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Illinois legislators have introduced a bill that would allow minors to apply for coverage for vaccines for sexually transmissible disease prevention without parental consent.
HB 5473 amends current law to allow anyone over the age of twelve to request family planning services, including vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases.
The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) opposes HB 5473 because it permits minors to independently request and consent to vaccinations without parental awareness or approval.
We believe that vaccination decisions should rest with the minor’s parent, who is most familiar with the child’s medical history, family medical background, potential contraindications, and any religious or conscientious objections.
HB 5473 is scheduled for a hearing in the House Human Services Committee on Wednesday, 3-13-2024.
Please help us defeat this dangerous bill today!
TAKE ACTION
- Contact the House and Human Services Committee members and ask them to OPPOSE HB 5473.
You can look up the committee member’s contact information here: https://www.ilga.gov/house/committees/members.asp?committeeID=2891
- Attend the House and Human Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, 3-13-2024, at 8:30 am in Room 118 and Virtual Room 2 at the Capitol Building in Springfield, IL. View the hearing details HERE.
- Contact your State Representative and urge them to OPPOSE HB 5473.
You can look up who represents you at: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/maps/illinois-house/
Calls are more effective than emails and only take a few minutes. Below is a Sample Script, and there are additional Talking Points after the second action item. Use your own words when you call or email – a personal message is always more effective than a form message!
SAMPLE SCRIPT
“My name is ____, and I live in (town). I am calling to ask Representative ____ to oppose HB 5473.
This bill undermines parental rights by allowing minors as young as twelve to apply for benefits for vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, like HPV, Hepatitis A, and Hepatitis B, without parental consent, despite the inherent risks associated with vaccines.
As recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court, vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry the risk of injury or death. It is irresponsible to allow minors the ability to consent to vaccines without parental approval.
Similar to a minor’s inability to consent to other hazardous activities like purchasing tobacco, firearms, or alcohol, granting consent for a vaccine with comparable risks of harm or fatality should also be restricted.
Minors lack the capacity to conduct a comprehensive risk-benefit analysis before agreeing to vaccination.
I urge Representative _____to OPPOSE HB 5473, which would put minors in danger.”
TALKING POINTS:
Keep your call or email short! Pick the 2 or 3 of these talking points – or none of them — that are most important to you, and be sure to explain why this issue matters to you personally.
- A child may not know their personal or family medical history, including vaccine reactions, allergies, and autoimmune or neurological disorders, all of which contribute to the chances that they may have a serious reaction to a vaccine.
- Children do not have the same kind of critical thinking skills or emotional maturity to make a vaccine benefit-risk decision as adults. Additionally, children and adolescents are vulnerable to authority-figure persuasion.
- If a child consents to vaccination without their parent knowing and has a reaction, the parent may not recognize the reason for their child’s decline in health, and this lack of knowledge could be life-threatening for the child.
- No one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Each of us may respond differently as we have different medical histories, genes, epigenetics, and microbiomes.
- Many young people have died or become severely injured after receiving HPV vaccines. Allowing minors to consent to these vaccines is dangerous and irresponsible.
- HPV vaccines have the potential to trigger life-disabling autoimmune conditions and were shown in a study to likely cause primary ovarian failure. [Colafrancesco, S., Perricone, C., et al. Human papillomavirus vaccine and primary ovarian failure: another facet of the autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants. Am J Reprod Immunol. 70(4):309-316, Oct 2013. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23902317/]
- In 2014 the FDA approved a new HPV vaccine (Gardasil 9) containing more than twice as much Aluminum (a known neurotoxin, now approx. 500 mcg per 0.5-mL dose) as the previous vaccine despite there being over 1,600 scientific documents and peer-reviewed published papers confirming the dangers of aluminum toxicity to humans. http://www.naturalhealth365.com/hpv-vaccine-side-effects-1752.html
- The CDC reports: “Most people with HPV never develop symptoms or health problems. Most HPV infections (90%) go away by themselves within two years.” https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm
- Vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer, Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline have paid billions of dollars in criminal penalties and settlements for research fraud, faking drug safety studies, failing to report safety problems, bribery, kickbacks, and false advertising [1,2]. Pfizer paid $2.3 billion in 2009 alone to resolve criminal and civil allegations [3].
[1] Merck ($2 billion, 2007) – https://www.corp-research.org/merck
[2] GlaxoSmithKline ($3 billion, 2012) – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals
[3] Pfizer – https://abcnews.go.com/Business/pfizer-fined-23-billion-illegal-marketing-off-label/story?id=8477617
MORE INFORMATION
Read the bill at: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5473&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Read this article for more information on the dangers of HPV vaccines: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/the-troubling-truth-behind-hpv-vaccines-prepare-to-be-outraged/#gsc.tab=0
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