If there’s one act of legislative authoritarianism guaranteed to draw thousands of opponents to the state capitol, it’s a mandatory vaccination bill. The most recent example being bill 5044 in Connecticut, which would eliminate the religious and philosophical exemption currently allowed for school children. A hearing and testimony on the bill drew thousands of opponents to the state capitol, many of whom remained all night until their voice was heard.
Other examples abound. New Jersey, for instance. A mandatory vaccine bill in that state’s legislature died amid the protests of thousands of citizens who gathered around the capitol building for over 8 hours.
And here in my home state of Oklahoma, the very active and very effective Oklahomans for Health and Parental Rights organization rallies hundreds to the state capitol for Parental Rights Day, to protect the parents of this state from the encroachments of a medical community that appears to care more about forcing a pharmaceutical product on as many children as possible than the rights of those children or their parents.
We are to believe that the mandated use of a product that has resulted in over $4 billion in injury settlements and whose manufacturers are shielded from legal liability over vaccine injuries should be mandatory? A steadily increasing schedule of vaccines required of children, combined with a steady rise in autoimmune and neurological disorders among US children, means that fewer and fewer people are buying the “safe and effective” line, and they will show up in thousands at the mere hint of a mandatory vaccine bill.
