Haven’t had much time to blog lately; between school and my new fun part-time job and the kids, it’s been hectic!!

Had some color added to my tat last week.  REALLY tired of being asked “if it’s real”… lol!  Apparently because it was solid red, people thought it was a temporary one, henna, or marker.  Ugh. 

Already have my next two tats designed; one is of my kids’ names and birthdates with a little bunny rabbit beside them…I’m still debating a little bit on the image for that one - I may go with a stuffed teddybear instead…

This one will go on the inside of my left wrist… I think it’s adorable!!

I’ll post a pic of the names when I finalize the design.

Let’s see, what else.  Autumn had her little party for her 5th birthday.  This is the big one!  She’s registered for kindergarten now (and no problems about the vaccine refusal form either!) and eager to get started.  She’s so smart, I’m gushing with pride over her.  Brett has his first job and is doing well in driver’s training.  He’s working at a major retail chain and I”m glad he doesn’t have to flip burgers for his first part-time job! 

Oh, another stray has made his way to our doorstep.  Sigh.  I’m really not a dog person, but when this one showed up without a home, appearing to be abused or in fights and hungry (his ribs were showing), my heart melted.  Other than barking, he’s a really great dog – very laid back.  According to my neice (a veterinarian), it appears he has some hound or coon in him – and his bark definitely agrees with her!  So here’s OTIS:

He’s all legs!

Well, that’s about it… visit me on Facebook (search “photographybysandra”) for my daily rants and updates, it seems as if that’s the best platform for information from me lately!

United States Disease Death Rates

Vaccines, all vaccines, are immune suppressing; that is they depress our immune functions. The chemicals in the vaccines depress our immune system; the virus present depresses immune function, and the foreign DNA/RNA from animal tissues depresses immunity. Toraldo, et al found that the chemotaxis and metabolic function of PMNs (polymorphonuclear neutrophils) was significantly reduced after vaccinations were given and did not return to normal for months. Other indicators of immune system depression included reduced lymphocyte viability, neutrophil hyper-segmentation, and a reduced white cell count. All vaccines are immune depressing to some extent and that is the trade-off we are risking. The medical thought is that we trade a small immune depression for an immunity to one disease. Now let me repeat, we are trading a total immune system depression (our only defense against all known disease – including millions of pathogens) for a temporary immunity against one disease, usually an innocuous childhood disease. Therefore, the trade is not at all fair. Mullins puts it this way, “Are we trading mumps and measles for cancer and AIDS.”

The trade-off is not worth the risk. We are risking getting many more diseases than we are “preventing” from getting. [Later we will see that there is literally no prevention.] Another good example is the ritual of the yearly flu shot. There may be only two or three varieties of flu viruses in each shot, hence the names “Asian-Flu”, “Japanese-Flu” “Indian-Flu” or “Swine-Flu”. But there are literally thousands, may be millions of flu-causing viruses. Taking one or two does not make sense and many people report getting the flu after taking a flu shot. We do not know which variety of flu will affect us each year and in each locale. Therefore, the best method to avoid the flu is to strengthen our immune system by eating properly and getting all the essential vitamins and minerals that our body needs. Only nutrition can build and support a strong immune system, while vaccines help to tear our immunity down. Vaccines have been linked to AIDS and other immuno-deficient disorders as well.

Vaccinations depress our body’s immune functions and that keeps us open to developing many other diseases. It is very childish to think that we are going to take one flu vaccine and never get sick from the many varieties of flu that exist, especially since viruses can mutate so fast when the conditions arise. Keeping up with these fast mutating viruses can only be done by priming our immune system with good nutrition and keeping the conditions/environment for their growth minimal. In other words, pathogenic viruses will not grow where the conditions will not allow it. It is the terrain which dictates our health and not the germs/viruses themselves. Germs are pleiomorphic, meaning that they can change with their environment; rods become cocci, and vice-versa. Thinking that germs cause disease means that we are not responsible for our own health and we place that responsibility in the hands of some one who has the means to kill these germs with toxic chemicals (drugs), even if those drugs/vaccines harm our body. Vaccines prevent health!

 Vaccinations reduce our immunity in many important ways:

1) Vaccines contain many chemicals and heavy metals, like mercury and aluminum, which are in-themselves immuno-suppressing. Mercury actually causes changes in the lymphocyte activity and decreases lymphocyte viability.

2) Vaccines contain foreign tissues and foreign DNA/RNA which act to suppress the immune system via graft-vs-host rejection phenomena.

3) Vaccines alter our t-cell helper/suppressor ratios … just like those seen with AIDS. This ratio is a key indicator of a proper functioning immune system.

4) Vaccines alter the metabolic activity of PMNs and reduce their chemotaxic abilities. PMNs are our body’s defenses against pathogenic bacteria and viruses.

5) Vaccines suppress our immunity merely buy over-taxing our immune system with foreign material, heavy metals, pathogens and viruses. The heavy metals slow down our immune system, while the viruses set up shop to grow and divide. It is like being chained and handcuffed before swimming.

6) Vaccines clog our lymphatic system and lymph nodes with large protein molecules which have not been adequately broken down by our digestive processes, since vaccines by pass digestion with injections. This is why vaccines are linked to allergies, because they contain large proteins which as circulating immune complexes (CICs) or “klinkers” which cause our body to become allergic.

7) Vaccines deplete our body of vital immune-enhancing nutrients, like vitamin C, A and zinc, which are needed for a strong immune system. It is nutrients like these that primes our immune system, feeds the white blood cells and macrophages and allows them to function optimally.

Vaccines are neurotoxic and slow the level of nervous transmission, and communications to the brain and other tissues. Now we know that some lymphocytes communicate directly with the brain through a complex set of neurotransmitters. Altering these factors will also depress our immunity.

While the medical profession does not lightly discuss AIDS and vaccines in the same sentence, there is much evidence linking AIDS to vaccines. Buttram and Hoffman state, “Indirect immunofluorescence evaluation of T-lymphocytes from blood samples taken … after vaccination revealed a temporary drop … in the helper/suppressor ratio after vaccination.” What that means is that immediately after vaccines are given our blood “looks” like the blood of and AIDS patient. AIDS is diagnosed when the T -cell (helper to suppressor) ratios are depressed and vaccines cause that same occurrence. Now is it any coincidence that the countries where AIDS is rampant most, are the same countries which received the most vaccinations? It is no joke when one asks, “Are we trading mumps and measles for cancer and AIDS?”

When we look into vaccine production we see the links of vaccines to monkey viruses, like SV-40, which causes immuno-deficiencies (similar to AIDS) in monkeys. Some scientists feel that SIV and HIV are very similar viruses and may be one in the same. If it is found in monkeys it is called SIV and if it is found in people it is then called HIV. Very likely, it is the foreign nature of SIV which makes it deadly to our immune system and our immune system goes on the blink. Vaccinations and AIDS are clearly related, and the medical literature shows us many links to AIDS. The first Hepatitis vaccines made were notorious for causing AIDS and were made from the blood of the gay populations, who had high levels of hepatitis and AIDS. Links of AIDS to the hepatitis vaccines were numerous in the medical literature at the time (the 1970s) of the first hepatitis vaccines and people were afraid to take them for that reason. Yes, one may fear hepatitis, but we also had a greater fear of AIDS, which was more deadly and serious a condition, although many more people experienced hepatitis each year.

Many other views of how vaccines started the AIDS epidemic are available, but none can be proven with any degree of certainty. Whether HIV is a disease similar to the SIV found in monkey, remains to be seen. Is SIV and HIV the same virus? Is SV-40 involved in immuno-suppression and immunodeficiency? There were reports of the smallpox vaccines delivered to Haiti, Brazil and Africa containing HIV by the London Times in 1987. Some persons have taken conspiratorial views of AIDS, but none have surfaced with any degree of veracity and it misses the point … all vaccines are immuno-suppressive and compromise the host’s immunity. Whether they contain actual HIV viruses may be disputable, they will depress the immune system. Today more care is taken in vaccine production and there are better methods of locating and removing contaminant viruses, but vaccines are still dangerous from their humble beginning and set the stage for many other diseases to follow suit many years later.

Science has glossed over the most valuable point of health, … nutrition. What is it that boosts our immune system and gives one a vibrant healthy life? … nutrition. What is it that allows one to over -come the most devastating diseases known to mankind? … Nutrition. What is the key factor for the recovery of disease? … Nutrition. What is needed for the body to heal itself? … Nutrition. What key factor prevents disease? … Nutrition. What is missing from allopathic medicine today? … Nutrition! It is nutrition and only nutrition which boosts our immune system and helps the body defend itself from foreign pathogens. Herbs, foods, nutrients and vitamin supplements are the tour-de-force of our immunity and it is virtually ignored by medical science in favor of drugs (chemicals).

One can speculate many reasons why medical science has chosen to ignore this most important aspect of our health … perhaps, because there is no profit in broccoli and carrots. But regardless of profit there is a side of science that altruistically searches for truth. Herbalists and naturopaths for centuries have cured devastating diseases with nature’s remedies and proper diet. Medicine has shunned diet and nutrition (and herbs) as not having a place in scientific medicine. But the lowly herb can cure more than an equal share of allopathic man-made (synthetic) drugs which although originally came from many herbs are now toxic according to their dose and must be tightly regulated.

The divergent paths of allopathic medicine and herbal naturopathic remedies is seen in the philosophy of vaccination. Vaccines are the only way modern medicine has to “prevent” disease for they don’t believe in or use herbs or nutrition. Therefore, toxic vaccines are their only tool to “promote health”. Herbalists and naturopaths, on the other hand, see the person with a totally different point of view and understanding. The person is taught how to live with nature, how to eat naturally and how to not create the environment for pathogens to grow. When the body is periodically cleansed, disease is not a problem. Allopathy desires to force health by giving the body more toxins (vaccines) to deal with in a futile and erroneous attempt at “preventing” disease. Yet, vaccines cause illnesses, many diseases, numerous disorders and set the stage for cancerous grow while depressing our body’s ability to fight off pathogens. Allopathy depresses important body functions, while making the body more toxic. Naturopathy helps the body eliminate toxins while supporting the body’s immune functions.

Therefore, there are many points in which allopathic medicine and naturopathic medicine diverge and differ. Yet, the laws of our land only allow allopathic methods (vaccinations) of disease “prevention” and not other more effective and less damaging methods of prevention, i.e., homeopathy and naturopathy. Many religions refuse vaccines on religious grounds, because vaccines are contrary to their beliefs and vaccines are blood products grown on aborted fetuses and human and animal tissues. Vaccines grown on animal tissues, aborted fetuses, and cancer cells would be against anyone’s fair judgement and common sense, regardless of religious beliefs. Therefore, it is common sense which mandates our opinions against putrid vaccines, as well as religious beliefs.

It is no secret anymore that proper nutrition builds good immunity, when the medical literature is full of studies on the intimate details of our immunity as related to nutrients. The fact that nutrition plays a large role in one’s health (and immune functions) can no longer be suppressed by prejudice. The over-whelming science today substantiates nutrition as a key factor in our health. Nutrition boosts our immune system like nothing else can. Field stated, “it is accepted that nutrition is important in the development and function of the immune system.” Harbige noted that “Nutrition and nutritional status can have profound effects on immune functions, resistance to infection and auto-immunity in man and other animals.” Scrimshaw and SanGiovanni state that “infections, … have adverse effects on nutritional status. … Conversely, almost any nutrient deficiency, if sufficiently severe, will impair resistance to infection.” Chandra (Am J Clin Nutrition, 1997; 66(2):460s-463s) also noted, “Nutrition is a critical determinant of immune responses and malnutrition is the most common cause of immunodeficiency worldwide.” Chandra and Chandra (Prog Food Nutrition Sci, 1986;10(1-2):1-65) stated that “the immune system plays a key role in the body’s ability to fight infection and reduce the risk of developing tumors, autoimmune and degenerative disease.”

Yet, although this information is new to us now, it is not new to everyone. Many people have always maintained that a strong immune system began with good nutrition. Roger Williams, Linus Pauling, Ewan Cameron, Adelle Davis, John R Christopher, Jethro Kloss, and many other notable nutritionist have claimed nutrition was important to our health for many years, but were ignored. Profit of man-made chemicals came before the health of the patrons, many asked to suffer needlessly in the name of science when they could have been cured by a simple herbal remedy or a food. Nutrition has been down-played in the last 80 years in favor of patent-able drugs (man-made chemicals). Perhaps, the penicillin era was the greatest cause of the downfall of nutrition as a part of our health. The search for the magic bullet began with Paul Erlich’s compound 606, and continues to this day. We think that cancer must be cured from without by a man-made chemical, while we ignore the inner terrain and the body’s natural innate abilities (to heal) within … governed, of course, by nutrition. Hopefully within the next decade great strides will be taken in nutrition and health to make up for lost time. Many physicians are learning nutrition and herbology and homeopathy on their own time. Their patients will be the better for it. As more nutritional oriented physicians become available, the people will have a choice and a place to turn to when in need. Nutrition Produces Health and Vitality! Vaccines Prevent Health!

“I never saw cancer in an un-vaccinated person.”   – Dr W B Clarke, circa 1909

We don’t usually associate vaccinations with cancer, but there are many citations in the medial literature where vaccines caused cancers. Sometimes cancer occurred at the site of injection and sometimes a lymphatic type of cancer would occur many years later in locations. Vaccines cause cancer. Yes, not everybody gets cancer after receiving a vaccine, but their body has been seeded with the ingredients for cancer to grow. Picture cancer as a window of opportunity. Once that window is opened, cancer can grow. Dr Vincent’s work with Biologic Terrain Assessment (BTA) found that all children were pushed into the cancer “window” after vaccines were given. Now those children who don’t develop cancer were (obviously) able to negate that cancer “window” with good nutrition. It is the environment which allows cancer to grow in the first place, and vaccines create that environment. When the cancer is at the site of the vaccine injection, it is hard to deny a causal relationship. Miraculously, doctors tell their patients it is co-incidental or unrelated to the vaccines.

Yet, it was known in the 1800s that vaccines clog our lymphatics and contain toxic materials which could lead to disease, even cancers. Even Jenner himself had trouble with his vaccines causing diseases, and death. He was nearly lynched in one town for his specious concoctions. Our lymphatic system is designed to carry our lymphocytes throughout our body and maintain control over our cellular immunity. Therefore, the injection of large molecular sized proteins (foreign tissues in the vaccines) will clog our lymph-nodes and create problems for the lymphatic system. Therefore, it is no mystery that vaccines and lymphatic diseases, like leukemias and lymphomas, are related.

“Syphilis, phthisis, scrofula, cancer, erysipelas and almost all diseases of the skin, have been conveyed, occasioned, or intensified by vaccination.” Dr William Hitchman

“Cancer and other vile diseases are daily inflicted on virtuous families by vaccination.”

Dr Edward Haughton, BAMD, MRCS

“Experts say 98 million Americans who took polio shots in the 1950s and 1960s may get a deadly brain cancer from the inoculations … Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center say that a virus contaminated the polio vaccine and they have now found genetic material from the virus in a number of brain cancer victims.”

Dr Jacob Rachlin quoted from Weekly World News of Lantana [FL]

Of course, anything which depresses our immunity will eventually lead to cancer, since it is our immune system which cleanses and eliminates mutated (cancerous) cells from our body daily. If this is not done, cancers will grow and develop unchecked by our immune system. Therefore, a healthy immune system is needed to protect us from cancer and Vaccines Prevent Health.

Auto-immune disease is common-place today, but were very rare just a few years ago. Does anybody wonder why one day we are healthy and the next day our body no longer recognizes our own cells as self? Could the injection of foreign animal DNA/RNA have anything to do with our epidemic rise in auto-immune disease today? Bart Classen, MD has done some remarkable research on vaccines and auto-immune diseases, especially Diabetes mellitus, which he sees as a marker disease for all auto-immune conditions. His research finds that the more that vaccinations are given the more diabetes (and auto-immune diseases) appears. Dr Classen’s research found that this held true for many animal models; after receiving vaccines they experienced increases in diabetes. Then he carried his research to include vaccinated human populations. He found that in retrospective studies of vaccinations in five different human populations, this fact held true also. The more vaccines one received the more was their incidence of diabetes (and auto-immune diseases).

Now it is interesting that the increases in diabetes included Juvenile-onset diabetes, which we are told today is a profoundly “genetic” disease. Yet, Dr Claussen’s studies revealed that vaccinations [any vaccination] can cause increases in Juvenile-onset diabetes, too. Now one theory said that the antigenic structure of the measles/mumps virus was similar to the antigenic structure of the beta cells (which produce insulin) in the pancreas. So when our body makes antibodies to fight off measles virus, those antibodies attack the pancreatic beta cells, too. Viola diabetes!

Vaccines create the foundations for auto-immune disease when foreign animal tissues are injected into our blood streams. It alters our genes (“jumping” genes) and creates havoc in our lymphatic system. Auto-immune conditions are more common today than before massive vaccination programs began in the 1940s. Auto-immune conditions such as ALS, MS, RA, and Diabetes are severe diseases and not to be taken lightly. They alter people’s lives for ever and cost more than money when we consider the time involved, the stress involved, and eventually death ensues. There is even some speculation that auto-immune conditions may be behind the brain conditions they see in autism and there is some talk in the medical literature of auto-immunity to brain cells. If the body can not even recognize its own cells, then it has been tricked into thinking that those cells are no longer self. Why does this occur? Could AIDS be an auto-immune condition where the lymphocytes are reacting against each other? What about the myriad of neurological disorders, kidney disorders, blood disorders and the many diseases associated with vaccinations? When we are looking for excellent health, we need to avoid auto-immune disorders. One must remember that Vaccines Prevent Health!

Note: Dr Classen feels that Diabetes is an indicator (marker) disease for auto-immunity.

http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/immune_suppression.aspx

This is great, and I’ve wondered this often!

http://mamachildbirtheducator.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-you-are-happy-with-your-choices-why.html

I’m not usually one to go on a rant. Not that people who rant are doing this, but when I do I always feel like I am jumping to conclusions. Perhaps I over analyze things for fear of making assumptions. Having said that, I feel a rant brewing. I believe it’s been cooking up from weeks of reading articles and then foolishly going through the dreaded comments section. Seriously, if you for some reason want to change positive energy to negative energy, read the comments section of any controversial story and that outta do trick!

My rant is about peoples choices. Yes, I write about choice a lot, because I, like the great Morpheus of the Matrix, believe everything begins with choice. Let’s examine the word for a minute. Choice in it’s most stripped down form, implies ownership, yet I don’t think people always own their choices. They may think they do, but their actions, emotions, and words say otherwise. I believe when people don’t own, or take responsibility for their choices, it’s usually because they are not happy with them. When you are happy with your choices, you don’t feel the need to defend them or explain them. Or my favorite, get defensive and hostile when a person makes a choice opposite yours.

Example #1. I chose a natural birth. I blog about my experience and my satisfaction with my choices. You, having chose a medicated birth, read my blog and immediately become defensive. You launch into explaining why you had the birth you did. You also accuse me of trying to make people who don’t birth “naturally” feel bad.

So, not only are you seemingly unhappy with your choices, you are also not owning your feelings, by blaming me for how you feel about your choices.

Example #2. A story is written about the high induction rate, and how many of the inductions done are not medically indicated. The article talks about the risks of inductions, one being the cascade of interventions that can sometimes lead to unnecessary cesarean sections. Again a woman who chose an induction reads the article and feels attacked. She explains her baby was suspected to be too big at 39 weeks. She needed an induction. Later as the induction failed she found out her baby was in danger and she needed an emergency c-section (that took 2 hours to happen from the moment the doctor say c-section time, to the moment she was on the table). The baby is delivered and low and behold her baby was 8lbs and she is only 5′4! She is pissed that anyone would assume her induction and subsequent cesarean was unnecessary!

In that scenario, one might argue that the women really didn’t have a choice, because she was not given true informed consent and while I can agree with that, I don’t agree that she sees it that way. She is angry that her decision to have an induction is questioned, and so again I have to wonder how secure she is in her decision. Perhaps maybe she feels she didn’t have all the facts. Perhaps she secretly wonders how necessary her cesarean section was, but if she allows herself to question the events, she questions her judgment and role in the events that took place. That is an admittedly hard thing to do.

There are other examples I could give, but I’ll stop with those two. The bottom line is that when a person is happy and secure in the choices they’ve made, another person words or actions can not make them feel otherwise. If you’ve felt defensive, angry, or guilty about choices you’ve made, you have to explore why, instead of blaming others. Own your feelings and take ownership of your choices.

http://drtenpenny.com/default.aspx

From Maine to Maui, Vancouver to Miami, autism rates across North America are soaring.  As of February, 2010, there are an estimated 300,000 severely autistic children in this country — requiring nearly $9billion per year in services.  Then numbers in Canada are equally staggering. Considering the country’s much smaller population, autism affects an estimated 190,000 children in Canada.  And these numbers don’t reflect the millions of children “on the spectrum” in both countries. 

Parents include OT, PT and speech therapy into their routine, approaching these activities as though they are a normal part of childhood, like soccer and piano lessons. Doctors have started to say, “Well, two years is when kids get asthma”, as though becoming asthmatic is a growth milestone.  

There is one unifying factor affecting children, from sea to shining sea. It’s not genetics; genetics between families are different. It’s not environmental exposures; some kids live in the Projects, some live in Gated Communities. It’s not food; some kids eat only organic, some eat mostly McDonalds. It’s not exercise; some kids are athletes; others are couch potatoes.  

What touches almost all children and is the most likely ‘smoking gun’ for the epidemic of chronic illness and autism across North America (and beyond), are childhood vaccinations.

Vaccine makers and undereducated medical professionals claim vaccines eradicated diseases, but official statistics clearly document that the so called “vaccine-preventable diseases” were nearly eliminated prior to the release of the vaccines designed to prevent the illnesses. Vaccines arrived at the eleventh hour in nearly every case, and were undeservedly credited as the hero. 

Infectious diseases come and go.  They are part of life, just as childhood illnesses, such as chickenpox and measles, were a normal part of growing up merely a generation ago. With an immune system supported by clean water, adequate sleep, decent living conditions, reasonably good food, and a 25-OH vitamin D level >60ng/mL, few will be at risk of dying from an infection. In fact, few will even become infected.

Medicine and healthcare have become emotionally sterile. We have separated the soma from the soul, removing the spiritual lessons that can come from experiencing illness and knowing death. We cling to life using all methods and endless expense. Western medicine conveniently sweeps deaths from vaccines under the rug as if vaccinating were a civic duty and adverse outcomes are an acceptable, if untoward, part of good citizenship. If we truly come to this planet to learn lessons, then perhaps death — even the tragic and untimely death of a child — is an opportunity for us to learn and grow. But I digress…

We inject animal cells, heavy metals, toxic chemicals and viruses into our bodies, then call it “prevention”, expecting shots to keep us well. Why have we allowed fear of illness to over-ride our common sense? Do we expect to always be happy, always be sniffle-free? Have we lost our minds, believing for more than 200 years that an injection can actually keep us well?

 We have exchanged chicken pox for autism, flu for asthma, ear infections for diabetes…and the list goes on and on. In the zeal to eliminate relatively benign microbes, we have traded temporary illnesses for pervasive, life-long diseases, disorders, dysfunctions and disabilities. 

 High vaccination rates and low infection rates must not be the only measure of health. Indeed, North American, highly vaccinated children are the most chronically ill, most heavily medicated persons in the world. True health, no matter how it is packaged and sold, cannot come through a needle.

Please understand this:  Every state has philisophical, medical, or religous exemptions (or a combination of all three) that permits your child to attend public schools without his or her vaccinations! 

It’s a myth, it’s a lie – it’s NOT TRUE.

Please check your state’s laws here:  http://www.vaccinetruth.net/

I reside in Ohio, so all I needed to do was write a simple letter: 

Vaccine Refusal Form We, (your names here), give notice to (your city here) City Schools (located in your city/state here) stating that we have chosen not to vaccinate our child, (CHILD’S NAME HERE), because we are philosophically opposed to the concept of vaccines.  We maintain this is a responsible and ethically justifiable position for the following reasons:  vaccination is a medical intervention performed on a healthy child that has the ability to result in injury or death of that child; the fact that there can be no guarantee that the deliberate introduction of killed or live microorganisms into the body of a healthy child will not compromise the health or cause the death of that child, either immediately or in the future; no predictors have been identified by medical science that can give advance warning that injury or death may occur in any individual child; there are no guarantees that the vaccine will indeed protect the child from contracting a disease; and there is an absence of adequate scientific knowledge regarding the way vaccines singly, or in combination, act in the human body at the cellular and molecular level.   Therefore, we believe that vaccination is a medical procedure that could reasonably be termed as experimental each time it is performed on a healthy child.  Our state law makes provisions for non-vaccination of children whose parents object to vaccines for religious or philosophical reasons.  §3313.671 – Required Immunizations; Exceptions B.4 A pupil who presents a written statement of the pupil’s parent or guardian in which the parent or guardian objects to the immunization for good cause, including religious convictions, is not required to be immunized. *see attached  We accept full responsibility for the health of our child, and because of philosophical conviction, do not wish our child vaccinated. In the event of any infectious condition, our child would of course remain at home. We further understand that during the course of an outbreak of any so-called “vaccine preventable disease” would occur at your facility, our child is subject to exclusion from your facility for the duration of the outbreak. ______________________________      ____________  Date  ______________________________      ____________  Date

 

Here is the state law that shows it is acceptable (see item #4 under section B):

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/

TITLE XXXIII [33] EDUCATION
CHAPTER 3313: BOARDS OF EDUCATION
[SCHOOL YEAR]

ORC Ann. 3313.671 (Anderson 2007)

3313.671 Proof of required immunizations – exceptions.

(A)

(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no pupil, at the time of initial entry or at the beginning of each school year, to an elementary or high school for which the state board of education prescribes minimum standards pursuant to division (D) of section 3301.07 of the Revised Code, shall be permitted to remain in school for more than fourteen days unless the pupil presents written evidence satisfactory to the person in charge of admission, that the pupil has been immunized by a method of immunization approved by the department of health pursuant to section 3701.13 of the Revised Code against mumps, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, rubeola, and rubella or is in the process of being immunized.

(B)

(1) A pupil who has had natural rubeola, and presents a signed statement from the pupil’s parent, guardian, or physician to that effect, is not required to be immunized against rubeola.
(2) A pupil who has had natural mumps, and presents a signed statement from the pupil’s parent, guardian, or physician to that effect, is not required to be immunized against mumps.
(3) A pupil who has had natural chicken pox, and presents a signed statement from the pupil’s parent, guardian, or physician to that effect, is not required to be immunized against chicken pox.
(4) A pupil who presents a written statement of the pupil’s parent or guardian in which the parent or guardian declines to have the pupil immunized for reasons of conscience, including religious convictions, is not required to be immunized.
(5) A child whose physician certifies in writing that such immunization against any disease is medically contraindicated is not required to be immunized against that disease.

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http://www.vaccinationeducation.com/links.html

• Mercury & Autism
• Vaccine Efficiancy
• Vaccine Ingredients
• AID’s linked to mass Polio Vaccination
• Animal Vaccines
• Anthrax Vaccine
• Antibodies and Vaccines
• Army Vaccines
• Asthma and Vaccines
• Autism and Vaccines
• Chicken Pox Vaccine
• Child Abuse (shaken baby syndrome) and Vaccines
• Church of Vaccination
• Conflict of Interest and Vaccinations
• Diabetes and Vaccines
• DIPHTHERIA (DPT) Vaccine
• DPT Vaccine linked to Paralytic Polio
• Disease Theory and Vaccines
• Exemptions/Waivers for Vaccines
• Flu Vaccine
• Hepatitis Vaccine
• Homeopathy and Vaccines
• Immune System and Vaccines (auto-immune disorders)
• Informed Consent and Vaccines
• MMR Vaccine (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)
• MMR and Autism
• Naturopathy and Vaccination
• Polio Vaccine
• Rubella Vaccine
• SIDS and Vaccines (sudden infant death syndrome)
• Tetanus Vaccine
• Third World Vaccines
• Tuberculosis and Vaccines
• Vaccine Adverse Reactions
• Vaccine Articles
• Vaccine Challenges
• Vaccine Links
• Other Vaccination Sites
• International Links in English
• International Links in other languages
• Vaccine Package Inserts (PDF files)
• Vaccine Sites (Government)
• Vaccine Book Sites
• My Vaccine Challenge

Mercury & Autism

• http://www.nvic.org/
• http://www.safeminds.org/

Vaccine Efficiancy

• http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/
• http://www.healthsentinel.com/Vaccines/
• http://www.thinktwice.com/
• http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html
• http://www.909shot.com/
• http://www.new-atlantean.com/
• http://vaccineinfo.net/
• http://www.protectmedicalfreedom.com/
• http://www.foundationforhealthchoice.com/
• http://www.avn.org.au/
• http://www.vaclib.org/
• http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/chf
• http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/
• http://www.gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org
• http://www.vafvic.org/
• http://www.vaccinepolicy.org/
• http://www.whale.to/v/obomsawin.html
• http://www.know-vaccines.org/reading.html
• http://www.vaccine-info.com/l
• http://www.tinussmits.com/english/
• http://babyparenting.about.com/msubshots2.htm?once=true&
• http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8148/vac.html

Vaccine Ingredients

• http://dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu/forum2/VaccineorDTPInjuriesF/theingredients.html
• http://chemfinder.camsoft.com/

AIDS linked to mass Polio Vaccination

• http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/AIDS/
• http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/AIDS/River/Hooper_00/

Animal Vaccines

• http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/ivn/animals.htm
• http://members.aol.com/k9health/wwwk9h/vactoc.htm
• http://members.aol.com/abywood/www/dbmay.htmm
• http://www.abap.org/nosodes.htm
• http://www.drpitcairn.com/Talks/New%20look%20vaccines/New%20Look%20Vaccines.ht ml
• http://cyberpet.com/cyberdog/articles/health/vaccin.htm
• http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk/

Anthrax Vaccine

• http://www.gulfwarvets.com/vaccine.htm

Antibodies and Vaccines

• http://www.whale.to/vaccines/antibody.html
• http://vaclib.org/intro/qanda3.htm

Army Vaccines

• http://www.gulfwarvets.com/winds.htm
• http://www.all-natural.com/gwi-1.html
• http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/Gyrene/gulfwar.htm
• http://pathfinder.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf06.html
• http://www.gulfwarvets.com/vaccine.htm

Asthma & Vaccines

• http://www.whale.to/vaccines/asthma.html
• http://www.whale.to/v/asthma3.html
• http://www.909shot.com/diseases/dimedia.htm

Autism & Vaccines

• http://www.unlockingautism.org
• http://www.autismautoimmunityproject.org
• http://www.momsonamissionforautism.org
• http://www.autismuk.com/
• http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/7/autism_vaccines.htm
• http://www.Autism-RxGuideBook.net

Chicken Pox Vaccine

• http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/varivax.htm

Child Abuse (shaken baby syndrome) and Vaccines

• http://www.falseallegation.org
• http://www.freeyurko.bizland.com/contents.html

Church of Vaccination

• http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article..asp?PageType=Article&ID=1121

Conflict of Interest and Vaccines

• http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/profits-vaccines.htm
• http://consumerlawpage.com/article/vaccine.shtml
• http://www.mercola.com/2000/oct/15/congressconflicts.htm
• http://www.mercola.com/2001/sep/15/vaccines.htm
• http://www.cspinet.org/new/200303101.html

Diabetes and Vaccines

• http://www.909shot.com/diseases/dicasee.htm
• http://www.909shot.com/diseases/hcdiabetes.htm
• http://www.909shot.com/diseases/dimedia.htm
• http://www.909shot.com/diseases/juvenilediabetes.htm

DIPHTHERIA (DPT) VACCINE

• http://www.whale.to/v/asthma3.html

DPT VACCINE LINKED TO PARALYTIC POLIO

• http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/vaccine/polio.html

DISEASE THEORY AND VACCINES

• http://www.sumeria.net/dream/0.html
• http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/reviews2.html#pasteur
• http://www.pnc.com.au/%7Ecafmr/reviews2.html

EXEMPTIONS/WAIVERS FOR VACCINES

• http://www.geocities.com/titus2birthing/VacRefuse.html
• http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/exemptions.htm
• http://www.access1.net/via/STATES/allstates.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/titus2birthing/WhyChoose.html
• http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/relxmptn.htm
• http://www.vaclib.org/chapter/njexempt.htm
• http://www.know-vaccines.org/exemption.html

FLU VACCINE

• http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/ivn/flu.htm

HEPATITIS VACCINE

• http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/June2001/HepBVaxReactOutnumbCases.htm
• http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/July2001/HepBDis&VaxFacts.htm
• http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/August2001/HepBVaxForNewborns.htm

HOMEOPATHY AND VACCINES

• http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/moskowitz/vaccination.htm
• http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/moskowitz/unvaccinated.htm

IMMUNE SYSTEM AND VACCINES (autoimmune disorders)

• http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/neustaedter/immune.htm

INFORMED CONSENT AND VACCINES

• http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/informed.htmm

MMR VACCINE (Measles Mumps Rubella)

• http://www.geocities.com/alebencal/MMR.htm
• http://www.909shot.com/diseases/dicasee.htm

MMR AND AUTISM

• http://www.geocities.com/alebencal/MMR.htm
• http://www.autismuk.com/

NATUROPATHY AND VACCINATION

• http://www.pandamedicine.com/

POLIO VACCINE

• http://www.whale.to/a/mcbean5.html
• http://thinktwice.com/spolio.htm

RUBELLA VACCINE

• http://thinktwice.com/srubell.htm

SIDS AND VACCINES (sudden infant death syndrome)

• http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/coulter/sids.html
• http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/coulter/vacc-deb.html
• http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/newsl/kalo.html

TETANUS VACCINE

• http://curezone.com/art/read.asp?ID=12&db=12&C0=735

THIRD WORLD VACCINES

• http://www.tetrahedron.org/research.htm

TUBERCULOSIS AND VACCINES

• http://www.whale.to/m/point1.html
• http://www.tinussmits.com/english/

VACCINE ADVERSE REACTIONS

• http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/vaccine/stories.htm
• http://www.gn.apc.org/inquirer/vaccio.html

VACCINE ARTICLES

• http://www.unc.edu/~aphillip/www/chf/myths/dvm1.htm
• http://www.healingwell.com/library/health/thompson2.asp
• http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/profits-vaccines.htm
• http://members.aol.com/doctorrmosk/articles/immunizations1.html
• http://members.aol.com/doctorrmosk/articles/vaccination1.html
• http://www.truthcampaign.ukf.net/articles/health/vaccination.html
• http://www.healthy.net/clinic/familyhealthcenter/children/vaccination/articles.asp
• http://www.industryinet.com/~ruby/vaccomingthru.html

VACCINE CHALLENGE

• Jock Doubleday’s
• Viera Scheibner’s

VACCINE LINKS (300 Links)

• http://www.vaclib.org/links/vaxlinks.htm

OTHER SITES

• http://www.momsonamissionforautism.org/
• http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/
• http://poisonevercure.150m.com/shakenbabysyndrome.htm
• http://vaccines-ohio.4t.com/
• http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/vaccination.html
• http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/articles/pregnancy/rhogamnewsletter.htm
• http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html
• http://www.vaccine-info.com/
• http://www.theinformedparent.co.uk/
• http://www.iven.org.uk/
• http://www.wddty.co.uk/

International Links in English(US unless stated otherwise)

• users.pandora.be/vaccine.damage.prevention/(Europe)
• http://www.vaccinetwork.org/(Italy)
• http://www.informedchoice.info/
• http://www.freeyurko.bizland.com/
• http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
• http://www.childscreen.org/
• www.avn.org.au (Australia)
• www.vaccination.inoz.com/(Australia)
• http://www.autismawakeninginia.bizland.com/
• www.geocities.com/alebencal/index.html
• www.autismautoimmunityproject.org
• www.vaclib.org/
• http://home.sprynet.com/%7Egyrene
• www.ias.org.nz/ (New Zealand)
• vaccineinfo.net
• www.vaccinationdebate.com
• www.vaccinationnews.com
• http://www.vran.org/ (Canada)

International Links in other languages

• www.vaccinetwork.org/ (Italy)
• www.aegis-schweiz.ch (Switzerland)
• www.vaccinationsforum.dk (Denmark)
• www.impfkritik.de (Germany)
• www.vacunacionlibre.org/junio01.pdf (Spain)
• www.axel.org.ar/ (Argentinia)
• www.impf-report.de (Germany)
• http://www.vaccine-info.com/
• http://www.voicesofsafety.com/t1-ph-v50-2a-research.htm/
• http://www.cure-guide.com/
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1523881&dopt=Abstract

VACCINE PACKAGE INSERTS (pdf files)

• http://www.vaclib.org/chapter/inserts.htm
• http://www.linkny.com/~civitas/page33.html

VACCINE SITES (GOVERNMENT)

• http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaers/vaers.htm

VACCINE BOOK SITES

• http://www.know-vaccines.org/reading.html
• http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/mybooks.html
• http://www.trufax.org/books/vaccine.html
• http://www.new-atlantean.com/global/immun.html
• http://www.korenpublications.com
• http://www.noamalgam.com/vaccinations.html
• http://www.Autism-RxGuideBook.net
• http://babyparenting.about.com/msubshots2.htm?once=true&
• http://www.cure-guide.com
• http://www.healthy.net/vaccine
• http://knowvaccines.com/index.htm
• http://autism.researcheasy.com
• http://www.danasview.net/parentin.htm

My vaccine challenge

• http://gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org/VaccineOffer.htm

http://midwiferyramblings.blogspot.com/2009/12/does-end-really-justify-means.html

This has come up quite a bit lately. I always seem to come across someone who touts the old line of “I was/did/had _____ and turned out just fine. My child will too.” You can fill this in with “I was formula fed, and turned out just fine.”, or “I was delivered by cesarean, and turned out just fine.”, or any of the other things that are PROVEN to be less healthy for babies. Why do people justify less healthy choices with completely anecdotal ( and often incorrect ) evidence? Unfortunately, it’s much easier to continue with this mindset, than to admit that you could have done better for your child(ren), or yourself.

Science has shown us that breastfeeding is MUCH better for babies. In fact, being mammals, it is the *only* perfect food for our children up to the age of 1. It literally has every single thing that a baby needs to develop a healthy immune system, healthy brain and neurological function, healthy eyesight and coordination, and it reduces the risk of breast cancer for moms. Breastfeeding also deepens the bond between baby and mom, as it allows baby consistent one-on-one time with mom, next to her heart, smelling her skin, feeling her breathe. We are the only mammals who can choose to give our babies formula, filled with preservatives, and second-rate nutrition. And yet we’re considered to be the most intelligent. Now, as frustrating as it is to have to give a disclaimer, for those who choose not to read between the lines here … I am not speaking of the women who are physically UNABLE to breastfeed. Though extremely rare, there are women who are unable to produce milk. However, those are the extreme minority. We have many, many women who simply CHOOSE to give their babies formula, instead of what is best for them. We live in a very selfish society, where it’s perfectly permissible to put yourself ahead in priority over what is best for our children. We see this in pregnancy ( I can eat WHATEVER I want ), labor ( I’m tired of being pregnant, just induce me! ), birth ( I’m not trying to be a hero! Give me DRUGS! ), and then feeding ( I don’t want to have saggy boobs / be the only one who can feed him / have to deal with breastfeeding in public ).

Why aren’t women being held accountable for their second-rate choices? Because it’s not PC to do so. Because women have every right to *kill* their baby in utero, who are we to tell them that they should eat healthy, have a natural birth, and breastfeed? In the meantime, it’s our children who are getting the short end of the stick.

I wonder if women understand what they put their baby through, when they choose an induction, or allow augmentation? Do they understand what the drug does to their system? Do they understand what the artificial strength of pitocin contractions do to their little body? Do women understand that the drugs in the epidural cocktail *do* indeed cross the placenta? Do they care? Even if baby ends up “just fine”, does it negate what women put them through in the name of convenience or choice?

With my first two, the only thing I had right was the breastfeeding. And even then, I didn’t try as hard as I could have with my first. She was only breastfed for 3 1/2 months. I went back to work, and didn’t have a clue how to keep up my milk supply to pump enough for her. I had a completely intervention-filled birth with her. Pitocin, AROM, Stadol, episiotomy ( which I paid dearly for ), and a vacuum extraction. My poor baby was put through hell because of my ignorant choices. My next baby was put through hell as well. An unnecessary, “elective” ( coerced ) cesarean. He wasn’t ready. Because of my ignorant choice, he spent 9 days in the NICU. He was put through so many tests. He had a spinal tap at 30 minutes old, because of 2 seizures. He was given anti-seizure meds, sedation, had tubes running into several parts of his little body. He went through x-rays, ct scans, eegs, and ultrasounds of his head. There was nothing else wrong with him … he just wasn’t ready. I put him through all of that, because I didn’t know any better.

Before anyone thinks that this is written in a superior tone … I want to assure you that it isn’t. It is written out of heartbreak for babies who are put through so much more than they ever should be, or for babies who are given second best. Most because their moms don’t know any better. I wish that there was a way to get information out there, without being labeled anti-choice or superior. What about the babies?

Posted by Christine Fiscer, Traditional Midwife at 10:03 AM   

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