Michigan legislators are considering a good bill that would protect parental rights by prohibiting camps from requiring a medical examination, vaccination, or treatment for children if their parents have religious objections.
Current scientific evidence suggests that unvaccinated children do not pose a risk to others, reinforcing the need for equal camp access regardless of vaccination status.
Ideally, SB 692 would prohibit all vaccine requirements for camp attendance or at least expand exemption options to include conscientious and medical exemptions.
The bill provides parents with a cause of action if their rights are violated, establishing criminal penalties to prevent infringement on religious objections to vaccinations.
The Weston A. Price Foundation supports SB 692’s focus on vaccination exemptions and does not take a position on unrelated provisions within the bill.
SB 692 has successfully passed the Senate and is now under consideration in the Families, Children, and Seniors Committee. Your support is crucial to help this bill gain momentum and pass in the House!
TAKE ACTION:
Contact your House Member and ask him or her to SUPPORT SB 692.
You can look up who represents you at https://www.house.mi.gov/#findarepresentative
Calls are more effective than emails, and only take a few minutes.
A sample script is below. Personalize it by adding your own sentences and changing the wording!
SAMPLE SCRIPT:
“My name is ____, and I am a constituent. I am calling to ask Representative ____ to support Senate Bill 692, currently under consideration in the Families, Children, and Seniors Committee.
This bill is essential for protecting the rights of parents in Michigan to make informed medical decisions for their children, particularly regarding vaccination requirements for camp attendance.
SB 692 prohibits camps from mandating medical examinations, vaccinations, or treatments for children if their parents have religious objections. This legislation is crucial in safeguarding parental rights and ensuring that children are not discriminated against based on their vaccination status.
Supporting SB 692 will help protect Michigan families’ freedoms and ensure that all children have equal access to camp experiences, regardless of their vaccination status.
I urge Representative _____to SUPPORT SB 692.”
TALKING POINTS:
Be sure to explain why this issue is important to you. You may wish to use a couple of the talking points below. Don’t copy all of them – just use them as ideas to help structure your own message.
Keep your call or email short! Pick the 2 or 3 of these talking points – or none of them — that are most important to you, and be sure to explain why this issue matters to you personally.
- Share why this is personal to you. Do you have religious beliefs that conflict with vaccination? Have you or someone you know had a vaccine reaction?
- No one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Each of us may respond differently as we have different medical histories, genes, epigenetics, and microbiomes.
- One of the most basic human rights is that of bodily autonomy, as recognized by the Nuremberg Code. Ethical medicine requires prior, completely voluntary, and fully informed consent.
- Vaccines are medical procedures that carry the risk of serious injury. The U.S. Supreme Court recognizes vaccines to be “unavoidably unsafe” and to cause injury and death to some recipients. The U.S. Government has paid out approximately $5.1 billion to the victims of vaccine injury. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/
- Vaccines have no long-term studies on their safety, genotoxicity, carcinogenicity, or effect on reproduction.
- Vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer, Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline have paid billions of dollars in criminal penalties and settlements for research fraud, faking drug safety studies, failing to report safety problems, bribery, kickbacks, and false advertising [1,2]. Pfizer paid $2.3 billion in 2009 alone to resolve criminal and civil allegations [3].
MORE INFORMATION
Text, status, and history for SB 692 https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2024-SB-0692
Read this article to learn more about the lack of safety for all vaccines:https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vaccines-unsafe-since-the-very-beginning/#gsc.tab=0
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