This was posted on the Mothering magazine forums.

VACCINATIONS: PUBLIC GOOD VS. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

I would like to begin by telling you a little about the organization that I represent and the ethics and principles that we believe in and support. I am the Immediate Past President of the AAPS which stands for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. We are a national medical organization representing thousands of members in every specialty and in every state. We also have an associate category of membership with a substantial number of patients and other interested citizens who share our beliefs.

AAPS was founded in 1943 and its principal mission then remains the same as today, namely to protect the patient-doctor relationship. We believe that the highest quality medical care takes place when patient and physician are allowed to pursue medical care, free from the intrusion and interference of government, insurance companies and HMOs. Unlike the advocates of Big Government and socialism, we believe that patients are intelligent and fully capable of deciding on their own medical care as opposed to having a government bureaucrat decide what is ”best for them.” We strongly oppose government bureaucrats and HMO clerks practicing medicine on our patients. We believe in the Oath of Hippocrates, the U.S. Constitution and in the free market system we have here in these United States of America. We are opposed to all initiatives that would diminish your freedom, liberty and ability to choose the doctor, hospital and medical care of your choice. In short, we believe in freedom and individual responsibility, concepts upon which our great nation was founded.

I would like to begin by telling a little story. The story begins with the FDA which has a little known advisory committee known as the ACNF – Advisory Committee for Nutritional Food. And their mission is to promote the most nutritional diet in the interest of the public good. After a period of study and deliberations, they came up with
Recommended Daily Amounts of each type of food to include at least 3 servings of meat per day, preferably Big Macs, Whoppers and Chicken Dinners. They’ve called this optimal diet FAD which stands for Federally Approved Diet. They have published their FAD diet and other recommendations in a special government report.

Before long, your state legislators took note of this official government report and acting in what they felt was the public’s best interest, they passed a law which made the FAD diet mandatory. And, just to make sure that all citizens follow this government approved diet, the law mandates that neither you nor your children can attend school (including college) unless you eat the government’s FAD diet.

So, one day during a class discussion on nutrition your daughter or granddaughter happens to mention that she and her family are.....VEGETARIANS. Well, within a few days her parents receive a very threatening letter from school officials which makes it clear that the little girl will be expelled from school unless her parents start feeding
her the FAD diet. School officials also make it clear that if her parents are particularly stubborn in refusing to comply with the government-mandated FAD diet, that Child Protective Services will be called and they will likely take the little girl away from her parents based on “NUTRITIONAL NEGLECT” of a child.

Well, being vegetarians, a very bright and independent thinking group of people, the parents said “Hey, wait a minute.... this is the United States of America, not communist China. Government has no right to tell me what I put into my body or into my child’s
body.” And these inquisitive vegetarians began asking some questions that made school and government officials verrry uncomfortable.

They asked “Who are the members of this government advisory committee on nutritional foods that have advocated that my child eat Big Macs, Whoppers and Chicken Dinners? And, will you show us the scientific data which supports their conclusions?” “If this is all being done for the public good, then the public should have the right to know who is making these decisions that affect everyone and what the process entails!”

Well, the government bureaucrats did not like this line of questioning one bit. Because what the vegetarians found out wasthat the ACNF, the Advisory Committee on Nutritional Foods, was composed of representatives from..... McDonalds, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken. And, despite their request to see the actual scientific data that was used to develop this government-mandated FAD diet, the government refused to give this information to the vegetarians because members of the committee said that the data contained proprietary trade secrets that were protected by patent and could, therefore, not be divulged to the public. It thus became clear to the vegetarians that there was something very rotten about the government’s compulsory FAD diet.

Can you imagine what this mandatory FAD diet would do for the sales of McDonalds, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken? A government mandate which would require people to eat this FAD diet would constitute a guaranteed market, a veritable goldmine for the purveyors of red and white meat.

Now having told that little story, I want to emphasize to you that the story is pure fiction, but unfortunately it represents where we are today with government-mandated vaccinations.

ALL INFORMATION, DATA, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR PROVIDED
HERE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED
AS REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO
BE CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE.  THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE
AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.
 

 

 

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