New NYS law mandating vaccines

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New NYS law mandating vaccines - PLEASE READ!

I know this is a hot topic on these boards, but I think some people might be interested in this. If you are, please contact Rita (info below).

In a nutshell - NYS legislature may soon approve a bill which would mandate all vaccines recommended by the CDC for all children.

Here's an e-mail I recently received. Feel free to FM me if you want more info/contact info. TIA for reading this!
PS - I know there's a slant to this e-mail, please don't flame me for its overall biase against vaccinations.

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Act now to stop the worst vaccine law ever proposed in New York since the invention of the mandatory schedule. Assembly Bill 10942 would make all vaccines recommended by the CDC mandatory for all children to attend school and, and for the first time vaccines would become mandatory for infants and toddlers.

The bill was introduced in Rules Committee at the request of Richard Daines, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. The Rules Committee in the personal committee of the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan).

A-CHAMP is calling for rejection of this bill and is demanding the passage of A5468/S3031, a bill that would give individuals a right to a philosophical exemption from vaccine mandates. This is no time to transfer vaccine decisions away from individuals and elected officials answerable to the voters and give it to obscure bureaucrats with financial ties to the vaccine industry.

Here are a few features of the proposed bill:
· Our elected New York representatives would no longer determine the mandatory schedule of vaccines to attend school; decisions made by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would automatically become mandatory.
· All children, infants and toddlers included, in New York would be required to get all vaccines recommended by the ACIP according to the ACIP schedule
· All children in New York up to age 18 would be required to get annual flu shots which do contain the neurotoxin mercury.
· All girls in New York would be required to get a human papilloma virus shot.
· All junior high school children and college students would be required to get meningococcal shots.
· Doctors would be required to issue certificates for every shot given and parents would be required to maintain the records and provide them to school and other authorities.
· The rules committee claims that the new laws would have no fiscal impact on the state despite the necessity of the state to spend tens of millions on purchasing new vaccines, a vast increase in mandatory record keeping and enforcement for schools, and a huge increase that could be expected in the number of cases of neurological damage, autism, Guillian Barré syndrome and other vaccine-caused injuries.

We only have a few weeks to defeat this bill. Let your Assemblymember and State Senator know immediately that a vote for this bill guarantees that you will do everything you can to get them un-elected. In addition to emailing and calling your local representatives, please call Speaker Sheldon Silver and let his staff know, politely, that this is a disastrous idea. While you are at it please call Governor David Paterson and let his staff know, politely, that this is a horrible law.

Governor David Paterson (518) 474-8390

Speaker Sheldon Silver (518) 455-3791
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There's a group of LI'ers who will be traveling to Albany on June 10th to let their concerns be heard. They're taking a bus and are leaving from several locations on the island - the more people they have the more effective the voices will be. More info can be found via Rita at mykidsmychoice.com

Message edited 5/30/2008 10:20:27 PM.

Posted 5/30/08 10:15 PM