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Government considering forcing you to vaccinate your child?
Is the government considering forcing you to vaccinate
your child?
At the link below is the report of the Health Select Committee hearing evidence on how to "improve" [increase] "immunisation" [vaccination] rates in New Zealand, which was released on March 24, 2011
In 2010 Jonathan Eisen and I (among many other intelligent and well informed people) appeared before this committee and contributed evidence of the harm caused by vaccination in the faint hope that the members of the committee would realise that increasing vaccination rates is likely to cause a deterioration in the health of New Zealand children. However, the committee (under the leadership of Dr Paul Hutchison) has produced a report that not only recommends raising the targeted vaccination rate but potentially penalising parents by linking "existing parental benefits" to vaccination, as well as attendance at early childhood centres and schools with children's vaccination status. If the government accepts the recommendations in the report, it appears that parents will be forced to choose whether their child has no vaccinations or all vaccinations on the schedule. Please forward this message widely and visit the website www.noforcedvaccines.org as soon as you can for more information and for ideas on how you can help with the campaign to resist the erosion of human rights threatened by this Report.
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