VACCINATIONS AND THE RIGHT TO REFUSE

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO
September 14, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

By way of introduction, I like to tell people I’m a physician by
training and a compulsive researcher by inclination. To be specific,
I’ve invested more than seven-thousand hours investigating the
under-reported health hazards associated with vaccinations, along with
the attendant ethical and legal issues.

What started as a fairly modest research exercise has turned into a
second full-time career. I’ve discussed vaccination hazards on more
than 50 radio and television programs, addressed hundreds of
professional, political, and trade groups, produced two informational
DVDs, and authored numerous articles for both print publications and
Internet sites. In addition, I’m scheduled to produce two books
relating to the subject over the next year.

The risk of vaccination must be considered as important—and
potentially more serious—than the risk of a childhood disease. Years
of experience and thousands of hours of research have lead to
conclusions that are not uniformly accepted: the importance of legally
ensuring vaccine exemptions in each State and the right to refuse
Nationally mandated vaccinations.

Vaccination is a procedure and vaccines are medications….and both have
risks and side effects which are often ignored by the media and,
worse, by many in the medical profession. As a population, we are
against being forcibly medicated. We value our right to choose what is
done to our bodies.

Humans are intrinsically healthy and tend to remain so if they are
given nutritious, non-GMO foods, fresh air, and clean water. We have
been blessed with God-given protective barriers against infectious
diseases, including our skin and immune system.

Knowing that these facts are true for all members of the human
species, how did we come to embrace the idea that injecting solutions
of chemically-treated, inactivated viruses, parts of bacteria, traces
of animal tissue and heavy metals, such as mercury and aluminum, was a
reasonable strategy for keeping human beings—babies, children and
adults—healthy?

If a “dirty bomb” exposed a large segment of US citizens
simultaneously to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis,
diphtheria, Haemophilus influenza B, three strains of polio viruses, 3
strains of influenza viruses, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, the
chickenpox virus, and 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, we would
declare a national emergency. We would call it an “extreme act of
BIOTERRORISM”. The public outcry would be immense and our government
would act accordingly.

And yet, those are the very organisms that we inject through vaccines
into our babies and our small children, with immature, underdeveloped
immune systems. Many are given all at the same time. But instead of
bioterrorism, we call it “protection.” Reflect a moment on that irony.
Vaccine injuries are reported to be “rare”, but only because very few
reactions are “accepted” by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the
Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) as being caused by vaccines. I have frequently said that when a
vaccine is given, and a bad reaction occurs, “ANYTHING BUT” the
vaccine is “blamed” for the reaction. Here is a direct quote from the
6th edition of Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable
Diseases called “The Pink Book”, published by the CDC:

“There is no distinct syndrome from vaccine administration, and
therefore, many temporally associated adverse events probably
represent background illness rather than illness caused by the
vaccine…The DTaP may stimulate or precipitate inevitable symptoms of
underlying CNS disorder, such as seizures, infantile spasms, epilepsy
or SIDS. By chance alone, some of these cases will seem to be
temporally related to DTaP.”
I have to admit, the first time I read that, I cried. Instead of
blaming the vaccine for causing the problem, we blame the children for
somehow being defective and the “defect” shows up after we inject
them.

Another example of not blaming the vaccine for a reaction comes
directly from the National Vaccine Injury compensation table. Only a
handful of injuries are covered by this program; if your injury isn’t
on the table, you don’t qualify for compensation. The government says
“there is no proof”—no causal association—that the problem that was
experienced, the seizure, for example, was caused by the vaccine.

And timing of the injury is important too. For example, the Injury
Compensation Table states that if the baby manifests the symptoms of
encephalopathy –or brain swelling—within 3 days of being given a DTaP
shot, the injury is probably related to the vaccine. If the
complication develops on the 4th day—or the 5th, 6th or 7th day—it is
not considered to be “causally related” and the parent is ineligible
to apply for compensation.

Sort of like saying the black and blue foot you have today had nothing
to do with the frozen turkey you dropped on it last week, because the
discoloration didn’t show up within the time allowed to “prove
causation.”
Side effects and complications from vaccines are considered
inconsequential because their numbers are supposedly “statistically
insignificant.” This conclusion comes from epidemiological research
involving large numbers of participants and has nothing to do with the
individual person. Population-based conclusions go against one of the
most basic tenants of all of medicine: to treat each person as an
individual and believe them when they tell you something went wrong
after a vaccine.

A “one in a million” reaction may be rare, but if you are “the one”,
it is 100% to you.

And even if the one-in-a-million reactions are considered “rare” by
the CDC, the health care costs associated with those “rare” reactions
are not insignificant. Here’s one example.

One recognized complication of the flu shot is a condition called
Gullian-Barre Syndrome (GBS). Guillian-Barre is disorder characterized
by progressive paralysis, beginning in the feet and advancing up the
body, often causing paralysis of the diaphragm and breathing muscles
within a matter of hours or days.

Nearly all patients with GBS are hospitalized because of paralysis.
The prognosis of GBS varies. Up to 13 percent die and 20 percent more
are left significantly disabled, defined, for these purposes, as
unable to work for at least a year.

The CDC reports this side effect to be “rare, perhaps 1 or 2 per
million flu shots given.” Using the numbers determined from a variety
of sources—including medical journals and government documents, it can
reasonably be assumed that the flu shot may cause 40 cases of GBS per
year.

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database reveals
that the average hospital charge per person for GBS is nearly $70,000.
Add another $40,000 per person for rehabilitation costs after months
of paralysis. Therefore the cost to healthcare for this “rare”
complication can be approximated to be at least $4.4 million.

This conservative estimate doesn’t include lost wages, reduced
standards of living for patients who returned to work but had to take
a lower paying job because of their illness. And of course, there is
no price tag for the “human cost” of being paralyzed and away from
your family for months.

The advantageous cost-benefit relationship is one of the main
rationalizations given for supporting the national vaccination program
at all levels, infants through the elderly. But has anyone seriously
analyzed the cost of caring for vaccine complications?

This example of Guillian-Barre represents the cost of just ONE
complication. What if the costs for healthcare from all acknowledged
side effects were calculated and added to the cost of the National
Vaccination programs? What if we add in the parent-observed
complications, such as refractory seizures?

Are we getting our money’s worth financially? Are we getting our
money’s worth in terms of a “healthier” nation?

What about other not-so-obvious costs incurred by vaccine
mandates—increased taxes and increased health insurance premiums to
pay for the shots? Increased administrative costs to track that they
have been given? There are many others, but I’ll stop there.

There are three things to take away from this introduction:

1. Low infection rates and high vaccination rates should not be the
cornerstone of our public health policy. Vaccine reactions should not
be discounted, whatever their numbers. Further, the true cost-benefit
of the vaccination program must be considered, and what has been
presented is barely the tip of the iceberg.


2. Parents, and all adults, must retain their right to refuse
vaccines. They are not without risk, and those “rare” complications
can result in significant costs, both economic and in terms of human
life.

3. Children, and all adults, who refuse to be vaccinated are being
discriminated against. They are losing their rights:

a. Rights and access to a public education.
b. Rights to access to health care, as doctors discharge them as
patients.
c. Rights to food because often moms on Medicaid are refused food
stamps.


These rights—including the right to refuse—must be ensured.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us—and
force us to vaccinate and medicate our children in the name “health”
and “policy” and for “the greater good” we, in essence, accept that
the state owns our bodies, and, apparently, our children.



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Sherri J. Tenpenny, D.O. is the President and Medical Director of
OsteoMed II, a clinic located in the Cleveland area that provides
conventional, alternative, and preventive medicine. OsteoMed II's
staff of three osteopathic physicians, two acupuncturists and a
10-member support team focuses on four specialized areas: allergy
elimination; treating acute and chronic pain problems; all areas of
woman's health; and the treatment of vaccine injured children.

Dr. Tenpenny has lectured at Cleveland State University and Case
Western Reserve Medical School on topics related to alternative
health. Nationally, she is a regular guest on many different radio and
television talk shows, including "Your Health" aired on the Family
Network. She has published articles in magazines, newspapers and
internet sites, including, Redflagsdaily.com, Mercola.com and
Mothering.com. She has presented at the National Vaccine Information
Center's annual meeting and at several international conferences on
autism.

Dr. Tenpenny is respected as one of the country's most knowledgeable
and outspoken physicians regarding the impact of vaccines on health.
As a member of the prestigious National Speaker's Association, Dr.
Tenpenny is an outspoken advocate for free choice in healthcare,
including the right to refuse vaccination. As an internationally known
speaker, she is highly sought after for her ability to present
scientifically sound information regarding vaccination hazard and
warnings that are rarely portrayed by conventional medicine. Most
importantly, she offers hope through her unique treatments offered at
OsteoMed II for those who have been vaccine-injured.

Dr. Tenpenny is a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo,
Ohio. She received her medical training at Kirksville College of
Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. Dr. Tenpenny is Board
Certified in Emergency Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.
Prior to her career in alternative medicine, Dr. Tenpenny served as
Director of the Emergency Department at Blanchard Valley Regional
Hospital Center in Findlay, Ohio, from 1987 to 1995. In 1994, she and
a partner opened OsteoMed, a medical practice in Findlay limited to
the specialty of osteopathic manipulative medicine. In 1996, Dr.
Tenpenny moved to Strongsville, Ohio, and founded OsteoMed II,
expanding her practice and her vision of combining the best of
conventional and alternative medicine.

Website: www.nmaseminars.com

"Ilena Rose" wrote in message
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There are risks to everything we do. Including vaccinations. The safety
record of vaccinations is good, particularly considering all the lives
saved. In all states, parents have the right to decline vaccination. It is
up to the parents to decide whether vaccination is in the kids best
interest.

Jeff

"Jeff" wrote in message
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"Ilena Rose" wrote in message
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There are risks to everything we do. Including vaccinations. The safety
record of vaccinations is good, particularly considering all the lives
saved.

"Whether we examine the long-continued records of London mortality, or those
of modern registration for England, Scotland, and Ireland; whether we
consider the "control experiment" or crucial test afforded by unvaccinated
Leicester, or the still more rigid test in the other direction, of the
absolutely revaccinated Army and Navy, the conclusion is in every case the
same: that vaccination is a gigantic delusion; that it has never saved a
single life; but that it has been the cause of so much disease, so many
deaths, such a vast amount of utterly needless and altogether undeserved
suffering, that it will be classed by the coming generation among the
greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced age, and its penal enforcement
the foulest blot on the generally beneficent course of legislation during
our century."-----ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book 1898] VACCINATION A DELUSION

"JOHN" wrote in message
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"Jeff" wrote in message
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"Ilena Rose" wrote in message
...

There are risks to everything we do. Including vaccinations. The safety
record of vaccinations is good, particularly considering all the lives
saved.

"Whether we examine the long-continued records of London mortality, or
those of modern registration for England, Scotland, and Ireland; whether
we consider the "control experiment" or crucial test afforded by
unvaccinated Leicester, or the still more rigid test in the other
direction, of the absolutely revaccinated Army and Navy, the conclusion is
in every case the same: that vaccination is a gigantic delusion; that it
has never saved a single life; but that it has been the cause of so much
disease, so many deaths, such a vast amount of utterly needless and
altogether undeserved suffering, that it will be classed by the coming
generation among the greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced age,
and its penal enforcement the foulest blot on the generally beneficent
course of legislation during our century."-----ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE [Book
1898] VACCINATION A DELUSION

Wow! That book is old. Wallace wrote about evolution and natural selection
even before Darwin published his big book.

You might want to get a book from this millenium.

Jeff

"Jeff" wrote in message
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You might want to get a book from this millenium.

I can understand why you would want to forget the first 100 years of
smallpox vax

"We also hear of the noble work of Father Damien among the lepers of Hawaii,
but we are not told that there was not one leper in the whole of the
Hawaiian Islands before the noble work of Jenner reached them. By the
nineties, 10 per cent of the natives were lepers."---Lionel Dole

"JOHN" wrote in message
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"Jeff" wrote in message
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You might want to get a book from this millenium.

I can understand why you would want to forget the first 100 years of
smallpox vax

It has nothing to do with that. The reality of the matter is that scientists
have learned so much more since Wallace was alive. So much about how the
immune system and vaccines work. And a ton of epidemiological evidence.

"We also hear of the noble work of Father Damien among the lepers of
Hawaii, but we are not told that there was not one leper in the whole of
the Hawaiian Islands before the noble work of Jenner reached them. By the
nineties, 10 per cent of the natives were lepers."---Lionel Dole

Lepersy is not a disease that can be vaccinated against, AFAK.

*If* the people doing the vaccinations brought lepersy into Hawaii, that is
not the fault of the native Hawaiians.

It has nothing to do with vaccination.

Jeff

"Jeff" wrote in message
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It has nothing to do with vaccination.

LOL.