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Merck Bankrolled Anti-Parent Bill
By JOHN SEILER Key California legislators passing an anti-parent bill grabbed campaign financing from the gigantic Merck conglomerate, a CalWatchDog.com investigation revealed. The legislation is AB 499 by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego. In the bill’s language, it “authorizes a minor, who is 12 years of age or older, to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.” Current law allows such care only with a parent’s permission. AB 499 passed both houses of the Legislature and awaits a decision by Gov. Jerry Brown. AB 499 commonly is called the “Gardasil Bill” because the major drug to be administered to 12-year-old girls — without their parents’ consent — is Gardasil, manufactured by Merck. According to Merck’s Gardasil Web site: GARDASIL is the only human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that helps protect against 4 types of HPV. In girls and young women ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 2 types of HPV that cause about 75% of cervical cancer cases, and 2 more types that cause 90% of genital warts cases. In boys and young men ages 9 to 26, GARDASIL helps protect against 90% of genital warts cases. GARDASIL also helps protect girls and young women ages 9 to 26 against 70% of vaginal cancer cases and up to 50% of vulvar cancer cases. But the drug is not without risk. The Web site itself cautions: The side effects include pain, swelling, itching, bruising, and redness at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, and fainting. Fainting can happen after getting GARDASIL. Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your health care professional may ask you to sit or lie down for 15 minutes after you get GARDASIL. Some people who faint might shake or become stiff. This may require evaluation or treatment by your health care professional. So, your lovely little girl comes home from school, faints, shakes and becomes stiff. And you have no idea why. Merck ContributionsI cross-matched the votes for AB 499 in the Legislature with Merck Corporate PAC Contributions in 2010 and came up with this list: Kevin De Leon, D-Los Angeles, $2,000 Ben Hueso, D-Chula Vista, $1,000 Total that Merck donated to legislators voting yea on AB 499: $39,500 True, some Merck money went to those who voted against the bill. But an overwhelming amount went to those who backed it. For Merck, which stands to make tens of millions of dollars off the bill, it was an investment that paid off big time. Who Pays?The bill’s fiscal analysis is unclear. “The bill says parents are not financially liable, so taxpayers will have to pay for it,” Paulo Sibaja, director of legislation at the Capitol Resource Institute, told me. “We’re still trying to calculate the cost. But the cost will be 50 percent from the state, 50 percent from the federal government.” He said there be other consequences, such as “who will be legally liable for medical liability, the state or the parents? The bill undermines the parents, who are totally out of the decision affecting their child.” Texas’ ExperimentA similar program was imposed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry in 2007, then repealed by the Texas Legislature later that year. Perry, currently the Republican front runner for the 2012 presidential race, still defends his decision. Before his action, he received a $6,000 campaign donation from Merck. And Merck, according to Wikipedia, hired “former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work” and Perry’s “current chief of staff’s mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi [as] state director for Women in Government”.[106][109] Texas Gov. Rick Perry is so enthusiastic about Gardasil that a week ago, he ordered all girls in the state to be immunized before entering sixth grade, as of September 2008. (Parents can opt out for religious and other reasons.) Prompted in part by a vigorous lobbying campaign by Merck, which stands to earn billions of dollars if the vaccine is required, legislators in 23 other states and the District of Columbia have proposed mandating vaccination against HPV for girls as young as 11. In California, the Gardasil injection — or other injection — is not mandatory. But neither is there a religious opt-out because parents just won’t know what’s happening to their precious child. Only government will. Dead GirlsA year ago, the Washington Examiner reported: Documents from the Food & Drug Administration obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine manufactured by Merck that FDA officials fast-tracked for approval in 2006, may not be not as safe as its industry and government backers assured the public it was. FDA records show that 16 new deaths (including four suicides) and 3,589 “adverse reactions” tied to Gardasil were reported in the 16 months between May 2009 and September 2010. The adverse reactions included 213 cases of permanent disability. The FDA also received 25 reports of paralyzing Guillian Barre Syndrome in young girls and women who had received the vaccine. Here’s a horror story in the Judicial Watch report: One mother of a 13-year old girl who died 37 days after receiving the vaccination noted in a report: “I first declined getting her the vaccination but her doctor ensured me that it was safe…” After her daughter complained of a severe headache, no feeling in her foot and a tingling feeling in her leg, a doctor’s appointment was set for October 23, 2009. “My daughter never made it to Oct[ober] 23rd, which is also her birthday,” the mother noted. “She passed on Oct[ober] 17th, I found her cold unresponsive in her room at 7 am….” Because there will be no parental notification in California, girls could start dropping dead and their grieving parents won’t even know why.
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May 21, 2013
What is odd in the story is that ALL the bribes (excuse my French) were paid to Democrats – 25 in all. None to Republicans. As we all know, Republicans can be bought too, but apparently on this issue, they are not for sale — or perhaps too expensive to rent.
Apparently all those damn Republicans still think that parents should have a say in what drugs their 12 year old child ingests.
I oppose non-critical treatment of minors without the parents consent but I don’t really see why it is news that merck or anyone who favors it trys to get it passed. Is this a non-story?
There are several reasons for this bill:
CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION, CORRUPTION AND CORRUPTION.
If someone poisons your daughter or son with this horrible vaccine how can this be a non-story? You must not have children or if you do you don’t mind the government taking over their medical treatment. Gardasil is a killer vaccine. My daughter now has ovarian failure on top of over 50 food allergies after gardasil. So now not only do the side effects from gardasil injuries now it’s makeing eating impossible for her…she has been in anaphalactic shock so many times it’s a miracle she is still alive.. She was not allergic to food before gardasil. isn’t that lovely. Poor kid can’t eat real food. I guess it would have been worse if I came home and found her dead in the shower or in her bed like so many others have been found. Thanks California for taking away the parents rights for medical care so you can poison the kids of california. I hate Merck, FDA and now the California reps that stole away the parents rights to be informed.
My daughters best friend at 17 died from an overdose of Tylenol. Thousands and thousands of people die every year from common over the counter pain relievers. The variations in humans is so great that even the safest medications can and do harm some people. Does that mean all medications are “killer medications”??? Only if you failed science in high school.
The reason I think it is a non-story is why shouldn’t you or I or anyone be able to lobby for a bill to be passed or to not be passed?? This is what our constitution intended.
Would this be a non story if it were your daughter dead and you didn’t know why????
Please can we do away with lobbying before ALL our basic human rights are completely discarded and destroyed? What’s more important, corporate profit or human life?
SAVE THE CHILDREN VOTE THESE KILLERS OUT OF OFFICE AND GOV. MOONBEAM BROWN!
Democrats wake-up stop putting your children’s lives in the hand of your enemy the democrats.
America we need God, back in schools not government and not SB48 & SB499 so lets stop these bills and get rid of these Godless thugs.
I have done EXTENSIVE research on vaccinations. Trying to remain non-biased, I still have to lean toward the “vaccinations cause far more harm than good” camp. One most important reason is that every pro-vaccination person I discuss vaccinations with has done almost no research on the issue, and gets emotional about how everyone should get vaccinations, and how they should be mandatory. This is like teaching a parrot to sqauwk something. On the other hand, most (not all) anti-vaccination people that discuss this with me are well-informed on its issues. They tend to be more rational and less emotional (unless vaccinations have damaged someone they love). It’s like the pro-vaccination people have something to hide (which is often their ignorance on the subject) and the anti-vaccination people do not. Besides, there are big warm fuzzys for pro-vaccination types (most people warmly support them and they don’t have to worry about legal problems because of their stances) while anti-vaccination types often risk social condemnation and because of that, loss of opportunities (because it’s who you know (and agree with) rather than what you know). So follow the money trail (or psychopath???… trail).
My daughter received the Gardasil vaccine, at my request. It is administered in multiple shots. She did faint, but it was at the time of injection, and only lasted momentarily. As scary as it is to watch your innocent child keel over, it is not as described above: “So, your lovely little girl comes home from school, faints, shakes and becomes stiff. And you have no idea why.”
At least in my case. The doctor also advised her to EAT before her next shot (she had not eaten all day, which is a challenge for parents of teens trying to live up to unrealistic body images, but that is another discussion) so she did. The next shot was well received.
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
SECTION 1. All people are by nature free and independent and have
inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and
liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing
and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.
You have an unalienable God given right secured by our Constitution to defend you and your family against anyone who is a threat.
Have our legislators crossed this line ? If so you must let them know and if they don’t change, vote them out before the do more damage to you and your family.
Has this vaccine been analyzed for actual ingredients?
Prior to the 20th century half of all children died before their 5th birthday from common childhood diseases, another half of all remaining children died prior to their 18th birthday. This idea is foriegn to us today because of vaccinations. It is likely that everyone on this forum is alive today ONLY because of vaccines. It is also likely that you are all ignorant of this simple fact because all of those serious diseases are gone from our lexicon except when we look up the actual meaning of MMR. Small pox used to kill millions and millions of people in huge epidemics and now kills no one in. The very reason we are here today to discuss the merits of vaccines is thanks to vaccines. Do you understand the irony in that? When you make your bogus claims about the negatives of vaccines you can thank your lucky stars for vaccines because that is why you are alive today.
P.S. Just as a reminder it is time for your yearly polio shot. I am going to get mine.
Ooops I meant flu shot !!
But think about it. I am old enough to remember the very real fear polio caused in America and thankful to Jonas Salk for creating the vaccine that prevents it.
Great article. Vaccine supporters fail to understand that improved hygiene fights diseases, not shooting your kids up with Mercury, Squalene and Aluminum. See Vaccine Nation by Gary Null. Why won’t even one pharmaceutical executive make the claim that vaccines are safe? Why was a special court created to handle lawsuits involving vaccine deaths and injuries? Why does the government indemnify vaccine companies for vaccine death and injuries?
Voluminous Research Proves Vaccines are Deadly:
http://www.infowars.com/voluminous-research-proves-vaccines-are-deadly/
http://www.vaccinenation.net/
http://www.infowars.com/vaccine-deaths-and-injuries-skyrocket-as-cover-up-implodes/
All Pharmaceutical companies are majority owned by the government. Which means, the people of America own them but we never see the royalty checks. If we own 60% share, then we the people have the right to shut them down. They are all killing us softly. Wakey wakey everyone!
Amazing how Americans are so used to government corruption that they think it’s perfectly acceptable for corporations to bribe politicians. They call it lobbying, but it’s still bribery.
There have been some serious side affects with this drug including death. It is dangerous and is administered to young girls who are not even sexually active. This is a travesty
How is it that it is okay to shoot up your daughter with something that is so riddled with side effects without your knowledge and permission and it is not okay for the government to impose Obamacare onto people? What’s up with that?
personally I am appalled by this. Any drug that could have the effect of killing your child should be made aware to the parents. When a child is of legal age and can make all their decisions on their own then of course it’s out of the parents hands, however if I found my child dead and later found out it was because of something a doctor gave them without my knowledge I would lose my mind and god only know what I would do to that doctor whether it was his fault or not because of this stupid bill they are trying to pass. It is MY child not the governments and shame on them for trying to interfere in medical decisions for somebody they don’t even know. This is outrageous!
Vaccine’s have very little to do with why any of us are alive. A simple study of history will reveal some rather filthy living conditions and poor nutrition. Maybe read some Beauchamp,
this isn’t about weather you believe in vaccinations or not this is about taking away OUR parental rights….we the parents know what is best for our children…I do not like the idea of my daughter getting a shot without my knowledge or consent.
http://www.prlog.org/11645815-sane-vax-inc-discovers-potential-bio-hazard-contaminant-in-mercks-gardasil-hpv-4-vaccine.html
S.A.N.E. Vax Inc. Discovers potential bio-hazard contaminant in Merck’s Gardasil HPV 4 vaccine
Mike: You said it…it is really about parental rights!!! Who is in charge and responsible for your child??? YOU??? Or the government/state? The last time I checked you were not in a breeding program for the state/government. You were an individual freely deciding to bring a child into the world and to care for it, love it, support it and take responsibility for it…If I lived in California, I would fight this tooth and nail….
I’m from Texas….you know what our Governor did…and the out lash it caused. The law got repealed. Cause your own out lash! Go get started!
This isn’t really a vaccination issue at all, it’s the issue of when is a child allowed to consent to treatment. When do parental rights end, and when does the right of the individual (the child) take precedence.
I think a lot of people on here who are bleating about parental rights, do forget that as part of the parenting you do, is letting go of your little one to start making decisions on their own. It’s hard to say that this could/should happen at a specific age, such as 12 as in this case, as there is certainly a large variation in ability to assimilate all of the information in an issue such as this – whether you be 12 years old or 18.
I live in Australia, and here health care practitioners are allowed to treat children of any age without parental consent if the child exhibits competence to make the decision and is seen to weigh up the risks and benefits appropriately.
Parental rights, yes. But even more importantly, the protection of our children who are too young and trusting to know any better.
“Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your health care professional may ask you to sit or lie down for 15 minutes after you get GARDASIL. Some people who faint might shake or become stiff.”
A couple of years ago my daughter had the first round of Gardasil and started suffering from severe headaches. Fortunately, the headaches passed after a few months.
These drug manufactures and chemical,co.s need to held accountable for all their bad drugs and when they buy people off everyone should be imprisioned and given the death penality because they obviously have no regaurd for life why should we regaurd theirs we need to extract greed out of this industry by removing the money from corperate owners officers and lawyers and give it to research and safety regulators and let it clearly be known that abslutely no deviation from good will b
gone with the wind, your assessment is not accurate. Sanitation and refrigeration are the two primary reasons the health of children improved so remarkably in the 20th century. The third reason is because of antibiotics. Look up the stats, it had nothing to do with vaccines. As far as the polio vaccine, in 1966 in front of a congressional committee, Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor if the polio vaccine, petitioned to have it cease from being given to children because he thought it was causing more polio cases than it was preventing. He stated that there was no way to know if polio declined because of a natural progression of the human body “learning” to fight off the disease naturally, like when the black plague faded away, or if it was because of the vaccine. He said more studies needed to be performed. He was not listened to, of course, because the lobbyists and the almighty dollar prevailed.
The psuedoscience that opposes vaccines is generally well connected with the ambulance chasing lawyers who’s only agenda is to extract huge sums of money from our health care system. Anyone who would depend on studies from Infowars would also believe in little green men (Infowars says they exist). The simple fact that someone has felt the need to claim all diseases are caused by filthy conditions is proof of how effective vaccines have been and how little we know about disease. It is exactly because vaccinations have removed that risk that people can affor to be that ignorant.
You are correct that the issue is about should the government be allowed to treat children without parents permission. If you disagree you have a right and responsibility to lobby your lawmakers (even though someone here thinks that is bribery). The point made in the article was that no one had a right to lobby the other point of view and that is wrong. Both sides have a right to have their position known. As a child I sat in a hospital for a few hours with a serious compound fracture until they were able to locate my parents. Not a fun experience, it would have been far better to set the fracture earlier rather then later. Should health care workers be allowed to do “some” health care on children and if so what? That is the question.
Children should not be deciding if they should get the Gardasil shot or not. It should be up to the parents. Plus, they start this shot at such a young age and from what I’ve read, the protection only lasts for about 6 years so by the time most of these girls become sexually active, they may not even be protected?? It’s just obsurd!
GWTWind… You may want to get your facts straight here. If you actually did any research at all you would find that Polio was on its way out when the vaccine came into existence. God gave us healthy immune systems and we should be using them instead of relying on some chemical put into our bodies. Vaccines harm our bodies by coming in and replacing our immune systems. Our immune system doesn’t have to do any work and therefore gets lazy. This doesn’t help us fight off anything! Then we need more vaccines to fight this and that. And that’s perfectly fine with the pharmaceutical companies. They are happy to sell you a $1 drug for $20. Why do you think they push vaccines. They make billions of dollars off sick people, so they brainwash people into thinking they are saviors when, in fact, they are the black plague we should be irradicating. Wake up GWTW. Tommygirl is absolutely correct when saying sanitation and refridgeration are the reasons that health improved. I did not have vaccinations, my children didn’t, my parents didn’t. I haven’t seen a doctor in 6 years neither have my children. We are all healthy. There goes your theory…
All – please spend some time reading the information provided at this link:
http://sanevax.org/sane-vax-inc-discovers-potential-bio-hazard-contaminant-in-merck%E2%80%99s-gardasil%E2%84%A2-hpv-4-vaccine/
SNIP:
Gardasil victim found to have HPV DNA in her blood 2 Years Post-Vaccination
13 different vaccine vials – 13 different lots of Gardasil from around the world tested Results – 100% contamination with HPV Recombinant DNA.
SANE Vax Inc. contracted with an independent lab to test for contamination and found HPV recombinant DNA (rDNA) in 13 vaccine vials. The Gardasil vials with different lot numbers were from New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Poland, France and three states in the U.S. 100% of the samples tested positive for the presence of the genetically modified HPV DNA.
Dr. Sin Hang Lee, a pathologist at the Milford Hospital pathology laboratory well-known for using cutting-edge DNA sequencing for molecular diagnoses, was initially contracted to examine a single sample of Gardasil for possible contamination. This sample tested positive for recombinant HPV-11 and HPV-18 residues, both of which were firmly attached to the aluminum adjuvant.
In a certified letter mailed to FDA Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg on August 29, 2011, SANE Vax Inc. requested ‘the FDA investigate the extent of the HPV DNA contamination in the Gardasil HPV4 vaccine currently on the market and take appropriate actions to ensure public safety regarding future shipments.
1. Why Did SANE Vax Inc. Investigate Possible Gardasil Contamination?
The mother of a sexually naïve adolescent girl who developed acute onset Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis within 24 hours of her last injection of the Gardasil™ series contacted SANE Vax Inc. looking for more information.
In an effort to help her now very sick daughter the mother went to an MD practicing naturopath who conducted a toxicity test that eventually found HPV DNA in the girl’s blood. The significance of this finding is that it is highly unusual to find HPV DNA in the blood. HPV, if present in the body, exists in the epithelial (skin and mucosa) membranes. HPV or its DNA, by itself does not survive for any great length of time in the bloodstream. Why was the HPV DNA in her bloodstream two years post-vaccination?
Natural vs. Recombinant DNA
According to Dr. Lee, “‘Natural HPV DNA does not remain in the bloodstream for very long. However, the HPV DNA in Gardasil™ is not ‘natural’ DNA. It is a recombinant HPV DNA (rDNA) – genetically engineered – to be inserted into yeast cells for VLP (virus-like-particle) protein production. rDNA is known to behave differently from natural DNA. It may enter a human cell, especially in an inflammatory lesion caused by the effects of the aluminum adjuvant, via poorly understood mechanisms.
“Once a segment of recombinant DNA is inserted into a human cell, the consequences are hard to predict. It may be in the cell temporarily or stay there forever, with or without causing a mutation. Now the host cell contains human DNA as well as genetically engineered viral DNA.”
What is a Recombinant DNA Virus?
Recombinant DNA (rDNA) refers to novel DNA molecules engineered by joining natural or synthetic DNA segments to other DNA molecules so that they can replicate in a living cell. The possibility for these replicable forms of DNA as uncertain toxic substance or as environmental hazard has been a concern since rDNA technology was invented in 1973. Thus, rDNA is considered a potential biohazard, and NIH has mandated that research institutions monitor and regulate its use.
2. All recombinant or genetically engineered DNAs are considered potential biohazards if injected intramuscularly into the body. Merck’s Gardasil™ HPV4 vaccine is administered intramuscularly – as are many other vaccines. However, Gardasil™ is the first vaccine found to be contaminated by a genetically engineered DNA used to manufacture virus-like particle proteins for the vaccine.”
Bill Gates said it best at a conference when he disclosed that their major concern is over-population. He then topped that with the statement that vaccine breakthroughs are good because population GOES DOWN! You guys haven’t been paying attention. There is a GLOBAL depopulation plan in effect and you have been asleep. Your children will be targeted because it’s part of the new policy. Gardisil is designed exactly for what it is doing: causing ovarian failure an death. AND if you think that only the girls will be targeted, think again: they are pushing to make this monster mandatory for boys too. Look-up info on the Georgia Guidestones and the Depopulation Agenda. And: welcome to the new “America”.
I have to admit, I haven’t actually seen the bill but essentially, what the state of California is saying is that children as young as twelve-years of age are mature enough to make educated decisions regarding their sexual health? So I’m just supposed to look the other way when a young male nurse “practitioner” (i.e. vocational college recent grad) is talking to my 13-year-old daughter about her sexual habits??! Hell no!! As far as I’m concerned, whatever rights I had when my daughter was born, those will remain in place until she turns 18. What next: are they gonna give my dog the right to buy a gun? And as far as I’m concerned, if lawmakers are taking money from outside sources, then why are we paying them?? I work for a major utility… if I take a bribe, or even a tip from a customer and my employer finds out, I’m out of a job. Hey lawmakers, can you pass a law making it legal for me to take bribes too?? Oh yeah, I forgot: I gotta pay up first, huh?
This sounds like a Nazi propaganda bill. “We (A.K.A. Big Brother, et-all) will protect your child from the result of sexual misconduct by giving them a drug that will relieve them from their responsibiity to behave like a reasonable person. That’s why We need to redirect your child, five days a week, at five or more hours a day where you have no say as to what We teach them. Thank you very much, We care so much more than you do about your child, We decided to give them condoms that have holes in them to prevent them from having to be morally responsible. We are your government, We’re here to help! P.S. There will be ‘No child left behind’” I’m sorry, should I be writing in the German tounge? I actualy mean no disrespect to Germany, they are created in the immage of God too. It just gives me a brain injury to see what our elected officials are doing the opposite of what our Founding Fathers fought and died for to prevent! “This constitution is for a moral and religious people, and is wholely unsuitable for any other”… well my memory is fading a bit, but that’s pretty close to what they said. I’ll not go on, volumes have been written on this subject that “We The People” need to know so that when our government usurps its power, we can see that and bring forth a redress of greavences. For if we do not… 1984 is upon us and we have only ourselves to blame!
I remember when my children were 12. If the plan is to line all the 12 yr. old girls up at school and follow their teacher’s advice to get the shot, they will all fall in line and take it. How scary!
My daughter was about 16 and sexually active when this vaccine was available. We were at the pediatrician’s office for her to be examined and get a prescription for birth control. Our pediatrician gave me a hard sell but I had done my research and declined. One of my reasons for refusing was that the vaccine had not been tested on many girls which I stated to the physician. She then turned to me, in front of my daugher and said, “You don’t want her to get cancer do you?” She then quizzed my daughter when she was alone in the examination room with her and tried to sell her on the vaccine. As more information about this vaccine has come out in the last 5 yrs. I’m so glad I had researched and refused the vaccine for my daughter.
Merck should not be legally allowed to bankroll any legislation at all.Politicians, as usual, should be housed in prison for taking bribes. Taking bribes affects their voting habits which harm the people they have taken an oath to serve. It doesn’t matter which party participated in this particular drama-both parties are guilty ultimately.
One hand always washes the other. Merck gets rich and politicians get favors. The possible protection of these kids are just a side benefit. The resulting lawsuits just help their buddies-the attorneys.
Parents cannot stop their kids from having sex. HPV has over 100 mutable strains. This vaccine covers 4 strains-possibly-with multiple documented instances of fatal side effects. If parents want to spend more money they can spend it on useful sex education programs for their kids.
Adults if you continue to allow the rampant corruption in your political parties your kids will suffer now and you will suffer later.
If you truely believe polio was on the way out when the vaccine was discovered that you are more naive and uninformed then I thought. I was in grade school when the polio vaccine was first made available and I can tell you that the fear of polio was very real. I can remember friends at school getting polio and have visited a relative in an iron lung. Polio was a scourge and terrified the population. The vaccine ended that overnight. You cannot know, because obviously you weren’t even alive, what a relief it was to the nation to be out from under the fear of polio.
You may or may not be telling the truth about not having had any vaccinations. It is possible but not easy to avoid them. But the ONLY reason you are still healthy is because 98% of the population have had those vaccinations and thus these diseases do not make a comeback and you are not exposed. I have lived in a house where a child had whooping cough and the sound of that poor baby dying from the inability to breath still haunts me. Whooping cough is making a comeback. Lets hope you don’t have to experience listening to your child die.
Perhaps citizens should not be allowed to petition their legislators as Sherri believes. Perhaps Merck or Sherri should be prevented from having a say in legislation. However I believe in the constitution and the legislators work for us. So if you disagree with the legislation your choice and obligation is to lobby your politicians and if you agree with the legislation your choice to lobby in it’s favor should not be infringed.
GoneWithTheWind: My brain is hurting after reading all of your attempts at making your point. At the risk of sounding rude, you should really learn to spell and punctuate properly. Are you really that old that you’ve forgotten how or is your education level just that low? *I’ll take a stab at it and guess the latter*. If you are going to make a stupid argument, you should at least get that whole English thing down. It would make you sound much more credible.
It would be interesting to know how many women legislators voted for this bill, who did not receive funding directly from Merck or GSK (maker of Cervarix) but who are members of Women in Government, which receives undisclosed direct funding from both Merck and GSK — and who quite possibly could have been recipients of “scholarship” funds supplied by these drug companies to attend symposia where they sell their drugs to legislators through “education” programs?
This article and the writer are dangerously misinformed. In brief:
– State law already allows a youngster 12 years old and older to consent to tretment of a sexually transmitted disease (STD), however not the prevention of a STD. Why in the name of all that is holy, wouldn’t you want to prevent a child from getting disease – no matter HOW they could get it.
- According to the author’s fact sheet sponsors of this bill were the STD Controllers Association, the Health Officers Assoc of CA and the Assoc of OB/Gyns.
- Two companies manufacture HPV vaccine, not just one.
- There are no deaths that can be attributed to the vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied reports re vaccine side effects of HPV and found no causal relationship. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/jama.html
- Of the reported side effects and alleged deaths, some causes of death determined to date include diabetes, viral illness, illicit drug use, and heart failure.
-It is a scare tactic to suggest that schools would give your child a vaccine (any vaccine) and not tell a parent. It.just.doesn’t.happen.
If your ‘little girl’ knows how to get herself to a clinic for an HPV shot or other STD prevention tools, mmm, it might be a good thing that she has that access.
Rich Rider, No. 1: Are you kidding that all the bribes went to Dems?
Is Rick Perry a Dem? No, he is a Republican.
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I do not work for Merck and I fully believe that there are some undesirable lobbying activities around this bill (though nothing out of the ordinary, just typical lobbying). However please get your facts straight, the illnesses and deaths that Gardasil-vaccinated people have suffered have not been proven to be related to the vaccine and are not occurring with any greater frequency than you would expect in a normal population sample – i.e. they would have suffered anyway, it’s probably nothing to do with Gardasil. See facts here:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/hpv/gardasil.html
Keep up the good conversation and cautious citizenry but please do not tell people that a clinically studied vaccine is killing people when there is no evidence to support the statement – this kind of scare-mongering scares people away from useful drugs and vaccines, increases our health costs and slows the launch of useful medications and medical technologies.
The issue at hand is whether the government (State or Federal) has the right to provide non-emergency medical treatments on minor children with parental consent or knowledge. To that issue I say “NO”. Regardless of how we feel about vaccines AB499 is WRONG.
I personally have reservations about vaccines, as well as, any other pharmaceutical approach to wellness. I understand the arguments for vaccines but I believe that each one should be considered individually and healthcare is not “one size fits all” so we have to get out of that mindset.
I need to amend my statement to say “The issue at hand is whether the government (State or Federal) has the right to provide non-emergency medical treatments on minor children WITHOUT parental consent or knowledge. To that issue I say “NO”. Regardless of how we feel about vaccines AB499 is WRONG.
This ridiculous debate seems to be about parents who think they can somehow prevent kids from having sex before preventing said kids from receiving prevention or treatment for the consequences. They are then relating HPV vaccine which protects from cervical, throat & neck cancers for life after 3 doses to treatment for STD’s like gonorrhea. Don’t you understand that the HPV vaccine isn’t related to immediate sexual activity? Can’t you understand that even if Baby Girl stays a virgin til marriage, she may be infected by her husband? Giving HPV vaccine at 12 uses the same logic as giving Rubella shot at that age, for the protection of future pregnancies/fetuses/babies. If a parent doesn’t have the good sense to get preventive care for their child, there has to be a way for a child to get it. I find kids do discuss their health/sexuality with parents that aren’t judgmental, critical or condemning them.
The second issues seems to be those Flat Earth Society geniuses who think vaccines are some dangerous political conspiracy. Clearly you never knew anyone who died or was permanently disabled by a vaccine preventable disease. You really believ Smallpox just died out by coincidence in the 20th century after ravaging the human race for millenia. You really think that sanitation is SO MUCH better now than in the 1950′s that it accounts for the change from huge epidemics to isolated cases?
BTW Merck is not the sole manufacturer of HPV vaccine. Also the scary rDNA technology is used in making today’s insulins so much better at controlling diabetes that children and adults wit the disease now live longer healthier lives. So will you deny a diabetic child injections of that dangerous rDNA injection manufactured by big pharma, too?
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2011 reality check, despite vaccines, vaccinated people still get sick. It’s funny to me when people try to convince others that they are naive and neglectful for not being submissive and allowing the government to control their lives. Or, using the religion argument. I am neither religious or naive but one thing I do know is this; I am a momma bear and we all know what happens when you come to close to a momma bears young. If pharmaceutical companies want me to take them seriously, then you go first. Be a product of the product and if after a year you and your staff is still standing, I might think about it. You cannot have it both ways. Take responsibility for your own health and life. And for those who cited the cdc, here is what they had to say concerning gardasil. I’ve worked and dictated for lawyers, so they are careful not to put blame on the vaccine but if you have any sort of comprehension, you should get the picture. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/hpv/gardasil.html
[...] legislature, whom also probably brought out by the Big Pharma, passed legislation that will vaccinate children (between the ages of 9 to 17) without a parental consent. This blatant debauchery is pushing people further and further into world [...]
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