RE: We Don't Vaccinate -- Could I Forgive Myself if my Child Became Injured or Died?
So sad for your friend, especially the pressure she would have been put under to have these vacinations... in the Uk it was't so pressurised when my 2 girls needed to be vaccinated (17yrs ago) - we as parents took the decision to have them both vaccinated, but each vaccination Measles, Mumps and Rubella was done separately over an 18 month period, instead of a combined vaccine. Our decision was primarily based on our gut feeling that introducing so many live vaccines into a small baby was too much, also the 'rumblings' of possible autism was just begining to hit the media and when Tony Blair Prime Minister refused to say whether his children had been vaccinated , this sort of made our minds up. Today my girls are healthy young women. I am so relieved that we did what we felt was right, costly at the time, but you can't put a price on health. Now I understand that you have to show medical records in the States to show that your child has had all vacinations ( friends there informed us) before entering the school system. This is now creeping into the Uk - freedom of choice is being eradicated slowly. I agree children should have vaccinations, but a choice should be offered as to how you have them- combined or individually!
Thank-you ladypenelope1. Vaccines are mandatory for school in two states I believe, Mississippi and beginning this school year, California. I'm in BC, Canada and we have lots of freedom in our province that way. We are one of the most progressive provinces/states and apparently 30% of parents here have skipped at least one of the recommended childhood vaccines. Vaccination is not mandatory anywhere in Canada for school, but in some provinces like Ontario the parent has to fill out an "exemption" form to get into school without all the vaccines. Exemption forms are good in most of the USA.
However, schools here and elsewhere have been lying for many, many years and telling parents that vaccination is mandatory for school. I have had several people tell me how the school said their child couldn't attend without vaccinations. One friend believed them and called their bluff by pulling out her child and keeping him at home. A week later the school called back and said that actually it was okay for him to come to school. I hate how they lie to parents all the time. Just recently in the news here there were stories about how Ontario kicked a couple hundred of kids out of school for not having their vaccinations. In reality, the parents had simply forgot or didn't know that they had to file the exemptions. In Ontario you need either (1) the record of up-to-date immunizations or (2) an exemption letter on file. But the media plays it out as if vaccinations are mandatory. In reality, many of the children expelled were only behind on one or two vaccines because their parents had spaced them out or decided against a few and didn't realize that they needed an exemption for that. But the schools will try to force the parents into vaccination by withholding their true rights.
For myself, I homeschool so that doesn't affect me personally. However, it is repugnant that schools put this pressure on parents.
so very transparent .....NOT! Thats out rageous - Good on your friend for calling their bluff. In the Uk they are promoting the vaccine for teenagers the HPV - again we looked into this deeply and decided to not give it to the girls. Turns out from a recent article in an up market medical magazine , that there are rumours ( like the link between MMR and Autism) that this is a 'birth control' vaccination, one to cause some children to become sterile! - don't know how true this is, but if it turns out to be like the MMR rumours and final prove, then I am glad we refused to have it.
I have been listening to stories from parents and teenagers of the damage that Gardasil/HPV Vaccine has done to them. It has stopped girls menstrual cycles and put them into early menopause. It has made some boys/young men impotent and no longer able to get erections. I have a theory that it may be making some girls/women so that they can't even have sex as it becomes too painful and sometimes penetration impossible. That's just my theory but one lady here on Steemit bravely posted an article about how she has not had sex with her husband because of this medical condition, and she apparently did get the HPV Vaccine. In her article she said that this is mostly a problem for girls/women between the ages of 15-25, which I figured out would correlate exactly with the timeframe that HPV was introduced 10 years ago.