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Vaccination Updates

VACCINES AND PREGNANCY
By Kendall Nelson, Director, The Greater Good

Dr. Kelly Brogan, author of A Mind of Your & Child Care (with Thomas Cowan, MD), “ex- America has
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Own, has written about the medicalization of perts attribute the cessation of epidemic diseases
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pregnancy in her blog, suggesting that “the not to mass vaccination, but to a major sanita- the highest
modern woman has handed over her inner com- tion reform movement that swept Europe and first-day
pass” when it comes to maternal vaccination. I America during the late 1800s and early 1900s.” infant death
couldn’t agree more. Proponents say vaccination We have also been sold on the idea that
during pregnancy is a vital preventive measure vaccines have directly increased life expectancy rate of all
in routine obstetric care that serves to protect in the U.S. But is this true? Statistics show that industrialized
mother, fetus and infant; however, one need read America has the highest first-day infant death countries,
only the information provided in vaccine manu- rate of all industrialized countries, ranks
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facturers’ package inserts and on the websites of number thirty-one among nations in infant ranks number
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and mortality and is number fifty worldwide in thirty-one
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the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maternal mortality. Ours is the first generation among
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(CDC) to find a blatant lack of safety testing, a of children who will not outlive their parents.
long list of toxic ingredients and admission of Over fifty percent of all American children are nations in
efficacy problems. chronically ill with asthma, allergies, epilepsy, infant
The truth is that vaccines recommended autism (one in thirty-six) and other learning mortality
for pregnant women have never been properly and behavioral disabilities. These are dismal
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studied, nor have they been proven safe, yet statistics considering that the U.S. spends over and is
women all over the world are accepting these three trillion dollars per year on health care number fifty

medical interventions without question. It is as (over ten thousand dollars per person in 2016) worldwide
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though women are under the spell of those in and that we are the most heavily vaccinated
white coats, unconsciously suppressing or re- population on earth. in maternal
linquishing part of the same nurturing instincts mortality.
that naturally make women want to protect their TARGETING PREGNANT WOMEN
unborn babies from things like cigarette smoke, One way in which these health care monies
alcohol and other toxic exposures. are spent is by vaccinating pregnant women with
It’s easy to see why women have, in Dr. influenza and Tdap (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular
Brogan’s words, “permitted doctors and phar- pertussis) vaccines. The first of these vaccines is
maceutical companies privileged access to their given to prevent the flu and the second primarily
fierce and primitive drive toward protecting a to prevent pertussis, more commonly known as
pregnancy.” After all, we’ve been taught not to whooping cough. Medical trade organizations
question the safety and efficacy of vaccines. including the American College of Obstetricians
We’ve been spoon-fed the fairytale that vac- and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American
cines have successfully eradicated and reduced Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorse both
“vaccine-preventable diseases,” when statistics vaccines for pregnant women.
from the past two hundred years actually reveal Are these endorsements sound? As stated
that infectious diseases declined at least 90 per- by Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National
cent before vaccines were ever introduced. As Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), “With
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Sally Fallon Morell (founding president of the these recommendations, the time-honored rule
Weston A. Price Foundation) points out in her of avoiding any potential toxic exposure that
book The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby might interfere with the normal development

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