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The following posts feature discussions and information on the issue of medical freedom.

Vaccination and Health – Your Right to Choose Seminars Western NSW-August 2012

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Please note: though pre-booking is recommended, please feel free to turn up on the night and register at the door.

Today, more then ever, the government and the medical community are trying to restrict your right to make informed health choices for yourself and your family.

There is a great deal of confusion about the following issues:

– Do you have the right to send your child to school, preschool, playgroup and childcare if they are not vaccinated?
– Does the government have the right to withhold any of your financial entitlements if you choose not to vaccinate your child?
– Do doctors, nurses and other health staff working in hospital settings have a right to say no to vaccination?
– Why is Australia currently experiencing the biggest and longest-lived whooping cough epidemic in its history despite our highest-ever rate of childhood vaccination?
– Why is one child in 20 now estimated to be autistic when 30 years ago, that figure was one in 20,000? Has vaccination played a role in this and other epidemics of chronic diseases (asthma, eczema, food allergies, diabetes, childhood cancer, etc.)

These will be evenings to set the record straight about not only your health rights but also about the latest research on this medical procedure from around the world…. [Read More]

Do doctors have to sign Conscientious Objector forms?

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New information has just come to light on this question, which I wanted to share with you because it is very important and will have implications for all parents who are filing as a conscientious objector to vaccination. It is also quite different from my previous understanding of this issue.

From the very beginning of the policy that required parents who were not vaccinating to see an immunisation provider in order to get their conscientious objector form signed (in order to get the Maternity Immunisation Allowance and the Childcare Benefit), the AVN has had a steady stream of parents approach them because GPs were refusing to sign the form.

We were told by the AMA that there was no requirement for doctors to actually sign this form – leading to parents seeing up to 20 or more doctors before finding one who would agree to sign. One wonders if the AMA were lying or simply ignorant. Either way, it is not a great recommendation for their integrity…. [Read More]

Healthy Unvaccinated – Nellie

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Nellie is 3 and a half years old, and her adoption was final May 17, 2007.

She was born meth addicted with many health problems and had developmental delays as an infant.

She was given Hepatitis B vaccine at birth, and one polio and one measles shot. She contracted measles from the shot.

Since her adoption she has been vaccine free, raised on organic vegan diet, wore cloth nappies, co-sleeps with mom and will be home schooled. She is now rarely ill.

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Healthy Unvaccinated – Theron

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Theron is 14 years old and was given Hepatitis B vaccine at birth WITHOUT my consent.

He has since been vaccine free & on an organic vegetarian diet.

He is rarely ill, did have salmonella poisoning at 2 months of age, whooping cough at 5 years old, (caught from child who’d just had his DPT), &  Chickenpox just recently.

He was breast fed until he self-weaned at 4 years old, wore cloth nappies as a baby, was home schooled through to the 8th grade and will now be attending Performing Arts School.

His adopted sister Nellie has also had chickenpox recently and we are ‘looking forward to whatever fun diseases we can find!’… [Read More]

Know your rights!

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The first thing you need to know is that in Australia, vaccination is not compulsory. It doesn’t matter what your doctor, school principal, mother in law or neighbour say – no school, preschool, childcare centre or playgroup is legally allowed to discriminate against a child because of their vaccination status.

Secondly, whether you vaccinate fully, selectively or not at all, you will not lose any government entitlements including the new $726 Family Tax Benefit Part A Supplement announced by the Federal Government in July 2011.

In order to get the Tax Benefit Supplement and the Childcare Allowance (the only 2 payments currently linked with vaccination compliance) if you don’t fully vaccinate, you will need to get either a GP or a clinic sister who is able to administer vaccines – in other words, anyone who has an immunisation provider number – to sign a Conscientious or Medical Objection form…. [Read More]

Make an informed vaccination choice

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One of the most vital decisions is whether to vaccinate our children fully, partially or at all.

All of these choices are valid but, since vaccines, like all medical procedures, can carry with them the possibility of serious injury or death, we need to be able to make our choice with the best available information.

Unlike medical treatments which are given to relieve the symptoms of illness, vaccination is given to healthy babies, children and adults. Therefore, the requirement to ensure safety is greater for vaccines then for any other medical product or procedure…. [Read More]