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Vaccinations

Parents’ Informed Choice

By Lynne Born

ecause the misinformation surrounding vaccination
is so extensive, many parents don’t even question

Bwhether or not they should vaccinate their child,
overlooking one of the most important decisions a parent

can make. Since medical authorities say vaccination is safe,
most parents simply go ahead with vaccination, completely

unaware of the potential dangers and unable to recognize
a serious reaction when it does occur.

And since government health departments and school authorities
give the impression that vaccination is 100 percent mandated for every
child in the United States, most parents believe they are legally required
to vaccinate their child. These same entities will not tell you that various
vaccine-exemptions are available for school attendance. In all 50 states,
you are free to decline vaccination entirely, or adopt a partial vaccination
schedule, an important decision about the health and welfare of your child.
However, parents face tremendous pressure from doctors, the media,
schools and even other parents to follow the standard vaccination schedule
and subject their child to an ever-escalating protocol of multiple injections
at various stages of their young lives, even including injections with several
vaccines in the same shot.

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