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“Bodily integrity is the inviolability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy and self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. In the field of human rights, violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as an unethical infringement, intrusive, and possibly criminal.”

Vaccine mandates violate bodily autonomy via coercion. When one is forced to choose between removal of their basic liberties or to unwillingly consent to a medical procedure, this amounts to coercion.

Legislators who propose bills to mandate vaccines or bills to eliminate an individual’s choice ignore the fact that medicine is not a one-size-fits-all practice.  Every medical intervention poses risks for some individuals. Vaccines are no exception. Mandatory vaccination programs ignore the fact that a certain percentage of the population will have a serious or deadly reaction. Sadly, we do not know who is susceptible until after the damage is done.

SOURCES:

• Wikipedia Definition of Bodily Integrity

• NVIC on Vaccination: Defending Your Right to Know and Freedom to Choose

• NVIC on Women, Vaccines and Bodily Integrity

In America, parents are guaranteed a Constitutional right to parent their children, which includes medical decision-making. Those medical decisions take many forms, such as what foods to serve their children, how to treat illness, which doctors to see, and yes, even how to PREVENT disease.

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“It is the natural, fundamental right of parents and legal guardians to determine and direct the care, teaching, and education of their children. The public schools of this state serve the needs of the pupils by cooperating with the pupil’s parents and legal guardians to develop the pupil’s intellectual capabilities and vocational skills in a safe and positive manner.”  

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SOURCES

• Michigan Compiled Laws 380.10

• Michigan Department of Education Overview on Parental Rights 

• Michigan Affirms Parental Rights in State Law

• California Woman Wins Huge Settlement in Incident Where Son Was Taken, Given 13 Vaccines

Informed consent gives an individual the right to analyze the risks and benefits of a proposed medical intervention and then refuse it if the risks outweigh the benefits. Both options must be equally accessible, and refusal must be WITHOUT consequences, such as the threat of losing access to public education or basic medical care. Informed consent prior to any medical intervention is a basic human right.

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Michigan state law embraces the concept of informed consent at the state level by allowing parents to decline vaccinations for their children for reasons of conscience, including their religious beliefs.  Unfortunately, these protections afforded in state law do not extend into adulthood.

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SOURCES:

• Definition of Informed Consent per the Nuremberg Code

• NVIC: The Moral Right to Conscientious, Philosophical and Personal Believe Exemption to Vaccination

• Michigan Law Providing Vaccine Exemptions

The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) acknowledges and compensates for injury and death as a result of vaccination.

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Many peer-reviewed studies evidence severe adverse events that can occur from vaccination. In the 1970s and ‘80s pharmaceutical companies were being sued for serious injuries incurred by children from vaccines, many from the DPT vaccine. So much so, vaccine makers threatened to stop making vaccines, which would impact the vaccine program instituted by public health authorities. Unfortunately, in 1986, vaccine makers were given full federal protection from lawsuits resulting from vaccine injury or death via the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed by Congress. Since they are not liable for the safety of their products, there is no incentive to make their products safer or more effective.  No other product in this country is mandated without consumer protections.

SOURCES:

• Federal VICP Vaccine Injury Table 

• Current CDC Vaccine Information Statements (see Adverse Events Section)

• Vaccine Peer Review – 1000 Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies

• The Vaccine Guide

Few people take the time to review the FDA package insert that comes with a vaccine. Injected ingredients include: MSG, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, aluminum, detergents, glycerin (animal bone collagen), mercury, lead, cadmium, alcohol, yeast proteins, sulfates, antibiotics, acetone, monkey kidney, dog kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf serum, human DNA and cell fragments (derived from abortion), blood from pigs, horses, sheep, and other humans, rabbit brain, cow heart, and insect cells.

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Many of these ingredients have never been clinically tested or approved by the FDA for injection, or ingestion. Defying common sense and violating basic safety and ethics standards, the FDA approves vaccines that contain never-proven-safe ingredients.

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SOURCES:

• CDC Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary

• Human DNA in Vaccines (Derived from Abortion)
  Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the Godfather of Vaccines, under oath speaking to his use of aborted fetuses in vaccine research and development.  

• Bioethics News - Is it True That There Are Vaccines Produced Using Aborted Fetuses?

• Spontaneous Integration of Human DNA Fragments into Host Genome

• Michigan Right to Life Review - Vaccines, Abortion, & Fetal Tissue

• United States and Canadian Vaccines Containing Aborted Fetal Cell Lines and Ethical Alternatives 

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was set up to address injury or death following vaccination (in place of suing manufacturers).

This is a taxpayer-funded program. Instead of suing the manufacturer, the plaintiff must sue the federal government (HHS in particular) in the US Court of Claims (Vaccine Court). According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, vaccine injuries and deaths compensated from this fund now exceed FOUR BILLION DOLLARS and include all vaccines currently recommended for school attendance in Michigan.

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SOURCES:

• National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

• HRSA Data & Statistics

In 1986 Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. This law established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) which provided a no-fault compensation for those injured by vaccines, and exempted vaccine makers from liability.

To date, the U.S. Court of Claims has awarded almost 4 billion dollars to vaccine victims for catastrophic injuries, yet 2/3 of applicants are still denied compensation.

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This act requires vaccine providers to report all suspected vaccine-related adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It is estimated that only 1% of adverse events are reported to VAERS.

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Vaccines are the only product for which a manufacturer is exempt from liability when their product injures or kills.

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SOURCES:

• National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986

• Video on Vaccine Court System

• National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act: Revision of the Vaccine Injury Table

Few people take the time to review the FDA package insert that comes with a vaccine. Injected ingredients include: MSG, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, aluminum, detergents, glycerin (animal bone collagen), mercury, lead, cadmium, alcohol, yeast proteins, sulfates, antibiotics, acetone, monkey kidney, dog kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf serum, human DNA and cell fragments (derived from abortion), blood from pigs, horses, sheep, and other humans, rabbit brain, cow heart, and insect cells.

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Many of these ingredients have never been clinically tested or approved by the FDA for injection, or ingestion. Defying common sense and violating basic safety and ethics standards, the FDA approves vaccines that contain never-proven-safe ingredients.

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SOURCES:

• CDC Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary

• Human DNA in Vaccines (Derived from Abortion)
  Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the Godfather of Vaccines, under oath speaking to his use of aborted fetuses in vaccine research and development.  

• Bioethics News - Is it True That There Are Vaccines Produced Using Aborted Fetuses?

• Spontaneous Integration of Human DNA Fragments into Host Genome

• Michigan Right to Life Review - Vaccines, Abortion, & Fetal Tissue

• United States and Canadian Vaccines Containing Aborted Fetal Cell Lines and Ethical Alternatives 

Annually, 30-50,000 reports of adverse reactions from vaccination are reported to VAERS, a system managed by the CDC and FDA, with over 1000 from Michigan. VAERS is a passive reporting system, and the CDC and FDA estimate only 1-10% of adverse reactions are even reported. In other words, there could be up to 3 million adverse events annually, with up to 100,000 occurring in Michigan. Vaccine injury is hardly rare – and those that propose vaccine mandates believe this collateral damage is acceptable for the greater good.

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SOURCES:

• Search the CDC VAERS System

• Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare. Electronic Support for Public Health-VAERS. Grant ID: R18 HS 017045

• Introducing MEDWatch-A New Approach to Reporting Medication and Device Adverse Effects and Product Problems, David A. Kessler, M.D. (former FDA Commissioner), Journal of American Medical Association, June 2, 1993-Vol 269, No. 21