03/12/2015
Just received this message from WAPF... It's a long one but we need as much participation as possible. URGENT ACTION ALERT:
PROTECT VACCINATION PRIVACY IN IDAHO
Senate Bill 1121 has passed the Idaho Senate and is moving to the House Health and Welfare Committee. The language in this bill is the same we fought against and defeated a couple of years ago.
This bill will allow the Idaho Immunization Registry (IRIS) to disclose your children’s vaccination status and information relating to you, the parents, to various entities including the Idaho Health Data Exchange. The bill would also eliminate the requirement that all information relating to a child be removed from IRIS as well as all other parties with which the data might have been shared.
Given the widespread attack on vaccine rights (there are over 100 vaccine bills currently under consideration across the nation) as well as the federal government’s National Adult Immunization Plan which would track vaccine status of all adults, and the childhood vaccine tracking registry we already have in place in Idaho, the government is doing all it can to monitor the vaccine status of our children with a view towards identifying areas of “low compliance” in order to “correct” those areas. See article about problems of vaccine tracking registries.
The bottom line is this bill poses a threat to our privacy and our rights.
TAKE ACTION
PLEASE contact every member of the House Health and Welfare Committee and ask them to OPPOSE S1121. Call or email or both. (See talking points below.)
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Fred Wood, Chair, 332-1074
Kelley Packer, Vice Chair, 332-1045
Brandon Hixon, 332-1052
Christy Perry, 332-1044
Paul Romrell, 332-1056
John Vander Woude, 332-1037
Merrill Beyeler, 332-1180
Eric Redman, 332-1070
Caroline Troy, 332-1035
John Rusche, 332-1133
Sue Chew, 332-1049
Talking Points – Points 1-7 pertain specifically to this bill and should be your focus. The other points are for background or in case you’d like more facts:
You have DEEP concerns about S 1121 and are strongly opposed to it.
Although IC 39-4803 states that Immunization Registry is to be voluntary, it is not voluntary in practice as the system is an opt-out system and many of those who administer vaccines do not inform parents that the system exists, let alone that they can opt out so children are unwittingly enrolled without true parental consent. The language of this bill must be changed to an opt-in system in order to protect our rights and privacy.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare cannot be trusted to respect your rights or privacy as their representative testified a couple of years ago in front of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that they had already added adults to the immunization tracking registry during the H1N1 "outbreak". This was illegal, the individuals never consented to this and were unaware of this.
As written, the bill would no longer require a child’s records to be removed from all the parties with which IRIS might have shared the data. This is a violation of parental rights to privacy and must be changed. If a parent opts his or her children out of IRIS, this must extend to all parties with which IRIS shares data.
The bill as written may violate HIPAA as HIPPA states: The Privacy Rule protects all "individually identifiable health information" held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral.
Why this is personal to you: a vaccine reaction in someone you know, harassment, etc.
Your body and your children’s bodies do not belong to the state. You want to be free to choose how you nourish and keep yourselves healthy. This bill would allow you and or your children to be tracked by the state and federal government regarding your healthcare choices and facilitates the harassment of those who choose to forego one or more vaccines by these same agencies.
The safety of vaccines is not absolute and no medical doctor would sign a statement that vaccine safety is absolute. The US Supreme Court recognizes vaccines to be “unavoidably unsafe” (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf) and to cause injury and death in some recipients. The US government has paid out more than $3 billion to the victims of vaccine injury. Hundreds of thousands have reported an adverse reaction to vaccination. Vaccine package inserts warn of the risk of brain damage, life-threatening allergy, and death and no one knows in advance who will be harmed by a vaccine.
Vaccine makers and the healthcare providers who administer them bear zero liability for vaccine injuries and deaths. Vaccine makers have no incentive to make vaccines safe.
Most of the vaccines given today are for diseases that are either rare or mild. For example, there have been no deaths from measles during the last 10 years, but 108 deaths reported after the MMR vaccine during the same time period.
It is immoral to pressure a person to inject a pharmaceutical product into their body, or anything for that matter, even more so when that product could injure or kill them.
There are many other ways to stay healthy: a healthy diet, adequate rest, sunshine and exercise, etc. without any risk of vaccine injury.
Children today receive 69 doses of vaccines for 16 different viral and bacterial illnesses which more than doubles the government childhood schedule of 34 doses of 11 different vaccines in the year 2000. A vaccine exemption is filed regardless of whether it is for one dose or all doses. Thirty-five doses and 5 more unique vaccines have been added to the schedule in the last 15 years. Those supporting forced vaccination are being dishonest by not acknowledging the exploding vaccine schedule while sounding alarms over small increases in overall non-medical exemptions.
There are hundreds of new vaccines in development including some of the following in clinical trials: HIV, herpes, E. coli, dengue fever, avian influenza, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, norovirus, cholera, smoking cessation, syphilis, and gonorrhea. If vaccine manufactures and others who profit from forced vaccination convince legislators to take away our right to delay or decline a vaccine now, what will our future look like?
In the past 5 years, drug makers have paid the U.S. Government 19.2 billion in criminal and civil FRAUD penalties. Skepticism of the pharmaceutical industry is well deserved.
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