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Contrary to what state legislatures may lead you to believe, no one has the legal or moral authority to force you or your child into receiving a vaccine. While the State has the legal authority to fully establish the use of vaccines, to receive a vaccination treatment requires your voluntary and informed consent. Therefore, despite the tricky wording of school officials and mainstream public health workers, there are a number of ways in which you can exempt yourself from receiving the ‘required’ vaccinations as set by school districts and workplaces.
In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to pass laws ‘requiring’ citizens to receive certain vaccines. Today, all 50 states have passed vaccine laws that ‘require’ proof of vaccination in order to attend daycare, elementary, junior and high school and college. What is oftentimes kept from you is the fact that all 50 states have medical exemptions from this rule, 48 states have religious exemptions, and 18 states allow for a philosophical or conscientious belief exemption.
To see what your state vaccine law says and how to apply for the appropriate exemption, check out the State Law & Vaccine Requirements page at the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).
Vaccination and U.S. Law: A Brief Summary
Since 1986, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have eliminated most officially recognized medical reasons for withholding vaccination (contraindications) so that almost no medical condition qualifies for a medical exemption to vaccination.
In most states, school or state public health officials can question or even deny a medical exemption to vaccination written by a doctor if it does not strictly conform to CDC and AAP contraindication guidelines
Religious Exemptions: All but two states (West Virginia and Mississippi) allow religious exemption to vaccination. These exemptions are worded differently in different states and require different forms of written documentation that must be submitted to state governments supporting a sincerely held religious belief opposing vaccination.
Some states require a notarized affidavit or letter from a spiritual advisor attesting to the sincerity of a person’s religious beliefs about vaccination. The religious exemption is under attack and, in some states like New York, parents are being grilled about the sincerity of their religious beliefs by state officials and denied religious exemptions to vaccination so their partially or completely unvaccinated children cannot attend public schools.
Conscientious Belief Exemptions: 18 states allow conscientious, personal or philosophical belief exemption to vaccination. These states come the closest to protecting a citizen’s right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination in America.
They are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin
If a military recruit does not clearly state a medical or religious objection to vaccination BEFORE joining the military, he or she gives up the right to object to vaccination during active military service. Failure to obey an order to vaccinate while on active military duty can result in demotion, imprisonment and involuntary discharge from the military, including dishonorable discharge. After enlistment, legal assistance is often required to successfully object to vaccination without being subjected to sanctions.
Vaccine Exemptions for International Travel: Different countries have different laws requiring vaccines to enter or leave the country. Most developed countries, including those in Europe, currently do not require visitors to show proof of vaccination. However, some countries in Africa, Asia and elsewhere may require certain vaccines to enter or exit. Click here to check the CDC website on travel vaccine requirements.
Other Vaccine Exemption Issues: Vaccine choices also can affect adoption, immigration, child custody arrangements during divorce proceedings, eligibility for health insurance and government entitlement programs, and medical care. Children adopted from foreign countries as well as in the U.S. may be required by US law and adoption agencies to receive certain government mandated vaccines.
Immigration laws also contain vaccine requirement provisions. In cases of divorce, one parent may attempt to gain full custody of a minor child by using the vaccine choice issue as leverage. Some families have been dropped from medical insurance plans or barred from eligibility for government funded medical care and food supplement programs if children are not given all government recommended vaccines.
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Be well.
Some states require a notarized affidavit or letter from a spiritual advisor attesting to the sincerity of a person’s religious beliefs about vaccination.
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I receive two exemptions five years ago for my twin daughters now 13 years old. This is in northern NJ in a well to do town. The exemptions were religious based. The school nurse and principal were surprisingly aggressive and authoritarian. The nurse especially threatened me that no child would ever enroll in "her" school without all the scheduled immunizations. I resisted and they
escalated it to the local state health board who then pushed it to Trenton. The state official was demanding and insisted he saw nothing in the girl's religion that forbade vaccination. I politely reminded him that the cell lines used in the vaccinations were from aborted fetuses as well as the organs of animals. Since the girl's are Buddhists, this conflicts with their beliefs. He continued to insist until I asked him if he was a health official AND a theologist? What basis was he making his decisions?
In the end the whole affair was dropped after Trenton refused to make a case out of it. For good reason. I was prepared to fight to the end on this and they couldn't affort a precident not in their favor.
Since then many more families have gotten exemptions in the same school. My girls were the first.
In the end we have to ask ourselves who controls our lives? Us or the state? Make your choice and live accordingly.
Thank God my son is finished with school, but 18yrs ago when he stated, I had all kinds of run ins with the school about him not being vaccinated. It's a shame that you just can't say no, for what ever reason you don't want the chemicals the fetuses or the processed animals organs in your child body.
Just today I stupidly poked my nose into a FB conversation on a friend's page (full of DemLibs, mind) and got it promptly bitten off. They were savage in their belief that my un-vaccinated children were a threat and a danger to their vaccinated children and how dare I make such a decision. My poor children. It went on from there. I linked to CDC data showing the monkey kidney tissue and polysorbate 80, aluminum, etc. that's in those vaccines. They were very adamant that there was no proven problems from that toxic rubbish and it's so much safer to vaccinate, even though they acknowledged that vaccines are not 100% effective, which is what makes my children so dangerous to theirs. ::rolls eyes:: I'm all for respecting other folks beliefs (unless it is proven to hurt someone), but when you get to the point where you're belittling someone's choice or even worse, pretty much calling them a bad parent, then that's just it for me. I know that I'll never get them to believe that most of the 'research' listed by medical journals and the CDC has a bias slant toward the drug companies. When I make a medical decision, I follow the money to see who's making it before I believe anything. But you would think that the Libs of all people would be less freaked out about someone not vaccinating. Did I miss some memo where conservatives and libs switched places? I know I used to personally be a DemLib years ago which is why this confuses me.
I am so lost I am 20 years old and I have twin boys who will be 3 in this October 2011 and I have a baby on the way 11wks. My issue is that when I started to hear about how bad these things were I never wanted a dr to poke my kids again. I just recently went in to get a check up for this pregnancy and the Drs rammed there reasons why vaccines are good for me and my baby and a light bulb went of when they said I can pass immunity to my child but wait.. what else am I passing? My question is How do you make it w/out putting that junk in your kids? I thought of home-schooling but they are even asking for you to get their shot for that too..
@anonymous with twins & pregnant. We live in Ky and with my youngest he is 5 & never vaccinated. My older two kids were vacinated up till ages 3 & 5 until a physician I respected educated me about my parental rights. You have the right to decline vaccines personally & for your children. One of the doctors in our pediatricians group has been rude and belittling towards me for my stand on vaccines. You will need to educate yourself on the truths of vaccines, the lines and ingredients. One made by Merck has a cell line made from aborted fetuses. You can find info, credible info, online. But you will need to be strong and firm with your decisions and well educated about your findings. You might find through a local homeschool group a physician that accepts patients who choose not to vaccinate without prejudice or judgement. I'm in the process of looking for a new group. Don't be afraid to follow the convictions of your heart and don't let doctors intimidate you into giving up your personal & parental rights:-)
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