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> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 20:26:53 +1100

> Leading Doctors' Group
> Votes To Oppose
> Mandatory Vaccinations
> Dr. James Hirsen <hirsen@...>
> http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2000/11/3/083415
> 11-3-00

> A leading national physician organization is calling for a
> moratorium on all government mandated vaccines and has passed a
> resolution to that end at their annual meeting.
>
> Members of the Association of American Physicians and
> Surgeons (AAPS) voted this week at their 57th Annual Meeting in St.
> Louis to pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory childhood
> vaccines. The resolution passed without a single "no" vote.
> (Resolution and mandatory vaccine fact sheet posted at
> www.aapsonline.org)
>
> "Our children face the possibility of death or serious
> long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines that aren't
> necessary or that have very limited benefits," said Jane M. Orient,
> MD, AAPS Executive Director.
>
> "This is not a vote against vaccines," said Dr. Orient.
> "This resolution only attempts to halt blanket vaccine mandates by
> government agencies and school districts that give no consideration
> for the rights of the parents or the individual medical condition of
> the child."
>
> Forty-two states have mandatory vaccine policies, and many
> children are required to have 22 shots before first grade. On top of
> that, as a condition for school attendance, many school districts
> require vaccination for diseases such as hepatitis B -- primarily an
> adult disease, usually spread by multiple sex partners, drug abuse or
> an occupation with exposure to blood.
>
> And yet, children under the age of 14 are three times more
> likely to suffer adverse effects -- including death -- following the
> hepatitis b vaccine than to catch the disease itself.
>
> Just last week, students in Utica, NY were sent home from
> school, and told they could not return until they had been forced to
> receive hep B vaccinations. Further, parents were threatened by Child
> Protective Services with possible seizure of their children based on
> "education neglect."
>
> "It's obscene to threaten to seize a child just because his
> parents refuse medical treatment that is obviously unnecessary and
> perhaps even dangerous," said Dr. Orient. "AAPS believes that
> parents, with the advice of their doctors, should make decisions
> about their children's medical care -- not government bureaucrats.
> This Resolution affirms that position."
>
> (Note: AAPS is a professional association of physicians
> dedicated since 1943 to the sanctity of the patient-physician
> relationship.) _____
>
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>
>
> AAPS RESOLUTION CONCERNING MANDATORY VACCINES
>
> "Ethical Medicine" AAPS Annual Meeting October 25 - 28,
> 2000 St. Louis, MO Submitted for Member approval:
>
> WHEREAS: The statement of Patients' Freedoms adopted by the
> Assembly at the 47th annual meeting of AAPS in 1990 provides that
> "Patients have the freedom to refuse medical treatment even if it is
> recommended by their physician and to be informed about their medical
> condition, the risks and benefits of treatment, and appropriate
> alternatives"; and
>
> WHEREAS: There are increasing numbers of mandatory
> childhood vaccines, to which children are often subjected without
> meaningful informed consent, including information about potential
> adverse side effects; and
>
> WHEREAS: Parents who exercise their freedom to refuse one
> or more vaccines may be subjected to penalties ranging from
> deprivation of the right to enroll their child in school, to threats
> of removing the child from parental custody and forcible vaccination;
> and
>
> WHEREAS: Safety testing of many vaccines is limited and the
> data are unavailable for independent scrutiny, so that mass
> vaccination is equivalent to human experimentation and subject to the
> Nuremberg Code, which requires voluntary informed consent; and
>
> WHEREAS: The process of approving and "recommending"
> vaccines is tainted with conflicts of interest;
>
> BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That AAPS calls for a moratorium
> on vaccine mandates and for physicians to insist upon truly informed
> consent for the use of vaccines.
>
> -------------- FACT SHEET ON MANDATORY VACCINES
>
> AAPS does not oppose vaccines. AAPS has never taken an
> anti-vaccine position, although opponents have tried to paint that
> picture. AAPS has only attempted to halt government or school
> districts from blanket vaccine mandates that violate parental
> informed consent.
>
> 42 states have mandatory vaccine policies, and many
> children are required 22 shots by first grade.
>
> According to government statistics, children under the age
> of 14 are three times more likely to suffer adverse effects --
> including death -- following the hepatitis B vaccine than to catch
> the disease itself.
>
> The Centers for Disease Control admits that the reported
> number of adverse effects of vaccines is probably only 10% of actual
> adverse effects.
>
> The Physician's Desk Reference cites adverse reactions to
> the hepatitis B in less than 1 percent. However, if more than 70
> million American children receive the vaccine, that means more than
> 700,000 children are likely to suffer adverse reactions.
>
> Children are a very low risk group for hepatitis B. Primary
> risk factors are dependent on lifestyle, i.e. multiple sex partners,
> drug abuse or an occupation with exposure to blood.
>
> Rampant conflicts of interest in the approval process has
> been the subject of several Congressional hearings, and a recent
> Congressional report concluded that the pharmaceutical industry has
> indeed exerted undue influence on mandatory vaccine legislation
> toward its own financial interests.
>
> The vaccine approval process has also been contaminated by
> flawed or incomplete clinical trials, and government officials have
> chosen to ignore negative results. For example, the CDC was forced to
> withdraw its recommendation of the rotavirus vaccine within one year
> of approval. Yet public documents obtained by AAPS show that the CDC
> was aware of alarmingly high intussuception rates months before the
> vaccine was approved and recommended.
>
> Mandatory vaccines violate the medical ethic of informed
> consent. A case could also be made that mandates for vaccines by
> school districts and legislatures is the de facto practice of
> medicine without a license.
>
> The CDC's own "Guide to Contraindications to Childhood
> Vaccination" warns that when assessing children's common symptoms,
> "if any one of them is a contraindication, DO NOT VACCINATE" [caps
> added]. And yet, under legislated mandates, the vaccines are still
> required.