NY Victory: All New Vaccine Mandates Squashed
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:11 pm
This is very exciting information. I hope this will spread to all the
states.
NY: All New Vaccine Mandates Squahed. YEAH!!!!!
Parents are Powerful when they do speak up!
It's official, New York Assembly Bill A 10942, the "worst vaccine bill ever"
and the mandatory meningococcal vaccine bill it morphed into late in the
session are dead. And they were killed by parents who just aren't going to
let pharma kick them around anymore.
Another vaccine bill that would have allowed minors to get vaccines for
sexually-transmitted diseases without parents permission or knowledge went
down to an ignominious defeat when the Assembly Health committee refused to
even consider it.
This represents the fourth defeat in a row, with no wins, for the vaccine
industry in New York, last year an mandatory HPV bill was killed.
As usual with most vaccine bills in New York, they were submitted late in
the session which limits the time that the opposition has to make arguments
against a proposal. The original A 10942 was submitted at the request of the
Health Department and would have caused a sweeping restructuring of NY
vaccine policy; all CDC recommended vaccines would have become mandatory for
all children, including those too young to enter school, and all new CDC
recommended vaccines would automatically become mandatory.
A 10942 was greeted by a rally of hundreds of parents from all around the
state, many were parent of vaccine-injured children, others though have
healthy children and would like to see them stay healthy. A broad cross
section of organizations were involved, autism organization, holistic health
groups, libertarians, and many others came together for the first time in
joint political action. Legisltive aides report a flood of phone calls,
faxes, letters and emails in opposition.
The legislature responded with scaling the bill back to require the
menigoccocal shot for seventh graders. This new version was introduced last
Friday and on Monday there were new demonstrations by parents both in Albany
and in front of the Long Island office of State Senator Kemp Hannon who
introduced the meningitis legislation. The bill died today with the
adjournment of the legislature.
Organizers of the successful campaign will be holding meetings and
conferences to make sure that in the next session of the legislature that
the philosophical exemption bills sponsored by State Senator Frank Padavan
and Assemblymember Mark Alessi are passed. And in a new twist on vaccines
rights, New Yorkers will be working to introduce legislation that will drop
vaccines from the mandatory list. The first target will be hepatitis b, a
shot given to newborns ostensibly to prevent a sexually transmitted disease.
states.
NY: All New Vaccine Mandates Squahed. YEAH!!!!!
Parents are Powerful when they do speak up!
It's official, New York Assembly Bill A 10942, the "worst vaccine bill ever"
and the mandatory meningococcal vaccine bill it morphed into late in the
session are dead. And they were killed by parents who just aren't going to
let pharma kick them around anymore.
Another vaccine bill that would have allowed minors to get vaccines for
sexually-transmitted diseases without parents permission or knowledge went
down to an ignominious defeat when the Assembly Health committee refused to
even consider it.
This represents the fourth defeat in a row, with no wins, for the vaccine
industry in New York, last year an mandatory HPV bill was killed.
As usual with most vaccine bills in New York, they were submitted late in
the session which limits the time that the opposition has to make arguments
against a proposal. The original A 10942 was submitted at the request of the
Health Department and would have caused a sweeping restructuring of NY
vaccine policy; all CDC recommended vaccines would have become mandatory for
all children, including those too young to enter school, and all new CDC
recommended vaccines would automatically become mandatory.
A 10942 was greeted by a rally of hundreds of parents from all around the
state, many were parent of vaccine-injured children, others though have
healthy children and would like to see them stay healthy. A broad cross
section of organizations were involved, autism organization, holistic health
groups, libertarians, and many others came together for the first time in
joint political action. Legisltive aides report a flood of phone calls,
faxes, letters and emails in opposition.
The legislature responded with scaling the bill back to require the
menigoccocal shot for seventh graders. This new version was introduced last
Friday and on Monday there were new demonstrations by parents both in Albany
and in front of the Long Island office of State Senator Kemp Hannon who
introduced the meningitis legislation. The bill died today with the
adjournment of the legislature.
Organizers of the successful campaign will be holding meetings and
conferences to make sure that in the next session of the legislature that
the philosophical exemption bills sponsored by State Senator Frank Padavan
and Assemblymember Mark Alessi are passed. And in a new twist on vaccines
rights, New Yorkers will be working to introduce legislation that will drop
vaccines from the mandatory list. The first target will be hepatitis b, a
shot given to newborns ostensibly to prevent a sexually transmitted disease.