If California SB 277 is passed, all children under 18 years of age in the state would be required to be vaccinated with every mandated vaccine – currently 69 doses of 16 different vaccines – in order to reside in California and to attend any public, private, or home school. This means that every child, even those with autoimmune issues or religious/philosophical exemptions, would have to have all mandatory vaccines in order to go to school, including home school, and would be required to receive any mandated vaccine in the future, which could include the 300-plus vaccines awaiting approval.
The effects of SB 277 will be incredibly severe. If SB277 is passed it:
• Removes the parent’s right to informed consent, giving government control of what they put into your child’s body.
• Removes your decision on a vaccination schedule. Your child will have to have every vaccination mandated, including all new vaccines the government mandates in the future.
• Will force any child attending school with a U.S. Visa to get all mandated vaccines, even if the visiting child already has received vaccinations.
• Will force you to pay a lot of money for these vaccines, even if you don’t want your child to have them.
• Removes all educational opportunities for children who have personal, medical, or religious beliefs against forced vaccination. Your child will not even be allowed to be homeschooled if you do not comply.
Keep in mind that in AB 2109, Sen. Richard Pan required consultation with a doctor before receiving a personal exemption. This law has been in effect for only one year, and in this time there has been a 20 percent reduction in parents seeking a personal exemption (opt out rate dropped from 3.15 to 2.5 percent). Shouldn’t this new law be enough in these fiscally c hallenging times?
Of the only 2.5 percent of Californian children who are opting out of many vaccines, many are doing so due to severe medical reasons. However, if SB 277 is passed, medical exemptions will be extremely difficult to obtain and issued only after an approved catastrophic adverse vaccine reaction has occurred.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration’s reporting site Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), there are 30,000 vaccine-related injuries a year with more than $3 billion being paid to these families through the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled vaccinations as “unavoidably unsafe.” Since vaccines do injure and cause death, as reported by VAERS and the CDC, no parents should be forced to vaccinate their children. If there is a risk, there should be a choice.
Most people are choosing to vaccinate and/or partially vaccinate. But that is not the real issue at stake here. The issue is the government taking away our choice of what we put into our bodies. If we give the government control over what we believe is right for us and our children now, what does that say about the future?
You don’t have to be anti-vaccination to be anti-medical mandate. If there is a risk, there must be a choice. Please support our rights as Americans and our rights as parents to decide on the best medical care for our children. We strongly urge everyone to call our state lawmakers today and tell them to oppose SB 277.
The first hearing for SB 277 was scheduled for April 8 in the Senate Health Committee prior to Moonshine Ink’s press deadline. If voted through, the second hearing will take place on April 15 in the Senate Education Committee. Check sb277.org for current updates.
~ Composed of more than 100 Tahoe/Truckee community members, parents, business owners, health practitioners, and friends, Californians For Medical Freedom-Tahoe is just one of the several newly formed grassroots groups out of the thousands of parents opposing SB 277. We are not anti-vaccination, we are anti-medical mandates. Visit our website at medicalfreedomtahoe.wordpress.com.
