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Personal Exemption Removal: Impact on School Funding

In WA State, funding of public schools is based upon enrollment. Each student enrolled full time (FTE) is worth $13,123.71 to the school district where the child is enrolled. If the personal/philosophical exemption is removed and students currently using them withdraw from their district schools to homeschool, then those dollars assigned to them also leave

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Merck’s MMR II

Recent measles cases in the United States have been used to push for legislation to remove personal and/or religious exemptions to vaccination. ICWA opposes the removal of exemptions for any reason. There are non-invasive alternative measures responsible individuals can take to prevent the spread of infection. Vaccination policies must alway include protection of informed consent, and

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From CHD: Witch Hunt

A Witch Hunt Against Parents of Unvaccinated Children By Vera Sharav, CHD Contributing Writer © [MARCH 14, 2019] Children’s Health Defense, Inc. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of Children’s Health Defense, Inc. Want to learn more from Children’s Health Defense? Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Children’s

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WA Clark County Public Health Mislabels Facts as Misinformation

For Immediate Release. Clark County, WA — On February 27, 2019, Alan Melnick, MD, director and health officer of Clark County, WA released information online regarding “Public Health measles response.” The information included a page about “Immunization misinformation” along with public comments from the Clark County Health Department FaceBook page that counter Dr. Melnicks’s claims. Informed

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Open Letter on Exemptions

PHILOSOPHICAL EXEMPTIONS AS BEHAVIORAL ECONOMIC SIGNALS OF FRAUD An Open Letter from Edward F. Fogarty, MD I am a practicing physician with multiple state licenses who has had the privilege of being the Chairman of Radiology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine for the last 12 years. My pathways of understanding many

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EHB 1638 & SB 5841

Provided for educational purposes: Archived information on 2019 legislation Voting along party lines, the WA House of Representatives voted to concur on EHB 1638, which the Senate had stripped of amendments protective to consumers. The Governor later signed the bill into law, thereby officially removing the parental right to use a personal exemption to opt

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Our Thanks to the Dream Team

Nobody enters the vaccination conversation on the side of consumer protection on a whim. In a world in which liability has been removed for those who make and administer vaccines, in which every public health agency works in collaboration with vaccine manufacturers, in which vaccine manufacturers control the media with billion dollar global marketing budgets–standing

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Is Informed Consent Happening?

Are Doctors Giving Patients Up-to-Date Vaccine Safety Information (or Any Safety Information at All)? By the Children’s Health Defense Team In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), a carefully crafted piece of legislation that gave vaccine manufacturers their dream come true: blanket immunity from liability for injuries resulting from childhood vaccines.

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Testimony Before the WA State Board of Health

On 8 August 2018, ICWA co-presidents Bernadette Pajer and Drella Stein, and ICWA Board Member Jennifer Rushing, gave the following testimony to the Washington State Board of Health in Olympia, WA. Testimony by Bernadette Pajer: We—the parents and doctors and professionals of Informed Choice WA—have been attempting to bring the latest science on vaccines and

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Comments to VAC 4.19.2018

Below are the public comments presented to the WA DOH Vaccine Advisory Committee on April 19, 2018 by InformedChoiceWA Board and group members. Comment by Bernadette Pajer Q: Should WA State spend taxpayer money promoting MenB vaccines? From the New York Times: For Meningitis B Vaccines, Climbing Revenue, and Plenty of Skepticism By SHEFALI LUTHRA      SEPT. 7,

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