Shots, Anyone?

“Is he up to date on his immunizations?” the nurse asked me in the emergency room after my son had a terrible accident severely injuring his hand. “No, we don’t immunize.” “Oh? May I ask why?” Where to begin? How does one encapsulate years of research into a couple of sentences to satisfy the curiosity of an emergency room nurse? “It’s an educated choice,” I respond, hoping to avoid my all-too-common habit of opening my mouth only to forget how to close it again.

When I’m enthusiastic about something, it’s just plain hard to cut the discourse short. And with my son hurting so badly, this was not the time for me to wax eloquent on the dangers of vaccines. She smiled, content with my brief response. “I’m so glad to meet a parent who has recognized the risks associated with immunizations. I don’t immunize either.” Well, I wasn’t expecting that.

If my son wasn’t in such serious pain with his hand injury, I probably would have been willing to take a few minutes to go into some detail why we made the choice 15 or so years ago to not immunize our children. I’m glad she was satisfied with my “educated choice” response. But when asked, and if I have the time, here are a few of the primary reasons I give as to why we avoid the risk of endangering our children with shots.

To protect my children from vaccine caused diseases. It’s vaccinated children who suffer from autism, allergies, skin disorders, meningitis, ADD/ADHD, hearing problems or deafness or vision problems. Rarely do non-vaccinated children suffer from these. Research how shown that 1 in 50 children have a mitochondrial disorder which vaccines can stress causing autism. Those are extremely high chances that no one ought to take.

SIDS. In many cases—10,000 a year according to studies—are related to vaccines routinely given to children. In 1975, Japan raised the minimum age of vaccines from 2 months to 2 years and the rate of crib death, infant seizures, meningitis, and other infections in infants virtually disappeared. It’s interesting, and saddening to note that meningitis sharply increased in 2 year olds.

To protect my children from being injected with toxic poisons. Vaccines are given to children which include some of the most lethal poisons known including: formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, carbolic acid, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), acetone (nail polish remover), latex, human viruses, fetal tissue, plus all sorts of animal tissues (monkey, pig, sheep, dog etc.)

There is evidence that vaccines have not reduced rates of diseases. Many diseases that caused death were drastically reduced long before the widespread use of immunizations.

Vaccines are not tested for their ability to cause cancer. They are also untested in their effect on the reproductive system. Shampoos are tested for carcinogenicity, but vaccines aren’t. The polio vaccine is linked to cancer, and there is no proof that it decreased polio. A monkey virus (SV40) was included in the polio vaccine which is cancer-causing and linked to brain tumors, bone cancer and other lymphomas. Pediatric cancer has been rising since 1974 and is now the 2nd leading cause of death in children.

Vaccines can cause autism. The Court of Federal Claims finally admitted, in 2007 that vaccines can cause autism, after years of denying it. Thousands of parents reported that their previously healthy children descended into autism after receiving the DPT, MMR and other vaccines. In 1990, Harris Coulter, PhD reported: “Between 15% and 20% of American school children are are considered learning disabled with minimal brain disfunction caused by vaccine damage.” In 2004 that number rose to 5 million.

Vaccines don’t work. Outbreaks have occurred in 100% of vaccinated populations.

(The facts shared here can be researched and were excerpted from a Koren Publication entitled, “Vaccination: 18 Reasons to Just Say No” There is a lengthy list of references from which the information was collected.)