RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION
FROM VACCINATION
DATE _____________
I _______________________, parent of
______________________,
Claim religious exemption under section
167.181 RSMo due to religious and morale
convictions. My objections are listed below as follows:
Public Law 97-280, passed by the 97th Congress of the
United States of America, declares the Bible to Be the "Word of God" and
directs citizens to "study and apply the teachings of the Holy
Scriptures. "The Bible teaches that the
truthfulness of an issue is to be sought and should stand on no less
than two or more witnesses" (Deuteronomy 19:15).
A
diligent search for truth on the safety and effectiveness of
vaccinations reveals there are many studied, informed and qualified
witnesses who have found and teach that there are
serious health risks involved with vaccinations. Even Senate Bill 732
before the 103rd Congress of the United States known as the
"Comprehensive Child Health Immunization Act of 1993", made known the
fact that there are risks to vaccines. The following words are from that
bill: "Vaccine information materials should be simplified to ensure that
parents can understand the benefits
and risks of vaccines" (emphasis added).
The Bible teaches that there are clean and unclean animals and that
God's people are not to put the unclean into their bodies (Deuteronomy
14). Furthermore, the Bible teaches that "Ye shall not eat of anything
that dieth of itself"; (Deuteronomy
14:21) and "that flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat". (Genesis 9:4) Vaccines
are often made of, or embodies, fetuses or eggs of said unclean
creatures. The process of creating the vaccine often causes said
creatures to die in the process (i.e., dieth
of itself). Many vaccines are made in or of the blood of diseased
animals.
"What? know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye
are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God
in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's". (I Corinthians
6:19,20)
The Bible teaches that we are not to harm or wrong our neighbor (Romans
13:10: James 2:8). Our decision to decline
vaccinations does not wrong or threaten our neighbor. If
vaccinations are truly effective, then vaccinated neighbors would be in
no danger from someone who is not vaccinated. Also, statistics
show that those NOT vaccinated are less
likely to expose their neighbor to harmful pathogens (that are contained
in the vaccinations).
Hepatitis B Not Highly Contagious - Unlike other
infectious diseases for which vaccines have been developed and mandated
in the U.S., hepatitis B is not common in childhood and is not highly
contagious. Hepatitis B is primarily an adult disease transmitted
through infected body fluids, most frequently infected blood, and is
prevalent in high risk populations such as needle using drug addicts;
sexually promiscuous heterosexual and homosexual adults; residents and
staff of custodial institutions such as prisons; health care workers
exposed to blood; persons who require repeated blood transfusions and
babies born to infected mothers.
According to CDC Prevention
Guidelines: A Guide to Action (1997), a book written by
federal public health officials at the U.S. government Centers for
Disease Control (CDC), "the sources of [hepatitis B] infection for most
cases include intravenous drug use (28%), heterosexual contact with
infected persons or multiple partners (22%) and homosexual activity
(9%)." According to Harrison's
Principles of Internal Medicine (1994), mother to child
transmission of hepatitis B "is uncommon in North America
and western Europe."
Although CDC officials have made statements that hepatitis B is easy to
catch through sharing toothbrushes or razors, Eric Mast, M.D., Chief of
the Surveillance Section, Hepatitis Branch of the CDC, stated in a 1997
public hearing that: " although [the hepatitis B virus] is present in
moderate concentrations in saliva, it's not transmitted commonly by
casual contact."
Some of the ingredients
of our current vaccines are:
(1)
Formaldehyde,
used in production of resins, plastics, and foam insulation, and as a
preservative, disinfectant, and antibacterial food additive. It is a
known carcinogen (can initiate a new cancer), commonly used to embalm
corpses.
(2)
Thimerosal,
a mercury derivative. The heavy metal mercury is toxic to the central
nervous system and not easily eliminated from the body. "Aluminum,
formaldehyde and mercury" -- including the mercury in "silver" dental
fillings and amalgams (see Chapter 9)-"have a long history of documented
hazardous effects including cancer, neurological damage" such as
multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease,
"and death."
Studies report, "Thimerosal inhibits
phagocytes, one of the body's most vital immune defenses in blood." Then
what effect will it have on healthy human cells after it is injected
into the bloodstream? Jamie Murphy, a concerned nonprofessional observer
asks, "Who would take chemicals that are carcinogenic in rats, are used
in the manufacture of inks, dyes, explosives, wrinkle-proof fabrics,
home insulation, and embalming fluid -- and inject them into the
delicate body of a baby?"
Among other vaccine ingredients are
aluminum phosphate, aluminum adjuvants,
alum, and acetone; phenol
is included in allergy injections. "Benzoic acid, a preservative whose
injection into rats causes tremors, convulsions, and death, is added.
And then vaccine makers add decomposing animal proteins, such as pig or
horse blood, cow pox pus, rabbit brain tissue, duck egg protein, and dog
kidney tissue."
A
glance at further steps in vaccine making is no less disturbing. To
produce a "live"-virus vaccine, such as MMR (measles/mumps/rubella), the
virus is passed through animal tissue several times to reduce its
potency. Measles virus is passed
through chick embryos, polio virus through monkey kidney, and the
rubella virus is passed through the dissected organs of an
aborted human fetus.
'Killed' vaccines are 'inactivated' through heat, radiation, or
chemicals." "The weakened germ is then strengthened with antibody
boosters and stabilizers. This is done by addition of
drugs, antibiotics and toxic disinfectants: neomycin,
streptomycin, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide,
aluminum hydrochloride, sorbitol, hydrolyzed
gelatin, formaldehyde [again], and Thimerosal
[again]."
Injected straight into the child's bloodstream -- bypassing the cellular
immune system, one-half of our protective immunity mechanism, those
materials destroy stores of protective nutrients in the tiny body. So it
is not hard to see why epidemic vaccines worsen health throughout life
Only two single-antigen pediatric hepatitis B vaccines exist on the
US market, Engerix-B
(SmithKline Beecham) and Recombivax HB
(Merck). Both contain thimerosal and 12.5
micrograms of mercury per 0.5 ml dose.
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