Anchorage Daily News Letter to the Editor 

Vaccine Awareness Rally should have received Daily News coverage

I was very disappointed to not see any reference in the Daily News to the Vaccine Awareness Rally on April 23. This is an issue that I and many others felt newsworthy enough to have covered. This is yet another example of choosing to ignore an important issue!

I am the parent of a vaccine-damaged child. He is living proof of the potential damage caused to children from vaccines. Is a 90-minute seizure six hours after a vaccine not proof enough that there was a reaction? He continues to have uncontrolled seizures and significant delays after eight years!

I find it disgusting that weight loss and cold products are pulled off the shelves when people experience severe reactions and even deaths, yet vaccines continue to be administered when there are thousands of documented reactions and deaths associated with the vaccines. Chronic health problems, autism and children in need of special education services are on the rise, which I suspect are directly correlated with vaccines.

Until statistics guarantee 100 percent safety without even the smallest possibility of reaction, I will not support mandated vaccines and will opt to file for medical and religious exemptions for my children! No parent should be expected to take this risk, however small, and end up with a vaccine-damaged child!

-- Maureen Forceskie

Anchorage

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