Please call your State Senator and politely let him of her know that you strenuously oppose this bill.
Gardasil is possibly the most poorly tested and dangerous vaccine ever marketed. It was given an expedited safety review by the CDC during the George W. Bush administration. The head of the CDC under Bush was Julie Gerberding, who after she left the CDC is 2009 went on to her current job leading Merck’s vaccine division. According to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System there have been 61,552 reported adverse incidents with HPV vaccines, including 480 deaths, 15,406 emergency room visits, 6,160 hospitalizations, and 2,939 permanent disabilities. According to Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA under George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, these injuries are probably less than 10% of the actual number. The safety record for HPV vaccines is so dismal that Japan withdrew their recommendation for their citizens.
It is absurd to assume that a child of any age knows enough about their own medical history and the medical history of their family to provide informed consent. They must know if they had earlier adverse reactions to vaccines given to them as infants, and they need to know whether they have allergies or sensitivities to vaccine ingredients, and they need to know whether there is a family medical history that would contraindicate a shot. A nine-year old, or younger, child will know this?
And how would parents make rational and informed healthcare decisions for their children not knowing their child's vaccination status?
This bill also provides protection to pedophiles by subverting New York’s “Mandated Reporter” law that requires licensed professionals to report suspected sexual abuse of children. What rational person would not suspect something was very wrong if a nine-year old requested an injection that purports to prevent a sexually-transmitted disease?
The state would also have to set up systems that would keep track of which information parents will have access to parents and what is to remain hidden.
Current law limits providing treatment for active sexual transmitted diseases to physicians, this law could allow any “healthcare practitioner” which includes nurses, podiatrists and a wide range of healthcare workers to give a child a Gardasil injection.
A person giving the shot, who may have a financial incentive to do so, is allowed to use whatever reasons they want to determine if a minor is capable of giving consent. Nothing in the law prevents the giving a vaccine to a child with an intellectual disability.
There are more than 200 school-based clinics in the state of NY that could give a child vaccine without a parent’s knowledge. And there is nothing in the law that prevents children from “consenting” to experimental vaccines.
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