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>[wiseweeds] OT Doctors' Group Votes To Oppose Mandatory

>Vaccinations

>Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:11:58 -0500

>

>FYI,

>Cathy, Wise Weeds

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>

>

> > Leading Doctors' Group Votes To Oppose

> > Mandatory Vaccinations

> > Dr. James Hirsen <hirsen

> >

>http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2000/11/3/083415

> > 11-3-00

>

>A leading national physician organization is calling for a

> >moratorium on all government mandated vaccines and has passed a

>resolution to

> >that end at their annual meeting.

> >

> Members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

> (AAPS) voted this week at their 57th Annual Meeting in St. Louis to

> pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory childhoodvaccines.

>

> The resolution passed without a single " no " vote. (Resolution and

> mandatory vaccine fact sheet posted at www.aapsonline.org)

> >

> " Our children face the possibility of death or serious

> >long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines that aren't necessary

>or that

> >have very limited benefits, " said Jane M. Orient, MD, AAPS Executive

> >Director.

> >

> " This is not a vote against vaccines, " said Dr. Orient. " This

> >resolution only attempts to halt blanket vaccine mandates by government

>

> >agencies and school districts that give no consideration for the rights

>

> >of the parents or the individual medical condition of the child. "

> >

>Forty-two states have mandatory vaccine policies, and many children

> are required to have 22 shots before first grade. On top of

> >that, as a condition for school attendance, many school districts

>require

>vaccination for diseases such as hepatitis B -- primarily an

> >adult disease, usually spread by multiple sex partners, drug abuse or

>an

> >occupation with exposure to blood.

> >

>And yet, children under the age of 14 are three times more

> >likely to suffer adverse effects -- including death -- following the

> >hepatitis b vaccine than to catch the disease itself.

> >

>Just last week, students in Utica, NY were sent home from

> >school, and told they could not return until they had been forced to

> >receive hep B vaccinations. Further, parents were threatened by Child

>Protective

>Services with possible seizure of their children based on

> > " education neglect. "

> >

> " It's obscene to threaten to seize a child just because his

> >parents refuse medical treatment that is obviously unnecessary and

>perhaps even

>dangerous, " said Dr. Orient. " AAPS believes that parents, with the

>advice of their doctors, should make decisions about their children's

>medical care -- not government bureaucrats. This Resolution affirms that

>position. "

> >

>(Note: AAPS is a professional association of physicians

> >dedicated since 1943 to the sanctity of the patient-physician

>relationship.) _____

> >

>Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. 1601 N.

> >Tucson Blvd. Suite 9 Tucson, AZ 85716-3450 Phone: (800) 635-1196

>Hotline:

>(800) 419-4777 A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943 Omnia pro

> aegroto

> >

>

> > AAPS RESOLUTION CONCERNING MANDATORY VACCINES

> >

> " Ethical Medicine " AAPS Annual Meeting October 25 - 28, 2000 St.

>Louis, MO Submitted for Member approval:

> >

> WHEREAS: The statement of Patients' Freedoms adopted by the

>Assembly at the 47th annual meeting of AAPS in 1990 provides that

> " Patients have the freedom to refuse medical treatment even if

> >it is recommended by their physician and to be informed about their

> >medical condition, the risks and benefits of treatment, and

>appropriate

> alternatives " ; and

> >

>WHEREAS: There are increasing numbers of mandatory childhood

>vaccines, to which children are often subjected without meaningful

> informed consent, including information about potential adverse

> >side effects; and

> >

>WHEREAS: Parents who exercise their freedom to refuse one or more

>vaccines may be subjected to penalties ranging from deprivation

> >of the right to enroll their child in school, to threats of removing

> >the child from parental custody and forcible vaccination; and

> >

>WHEREAS: Safety testing of many vaccines is limited and the

> >data are unavailable for independent scrutiny, so that mass vaccination

>is

>equivalent to human experimentation and subject to the Nuremberg

>Code, which requires voluntary informed consent; and

> >

>WHEREAS: The process of approving and " recommending " vaccines is

>tainted with conflicts of interest;

> >

>BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That AAPS calls for a moratorium

>on vaccine mandates and for physicians to insist upon truly

> >informed consent for the use of vaccines.

> >

> > -------------- FACT SHEET ON MANDATORY VACCINES

> >

>AAPS does not oppose vaccines. AAPS has never taken an anti-vaccine

>position, although opponents have tried to paint that picture.

> >AAPS has only attempted to halt government or school districts from

>blanket

> vaccine mandates that violate parental informed consent.

> >

>42 states have mandatory vaccine policies, and many children are

>required 22 shots by first grade.

> >

>According to government statistics, children under the age of

> >14 are three times more likely to suffer adverse effects -- including

> >death -- following the hepatitis B vaccine than to catch the disease

> >itself.

> >

>The Centers for Disease Control admits that the reported number of

>adverse effects of vaccines is probably only 10% of actual adverse

>effects.

> >

>The Physician's Desk Reference cites adverse reactions to the

> >hepatitis B in less than 1 percent. However, if more than 70 million

>American

>children receive the vaccine, that means more than 700,000

> >children are likely to suffer adverse reactions.

> >

>Children are a very low risk group for hepatitis B. Primary

> >risk factors are dependent on lifestyle, i.e. multiple sex partners,

>drug

> >abuse or an occupation with exposure to blood.

> >

>Rampant conflicts of interest in the approval process has been the

>subject of several Congressional hearings, and a recent

>Congressional report concluded that the pharmaceutical industry has

>indeed

> >exerted undue influence on mandatory vaccine legislation toward its own

>

>financial interests.

> >

>The vaccine approval process has also been contaminated by

> >flawed or incomplete clinical trials, and government officials have

>chosen to

> ignore negative results. For example, the CDC was forced to

> >withdraw its recommendation of the rotavirus vaccine within one year of

>

>approval. Yet public documents obtained by AAPS show that the CDC

> was aware of alarmingly high intussuception rates months before the

>vaccine was approved and recommended.

> >

>Mandatory vaccines violate the medical ethic of informed consent. A

>case could also be made that mandates for vaccines by school

> >districts and legislatures is the de facto practice of medicine without

>a

> >license.

> >

>The CDC's own " Guide to Contraindications to Childhood Vaccination "

>warns that when assessing children's common symptoms, " if any

> >one of them is a contraindication, DO NOT VACCINATE " [caps added]. And

>yet, under legislated mandates, the vaccines are still required.

>

>

>

>

>The information in this post should not replace advice given by your

>medical practitioner.

>

 

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