Are You Free To Choose?
Though it may seem hard to believe in our modern society, state governments are taking children away from their parents for not vaccinating them. Children have been forced to undergo chemotherapy against their parents' wishes. Consumers are increasingly being forced by government into specific forms of medical treatment against their will. Consumers are routinely denied access to other health care options simply because those therapies are not considered mainstream. Whether you believe in integrative medicine or not, this is a terrible situation.
Do you have health care options? Here is what has happened to some individuals across the country:
- Mother summoned to court because she and her son are suffering from mold allergies. Conventional doctor does not believe in that diagnosis and consider the mother mental unstable.
- Woman in emergency room explaining about mercury poison from her dental amalgams and her toxic state of health. ER doctor suggest a 3-day stay on the psyche ward.
- Husband and wife questioned about praying for restoring their health while waiting in the emergency room for husband to be seen about heart condition.
- Mother considered emotionally unstable for stating to physician that her daughter suffers from intestinal parasites.
- Even doctors of environmental medicine are being investigated for suggesting that a patient is suffering from mold allergies.
And the following horrific story from August 2006: 16-year old Abraham Cherrix has cancer - Hodgkin's. He responded poorly to chemo last summer and in fact believed that it was killing him. By the time he got home after the treatments, he couldn't walk – his father would have to carry him into the house.
So he started to do research and decided to try a treatment (organic foods and herbal supplements) at the Hoxsey Clinic in Mexico. His father, Jay, a bit skeptical, traveled with the then 15-year to Tijuana. When they returned, the parents talked to their son's oncologist and told her that the family wanted to try an alternative therapy because the chemo was not working but wanted her to stay on and monitor the progress. She was very dismissive of their choice and told them she wanted no part of it. As soon as they left, she called family services.
Not long after, the family received a summons to family court where they erroneously thought they just needed to explain their course of treatment. They walked in with no legal representation and ultimately lost partial custody of Abraham (who was also under court orders to not leave the state of Virginia). The judge ruled that the parents were neglectful and that they needed to go to the hospital by Tuesday, July 25th and sign the papers authorizing that the doctors could provide the treatment that they – as medical professionals – deem necessary.
With the help of Sharon Smith, a local woman who read about them, the family attained lawyers and started to receive national media attention. Abraham's lawyers filed a motion to try to stop enforcement of the judge's order. In response, Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell filed a brief to the Circuit Court Tuesday supporting a stay, arguing that Abraham deserves the right to appeal the order to the Circuit Court before undergoing medical treatment. The judge also returned full custody of Abraham to his parents. That ruling suspended an order by the juvenile court judge that required Abraham's parents to share custody with the Accomack County Department of Social Services.
To read about Abraham's Law, go to #8
The American Association of Health Freedom (AAHF) and its state chapters, including CTHFC believe that Health Freedom is the freedom to choose the modalities and therapies that best suit you and your family. Health Freedom is also freedom from medicine, should you so choose. The examples above show that you can have your personal freedom stripped from you for questioning the medical establishment. You are educated and make informed choices for your health. You know your health. You have weighed the risks balancing your health with the side effects of therapies, yet the government does not trust you to make your own decisions concerning your own health.
November 2007 News Article:
More than 2,000 Prince George's County students have not gotten their state-mandated shots.
Tonight, an ultimatum to some of those parents: Come to court, get the shots, or else.
Some students have missed as much as a month and a half of school because they haven't gotten the required immunizations-- for Chicken Pox and Hepatitis B. So now the school system says it's time to get tough and take those parents to court. Free clinics, free shots, door-to-door visits, and countless letters. Still more than 2,300 Prince George's county students don't have their required immunizations. This Saturday, more than 1600 students and their parents have been ordered to appear in circuit court for the children to be immunized.
Health workers will be on hand to give the shots immediately. The problem is a new law that took effect last year requiring students in the fifth through 10th grade to also have the chicken pox and hepatitis b vaccine. Parents who don't show up or fail to comply-- could be fined up to $50 and get up to 10 days in jail. Although getting students vaccinated by "court order" may seem unusual, the law is on the school district's side.
Mary Kivlighan with the University of Maryland's School of Public Health says-- the Supreme Court weighed in on this very issue more than 100 years ago with Smallpox. The school district does grant exemptions for religious purposes or other medical reasons but only if parents apply. Going to court-- was a last resort.
Hepatitis b vaccine requires three shots over six months. One of the problems has been that students will get one shot but don't get the others. Therefore, they're not in compliance.
COMMENTS from Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, AAHF President, international expert on the safety and efficacy of vaccines and supporter of the right for adults and parents to refuse vaccination, and a strong voice for health freedom:
"The push for vaccination is completely out of control. Mandates and requirements are passed by uninformed and under-educated State legislators who are sold a bill of goods by smiling pharmaceutical lobbyists pedaling their poisons. Parents do not have an opportunity to vote on the necessity of mandates; they are shoved down their throats. They pay taxes to get their children into schools. Then they are required to inject substances their children with substances that could maim or kill them in order to be in "compliance."
The vaccines that are being required in Prince George's County -- chickenpox, a totally benign disease and hepatitis b, a disease of drug-using homosexual adults -- are not necessary for the health of these children. Do parents know what is in these vaccines? The chickenpox vaccine is made from aborted fetal cells and contains sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin, salt, MSG (0.5 mg), sodium phosphate dibasic, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium chloride, trace EDTA, neomycin and serum from cows. The hepatitis b vaccine contains aluminum and yeast.
The parents of these children need to ban together and revolt. Protest, march in the street, pay the fine and spend the time in jail on principle alone. When will this stop? When will we wake up and JUST SAY NO to mandatory injections?"
For more information, go to www.SayingNoToVaccines.blogspot.com
Although most of these events have happened outside of Connecticut, don't think that something similar could ever happen in our state. These states like Connecticut have very strong medical and pharmaceutical lobbies. State legislators are busy and burdened so when these lobbies approach, the legislators are left with an unbalanced view point if there is no medical freedom counter part. In other words there is nobody fighting for you. Until now.
There are no laws in Connecticut that safe guard your rights and freedom of choice. In fact the laws are broadly interpreted so that your favorite modality could be construed as the practice of medicine. Your favorite practitioner is practicing medicine without a license. It is a matter of if and when the State Department of Health chooses to prosecute. They do not need a formal complaint to do so. Every practitioner is vulnerable.
The laws can often change without notice. For instance, there is an attempt under way to require Energy Healers in the state to be licensed. This effort will define what Energy Healing is, if your practitioner falls out side of the definition because they did not attend a certain school or if their therapy is different in some way, you could be arrested for practicing Energy Healing without a license. Who is watching the state legislature for these attempts to take away more of your freedoms?
CTHFC was formed to pass laws that will guarantee your freedom of choice and the practitioners' right to practice.
