As for “compelling government interest”, one can construe that to be a slippery slope. If it is truly “compelling”, a case should be able to be made that will convince the people. Other than when people vote, I have a great deal of faith in people’s ability to make the decision that is right for them.

The government cannot supply information that is not politicized. In the case of pharmaceuticals, the First Amendment precludes the government from letting industry lobby the government in support of the information it wants disseminated, and the First Amendment also protects anti-industry groups from similarly lobbying the government to have its information disseminated with the government’s imprimatur. The government should not be in the business of disseminating information or otherwise determining whether an idea is true.

The right of privacy advocated so strongly (and I would add, correctly) by liberals also protects conservatives and t he causes they champion. The right of privacy and the right to have our own bodies respected from government intrusion applies in the immunization context as well as the other contexts traditionally favored by the Left. Forced immunizations should be presumptively invalid and unconstitutional, but the government should be allowed to offer what the law defines as a “compelling government interest” in order to trump the right of privacy. If the government can identify a specific harm that will be specifically remedied by immunization and cannot be remedied in any other reasonable way, I think it is a proper government function of protecting the health and safety to require all persons to be immunized.

Also, it might be appropriate in some cases for the government to treat the parents of a child not immunized who then contracts a disease for which an immunization was available as guilty of a crime or a form of child abuse.

Cigarette, alcohol and other labeling requirements are fine. Mandatory seat belt and helmet laws, and others should be abolished.

The nanny state must end. Liberty and individual responsibility must be restored.

Before we simply assume that vaccines have a positive impact on the public health, you may want to research the science, or lack thereof, as well as the political history involved. You might just see that this is not as altruistic an industry as they would like everyone to believe they are. And don’t go to the drug companies for the research, that’s like going to the tobacco companies to find about cigarettes and lung cancer.
It comes down to one basic question: does the government know what’s best for you and your children, or do you? Although there are many people that will line up as sheep to the slaughter, I, for one, choose to make my own decisions.

My children’s pro-vaccine pediatrician even agrees that the flu vaccine mandate is ridiculous, as do many other pediatricians.

Parents need to be heard, not ignored!

Should the federal government be involved in this? Only as a last resort, if city, county, and state governments fail.

We need the Conscientious Exemption to Mandatory Immunizations in New Jersey.

As an example – I am deeply concerned about the Swine flu vaccine. I recently read an article that says it has been determined that the benefit outweighs the risk and everyone should get vaccinated. Oh really? Where are the risk analysis that have been done on the vaccine? Show me the numbers. How can they determine the risk analysis if the vaccine hasn’t been developed and tested yet? Where are the studies to determine if it is safe? How many lives will be lost or damaged by the vaccine? The is no data and yet it has been determined that the benefit outweighs the risk.

It is as if everyone has forgotten the 1976 debacle. There were more deaths from the vaccine than the flu.

The purpose of an immune adjuvant added to a vaccine is to enhance (turbo charge) your immune response to the vaccination. The one that has been chosen for the swine flu vaccine is Squalene. Google that and you will come up with (possible) links to Gulf War Syndrome. Oh goodie.

And yes Mighty Mo – the Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from the swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.

So again – it hasn’t been rolled out yet – but the benefit outweighs the risk and the makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits and the adjuvant has a shady history – and oh yea everyone must get vaccinated. Really?

Is anyone else not ok with this?

If you want to oppose mandatory vaccinations, oppose government controlled schools. That does not mean vouchers; it means abolition of the public school.

When that day comes, parents will have the final say as to what curriculum is fed into our children’s brains – and what immunizations are put into their bodies.