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Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002
Doctors Oppose Bill's Forced Immunizations
The Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons is urging Congress to eliminate the section of the new
Homeland Security Bill that would give the feds "virtually
unlimited powers to declare an emergency and order smallpox
treatment that could include forced immunizations and
quarantines."
The 480-page bill,
H.R. 5710, which most congressmen have not read, gives the
secretary of health and human services these unchecked powers,
AAPS warned:
To declare an actual or POTENTIAL bioterrorist or other kind
of incident.
To administer "countermeasures" to a category of individuals
or everyone.
To keep extending the declaration without congressional
consent.
Also, if anyone is harmed, he may not sue or take any other
civil remedy.
"This section will give the secretary unlimited power to
define a real or potential threat, to take any measures he
decides, and to do it for as long as he wants," said Kathryn
Serkes of AAPS. "It's Alice-in-Wonderland time again - an
emergency is just what he says it is."
She said the section echoed the Model State Emergency Health
Powers Act that most state legislatures defeated last year.
"Just remove 'governor' from the old bill and insert
'secretary,' and magically you have a federal bill that was
firmly rejected by voters across the country."
AAPS has supported President Bush's call for an advance,
voluntary immunization to avert forced vaccines after a
bioterrorist attack.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Bioterrorism
Bush Administration
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