Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights
HERE IS WHAT’S GOING ON & HOW YOU CAN HELP:
MPVR bill to amend Mississippi’s 41 year old rigid vaccine law will be dropped in the house and senate this coming week. The bill we are intoducing will allow parents in Mississippi the option of a philosophical vaccine exemption.
To be clear, we are not anti-vaccine; we are pro-parental rights and believe parents, not the government, should decide if, when and how a child should be vaccinated without being denied daycare or a public or private education.
48 other states have the right to choose, and we are fighting for that right for Mississippians as well. Current MS law was written in 1972 when children received 4-10 inoculations. Today, if children follow the CDCs recommended vaccine schedule they will receive 49 doses of 15 vaccines by age 6, beginning with the risky (according to the package insert) HepB shot on the first day of life.
In 2011 MS granted only 16 kindergarteners a medical exemption. Our 5 neighboring states averaged 149 medical exemptions to kindergarten students that same year. There are families suffering in our state because of bureaucrats at the DOH in jackson denying real medical exemptions. It is already nearly impossible to find a Dr. in MS to write one because they are mostly denied.
Those same 5 neighboring states have religious and/or philosophical exemptions for which less than half of one percent of kindergarteners in 2011 were filed. The idea that passing such an exemption in MS would lead to low vaccine compliance is simply false. Add that to the fact that MS is not an island and the entire adult population is walking around unvaccinated and there goes the argument against our desire for a philosophical exemption.
There are Mississippi families hurting as a result of our rigid vaccine law. Today’s vaccine schedule is so many so soon and I fear the continuing addition of more and more mandates.
Representative Sam Mims of McComb is the chairman of the house health committee and we have yet to gain his support. Rep. Mims has been receiving steady calls from all over the state since this summer. He has received many, many calls from his constituents along the way as well asking for his support. He is in the position to either bring our bill up in his committee for a vote or ‘kill’ it before even being heard, which would be a great injustice considering the support the bill has in the state and the calls, postcards and emails he has received from constituents asking him to represent them.
The same is true of Senator Terry Burton of Newton, the chairman of the senate health sub-committee that Senator Dean Kirby of Pearl (who has voiced support) will be sending our bill to.
**If you believe parents, not the government, should have the fundamental human right to determine which medical procedures are preformed on their child, you need to voice that to these two men:
Representative Sam Mims:
Home- 601.684.0281
Office- 601.359.3320
smims@house.ms.gov
Senator Terry Burton:
Home- 601-683-7050
Work- 601-683-6695
Office- 601-359-3234
tburton@senate.ms.gov
Representative Becky Currie, a registered nurse from Brookhaven, is the only medical professional on the house health committee. Rep. Currie’s support could be very influential.
Represenative Becky Currie:
Home- 601.833.5953
Office- 601.359.5334
bcurrie@house.ms.gov
These legislators are public servants who were elected by the people to represent the people. They are all very easy to talk to!
You better believe big pharma is in their ear, as pharmaceutical companies spend more money on lobbying than even oil companies do!
Make the calls or send emails…you will feel SO GOOD about being proactive to protect MS children from perhaps the most rigid vaccine law in the country.
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