Forced vaccine movement picks up speed
Currently, the freedom to practice chiropractic as a drug free alternative to medical treatment and the freedom to choose our form of health care is under threat.
For years, I have been claiming this, but only to deaf ears. It is absurd that in modern times, anyone has to worry about being forced to give up his or her chiropractic practice, or compelled by law to have their children injected with risky drugs. But it is happening.
In Maryland, a school district passed regulations stating that if children were not getting all of the “recommended” vaccines, parents could face stiff fines ($50 a day) or up to 10 days in jail.
Maryland is not the only state mandating vaccines and, as Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) states on her blog, US Supreme Court decisions have reinforced the right for states to exercise police power to enforce vaccine laws.
More recently, under the Homeland Security Act, the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act, and Bioshield I and II, states have the power to enforce quarantine or vaccination whenever and however they choose.
As might be expected, the medical and pharmaceutical industries are prodding the states to utilize that power. “History shows that state mandates play a key role in maximizing immunization rates, enabling protection of both individuals and the general population,” wrote Erin Flanagan Klygis, MD, in a policy forum report for the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics.
“No vaccine is 100 percent safe or effective,” the author admitted. “As vaccination rates go up, reports of vaccine associated adverse events, both those caused by vaccines (i.e., true adverse reactions such as anaphylaxis) and those temporally associated with vaccination by coincidence, increase.”
However, Dr. Flanagan Klygis advocates forcing parents to subject their children to vaccines.
“Laws that mandate vaccination for school entry provide the best protection against disease outbreaks for both individuals and the general population,” she said.
The medical profession is clearly in favor of forced vaccines, as are the pharmaceutical companies who generate revenue by selling vaccine drugs. Backed by their multi-billion dollar political action funds, they are influencing federal and state legislators to create an even more Orwellian health care system, dictating to every man, woman and child what drugs they must take to avoid a jail sentence.
Segments of our profession have been influenced by this propaganda as well. Not long ago, one Canadian chiropractic governing body, the College of Chiropractors of Ontario, passed a rule stating its position on vaccines: “The College of Chiropractors of Ontario (CCO) accepts vaccination as a cost effective and clinically efficient public health preventative procedure for certain viral and microbial diseases as demonstrated by the scientific community.”
To ensure no chiropractic patients were exposed to opposing views, the CCO also stated: “Chiropractors … may not, in their professional capacity, express views about immunization/vaccination as it is outside their area of professional expertise.”
Even the American Chiropractic Association has been shy about opposing forced vaccines. The organization once placed an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that was soundly attacked in the profession as being apologetic and timid regarding vaccines. It strongly supported immunizations, antibiotic therapy and said DCs have a moral obligation to refer patients to MDs.
Chirobase, the online arm of the so called “Quackbusters” Stephen Barrett, MD, and Samuel Homola, DC, continues to cite the ACA’s statement that “routine vaccinations have been a proven and effective campaign in the control of many diseases.”
On the other hand, the WCA has been extremely vocal in opposing mandatory vaccines. It has issued a position paper stating, “Medical and scientific research, as well as overwhelming clinical reports, have clearly demonstrated the potential for risk posed by many commonly administered vaccines. These same reports have indicated that the effectiveness of many of these vaccines has not been adequately proven… No person should be forced by government regulation or societal pressure to receive any medication or treatment, including vaccines, against his or her will. This includes mandated vaccines as a requirement for public school admission or for employment eligibility.”
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Our new proposed chiropractic guidelines (still in draft form and up for comment by the profession here in Australia) state that chiropractors must understand the principles of vaccination and be vaccinated against communicable diseases. You can guess my comment when i wrote in my response.
In Australia they recently withdrew a flu vaccine due to numerous significant adverse effects on young children and said it is not possible to carry out extensive testing on seasonal vaccines. Are we to believe they are safe because they say so, not because they have evidence.