Vaccine Epidemic : How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children

Vaccination evokes strong opinions and emotions. Some are grateful and relieved to get vaccines. Others are angry and resentful about vaccination mandates. Many are caught in the middle—afraid, confused, and looking for the straight scoop. If you want to understand the real issues in the vaccination debate, read this book. Whether you are a parent, student, employee, soldier, or anyone else, you have a stake in this debate. No matter who you are, sooner or later you will wonder, Should I get a vaccine? Do I have a choice? Who decides? The vaccination debate has two distinct viewpoints, one “pro-vaccine” and the other “pro-choice.” The camps usually hurl the same insults at one another, characterizing the other side as irresponsible, dangerous, denialist, corrupt, and antiscience. Although this book favors vaccination choice and explains why, we attempt to objectively outline each basic view by setting derogatory labels aside. VACCINES ARE EPIDEMIC Starting on the day of birth, nearly all American children receive vaccines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends seventy doses of sixteen different vaccines between birth and age eighteen. The federal government recommends vaccines for adults too. It is the states, however, and increasingly private employers, that compel them. All fifty states mandate from thirty to forty-five doses of about a dozen different vaccines for admission to day care and school. Public health officials proclaim that vaccines are safe and effective, but the truth is far more complicated. Vaccination is a serious medical intervention for healthy individuals against a disease that might occur. The decision whether to vaccinate has important, potentially life-altering ramifications. While vaccines protect some, they unquestionably harm and cause death to others. Government employees that do not to the Big Pharma agenda of low safety and high profits will get transferred, demoted or fired. Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph FOREWORD - Louise Kuo Habakus, MA, and Mary Holland, JD Introduction - THE CASE FOR VACCINATION CHOICE Part I - THE CASE FOR VACCINATION CHOICE Chapter One - VACCINATION CHOICE IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT Chapter Two - THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARD Chapter Three - A HUMAN RIGHTS ASSESSMENT Chapter Four - DUE PROCESS AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION Chapter Five - THE RIGHT TO LEGAL REDRESS Chapter Six - GOD, GOVERNMENT, AND PARENTAL RIGHTS Chapter Seven - AN URGENT CALL FOR MORE RESEARCH Chapter Eight - A LONG AMERICAN TRADITION Chapter Nine - MEDICAL ETHICS AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE Chapter Ten - “THE GREATER GOOD” Part II - NARRATIVES AND THE ECHOES OF “OMELAS” Chapter Eleven - THREE SHORT YEARS Chapter Twelve - PEDIATRICS: SICK IS THE NEW HEALTHY Chapter Thirteen - MY DAUGHTER IS “ONE LESS” Chapter Fourteen - A MOTHER-SON STORY Chapter Fifteen - WHO WILL DEFEND THE DEFENDERS? Chapter Sixteen - “GET YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER” Part III - THE TOPICS IN DEBATE Chapter Seventeen - THE VACCINE BUBBLE AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Chapter Eighteen - THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA Chapter Nineteen - MERCURY TOXICITY AND VACCINE INJURY Chapter Twenty - FORCED CHILD REMOVAL Chapter Twenty-One - GENETIC INFORMATION: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Chapter Twenty-Two - A DOCTOR’S VIEW OF VACCINES AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH Chapter Twenty-Three - A HOLISTIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE Chapter Twenty-Four - WHAT SHOULD PARENTS DO? Chapter Twenty-Five - WHO IS DR. ANDREW WAKEFIELD? Chapter Twenty-Six - THE SUPPRESSION OF SCIENCE AFTERWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS APPENDIX A: SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS APPENDIX TO CHAPTER SEVEN: AN URGENT CALL FOR MORE RESEARCH - Abstracts from Underlying Scientific Studies APPENDIX TO CHAPTER TWELVE: PEDIATRICS: SICK IS THE NEW HEALTHY APPENDIX TO CHAPTER FIFTEEN: WHO WILL DEFEND THE DEFENDERS? APPENDIX TO CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA APPENDIX TO CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: WHAT SHOULD PARENTS DO? - COUNTING VACCINE DOSES AND COMBINATION VACCINES APPENDIX TO CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: WHO IS DR. AN DREW WAKEFIELD? APPENDIX B: TOOLS FOR VACCINATION CHOICE NOTES CONTRIBUTORS INDEX Argues That Vaccines Are Dangerous And That Government Mandates Violate Individual Rights, Shares Stories Of People Injured By Vaccinations, And Suggests Ways To Reform The Current American Health-care System. Ch.1. Vaccination Choice Is A Fundamental Human Right / Mary Holland -- Ch.2. International Human Rights Standard / Sookyung Song -- Ch.3. Human Rights Assessment / Louise Kuo Habakus -- Ch.4. Due Process And The American Constitution / James Turner -- Ch.5. Right To Legal Redress / Mary Holland, Robert Krakow -- Ch.6. God, Government, And Parental Rights / William Wagner -- Ch.7. Urgent Call For More Research / Carol Stott, Andrew Wakefield -- Ch.8. Long American Tradition / Robert Johnston -- Ch.9. Medical Ethics And Contemporary Medicine / Vera Hassner Sharav -- Ch.10. The Greater Good / Allen Tate -- Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Ch.11. Three Short Years / Gay Tate -- Ch.12. Pediatrics : Sick Is The New Healthy / Judy Converse -- Lgch.13. My Daughters Is One Less / Amy Pingel -- Ch.14. Mother-son Story / Sonja Hintz, Alexander Hintz -- Ch.15. Who Will Defend The Defenders? / Captain Richard Rovet, Colonel Felix M. Grieder -- Ch.16. Get Your Affairs In Order / Lisa Marks Smith -- Ch.17. Vaccine Bubble And The Pharmaceutical Industry / Michael Belkin -- Ch.18. Role Of Government And Media / Ginger Taylor -- Ch.19. Mercury Toxicity And Vaccine Injury / Boyd Haley -- Ch.20. Forced Child Removal / Kim Mack Rosenberg -- Ch.21. Genetic Information : Where Do We Go From Here? / Twila Brase -- Ch.22. Doctor's View Of Vaccines And The Public Health / Sherri Tenpenny -- Ch.23. Holistic Health Perspective / Annemarie Colbin -- Ch.24. What Should Parents Do? / Louise Kuo Habakus -- Ch.25. Who Is Dr. Andrew Wakefield? / Mary Holland -- Ch.26. Suppression Of Science / Andrew Wakefield Edited By Louise Kuo Habakus And Mary Holland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Public health officials state that vaccines are safe and effective, but the truth is far more complicated. Vaccination is a serious medical intervention that always carries the potential to injure and cause death as well as to prevent disease. Coercive vaccination policies deprive people of free and informed consent—the hallmark of ethical medicine. Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners. Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States. Habakus, Holland, and Rosenberg edit and introduce a diverse array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy, including the ethics of vaccination mandates, corrupting conflicts of interest in the national vaccine program, and personal narratives of parents, children, and soldiers who have suffered vaccine injury. Newly updated with additional chapters focusing on institutional scientific misconduct, mandates for healthcare workers, concerns about HPV vaccine development, and the story behind the Supreme Court's recent vaccine decision, Vaccine Epidemic remains the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children. National polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners. Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States. Featuring more than twenty experts from the fields of ethics, law, science, medicine, business, and history, Vaccine Epidemic urgently calls for reform. It is the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children. Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland edit and introduce a diverse array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy, including: The human right to vaccination choice The ethics and constitutionality of vaccination mandates Personal narratives of parents, children, and soldiers who have suffered vaccine injury Vaccine safety science and evidence-based medicine Corrupting conflicts of interest in the national vaccine program What should parents do? A review of eight advice books on vaccines that span the gamut.