Pat O'Shea (author)

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Whether or not vaccines work or not is one issue, but separate from that issue, are the philosophical, political implications of saying that this is the vaccine schedule that you need to give your child, in order to be a good mother. There's an agenda, it's a government agenda. it is in cooperation with private enterprises that I don't believe have our best interests at heart. You're an individual, citizen there's a risky procedure, you have the opportunity, or should in my mind, to determine whether or not you should have this vaccine or you shouldn't. Most people think they are required to vaccinate their child. In every state it is possible to opt outta vaccines by means of one of three types of exemption, a medical exemption, a religious exemption, or a philosophical exemption. "I hereby exempt my child from vaccines because it is against my philosophical beliefs." Parent signs it, that kid is out of a vaccine requirement, grade school and high school. The legislature is introducing bills to try and take away even our freedom to choose those choices. Some bills we're passing, saying if you choose not to vaccinate your child and you wanted to use a philosophical exemption, you needed to sign something that said you understood the dangers of not vaccinating your child, but it didn't include the dangers a vaccinating your children. In Washington State, they passed a law very quickly, through the legislature there, saying that you now need a medical doctors written permission, to have a philosophical belief. The following year, the same law was introduced into California. By trying to take away the philosophical exemption, they're now saying it's a "no choice, choice". Politically, it's frightening what's happening with this. And so they start to make it difficult enough and point the finger and say, "look, this person who is not obeying", that we no longer question it, we just say, "that's how it is, this is how it's done". We're in a situation, where really, the industry is dictating our policy, how we practice medicine, what get's studied in academia, our laws. The government of a free society, who is in the business of protecting individual citizens from themselves is a real problem, suddenly it's not a free society anymore. These are my fears that we have such an enmeshed regulatory agency, our medical industry is an industrial complex that now academia has been bought out, the regulatory agencies have been bought out. And by the way, the drug companies, the pharmaceutical industry has more lobbyists on the hill than anyone else, then we have people representing us on the hill. We are all David's against a Goliath. The bottom line is, this fight over whether to vaccinate not to vaccinate, what the law should be, should my kid have a right to an education that I pay taxes for, if I don't vaccinate them? What happened to freedom of choice for crying out loud. I just wanna have the choice as to whether or not I wanna vaccinate my children. I'm saying, give the individual the choice, that is their right to have, because it is their body, it is their children's body, it's not the government's body.