In June of this year, our new not-for-profit society,
Vaccine Choice
Canada (VCC) was formed by families whose loved ones have suffered
vaccine reactions and injuries. We continue the educational work of VRAN
– Vaccination Risk Awareness Network which, for many years, served as
Canada’s leading watchdog group reporting on the vaccine controversy. Our mission is to continue this work to empower families to make
educated, voluntary, and a fully informed decision when considering
vaccination.
We’re pleased to announce that the
Vaccine Choice Canada website has now
been launched and can be viewed at
www.vaccinechoicecanada.com. VCC
will continue to serve you as a trusted source of news and research on
vaccination, related health issues, as well as personal stories attesting to
vaccine injuries. Our
Science page offers
an extensive section on studies linking vaccines to health risks.
In an era when disease outbreaks are occurring in fully vaccinated
populations and untold numbers of vaccine injuries remain unacknowledged,
Vaccine Choice Canada aims to provide you
with a deeper understanding of this complex issue. We work to protect
health freedoms and the individual’s right to exercise the basic human
right to voluntary, informed consent when considering pharmaceutical
products like vaccines which are known to carry a risk of injury and
death. We believe these health freedoms are worth protecting and invite
you to join us in this important work.
Thirty years ago, a small group of determined parents won their fight
against the Ontario government’s ‘mandatory’ Immunization of School
Pupils Act. We formed the Committee Against Compulsory Vaccination in
protest of this oppressive new law giving the government the power
to threaten our children’s education if we refused to medicate them
according to their rules.
Our two year lobby effort culminated in an amendment to the Act on
December 14, 1984 granting parents the right to obtain philosophical
vaccine exemptions for their children. On this thirtieth anniversary, it
seems fitting to revisit our victory and the long road we’ve travelled
since.
The haste with which the legislation was passed blindsided many families
whose children were vaccine injured and those philosophically opposed to vaccination. Although medical and religious
exemptions were permitted, few had religious affiliations that
prohibited vaccination. Medical exemptions were difficult if not
impossible to get even if a child had suffered a vaccine injury. Many of
us faced the possibility that our children wouldn’t be able to attend
school.
The new law threatened our most basic human right - the right of
autonomy over our own bodies and the right to self determination. It
violated our fundamental
Constitutional guarantees of ‘freedom of
conscience and religion’ and ‘security of the person’. Government had
suddenly gotten bossier, pushier and nastier as it moved toward medical
tyranny. At stake was the sacred right to determine what is best for our
children and to protect them from harm.
This quote, taken from a
Brief we presented
to the government in protest of the new law, is as relevant and
inspiring today as it was 30 years ago;
“The state has no business telling us what we must think, believe, read,
eat or what medicines we and our children must take. Such imposed
conformity is antithetical to the ideals of a free society. The state
acts completely illegitimately when, for instance, it compels us all to
accept the tenets of a particular religion. And the government acts with
equal illegitimacy when it decides what particular medical point of
view all individuals in society must accept and adopt. Such a question
is in the realm of culture and there are, understandably, a great
variety of opinions about which methods are best as there are varieties
of opinions on other cultural matters. There is no room in a free
society for a state-mandated medical dogma which we all must accept.” Perpetuating the ‘mandatory’ vaccination lie The “mature minor” doctrine is another insidious legal maneuver used by
public health officials to coerce underage children to submit to
vaccines, usually in the school setting. In Canada, children as young as
10 or 11 can be vaccinated without parental knowledge or consent. The
“mature minor” clause is incorporated into most provincial health care
Acts and permits under age children to make their own decision about
vaccines, obtain birth control and abortions.
Every year parents contact us, outraged that their children have been
vaccinated without their consent. Recently an Ontario mother informed us
that her 11 year old son had been injected with hepatitis B vaccine and
meningococcal vaccine without her consent. The child was threatened
with suspension if he didn’t get the shots. Fearing he would be barred
from school he signed a consent form without an opportunity to speak to his
parents first. He received NO information about the risks and side
effects of the vaccines, nor was he given the option of a legal vaccine
exemption. This child’s consent was NOT informed. Worse, it was obtained
fraudulently in violation of Ontario’s
Health Care Consent Act, the same Act that bizarrely also enables the medical treatment of
minor children without parental consent.
The “mature minor” doctrine usurps parental authority giving governments
the power to coerce children into making health care decisions that
conflict with family values. Every reasonable person knows that an 11
year old child does not have the maturity or life experience to evaluate
the risks or benefits of receiving one or multiple vaccines. A child
this young is incapable of making an informed decision about complex
medical issues. Added to this insult is the pro-vaccine propaganda
disseminated in the public school system which paints a rosy picture of
vaccines without disclosing the very real risks of injury associated with all
vaccines. It is one of the most challenging vaccine issues we face in
Canada.
We thank you, our members for your ongoing support and would like to
remind you to renew your membership for 2015. For those who are not yet
members, we invite you to join and receive our acclaimed newsletter, The Vaccine Choice Journal. Please email us if you'd like to receive a sample issue. Your membership donation enables us to
continue this important work and is easy to do via our secure
PayPal account.
Wishing you and your loved ones a happy holiday season and best of health for the New Year.
Edda West, President,
Vaccine Choice Canada
