Last of two parts
The previous article is at thevoice.us/bill-in-d-c-council-to-allow-11-year-olds-to-decide-on-vaccines
The following article was printed in the Defender Children’s Health Defence News & Views
A proposed Washington District of Columbia law would give vaccine decisions to kids 11 or older without parents’ knowledge or consent:
“Children could consent to vaccines without parents’ permission, while insurance companies, vaccine providers and schools would be required to conceal that the child has been vaccinated.
“Kids do not have the same kind of critical thinking skills or emotional maturity required to make a vaccine benefit-risk decision compared to an adult. Vaccines can cause injury and death as evidenced by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which has paid out over $4.4 Billion to vaccine victims.
“Children and adolescents are vulnerable to peer and authority-figure persuasion.
“If a child consents to vaccination without a parent knowing and has a reaction, the parent may not recognize the reason for the child’s decline in health and this lack of knowledge could be life threatening for the child.
“This puts minor children at risk of being pressured and coerced into getting a COVID-19 vaccine behind their parents’ back once it is available and added to the ACIP recommended schedule for children.
“B23-0171 compels insurance companies (lines 46-47), vaccine providers (lines 43-45 and 54-58), and schools (lines 58-60) to conceal vaccine administration and insurance payment information from parents whose children consent to vaccines on their own and their parents have already declined or filed a religious exemption.
“This proposed legislation is a blatant violation of parents’ constitutional right to raise their children without undue interference from the state.
The legal right of parents to give their informed consent for minor children to take medical risks, which can result in injury or death, trumps the goals of health agencies or vaccine corporations and medical organizations, whose employees, stockholders, or members profit, or professionally benefit from increased, widespread, vaccine use.
“This bill violates the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA, 34 CFR § 99.10, affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records. Education records include health and vaccine records at the K-12 level.
“B23-0171 blatantly ignores the existing intent of other laws and regulations putting parents in charge of vaccination decisions including section 5300.11 providing the legal right of the parent to claim a medical or religious exemption to vaccination.
“There is no justification to override a parent’s legal right to make an informed benefit and risk decision about vaccination on behalf of their minor children, ignore their religious rights to decline vaccination, and then hand that responsibility to vaccine providers who are protected from liability and have no accountability for what happens to the child after vaccination.
“Both The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and U.S. Supreme Court Decision Russell Bruesewitz et al v. Wyeth et al guarantee that vaccine manufacturers, doctors and other vaccine administrators have no legal accountability or financial liability in civil court when a government recommended or mandated vaccine(s) causes permanent injury or death.
“B23-0171 requires the Department of Health to produce their own dumbed down version of vaccine information sheets to be given to the minor children (lines 40-42).
Federal legislative history provides evidence that Congress never intended for a minor child to make decisions to get a vaccine without parental knowledge or consent.
“When the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was passed, the act clearly stated that before the administration of vaccines to a child, a health care provider shall give a copy of the CDC’s vaccine information materials to the, ‘parent or legal representative of any child to whom the provider intends to administer such vaccine .…’
“The CDC asserts the requirement that their Vaccine Information Sheet (VIS) is provided to the parent/legal guardian prior to vaccination of a minor child on their Q&A page on VIS sheets: Under the question .’Is there a requirement to verify that parents/legal representatives have actually received and reviewed the VIS,’ the answer is a clear and undebatable ‘yes’.
“B23-0171 permits schools to share the vaccination record with the department of health or the school-based health center (lines 59-60).
“34 CFR §99.30 requires prior written parental consent before personally identifiable information (PII) is disclosed and requires schools to provide copies of those records disclosed. While FERPA does allow for release of PII under the health and safety emergency exception, this is extremely limited.
“The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.” Article by the Defender Children’s Health Defence News & Views.