From
Autism Action Network:
RI Proposes Worst Vaccine Regulation Ever Take Action! Mandatory flu shots, HPV and many others
Michael Fine, MD, the state of Rhode Island’s Director of Health,
is pushing the adoption of the worst forced shots regulations in US
history. Every shot on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
(ACIP) recommended schedule, including the controversial HPV shot, will
become mandatory to attend pre-school, daycare, elementary school,
middle school, high school and college in Rhode Island. The ACIP is a
federal commission composed of representatives of the vaccine industry
with well-documented and pervasive conflicts of interest among its
members. Fine has also proposed sweeping new vaccine requirements for
employees of pre-schools. And unlike 20 other states where more than
half the American population lives Rhode Island does not allow
exemptions from vaccine mandates for secular reasons.
Children as young as six-months will be exposed through flu shots to
quantities of mercury vastly higher than maximum exposure limits for
adults. The HPV has an extremely bad safety record, and there is no data
studying the effect of multiple injections of products the US Supreme
Court has declared “unavoidably unsafe.”
Please click the
Take Action link above to send a message to Governor Lincoln Chafee and
your Rhode Island State Legislators stating your opposition to the plan.
Please Call Governor Lincoln Chaffee and politely state your opposition:
(401) 222-2080
Please call Dr. Fine and politely let him now that you are opposed to his proposal:
401-222-5960
Fine has been a private physician in family practice, and his wife
is currently a physician in family practice which gives the Fine family a
direct financial interest in the implementation of his proposal. Rhode
Island law requires any public official to declare a conflict of
interest and recuse themselves from decisions in which they or their
families have a direct financial interest. Fine clearly should recuse
himself from the adoption of these regulations.
Unlike
most states where adding vaccines to the mandated schedule requires the
passage of a new law in the customary democratic way, in Rhode Island
Dr. Fine has the authority to require these shots on his own directive
just like a commissar in the former Soviet Union.
Shots Dr. Fine wants to compel students to get would include:
* Annual flu shots for children aged 6 months to 59 months
* Hepatitis A, rotavirus and an additional acellular diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis injection (TDaP) for elementary school students
* The controversial Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a meningococcal injection, and an additional DTAP for middle school students;
* College levels student will be required to have had two doses of the
Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR), a TDAP, 3 doses of hepatitis b, two doses
of varicella (chicken pox), and two doses of a meningococcal injection,
* Employees of pre-schools will be required to get the following
shots. Two doses of MMR, one TDaP, two varicella, and an annual flu
shot. No exemptions for religious reasons will be allowed for pre-school
workers.
The extent of the intrusion into personal and
family rights proposed by Dr. Fine is so gross, and the complete
disregard to demonstrate any need for the shots, or that the shots can
actually prevent the targeted diseases in any significant way, has
prompted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to challenge the
proposal. The ACLU up this point has not involved itself in vaccine
rights issues.
