After I caught the story below that talks about Texas S.B. 63 which allows for vaccines without parental consent, I started digging around and doing a bit more research into this bill & its sponsor. It took me less than half an hour to track down Jane Nelson’s membership in The American Legislative Exchange Council. Not only is she a supporting member; she is an active member that sits on ALEC’s…*drum roll please* Health & Human Services Taskforce.
Wonders never cease, right?
Even more shocking is the fact that some of Nelson’s largest campaign contributors are pharmaceutical and medical industries…*Gasp* whoever could imagine a politrickster pushing a corporate agenda, eh?
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(NaturalNews) “If you thought the so-called “great state” of Texas was a bastion of freedom, liberty, and minimal government intrusion, think again. Efforts are currently in the works in the form of two new Senate bills to seize parental sovereignty rights and allow minors living in the Lone Star State to consent to vaccinations.
Senate Bill 63, entitled “Relating to consent to the immunization of certain children,” would allow minors to consent to vaccinations without their parents’ permission, violating existing Texas statutes that prohibit such action. Sponsored by Senator Jane Nelson, a Republican from Texas’ District 12 near Dallas, S.B. 63 is a direct affront to the rights of parents to govern the vaccination choices of their children.”
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Senate Research Center
AUTHOR’S / SPONSOR’S STATEMENT OF INTENT
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends “cocooning” as a strategy to protect babies from vaccine-preventable diseases in the first months of life. This entails vaccinating those in close contact with the infant, especially their parents and caregivers. Unborn children receive disease immunity through vaccines obtained by their mothers during pregnancy.
Currently, minor parents may consent to medical treatment, including immunizations, for their children. However, they may not consent to their own immunizations. Pregnant minors are also not currently allowed to consent to their own immunizations. S.B. 63 is intended to better protect unborn children and infants from vaccine-preventable diseases by allowing their parents to more easily access immunizations. Specifically, this bill allows pregnant minors or minor parents with custody of children to consent to their own immunizations.
As proposed, S.B. 63 amends current law relating to consent to the immunization of certain children.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Family Code, by adding Section 32.1011, as follows:
Sec. 32.1011. CONSENT TO IMMUNIZATION BY CHILD. (a) Authorizes a child, notwithstanding Section 32.003 (Consent to Treatment by Child) or 32.101 (Who May Consent to Immunization of Child), to consent to the child’s own immunization if the child is pregnant or is the parent of a child and has actual custody of that child.
(b) Requires that consent to immunization under this section meet the requirements of Section 32.002(a) (relating to the requirement that consent to medical treatment be in writing, among other requirements).
(c) Provides that consent by a child to immunization under this section is not subject to disaffirmance because of minority.
(d) Authorizes a health care provider or facility to rely on the written statement of the child containing the grounds on which the child has capacity to consent to the child’s immunization under this section.
(e) Provides that to the extent of any conflict between this section and Section 32.003, this section controls.
SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2013.
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The bill’s sponsor, Jane Nelson, raised a total of $677,298 in campaign contributions in 2010.
Below are Nelson’s top 5 campaign contributors in the 2010 election:
| Contributor | 2010 total |
|---|---|
| Perry, Bob J. | $22,500 |
| Texas Medical Association | $20,000 |
| Texans for Lawsuit Reform | $10,000 |
| Texas Pharmacy Association | $10,000 |
| Texas Association of Realtors | $10,000 |
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Proposed Law In Texas – Vaccination Without Parental Consent
My Mennonite brethren do not vaccinate and for good reason. My friends at the church where I used to go to, the Mennonite church, told me about the truth about vaccinations that I did not know about and that is when I decided that when my fiancee and I go to adopt, our child will not receive the rest of the vaccinations that are recommended. We are praying to adopt a little girl, a toddler about two years old. Or whatever the Lord has in store for us
But I will not continue the vaccination schedule. My Mennonite friends, at least the local group here, has never had any serious problems in recent history. But there is good and bad in everything. Even the prescription drugs I have to take, if you really, really look at them, the bad side effects outweigh the supposedly ‘good’ they are suppose to do. :/
Thanks for reporting on this. This just makes the argument for it even better. If they are pushing for this so much, there must be so much more ‘bad’ to these vaccinations then they are telling us. I wonder if me receiving these vaccinations in the early eighties(I was born in ’83) has given me my myriad of health problems or contributed to them. The ADHD, migraines, endometrosis that ultimately led to infertility and hysterectomy, insomnia, slight weight problem, some food allergies, major environmental allergies, a learning disability, fibro, lower lumbar herniations and who knows what else is to come.
If I had things to do all over again, I’d have not allowed my kids to be vaccinated and consider myself lucky that neither one seemed to have had any ill effects from the ones they had. Even in the years since my kids were babies, the number of vaccines that are now required have increased by at least double…in another decade what will we decide is *necessary*, I wonder?
Just be prepared to fight schools, daycare and child-sport organizations tooth and nail when your adoption goes through and you resist the vaccinations…I imagine that like many things, the rules are going to keep squeezing tighter and tighter as people are forced to comply. Your Mennonite friends should be a great resource and help on how to deal with the heat from state officials, I would think.
I recently read more of a back-history on how exactly the polio vaccine was developed and about how unsuspecting citizens were used as guinea pigs for the first batches of it. It was all quite ugly, underhanded and chilling. Anyone who thinks that gov’t officials don’t operate the same way today is just naive. All of the animal testing in the world does not ever compare to the tests on intended targets – humans – and the more *noble* the cause, the more justified researches feel in lying in order to get test subjects. “Well, we understand that 50,000 kids were harmed, maimed, killed during the initial rounds of medicine but just look at all the lives that have been saved since then…!”
With so many unnatural toxic substances in our environment, it would likely be hard to say what health problems stem from vaccinations and what are caused by other environmental factors. The more I read, study and learn about our medicine and food supplies, the more amazed I am that anyone on this planet has managed to remain healthy and unfazed by it all. More and more it seems as though both our food and medicine (which really should be one and the same, right?) are being designed to sicken, rather than nourish us.
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Love the campaign contributions thing at the end….cuz that, kiddos, is who laws get passed!
Yes indeed. Makes me think of the new School House Rock rendition of “I’m Just A Bill”…♫ for sale up here on Capitol Hill…♫
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Education, without parental consent, sounds even better!
I think it is astonishingly foolish and criminally negligent for parents to elect not to have toddlers receive usual panel of shots. Any assertions of toxic effect whether true or not are entirely insignificant to the protection from disease that is provided. That aside, as my opinion, parents must retain the right to decide and no medical treatment of any kind should be administered by the state or any other agency without parental consent. It should be noted that polio is on the rise in many third world countries where that vaccination is not available is just one example of consequences of not getting vaccinated . Re the abortion issue, without stating my opinion, I think it should not be legal for a minor to be able to have this invasive surgery done without parental consent and notification. On that point it is not a matter of women’s rights but the circumvention of parental rights and responsibilities.
It is the recent push for so many vaccines that has me concerned – especially when it is corporate interest and not public health that seems to be the driving force behind that push.
No matter my personal take or ideas about the specific dangers of vaccines, I agree with your statement that it is still not an issue that should be decided by the state. I already fought my school district when some unqualified teacher (re: NOT a doctor!) tried to demand that I drug my son with Ritalin…makes me nervous to think of such *officials* now feeling as though they have the right to shoot me kid up without my knowing.
Yes you are right there about the pharmas. They have scientists that invent diseases (alleged)for which medicines are needed(allegedly). The shrinks are doing the same. The DSM which categorizes mental illness had about 2 dozen for decades. Now there are over 300 . Psychiatrists don’t do talk therapy much any more(psychologists do), instead they do pill therapy. I was a teacher for 33 years and if any teacher even suggested medicine for one’s child they would be suspended. I would refer “problem” kids to administrator and/or school psychologist and let qualified people open such discussion with parents. We could not even give a kid an aspirin without parental consent and parents had to have a note on file for children to be able to take medicines brought from home at school so I am very surprised to hear about the rights of parents being subordinated to various intervention groups.
I can’t imagine one of my teachers ever trying to hand us any type of medication. We had a nurse’s office with small medical cards on file giving permission to be given an aspirin and that was all. Having a teacher handing down a mental diagnosis for my son was really…disturbing. No trips to the principal’s office, no disciplinary issues leading up to her *diagnosis*…he was just easily distracted, she said.
I found out after my skirmish with the school and teacher that our schools now receive extra federal funding for ‘special needs’ children and of course, ADD/ADHD kids fall into that category. Perhaps the profit margin explains the change in school policy lately? From the highest legislators making policy for campaign contributions all the way down to lowly school district officials desperate for funding…everyone seems willing to sell out the safety of kids and the rights of parents.