims that the new laws would have no fiscal impact

on the state despite the necessity of the state to spend tens of millions on

purchasing new vaccines, a vast increase in mandatory record keeping and

enforcement for schools, and a huge increase that could be expected in the

number of cases of neurological damage, Guillian Barre syndrome and other

vaccine-caused injuries.

 

We only have a few weeks to defeat this bill. Let your Assemblymember and

State Senator know immediately that a vote for this bill guarantees that you

will do everything you can to get them un-elected. In addition to emailing

and calling your local representatives, please call Speaker Sheldon Silver

and let his staff know, politely, that this is a disastrous idea. While you

are at it please call Governor David Paterson and let his staff know,

politely, that this is a horrible law.

 

*Governor David Paterson (518) 474-8390*

 

*Speaker Sheldon Silver (518) 455-3791*

 

*Thomas P. Morahan (518) 455-3261 (Rockland County State Senator)*

 

*Nancy Calhoun (518) 455-5441 (Rockland County Assemblywoman)*

Letters are even better. All of these officials addresses are easily

available in a google search. Tell everyone you know who you think will

care and respond! Time is of the essence, so a barrage of phone calls would

be very valuable.

 

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