►February 28, 2004 -
Genuine concern or corporate greed? - opinion- Broomfield Enterprise via The
Daily Camera - "Does Senate Bill
139 represent genuine concern or corporate greed? Follow the money...SB 139 will
set forth a statewide database of all Colorado's children. The system will be
used to call parents and coerce them to have their children "fully" vaccinated.
This means the child must have every single recommended vaccine...When I was a
child I only had two immunizations: polio and smallpox. These shots were for
serious diseases that affected large populations. I am truly grateful for
advances in modern medicine that have eradicated deadly diseases. Today, though,
Colorado's children are required to receive 29 vaccinations by the age of 4. The
risk of children contracting some of these diseases is miniscule."
►February 16, 2004 - Letter
from Dr. Jane Orient of the AAPS to Colorado's Senate HEWI committee (and read
on the Senate floor February 16, 2004) re: Senate Bill. 04-139, Concerning
notification to persons of immunizations for their children under specified
circumstances. - www.aapsonline.org -
"Public health departments are stretched thin nationwide. Scarce public health
dollars should not be diverted to Big Brother functions. Your constituents are
smart enough to make their own vaccine decisions. Governmental resources are
better spent on informing citizens than on monitoring them."
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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"