Dear Governor Murphy,
Congratulations once again on your victory. I’m thrilled for you and Tammy.
Your neighbors are proud of you
It has been an exciting time for everyone on our small street. We were delighted to display our “Phil Murphy for Governor” lawn signs and cheer you on during your campaign and at your inaugural ball.
Thank you for all you’ve done to make us feel special and part of your journey. Fifteen years have passed since you graciously hosted an intimate party welcoming my family to the neighborhood. It was a beautiful gesture and especially heartwarming to learn that our children are the same ages and Tammy and I were high school classmates. It’s hard to believe the last of our kids are starting high school in the fall.
You made an impression on me then and you’ll make the same on New Jerseyans during your tenure as governor.
A big yes to keeping promises!
I was pleased to see that you included “keeping promises” as a cornerstone of your campaign. I know you to be someone with the ability to fulfill them.
One of your promises is health care that works for all of us, with specific mention of the special interests that outweigh the interests of your 9 million residents.
Yes! So many parents are with you. This is the key message of my letter. Special interests have captured our legislature and are diverting scarce resources and attention away from a massive public health crisis impacting New Jersey families. This isn’t just about the devastating opportunity cost of our longstanding failure to address this plight. These special interests are now making a calamitous situation so much worse.
We both left Wall Street to solve real problems
You and I both come from Wall Street. When you were running Goldman Sachs Asia, I was Head of Corporate Marketing for Putnam Investments. We were on our respective companies’ Management Committees. We speak the same language and hold similar expectations for the level of analytic rigor underpinning executive decisions.
Our subsequent paths have been different but we both care about making the world a better place. I appreciated Tammy’s acknowledgement of my longstanding advocacy in support of parental rights and informed consent, and my concern about mandatory medicine.
You’re in a position to make a big impact in New Jersey, Phil.
There is a vitally urgent matter that I urge you to prioritize now. It is a massive opportunity for a courageous and intelligent leader. It is also a ticking time bomb whose collateral damage will be far greater than the detritus surrounding the over 100,000 New Jersey families whose lives have already been shattered.
I’m talking about the public health crisis called autism.
1 in 22 boys has autism, NJ leads health crisis
On April 27, 2018, the CDC announced its new autism prevalence numbers. One in 59 US children has autism versus 1 in 68 just two years ago. This is a significant increase, up 20% in two years. It is also part of a larger trend, up about 200% (triple!) since 2000 and a whole lot more since 1988.
As concerning as this is, it isn’t the biggest news. For that, we must put the spotlight on New Jersey.
One in 22 New Jersey boys has autism, Phil. And 1 in 34 of our state’s children. It is the highest in the nation.
If something was sneaking into 1 out of every 22 New Jersey homes and stealing our boys, wouldn’t we be in the streets with panic and outrage, demanding answers and doing whatever we could to put an end to it?
This is a stunning indictment of our state and federal public health institutions.
It is all the more so because everyone watched it climb, year after year for decades now, an inexorable train wreck imploding before our eyes.
New Jersey leads the autism epidemic.
It’s even worse, CDC reporting has 12 year lag
To make matters worse, this new data is really old data. The CDC analysis is based on children who were born in 2006 and aged 8 years in 2014.
What about our New Jersey babies born this year?
We won’t know about the autism incidence affecting today’s newborns until 2030.
How is this possible?
Under the CDC’s current Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM) practices, data collection for children born in 2018 will occur in 2026, when they are 8 years old. It will take the CDC four years to compile and analyze the data; write and revise the report; submit it for successive levels of management review; and then finally schedule it for release in the MMWR.
So, the CDC’s April 2018 report based on children born in 2006, who are age 8 in 2014, is entitled: “Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2014.”
More information on the CDC’s ADDM study here.
There’s an unacknowledged lag embedded in the data that keeps us perilously out of touch with the current reality.
It means that this very bad news is almost certainly a lot worse and any sense of urgency we muster amidst inconvenient political realities is likely to be grievously too little too late.
Listen to NJ’s very concerned CDC study chief
The CDC did not push this big story into the spotlight. Not one CDC official appeared on mainstream media to tell Americans the bad news and the outlets didn’t apply pressure. A quiet CDC press release said the increase was “slight,” a soft-pedaled message echoed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and others that did not accurately reflect the significance of the findings.
This isn’t my spin. Listen to New Jersey’s own Walter M. Zahorodny, PhD. Dr. Zahorodny is in charge of New Jersey’s autism analysis for the CDC. He is Director of the New Jersey Autism Study. He has been involved with the CDC’s ADDM study since the very beginning. Dr. Zahorodny is also Associate Professor, Pediatrics Department, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
There’s an excellent 20 minute video produced by a parent advocacy organization that I encourage you and your policy advisors to watch. Here’s the transcript, if you prefer to read. It was released on May 24, 2018:
Dr. Zahorodny says that New Jersey has the most developed and rigorous autism surveillance infrastructure in the US. Since the CDC ADDM study’s inception in 2000, some states have been added and removed, and geographic regions have been altered.
But not New Jersey.
New Jersey has been included and consistent and rigorous from the beginning. For this reason and because of the gravity of the findings, he says everyone should be paying close attention to New Jersey’s autism numbers.
Let’s stop the deflection, the increase is real
Dr. Zahorodny wants us all to understand that New Jersey’s sky high autism numbers are deeply concerning and must not be downplayed. The crisis is genuine. It is imperative that we stop giving ourselves permission to look away.
These are the key messages that Dr. Zahorodny delivers in his video:
#1: CAN’T BE EXPLAINED AWAY BY “BETTER AUTISM AWARENESS”
When we look at the average age at first autism diagnosis across the US, this has not changed in the last 14 years. The age at diagnosis has remained stable at about 53 months (4 years, 5 months old) throughout the entire study period.
He says, if autism prevalence was being impacted by overall greater awareness, we would expect the age at diagnosis to decrease over the same time period.
It hasn’t.
#2: CAN’T BE EXPLAINED AWAY BY “CHANGED DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA”
Dr. Zahorodny is also dismayed because the media persist in reporting that rising autism prevalence is due to a changed definition of autism (and greater awareness). This isn’t true. The overall ADDM project — and New Jersey’s own part in it — has only ever used one definition of autism, as provided by the DSM-IV.
In his words: “Zero is due to changing diagnosis.”
#3: CAN’T BE DISREGARDED DUE TO “CHANGED RESEARCH METHODOLOGY”
CDC says we cannot draw conclusions regarding autism — whether there is a legitimate increase (i.e., is there even a crisis?) — because the research methodology has changed.
Dr. Zahorodny asserts, point blank, that there has been no change in research methodology.
There has been a change in the number and geographic distribution of certain ADDM states. Plus, some states changed the region in which they conducted surveillance. This compels us to focus more on the states that have maintained consistency in the definition of their geographic region.
Like New Jersey.
#4: ALL STATE AUTISM RATES ARE LIKELY UNDERSTATED, EVEN NJ’S
There’s a big difference in autism prevalence across ADDM states. According to Dr. Zahorodny, it’s not that autism varies so dramatically across the US. It’s that our ability to capture all individuals with autism is uneven and imperfect. All ADDM states face some constraints in accurately capturing data; some more than others.
Dr. Zahorodny says autism prevalence is likely to be in the 3%+ range or even higher in the major metropolitan areas across the US. And yes, in New Jersey, even at 1 in 34 children and 1 in 22 boys born in 2006, we may still be underestimating.
#5: SEVERELY IMPAIRED CHILDREN ARE DRIVING THE INCREASE
Think the numbers are being driven by high numbers of quirky but high functioning children? Think again. Dr. Zahorodny says the increase in autism prevalence is being “pushed quite significantly” by children with severe levels of impairment.
While we are getting better at identifying and diagnosing children who are less severely affected, this isn’t what’s driving the higher numbers. Autism is increasing across the board and across all subtypes. The prevalence numbers are driven by those who are most seriously impacted. It is a false and dangerous assumption that the increase is being uniquely propelled by ever larger numbers of mildly idiosyncratic but societally functional individuals.
These acutely impaired children are receiving a diagnosis of autism more quickly. When the CDC study team first started doing surveillance, Dr. Zahorodny said they looked at how long it took from the age of a child’s first appointment with a professional (i.e., neurologist, developmental pediatrician) to the age at receipt of the first autism diagnosis. It used to be one year. It’s now seven months.
There’s greater familiarity with autism because higher numbers of disabled children with autism are entering doctors’ offices. This is prompting the doctors to diagnose sooner.
#6: MEDIA SILENCE IS CONCERNING
Dr. Zahorodny says the mainstream media’s failure to cover the latest autism prevalence numbers is very hard to justify or explain.
Over the past 14 years, we’ve been reporting about skyrocketing autism rates. He surmises that, without an understanding of why the increase is occurring, we’ve come to a point where there’s very little to report.
But that’s not exactly true, is it? The continually increasing and unacceptably high rates are, unto themselves, major news. As is the fact that we still don’t know why.
New Jersey can do so much better for its families.
#7: FAILURE TO ACT SIMILARLY DOES NOT ABSOLVE CDC… OR YOU
Why hasn’t the CDC said anything? The CDC has the responsibility to provide accurate autism prevalence estimates. Dr. Zahorodny observed the CDC must be concerned that these high autism rates would provoke unease, anxiety, and panic, even. “If the CDC had an explanation, I think they would be more forthcoming in declaring the new findings…”
Neither the mainstream media nor the CDC nor anyone from any state program or office approached Dr. Zahorodny requesting an interview or asking any questions about his analysis. Dr. Zahorodny shared the following with me and Heidi Roger:
No one from any state program/office approached me or asked any questions, subsequent to the release of findings. However, I made special presentations to the NJ DOH and DOE on the eve of the publication. Members of those two audiences asked questions and I responded. I thought there would be contact from the Governor’s Office before or after or from some politicians interested in proposing autism-specific legislation in light of the findings, but there was not. I thought there would be questions about what could or should happen next or to ‘predict’ future autism rates, but there were not… Also no contact or questions from the Governor’s Council for Autism.
Phil, please contact Dr. Zahorodny.
#8: NO PROGRESS UNTIL WE ADMIT TRUE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
Dr. Zahorodny’s observations are on point and chilling:
- If we can’t acknowledge the magnitude of the problem, if we won’t call it a crisis and commit resources to addressing it, how could we hope to make progress?
- How will we be able to plan for the future in our schools and communities and provide the right services to affected children and their families?
- How will we fund the right research that might lead to answers for why this is occurring?
- Every 8 year-old with autism will become an adolescent and subsequently an adult with autism. It makes a lot of sense to be ready for that.
- In Dr. Zahorodny’s opinion, the school systems are very frank and clear about the surge in autism. They’ve had to deal with it firsthand. And the practicing clinicians are also not confused about whether there’s a true increase.
He earnestly states: “Let’s hope that everyone gets the message.”
What Dr. Zahorodny says must happen next?
Dr. Zahorodny says there are three steps that must be taken. I add clarifying comments beneath each.
#1: ENACT UNIVERSAL AUTISM SCREENING AT 18, 24, AND 30 MONTHS
Phenylketonuria (PKU) only affects 1 in 10,000 to 15,000 newborns, yet we automatically screen all babies for it and similarly rare diseases.
Autism affects 1 in 59 US children and 1 in 37 US boys and 1 in 22 NJ boys. Dr. Zahorodny already told us these numbers are likely underestimated. They’re also dated because they are based on children born in 2006. Today’s babies are almost surely born into a world with much more autism than we are able to grasp with today’s mindset and data. So it’s not as easy as a blood test but we are equal to the task. Let’s find out how much, really.
#2: INCREASE RESEARCH INTO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS FOR AUTISM
We can’t explain away these alarming numbers due to greater awareness, changing definitions, or inconsistent research methodologies. What’s causing all this autism?
The real question should be, why don’t we care?
NIH funding levels for diseases and conditions tell us all we need to know. We aren’t yet serious about solving the autism crisis.
Let’s take a closer look at NIH’s 2017 spending on Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC). How much did we devote to autism research? A mere $245 million, the lion’s share of which was allocated to screening, genetics, brain mechanisms, communication skills, behavioral interventions. A very small amount was spent on environmental epidemiology (excluding vaccines).
In stark contrast to the $245 million committed for autism, we apportioned:
- $296 million to dietary supplements
- $515 million to urologic diseases
- $4.9 billion to vaccines (TB, malaria, HPV, AIDS, other) and immunization
- $6 billion to cancer
- $8.3 billion to infectious diseases (of which at least an additional $850+ million is specifically vaccine related)
- $8.5 billion to genetics
If we are frank, it is clear that an earnest and unvarnished inquiry into autism causation is not our priority. NIH research funding is aligned with projects that have strong commercial (pharmaceutical) applications. It also reflects our fear of infectious diseases, with a massive prioritization on vaccine development. But not on safety studies for these vaccines.
#3: FACILITATE AUTISM PREVALENCE TRACKING BY PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES
Dr. Zahorodny urges us to allow an exclusion in the federal education laws to permit surveillance as we’re doing for autism in ADDM network. Some states have never been permitted to look at information and education records because they choose to interpret the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in a restrictive manner.
If our intention is to accurately estimate autism prevalence using this type of methodology, there has to be a public health exclusion that allows researchers to look at education records, just as there’s an exclusion for public health surveillance in the health domain with HIPAA.
NJ’s increased autism funding is not enough
Phil, thank you for increasing funding for autism services in your proposed 2019 New Jersey state budget announced on March 13. You allocated a $8.9 million for youth and $19.8 million for adults.
If you had had benefit of the “new” CDC prevalence numbers released in April, would you have given more? It’s a hard question, I know. Where will the money come from? Don’t get me started on our property taxes.
I will say what everyone already knows. It’s not enough. It has never been enough. And worst of all, we aren’t keeping up.
Autism is a dire and often catastrophic disorder that is profoundly debilitating, medically injurious, socially isolating, and financially devastating for families.
Autism is also a financial impossibility for our society. There isn’t enough institutional infrastructure to educate the growing numbers of children with autism and house the adults they are becoming. Young adults with autism are increasingly sent to nursing homes because there’s nowhere else to go.
Over 3.5 million Americans have autism. It costs about $2.4 million per person over an individual’s lifetime. I tried multiplying 3.5 million people times $2.4 million and my calculator couldn’t handle all the zeroes. It’s $8.4 trillion. And rising.
New Jersey’s share is $240 billion.
We’re all going to pay for this.
If we don’t undertake a clear-eyed, “no sacred cows” commitment to causation, it will never be enough.
If New Jersey waits for the feds to figure this out, we’re going to be waiting a very long time. It will take us under first. There can be no more waiting.
We start by admitting we have a problem
The time is now.
The media and public health silence about autism is something that you, Phil, must take the initiative to highlight. It’s a New Jersey issue. The first step to real progress is admitting we have a huge problem. You’ve been a corporate, community, and political leader for decades. I’m not telling you anything you do not know. No one likes to bring attention to problems that do not appear to have solutions. But this is what leaders do.
If you did, I am certain that you would be flooded with an overwhelmingly grateful parent constituency whose hearts and political support would fly to you with astonishing speed.
Timing is everything. It can bring unexpected benefits and responsibilities. A public offering can be a windfall. A crisis can be an opportunity. The failure to act on an inherited catastrophe can be unforgivable.
We’re talking about our children. There’s an epic amount of suffering. This issue is life and death and survival for families.
It isn’t simply the humanitarian thing to do. It’s also the smart thing to do. It could help propel a savvy statesman to national prominence and seal his legacy.
It’s all you, Phil. New Jersey is Ground Zero
Our country needs to face its autism problem and it needs to happen in New Jersey. The nation will watch us closely.
We have the highest concentration of autism.
We have the highest concentration of US and worldwide pharmaceutical company headquarters, more than anywhere else in the world.
There is a shocking void of political leadership on this most intimate and shameful of public health crises.
As a devoted father of four and chief executive of the land that is Ground Zero for the autism epidemic, the parents of New Jersey implore you to take a stand.
Our “vaccine problem” is the 800 lb gorilla
Our government says there is no vaccine-autism link. Our government also has no idea what is causing autism.
It devotes no meaningful resources to vaccine causation research.
It ignores the eerily similar experiences of hundreds of thousands of parents whose children were never the same (and then diagnosed with autism) following childhood vaccines.
It recommends 70+ doses of 16 vaccines, a 3-fold increase in 25 years and a 5-fold increase since you and I were born, Phil.
It funds state health departments that mandate vaccines for day care and school.
It granted extraordinary liability protection to vaccine makers in 1986 paving the way for:
- the exponential increase in required childhood vaccines
- a $17 billion US vaccine market with double digit growth
- all this during the same time that autism catapulted from a rare disorder to 1 in 22 New Jersey boys, a trend also marked by double digit growth rates.
It paid nearly $4 billion to over 6,000 catastrophically injured and deceased individuals via the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, revealing the government’s explicit admission that vaccines do fatefully injure and cause death.
Mandatory vaccination discriminates against our most vulnerable families without access to support and information about exemptions, and without resources to homeschool or move. Most parents with one vaccine-injured child have no options for the rest of their children. The CDC and state health departments do not recognize “sibling vaccine injury” as a legitimate contraindication to vaccination.
ACLU-CA already voiced its objection to CA SB277. The move to abridge and then eliminate vaccine exemptions in the absence of compelling state interest is a violation of our civil, parental, religious, and human rights.
The autism-vaccine issue remains the 800 pound gorilla in the room hidden under a handkerchief. It’s on everyone’s minds and no one wants to say anything for fear of being marginalized. Political correctness is killing us.
I have deep compassion for the many who do not have a voice. Join me in speaking out for New Jersey’s autism families.
No science backing vaccines as administered
As a former Bain consultant with an Amazon bestselling vaccine book who spent over 10,000 hours studying this issue and interviewing experts as if my children’s lives depended on it — because they did — I can tell you that there is both ample peer-reviewed scientific research and substantial clinical experience raising grave questions about the wisdom of the US childhood vaccine program and offering insights into biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and the link to the devastating chronic, autoimmune, and neurodevelopmental disorders plaguing our children. Yes, autism. Also yes, ADHD, allergies, asthma, arthritis, and that’s just the A’s. There’s a lot more.
We do not need to prove that vaccines cause autism in order to take action. We merely need to admit that we never proved that vaccines, in the way they are administered, are safe. The Institute of Medicine already told us this. Repeatedly.
We have never rigorously evaluated, using the standards of modern, evidence-based medicine, the longitudinal health outcomes of fully unvaccinated children versus fully vaccinated children who are in receipt of vaccines as indicated by our government starting on the day of birth and then continuing with multiple vaccines at their 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 15th, 18th, and 24th month well visits plus annual flu shots starting at 6 months of age plus the kindergarten shots, the 6th grade shots, and a growing number of teen shots for a staggering total of over 70 doses of 16 vaccines.
Let’s please not debate the ethical merits of such a study right now. Let’s just, for the moment, admit that it’s never been done so we do not know.
Parents deserve to know that much.
If our government feels compelled to recommend vaccines for public health reasons, so be it. But it must give parents informed consent: Information on the risks and benefits plus the opportunity to consent or decline. This happens to be the international human rights standard (see Article 6) and a requirement in the practice of ethical medicine.
This is not what’s happening, however.
“There is no federal requirement for informed consent related to immunization,” says the CDC. See CDC site and screenshot.
Protect parental rights, leave exemptions alone
April was a doubly taxing month for parents, no pun intended. Not only did we get the terrible autism numbers. The New Jersey Assembly Health Committee voted to move A3818. It was reported out on April 5, 2018.
The legislature is going after the religious exemption to mandatory vaccination.
A3818 is one of those special interest bills that your citizens do not want. It contradicts the interests of millions of New Jersey families. It is an abomination that special interests are moving to infringe upon one of our inalienable first freedoms — the Constitutionally-protected right to exercise a religious exemption to mandatory vaccination. It erects legally dubious hurdles that will effectively deny children from religious families access to day care and school; raise suspicions that pit neighbors against each other; and punitively implement so-called religious sincerity trials.
Lest you regard my comments hyperbolic, I share what California’s parents learned the hard way — that this is part of a legislative agenda that is being rolled out state by state. New York State already attempts to adjudicate religious sincerity for the purposes of allowing a religious vaccine exemption in about 18 of its school districts, including New York City. It’s not pretty.
“Herd immunity” doesn’t hold water or justify
Here’s where public health officials like to invoke herd immunity, the idea that very large numbers in a community must be vaccinated in order to resist the spread of disease, and that partly or fully unvaccinated children are putting everyone at risk. It is an example of something that is said so often that people reflexively believe it. This is what you need to know. It’s not correct. And making policies based upon it is a very slippery slope:
- Almost all New Jersey families vaccinate their children. Only 2% take an exemption and not all of these children are fully unvaccinated.
- Adults never received all the vaccines that today’s children do.
- There’s no infectious disease emergency. No government should abridge civil or human rights without compelling state interest. In my book, I analyze mandatory vaccination using a rights impact framework developed by the Harvard School of Public Health. Most people do not think carefully about this. It’s not so cut and dry. Governments like to overreach. We’re talking about what it means to be free.
- There is no scientific basis upon which to claim that unvaccinated children spread disease. It’s actually ludicrous. Should you be quarantined, Phil, for spreading meningitis? Of course not; you don’t have meningitis. Should you be quarantined because you might get it? Should you and your children be forced to get every government-indicated vaccine, and how about the hundreds of vaccines in the development pipeline, even though we know they are imperfect and carry serious risks that we don’t fully understand? What if your son has asthma and his doctor says no vaccines, but the state overrides his medical exemption? And what if some or all vaccines happen to violate your religious beliefs? What if you do not want your children injected with vaccines cultured on human lung diploid tissue from a terminated pregnancy (i.e., Merck’s current MMR and chickenpox vaccines)? Should you be forced to inject your children with these vaccines if you want to send them to school? Should the state be in the position to define which religions are legitimate, what religions can and cannot include, and which religious beliefs are bona fide and sincere? And I’m just warming up. Aren’t we starting to upend sacred territory about who we are and what we stand for?
- Herd immunity is based on a phenomenon observed after the contraction and resolution of wild-strain infectious diseases in communities. Its original basis had nothing to do with vaccines and, moreover, it has never been proven. Ask James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, Chair and Professor, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. His book explains that health officials seized upon the hypothesis as a way of convincing the resistant masses to comply — it is one of the “techniques of mass persuasion” and “aggressive salesmanship” to achieve target rates.
Vaccination is not a magical carpet ride to a utopian land of risk-free immunity. It’s time to stop this egregious, special interests-driven, fear-based infringement of our rights.
Health care, education, women, kids, minorities
These issues encompass many of your and Tammy’s key advocacies. I know my words are not falling on deaf ears.
Autism is a serious burden on families. It disproportionately impacts the disadvantaged — women, minorities, and single parents — and especially so because mothers are always on the front lines when it comes to our children’s health, education, and welfare. I hear from and cry with so many of these families. You can’t imagine the pain and alienation. When you’re ready to meet with more autism families, please say the word.
As with other health care decisions, vaccination is intensely personal. It reflects a mix of religious, ethical, philosophical, medical, and other views. The rights to hold our beliefs and make decisions in concordance are sacred and Constitutionally-protected. Without robust exemptions, concerned parents will face the prospects of homeschooling, moving, or vaccinating against their religious tenets. By legislatively weakening or eliminating exemptions, you are guaranteeing that some children whose parents do not want them vaccinated will be catastrophically impacted.
The state, doctors, vaccine makers, and schools may have no financial liability, thanks to Congress and the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. But there is another kind of risk. Through mandatory vaccination with limited or no access to exemptions, government has paved the way for a serious erosion of its moral authority. The damage done to families is real.
It’s simply not feasible or desirable to legislate medicine. Let’s educate parents; help make them aware of the risks and benefits; and empower them to make their decisions.
As Tammy told the Star Ledger a few months ago, “[T]he more people we can empower, the better off we are.”
I believe this, for our health and so much more.
Parents fought for this right in 2008, will again
You may remember the September 5, 2008 rally on my front lawn the day you hosted then Senator Obama for a DNC fundraiser.
I organized a larger rally in Trenton on October 16, 2008 with a coalition of parents and professionals. Over 700 people rallied on the steps of the Statehouse. I appeared on Fox & Friends and ABC World News Tonight. The story hit the AP wire and made the Drudge Report as one of the biggest news stories of the day.
Governor Corzine honored his promise to me. Health Commissioner Heather Howard gave us this letter. Governor Christie similarly honored the promise he made in this statement he wrote for me during his campaign.
This is a non-partisan issue.
We’re excited about the great things you’ll do
I and other parents contacted you during your gubernatorial campaign and you expressed your support for vaccine informed consent. We’re asking you to keep your promise. We want to rally in support of you and the great things you will do in New Jersey.
Please prioritize a hard-hitting inquiry into solving New Jersey’s autism catastrophe.
Please protect parental vaccine rights and informed consent.
Please call upon me if I can be helpful to you and your policy advisors.
New Jersey parents are counting on you. We have a vested interest in your success.
God bless. My best to Tammy.
With respect and warm regards,
Louise Kuo Habakus
I stand with Louise & beg you, Gov. Murphy to please stand up for New Jersey and look into this crisis. Don’t let the media silence you. New Jersey needs you, the country needs you and our innocent children who don’t have a voice need YOU. Please pay close attention to this letter and make a difference now.
Louise speaks for every single one of us! Governor Phil Murphy, Please listen. We are at your mercy. Our children are suffering. Their entire lives have been affected by autism and vaccines. We saw it happen directly after vaccination. We had no prior warning. This is happening every single day to someone new. Another life losing their health, their joy, and their precious potential to vaccines. Like us- the families will find out the hard way. Please act on this and help us now.
Please help!
Please allow exemptions
Thank you Gov. Murphy for keeping your promises and for being willing to stand with us, as parents, to create a new way of dealing with an ongoing epidemic.
Please make this a priority. Our children, state, & nation are at stake.
Christina and Paul Ha Beachwood, NJ
Dear Governor Murphy; My husband and I live in Fort Lee, NJ and our son has cost the state of NJ millions of dollars to educate. He spent most of his childhood on the ASD spectrum with OT, PT, and a 1:1 aide. My son was vaccine injured – He got Kawasaki Disease from his MMR, Atypical Mumps and Atypical Measles, lost the use of his legs for some time and began to become violent. It was his second time getting Kawasaki Disease; the first was within 24 hours of Hib vaccination. He is now immunocompromised and has never been vaccinated again. It has taken us years to regain our son’s health and beautiful spirit. Autism is not the only injury from this vaccine agenda where the Corporate Giants go unpunished and the “mythical herd” is trapped paying for their damage; it is quite literally crippling our State and Education. To date, 4 Billion US taxpayer dollars have been spent in payoffs to the vaccine injured and 90% of MD’s haven’t the faintest clue about toxic adjuvants. Until the Corporations can be sued in an open court of law, every person engaging in vaccination strategies and agendas has blood on their hands. Autism is 98% man-made and until our society wakes up and stops with all the #stigmafree mental health thought and begins to ask why are so many children mentally ill and struggling with autoimmune disease; we will be chasing our own tails. Get on the right side of History, and demand an end to the Vaccine Injury court. Demand that these Corporate Criminals pay for their crimes against humanity. I do not shoot anything made by companies who continuously engage in criminal and civil fraud into my child and no one else should be forced to either.
My son was vaccine injured 20 years ago . He suffered encephalitis and later a dx of autism. It’s criminal it’s still happening today . The worse part of all this is using a bullshit scare ya tic to strip Americans of American basic rights . Rights they are protected by our constitution for the last 243 years . Our first amendment rights are sacred . S2173 is unamerican !
The public has had enough . We are upset to be fighting for our basic rights religious freedom , body autonomy in 2019 is sick sick sick . We will not allow it to happen .
Christina and Paul Ha Beachwood, NJ
I am with Louise in her heartfelt requests for you to look into an epidemic of unbelievable proportions happening right here in our state. I beg you to have the courage that none before you has exhibited and place the health of our babies above political correctness and corporate greed. Please be that courageous one that cares what is right – not what is political.
The autism epidemic is so frightening! I have 2 sons , one mild PDD and the other severe
Please allow for parents to have freedom of exemptions.
I beg you to please allow parents the freedom to choose their vaccination choices and what is right for them and their family. I have two vaccine injured children.
As a Mom of 3 and a grandmother tore as well as a wellness coach who sees the great effects teaching people how to detox and live healthier lifestyle and who has naturally recovered from an autoimmune disease , I strongly support the work that fearless parent is doing to get this most important message out there to a public that seems to want to be in the dark . This is the future of our country. This is urgent business . Please help in any way that you can !
I do agree and please consider this my “signature”. Lisa Mazzuca – Bayville, NJ
We deserve to chose what goes into our children’s body. Where there is a risk… there must be a choice. Please help us, governer
Informed medical consent is a human right. The right to question…and avoid…forced medication is a human right. in most other developed nations, forced medication is against the law. In no other nation do pharmaceutical companies escape liability for the consequences of damage done by their products. The citizens have a choice. In our country, the immensely powerful pharmaceutical industry is using false and misleading propaganda about illness and vaccines to sell their products, and it is turning the US into a kind of police state where all and sundry are induced, pressured, mandated, or forced to be injected with highly toxic and dangerous substances. Vaccines contain neurotoxins, carcinogens, teratogens, mutagens, and all kinds of contaminants, including new retroviruses which come from the viruses in the animal tissues used to formulate many vaccines. These “Frankenstein viruses” are showing up in cancers and in the majority of cases of chronic fatigue syndrome..a devastating disease for which there is no cure.
Please, Governor, make free informed medical choice the right of your constituents.
Please help protect, defend, & heal our children.
Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry both known and unknown risks and benefits. Parents have a fundamental right to use informed consent to determine if the benefits outweigh the risks for their child. One size does not fit all. It is not the role of government to make health care decisions for people and especially children. It creates a slippery slope, if these rights are taken away from parents what will be next?
I stand with Louise. Please Governor Murphy, do not be silenced. We, the parents, need you. Thank you. Halka Liss
I agree. Please help. Emma Kung, RPh
Please support parental rights and exemption freedoms
I agree. Protect our rights and our children. Thank you, Coreen (Neptune)
It is time to start putting the health of our children FIRST!!!!
Protect parental rights – protect our children – autism is an epidemic … governor can we count on you?
I can’t imagine any agenda takng precedence over this one. When human life matters so little, not even the wealthiest will be protected in the end.
Thank you Louise! I couldn’t agree more! (Ridgewood)
I agree. Protect our rights and our children. Thank you, Sandy
Agreed. Please protect the parental vaccine rights. Thank you.
Agreed! We need to protect our right and our children. Thank you!
Thank you for writing this. The millions of Crazymothers around the world are behind you and in full support.. I am hoping that this reaches the governor and that he has the courage to do what is right.
I agree with the content of this letter.
Governor Murphy, myself and many others have been your supporters.
Now I ask that you support us to insure our parental rights and exemption freedoms.
Thank you.
Please help our children with autism
Born and raised in NJ, my heartfelt support to Louise’s comments. Please hear her words and take action.
Protect parental rights, leave exemptions alone!
Governor Murphy,
There is a reason that the United States of America has the sickest generation of children. The reason is corruption, greed and unsafe vaccines. The pharmaceutical industry is making billions of dollars without the responsibility or liability when a child is vaccine injured or dies from vaccines.
The taxpayer is picking up the tab on all of the damage done by vaccines from VAERS to the special ed programs to disability programs etc. Vaccine caused injury and death leaves families devastated. Please do the right thing and protect the people ‘s constitutional rights, religious rights, parental rights, medical rights, and Informed Consent.
I stand with Louise. Autism is a catastrophic EPIDEMIC that will cripple our state and our country. Our children are the sickest generation to date. We have an epidemic of allergies, auto immune issues, learning disabilities. We must be willing to have an honest open discussion about the 700 pound gorilla. It is time for the health and well being of the citizens of this state to take PRIORITY over big Pharmas greed. Do the right thing – please!
Thank you, Louise, for this letter. I am from Minnesota and I have a vaccine injured child who is 38 years old. We know so much more about the dangers of vaccines now that there is no excuse for the extreme rise of disabilities. We must stop this assault upon our children NOW! We need parental choice in every state!
Governor Murphy please keep your promises and help our children. I am the parent of vaccine injured twins and support Louise and her beliefs on the role vaccines play in contributing to autism. Statistics are going in the wrong direction and we are seeing and increase in prevalence of autism, Alzheimer’s, allergies, Tourette’s and auto immune diseases. Please, Governor, protect our parental rights.
Agreed. Parental rights and informed consent… Where there is risk, there must be choice.
Please be a different kind of leader and stand up for our children, the future of New Jersey.
We agree. Protect parental rights and leave exemptions alone. Matt and Lisa Mattessich, Manasquan, NJ.
Please let parents to deciding what is better for their kids.
Autism is but the tip of the iceberg. While the spin doctors keep telling us believe otherwise, it’s hard to argue with empirical data that is right in front of us. It’s hard to deny that the epidemic of chronic illnesses plaguing our children is NOT from the vaccines when all of these illnesses are listed right on the vaccine inserts as side-effects of the vaccines…INCLUDING autism. The numbers don’t lie. The parents know. Speak to them.
WE KNOW. Those of us in the know are growing on a daily basis. Don’t let any more families become victims to corporate greed. Our society CANNOT bear the emotional, moral, or financial burden that is brought to bear by this debacle. Stand with us, and place yourself on the right side of history.
We are not selfish. We are educated and are protecting our sweet sweet kids. Please help us protect them so we can all stay in NJ. Thank you!
Please help us to keep our right to Parent!! Our right to make our own decisions regarding our children! Allow us the freedom to make our own choices.
I agree. I have the right to choose and I want to keep it that way. I am a NJ Sussex county resident.
We thank you in advance for being a part of a movement to change the direction of the healthcare our children are receiving and it’s well documented devastating affects. Both of my children have suffered unnecessarily from vaccine related issues and we should be allowed the right to make our own decisions and for the truth to be revealed.
Agreed with Louise. Please help our children with autism
I feel very fortunate to have access to information like Louise has shared. So many parents do not and you can help them and generations to come. Thank you.
I voted for you and I agree with Louise on every single word. Please stand up for NJ and don’t remove our right to have a religious exemption.
Please educate yourself on vaccines. Watch the movie Vaxxed and RFK’s World Mercury Project video. Listen to the words of CDC scientist Dr. William Thompson. Dr. Thompson wants to reveal the scientific fraud and destruction of evidence that took place in the studies that he co-authored. However, in accordance with the Whistle Blower Protection Act and other federal regulations, Dr. Thompson can not testify under oath without the permission of the director of the CDC, Dr. Thomas Frieden. Dr. Frieden won’t allow him to testify.
I agree, Governor Murphy. Please protect our children and our parental rights. Erin Groel, Rockaway NJ
Thank you very much, Louise for your letter. God Bless you. I was fighting for what you asked for in your letter back in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. The urgency is there to finally take action to understand the causes of this autism epidemic and do something to end it. Too many families and their children/adults with autism are affected. Too much unnecessary suffering. Sad and shameful when so much time has been wasted over the years not looking into what the real causes are regarding the autoimmune factors leading to autism.
Please support parental rights. Chicago, IL
Please Protect our children and our rights as parents!
Three of my children have been damaged by vaccines. Please don’t take away our right to choose.
My oldest is autistic. He has so many issues I must homeschool him because my school cannot provide what he needs. I don’t know if he’ll ever be able to be on his own.
Please protect our parental rights.
I agree and stand with Louise. My son has autism and it just took me two hours to get him to sleep which included him kicking, pinching and screaming. It also cost my marriage to lead to divorce. Without acknowledgement of this public health crisis, most people don’t ‘see’ autism. Our kids look typical. If one of every 22 boys were in wheelchairs, the outcry from the public would be huge. Most of us parents agonize about the future and carefully choose our paths. A 4 year old that hits without a clear reason other than autism may be manageable, a 14 year old with aggression is what keeps us up at night. Please, understand, we need research and should have the human right to choose our own medical paths for our kids. You can be the difference and bring NJ closer to helping our families and if you do, we will stand behind you. I get it’s scary, lots of pressure, but at the end of the day, you sleep at night better when you know you tried and did make a difference.
Louise:
This is a very well written disquisition, and a cogent analysis of the current dismal state of autism research. We seem to have more than sufficient organizations raising awareness about autism, but why aren’t more people posing the question: what is the provenance of autism? Why is it increasing exponentially?
As you correctly noted, the numerous justifications provided that attempt to diminish the gravity of the autism spike are not scientifically grounded. This is largely environmentally forced – and vaccines are a major component of that.
Holly Stavola (my sister) would have been 23 years old this year, but she died at 5 years of age from the second MMR vaccine. We continue to educate the public about the risks of vaccines. We hope more parents use Holly’s Law (antibody blood titer test) to eschew the second MMR.
More well-deserved attention needs to be given to the safety of vaccines. Mandating a medical intervention with such a paucity of rigorous science is inexcusable and unethical.
Eventually the proverbial dam will break and we’ll see a sharp uptick in public awareness. With Phil Murphy’s help, it can get better quicker.
Thank you for your great efforts, as always.
Tom
This letter is beautifully written and from someone who has spent a lot of time doing her research! Thank you for advocating for our innocent children! I pray that Govenor Murphy will support this cause and be a leader who can set an example for the rest of our country! Mark my words the leaders on the right side of this issue will one day be looked back on as heroes!!
Thank you Louise for compiling all this relevant information in one article, it explains all the problems surrounding the issue of vaccination. Parents are being bullied by some doctors, some legislators want to remove the religious exemption, and pharma is sitting back without any accountability when it comes to vaccine injury and DEATH. This is not the way parents and children should be treated. My daughter Holly died at 5 years old, she suffered terribly before she died. We were compensated by the government and we passed a Holly’s Law in NJ and we will not cease our efforts in disseminating the truth. You covered many facts that any person in this debate needs to know in order to quickly realize that with risk there must be choice!! I was so glad I could be part of your rally in 2008 Louise, thank you for all your advocacy for parents!! Thank you Governor Murphy and Tammy for taking the time to educate yourselves on this extremely important issue!
Governor Murphy,
You will either choose to be part of the solution or a continuance of the problem. Please be a man of integrity, ethics, and high morals by ensuring NJ parents the right to make unfettered medical decisions for their children, including vaccination decisions, without government interference, cost, coercion, or penalty.
Please honor parents, protect children, and preserve parental rights, medical choice, and religious freedom during your tenure by ensuring unfettered vaccine exemption rights in the state of NJ.
Governor Murphy, please put our children first. We need your help. The future is in our hands.
Please help Governor Murphy!! I agree with Louise
My son was diagnosed with epilepsy after the dtap vaccine he head a normal baby before this. We had done all test and genetic testing and doctors can not find the cause. So we truly believe the vaccinations cause him this
Please protect our children Govenor Murphy!
I agree with Louise.
The right to choose for our children shall not be infringed upon
Please read all sides and ignore the strength of big pharma. Parents’ right to choose with vaccines is of the upmost importance! Being forced to inject a child with a manufactured substance with minimal research behind it is crazy.
Please support parental rights. I agree with Louise and this is my signature.
Protect the rights of our children! Signed
Dear Governor Murphy,
Please consider Louise’s letter and do not allow the government to make judgments on its citizens’ religious beliefs. NJ is in a crisis. What will become of the 1 in 22 boys in NJ in 20 years from now? Something must be done about this terrible epidemic.
Dear Governor Murphy,
Please consider carefully Louise’s letter and do not allow our government to made judgments on its citizens’ religious beliefs. NJ is in a crisis. What will become of the 1 in 22 boys twenty years from now? Something must be done about this terrible epidemic plaguing New Jersey’s youth. You and I both know that we did not grow up knowing 1 in 22 boys (1 in 34 children) with autism. Something is going on here and we must find out what it is!
Dear Governor Murphy, please stand with us and protect our rights and our children.
Please allow parental rights and freedom of choice!!!
Thank you Louise! Medical freedom and parental choice should not even be up for debate. It is our God given right!- Kathy and Keith Malinowski Ocean County NJ
The 2019 budget is taking away the funding the roughly 4 million dollars a year that was going to the Governor’s Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism. This council was created by State appropriation in 1999 and has been issuing research, clinical and educational enhancement grants since 2000. The Council’s vision is to enhance the lives of individuals with ASD across their lifespans. The Mission of the Council is to advance and disseminate the understanding, treatment, and management of ASD by means of a coordinated program of biomedical research, clinical innovation, and professional training in New Jersey.
As per P.L. 2007, c.174 the Council’s initiatives are funded by a one dollar surcharge from motor vehicle violations and fines, which results in approximately $4 million being dedicated to autism research, treatment and education annually. This $4 million is being moved to early intervention and will no longer be going to help the 1 in 34 children/adults living with autism.
This letter is so well written – thank you Ms. Habakus for all the detailed research and now this superb letter to our governor. You represent the countless families in New Jersey who want to have their rights upheld when it comes to deciding whether to vaccinate their children or not. My entire family and countless friends are behind you. Please Governor Murphy, please stand behind your constituents (just think 1 out of 22 boys – how many families is that?!!!) and help pass a bill protecting our rights.
Governor: Its time for our great state to take action to end this epidemic. Protect our children AND our rights. We stand with Louise and beg you to please take a stand for the sake of your neighbors all over New Jersey.
Couldn’t agree more. Signed, Jude and Nikki O’Connor, Paramus NJ
Dear Governor: please Protect our children and our Rights.
Signed Heidi Ruiz , Hawthorne NJ
Dear Governor Murphy,
We completely agree with this genuine and accurate letter. The matter is urgent! Other states are looking to you to be a leading example and do the right thing. Protect the people ‘s constitutional rights, religious rights, parental rights, medical rights, and Informed Consent. Signed, Isabelle Menozzi & Marc Weisgal, Roxbury, CT
Dear Governor Murphy,
This is a moral issue. Protect our children and our rights.
Signed, Barb Hibsman, Moorestown, NJ
Governor: Its time for our great state to take action to end this epidemic. I am signing, It is time we stand up and do what is right. Stop fearing the corporations and their money driven manifesto, do not let those entities control us. We are more important than corporate profits. Highland Park, NJ
The US Supreme Court has said that vaccinations are “unavoidably unsafe”. Guns and explosives are unavoidably unsafe as well. The government does not force children to play with guns and explosives. The government should not force parents to vaccinate. The right to choose to expose children to a vaccine should stay with the parents. Thank you for your consideration!
Signed in Tinton Falls, NJ
Kristin DeVaney – Bayville NJ
I have personally witnessed children of relatives and friends of mine die and get vaccine injured. It is time to stand up against big Pharma who does not care about our children, all they care about is making money. It should be a parent’s right to protect their child against the risk of vaccination. It is our democratic right.
Todd Givens, Cranford, NJ
Thank you Louise, for putting together such an eloquent letter that states the serious plight of our children…in NJ and outside NJ. Please Governor Murphy, we urge you to stand with the families of the injured and do serious / uninfluenced research about this medical atrocity that is hurting so many. Please seek out those for information who are *not* paid by industry. Louise is an amazing resource for this!!! The future of our state depends upon you and we look forward to you being the one to catalyst change in the right direction. We can’t afford not to…
Tanya Kovacs, Iselin, NJ
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it” ~ Nelson Mandela
I fully support this letter. Signed, Randy Fruchter, Asbury Park NJ Voter
The time is now for these actions to be taken not only in NJ, but in our country and our global community. For the future of our children, I will support politicians who can see with their own eyes, their own hearts and their own minds. Please be the leader for your state and the children that parents of this epidemic called autism need.
Protect parental rights – protect our children – autism is an epidemic … governor can we count on you?
When it comes to health care, we don’t get to choose which freedoms we should have and which one’s the government should take away. We either have complete medical freedom over our bodies and kids or we do not. It is truly “all or nothing.” When we do not support medical freedom at all costs, we support medical tyranny. We need our leaders to say no to medical tyranny and support medical freedom and a parent’s right to choose. I stand with Louise and all others who support medical freedom.
Governor Murphy, I urge you to stand with us to support your freedom, our freedom, and the freedom of our future.
Larissa Scheck – Toms River, NJ
The Lanni Family Fair Haven, NJ
Governor,
Please protect parents’ rights to make health care decisions for their children. A government that dictates health care decisions and restricts parents’ rights to express religious beliefs without scrutiny or judgement is intrusive, unethical, and a frightening situation.
Kelly Zyablov, Toms River, NJ
Please protect parents rights and expose the truth about the cause of autism. The CDC says 1 in 59 children and NJ is 1 in 22 boys have autism. You just need to find out the rate of autism in unvaccinated children and you will find the cause. I have 2 vaccine injured grandchildren, and 1 perfectly healthy unvaccinated grandchild. The difference is night and day. Help repeal the liability provision of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and you will see a drop in autism. The vaccine makers, when held responsible, will start pulling these vaccines off the market.
Governor, please address the crisis families across NJ as well as throughout the nation are facing. Where there are unanswered questions and risk there must be a choice. Please keep our exemptions amd freedoms in tact. The people of this State need you to stand with us.
Kindly, The Banka family, Woodbridge, NJ
Please… we as a parent must have a choice when there is a risk.
Please hear our pleas.
The Chace Family . Red Bank
Erin Givens – Cranford, NJ
Please don’t take our rights away. Parents should have the right to make health care decisions for their children.
I am an adult and was badly injured by a vaccine three years ago. It basically gave me the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. It destroyed my life. Please protect our children. I voted for you and I’m begging you to not sign that horrid bill A3818 should it pass and demand more from scientists and the medical community to do more meaningful research instead of sweeping everything under the rug. I can’t in words explain how horrid vaccine injury can be. It destroys all of you including your soul. It’s like being alive but having no life within you. Please help us.
Please….I’m begging you to allow parents the choice in the matter of vaccines. I believe I’m damaged from the typical 80s schedule of vaccines. Physically and mentally. The damage has tainted so much of my life. I didn’t want my children vaccinated as I’d seen other normal children severely damaged after a round of vaccines. But I didn’t have enough info to fight the matter and my children are vaccinated. I suspect one was damaged but ceasing further vaccination after learning of the actual ingredients and their conflict with our religious beliefs seemed to help. At the very least, he didn’t get worse. Realizing his more difficult behavior might be vaccine/environmentally based, we made additional changes in an effort to detox his system. Overhauling our diets, eliminating anything artificial, and removing fluoride from our water have all helped to give us our child back. But it costs a fortune to maintain this approach. And we’re terrified that if we’re forced to vaccinate again as our children mature–or as new vaccines are approved/fast-tracked–that this child or his siblings will become permanently damaged. Should the mandate include adults, I fear for my own health and life were I to receive any more vaccines. Please, take into consideration the rights of parents…that for medical or religious reasons…do not condone the injection of these substances. Take into account the very real possibility / probability that vaccines are part of the rise in Autism and other debilitating conditions/death…and allow parents the ability to weigh the benefits vs risks and exercise informed consent/refusal. After all, it is they who will be raising and supporting their injured children. Please don’t strip us of yet another freedom. Empower us to address this issue and protect our children from this crisis…
Please protect our children and our parental rights! Louise, we thank you so much for all you do. – Jen Woolston, Shrewsbury, NJ
Protect our children and parental rights. Thank you. Effort, PA
Please do right by your constituents Gov Murphy-protect our exemptions.
Cherry Hill residents.
Thank you Louise. Please take the time to read this and educate yourself, Gov. Murphy. Take the steps necessary to protect our children’s health and our parental rights. Do not bend to the pressures of corporate greed. Our children’s health is worth the fight!
It is time to take a moment and evaluate the health of our children. In this age of advanced technology and medical intervention one would think our children would be healthy and thriving. Truth be told this is not the case. We as parents have lost our rights, FORCED vaccination in order to attend school. This must end. Mandates must be removed, for the good of the children and the future.
“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
― John F. Kennedy
Anyone reading this posting with an open mind will be concerned for the future of our great nation. The many can take care of the few, but the few can’t take care of the many. The human genetic makeup hasn’t significantly changed in the last 50 years, but our environment has, both externally and internally. If the increase in the rate of autism continues on the path that it has been on, it will cripple America.
Vaccine toxicity in my opinion is a major factor in this equation. GMOs, pesticides, household chemicals, volatile organic compounds, food additives and EMF are some of the other potential triggers that need to also be examined that are contributing factors to this “imperfect storm”.
As a chiropractic physician, I have talked to too many patients whose children or grandchildren started showing signs of being on the autism spectrum within less than 48 hours of being vaccinated. I don’t think that this is all a coincidence.
We need to fix this problem sooner rather than later.
Please do what is necesssary to protect these children and parental rights!!
Charles Costello, Business Owner, Father, Child Advocate, Egg Harbor Township, NJ. As a business owner and wellness center owner, I see many families suffering from the state of our current medical system. The medical system is set up for one thing profit. Children’s health is the exchange for profits. Mothers are going into the birth cycle already sick and children are suffering. Families are crying out for help, but the medical machine controls too much. The main problem is the control of politicians and the representation of selective science. It is not a governors or politicians job to regulate families into health through the advice of a profit machine. It is the job to protect the choices of the family. They will scare you with the threat of an outbreak of disease. It’s too late. Autism has already broken out in the eyes of ignorance and buying the medical protection pitch. The medical lobby has a great pitch and spends a fortune driving it home. The problem is politicians do not hold them accountable for the results. Children are sicker than ever and the epicenter is New Jersey. Governor, you can go par for the course and continue the same nonsense that has existed or you can fight for NJ children. The food in the schools I wouldn’t feed to a dog. The vaccines are injuring children daily. The drugs are killing our NJ residents by the boatload. Where the money is the corruption is. Please be a part of the solution and not the problem. Speak out for truth and get a big security detail. You have the position, now do the job.
In our quest to protect people’s rights to “things,” however idealistic and noble, we are losing sight of some of the most important rights: the right to individual freedom and the right of personal choice. Governor Murphy, when did forcing a person to inject something into his/her body become a right in the United States of America? Please protect our vaccine exemptions and destigmatize individual choice. That, Governor, is a noble cause.
Yes, I agree, please protect our children and our parental rights! Thank you Louise!
Governor Murphy, Please protect our parental rights and religious exemption.
Dear Governor Murphy,
Please protect our children and our parental rights!!!
In agreement from Illinois
Gov. Murphy, we need your help in protecting our individual and parental rights. With the rate this autism epidemic is heading, something needs to change.
Governor Murphy~ please protect our children and our parental rights. Montville
Gov. Murphy, Please protect our parental & medical rights!
Iselin – NJ
Please Gov. Murphy. The Jackson family, Brick NJ
Signed from Freehold, NJ. Our children are our best future, don’t take away their rights.
For the future of our health and wellbeing.
Please help. Do not take away our rights. Not every child can handle all of these vaccines. Please look to see how many they got back in 1986 and how many they are being made to get now. It’s not safe and the results are clear, especially in this state. Thank you.
Kimberly & Adam Tracy, Middletown NJ
Signed and agree
Thank you, Louise, for your detailed and accurate letter. I am a school nurse who supports informed consent and vaccine exemptions for children and adults. I am opposed to mandatory flu shots for health care workers and for preschool children in New Jersey. The rising rate of autism is a crisis that demands attention from our leaders in government, science, education and public health.
Governor Murphy, Please do the right thing (s). The citizenry is becoming aware en masse and there will be a turning point in the very near future. The information is out and change is happening. You want to to be on the right side of history and you want to lay your head down at night with a clear conscience. The Rendosi family
Governor Murphy,
We ask you to please let the parents make the choice with their children. Our son is vaccine injured following the MMR vaccine, our son will never have his legs back. Where there is a risk there must be a choice. The autism rate has dramatically increased in the recent years. The Vaccine Court has ruled that autism can come from a vaccine. The ingredients are toxic. Please look into this with open eyes. These children are counting on you and others to protect them. Thank you and God Bless.
Governor Murphy,
It’s time to address Autism for what it really is. More often than none it is a result of vaccine injury… toxic overload. Please help us do so. Thank you and God bless.
Medical Choice is important in order to keep our freedom. This is not about vaccines. It is about alliwing parents to make the best decision for them and their children. We live in America where we should be allowed to accept or deny medical interventions. What is right for one person might not be right for another. Thank you for your time!!
Christy & Scott Shenloogian, Point Pleasant, NJ
Nicole Petersen
As a physician who tries to unwind the complications of the influence of environmental toxins on my patients, especially the ones with Autism, I ask that you do whatever you can to allow parents to have the proper G-D given rights, to select what is proper for their children. It’s alarming that when i was a medical student- that the rate of Autism was 1:10,000 (1983). Now with rates as low as 1:36 it’s extremely an epidemic. NJ # 1-3 for the past 10 years as well. Please listen to your neighbor Louise. She knows of what she speaks.
Dave Dornfeld DO Middletown NJ
Dear Governor Murphy, the time is now. We can’t afford to wait and turn a blind eye. I stand with Louise Kuo Habakus. Please help protect our children and our future.
Dear Governor Murphy, I stand firmly with Louise Kuo Habakus. I am begging you to read her letter thoroughly and with an open mind. We are in crisis mode as a family and as a state. It’s time to stop the madness.
Dear Governor Murphy,
I hope you find time to read this letter. Autism has now become an epidemic. It’s now o’clock! Let’s do something about this!
Dear Goveror Murphy,
As a neighbor you won’t have to travel far to see the devastion of so many kids and families are living– the impact is far and wide. School budgets, health care and the exploding need for services as the tip of the iceberg ages out of the system into adulthood. Our “homes are in fire” a wildfire spreading with a fury. Perhaps the impact is partly concealed due to the lack of services for the disabled in NJ that our sister states provide, which might be a budgetary wake up call. As the days and years tick by, families becoming more invisible and isolated.
In my house, it started with an unexplained illness which was treated inappropriately. It wasn’t lost on me that something was seriously wrong, so I leaned and leaned hard on both my doctors and the pediatricians (note the plurals)…seeking out specialist after specialist as recommended. Meanwhile, non of these providers ever considered the fine print available in vaccine inserts (which were never made available). That it is contra indicated to vaccinate if sick and some shouldn’t be vaccinated with this, that or at all. But who checks when the baby is a day old. You have a better chance winning the powerball than the ER/pediatrician considering adverse reactions–which is well documented and can be sudden and catastrophic or brew over time like a smoldering volcano that will erupt. Hind sight is 20/20.
Vaccine Court? Even with multiple attorneys seeing clear and consistent patterns, most doctors are not even aware such a court exists. Its not a “true” court, victims enter guilty until they are proven innocent. Accountibility to read a petition? It gets twisted. No dear magistrate, that is not the injury claim, this is the date of…–swift relief for those harmed–hardly. Kinda odd that 2 kids, in a class of 6 went through Vaccibe Court. One was lucky, very lucky to “win” compensation–the parents don’t feel victorious, still devastated but now they fight to retrieve the funds from the trust for wheel chair lifts, medical supplies and care. School nurses in special ed programs see it and as parents, its ironic to be labeled anti-anything.
But fast forward with the new reality with chronically ill kids, health nsurance and mandates…..
–Moving was an eye opener. To be told by a RECEPTIONIST that a ‘meet ‘n greet” wasn’t possible unless fully vaccinated is alarming, and I heard this multiple times. But it gets more concerning, a “team mate” was just dropped by his pediatrician for failure to be up to date on all vaccinations. This child has multiple medical and immune issues (like so many kids today) and many offices are taking this hard line even with specialists recommending vaccination deferrals. Oddly, guidelines have changed/been removed but where is the research supporting this?
–Another mind blowing caveat is hearing lame excuses–the Eosinophilic Esaughagitis, chronic siniusitis, burning diarrhea, siezures, tics, rashes, wildly abnormal bloodwork and on and on have nothing to do with your child’s delays/behaviors. Hummm….a UTI can cause dementia and there is a type of inhalent Alzheimer’s…both can be eradicated with proper treatment. But this is different–we don’t have treatment plans to get these kids out of hell. Which leads to the next peril…
–Families are getting the run around multiple times over. OK….we will go to a geneticist (again), but the follow up was to address what diagnostic testing would cast the widest net to address rule in/out tumors, scaring of the sinuses, hyperperfusion, infections, toxicity and on and on especially since there is a documented history while avoiding invasive/dangerous.. Maybe the geneticiist will yield a pearl (we work REALLY hard for these) but most research keeps fishing with a teaspoon in the ocean, ignoring the radar (all the variables and past research) looking for the big fish (to pin it on). It’s not that simple, better options are out there and we have better nets…So onto the next challenge….
The costs in the current system….Every year the cost of health insurance increases to constituents and companies while coverage diminishes. It’s crippling–labs that were fully covered in the past now may be recognized and applied to out of network deductibles at pennies on the dollar against a staggering deductible increases, its really self pay system. Want to check treatment progress, crap, new year, new deductible. Our NJ Autism Act insurance law coverage–if you are lucky maybe its $200 a week if you can find providers–balance that with working versus sitter costs, care/provide for other children-very few understand the implications of this epidemic. But this smoking gun, medical intervention, is fully covered by insurance, the manufacturers have no liability and somehow we are legislatiing medical intervemtion mandates as a “pay to play” when there is no threat yet there are known adverse consequences and lack of safety studies…..
We have lost our ability to think in a marketing war–devasting generations with no end in site. We can do so much better than this.
I agree completely with Louise!
Please allow exemptions. Parents should be the only ones that decide what is injected into THIER children.
Dear Governor Murphy,
Knowing you have limited time to devote to vaccine research,
I believe you will find these 2 exceptional brochures especially useful to read and share with legislative committee members as an introductory review of vaccine research regarding serious harmful effects.
Then — The last link below provides over 97 “state of the art” research studies and topics needed to be thoroughly reviewed in order to make wise and accurate decisions about vaccine exemptions.
Brochure: Vaccines And The Brain
http://vaccinepapers.org/brochure/
Brochure: Vaccines and Autism
This brochure explains the science linking aluminum adjuvant and autism. 45 references Download, print, and share with constituents.
http://vaccinepapers.org/autism-brochure/
MORE: http://vaccinepapers.org/
God bless and lead you to ethical decisions,
Sue Broz Thorpe
Please Governor Murphy,
Please help keep our current and future child safe from mandates vaccines. These are our children, our future. We should have a right to choose what we want for our children’s bodies. Please keep NJ a state in which we are proud to live. Thank you for all you do!!!!!
Dear Governor Murphy,
I sign under each word
Forget about business, remember about a future, our kids are our future.
People degenerate.
In the tissues brain of AUTISTIC children a high level of aluminum = In the tissues brain of ALZHEIMER people a high level of aluminium. There’s a high level of antibodies to measles in autistic children.
Please Governor Murphy, protect our rights and our children. Louise expressed everything so perfectly! Thank you, Louise! – Christine Holmberg (Totowa NJ)
Governor Murphy, I agree with each statement in the letter and sign my name here. Please protect our parental rights and our children!
Governor Murphy~ We the parents of New Jersey, implore you to please heed our message and address the Autism epidemic in NJ and protect our parental rights, our children are counting on you! Melanie Dragone, Hawthorne, NJ
Informed consent not coercive medicine must be the model in NJ. Please protect choice.
Mine is one of so many voices pleading that you protect our religious freedom, and our children. Please abide by your civil duties, and hear those your serve and represent.
Please please allow for parents to continue to have freedom of exemptions. Thank you, Lauren & Vitaliy Gedeon
I work with children in early intervention. I see the frustration, discomforts, and intense daily challenges theses children endure. I also see the desperation of their families, heartbroken and grieving the loss of the life they had hoped for their child. Our children deserve better. Please, let’s shine some light on this issue and get some answers!
Signed, Elizabeth Osborne of Morris Plains
Governor Murphy – Louise’s letter says it all regarding the autism epidemic. Please heed her advice and preserve vaccine exemption in the State of New Jersey. I have four….yes four…vaccine injured adult children – one autistic, one who died from his injuries, one who developed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis after her MMR booster, and one with ADHD and other health problems. This vaccine holocaust must end.
Kathy Sincere
Governor Murphy, hear our voices.
Support the parental rights and help protect our children.
Sincerely,
Marta Pisarczyk
Governor Murphy, be brave. Do not allow yourself to be bought by pharma, like so many of our politicians. Time’s up. Protect the children of this state. My son has suffered at the hands of greedy pharmaceutical companies and doctors.
The conflict of interest is glaring…..do the right thing and resist the pressure to mandate vaccines. It’s all about money, nothing more, and we all know it.
Governor Murphy, Thank you for your interest in this critical issue. I wholeheartedly agree with Louise’s beautifully articulated, comprehensive letter, and I implore you to take a stand for NJ families. This is a crisis of unthinkable proportion that will affect generations to come. The rapid increase in autism is alarming, and if it continues to rise at the rate that it has been, it won’t be long before 1 out of 2 boys born in NJ will be autistic. Imagine the financial burden and the devastation to families and society! Please continue to educate yourself on this issue. Please watch Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s short Vaccine Safety Project Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTLzmIciZM where he urges state legislatures and governors to know the facts before making a decision to vote for or against vaccine mandates. Please Governor – we desperately need your help. Lynda Gazzara, Red Bank
If the Supreme Court has ruled vaccines as “unavoidably unsafe” then I think it’s a no brainer. Please protect our children and our constitutional rights.
Very important to realize
This is a Crime against Women. When women could afford to stay home to raise their children, children did not get shot up with Aluminum, Thimerosal/Mercury, Cancer-promoting Formaldehyde, Human aborted Fetal Cell DNA (tumorigenic) cells of rats pigs dogs cow bovine serum (Leukemia cells) insects polysorbate 80 ether MSG, antifreeze, antibiotics and other toxins 72 Times! Once women were removed from being there- the kids have fallen catastrophically, chronically ill with Autism, CANCERS, Auto-immune illnesses Seizures, Tourettes, paralysis, Deadly food allergies (Peanut oils in vaccines) SIDS, SUDS, & SADS-Sudden Adult Death Syndrome in college age kids.
Yes the taxpayer is picking up the tab on all of the damage done by vaccines from VAERS to the special ed programs to disability programs etc. Vaccine caused injury and death leaves families devastated. Please do the right thing and protect the people ‘s constitutional rights, religious rights, parental rights, medical rights, and Informed Consent
I fully support this letter. Signed Cristina Benanti of Freehold, NJ
As the mother of a vaccine injured child who provided testimony during the hearing for A3818, I beg you to protect our exemptions. My family is one of these families you just read about. Please listen to what no one else will, hear our voices and do something different for us! You are our governor and can make this happen. Please.
It is imperative that the law makers -federal and state – abide by our Constitution Law, rights of Citizenship law, and International law concerning our medical procedures. And vaccines are just one of medical INVASIVE procedures.
1. Our Constitution law protects our freedom and our pursuit of well being and happiness as sovereign human beings who are intrinsically by birth right dependent on the natural Earth and its produce for the very life of our every cell and their function and survival. Mandatory and required vaccinations, whose nature was even ruled by the Supreme Court as being “an unavoidably unsafe product,” and whose clinical studies and post market results have clearly shown devastating and disabling risks and even death to humans and citizens, are in total opposition and in direct assault to our individual freedom to health and happiness and that intrinsic Earth dependency, and I would go so far as also saying vaccines are domestic terrorism.
My family has been literally terrorized as a result of the damage made by the ilegal required-by-State-law vaccines. I’d go further and say that my life potential and its ability for the pursuit of life and happiness – and that of each of my family members’ – has been violently ripped from us as a result of required vaccinations resulting in damaged health conditions due to their “unavoidably unsafe” intrinsic nature and the life changing consequences of such numerous physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual, resulting effects requiring continuous rigorous lifetime attention and care to the vaccine damaged individual, crossing all facets of life and living AND the consequential effects to those providing that care. I’ve had no life. The State of New Jersey and its disregard for our Constitution in passing these illegal laws is responsible for this terrorism in my life and my loved ones, as is every State in this nation.
2. International law protects our right to consent to medical procedures by Informed Consent. Yet another law not being observed. Mandatory and required vaccines by law is yet again bypassing our right to be informed of the risks of medical procedures to therefore make a personal but informed decision of whether to consent to the procedure or its risks, OR NOT. Another usurped right by terrorism inflicting the same harms as #1 above AND bypassing the Constitution yet again.
3. Our Citizen rights guarantees us, the US citizens, access to education WITHOUT any other condition. Yet another law being illegally bypassed by a thusly ilegal State law. We are being coerced and blackmailed into accepting an Ilegal law as a condition to receive our guaranteed rights to education. That is ilegal. We are illegally being obstructed from access to education by the ilegal but made legal obligation to accept the invasion of our bodies and that of our children, to accept without informed consent to unwanted medical invasive procedures, in exchange for our citizen rights to education.
The State law requirement of vaccines is an ilegal law breaking all 3 above laws!!
HOW is this allowed to happen??!!??
Those representatives elected to preserve our most basic laws upon which all laws are measured, are allowing illegality and injustice from their own colleagues to happen under our noses.
And a further illegality is being allowed to happen.
Earth and her life giving and preserving produce, being the dependency upon which our very lives – our very cells – can ONLY have their continued being…. which our Constitution acknowledges as being intrinsic human rights without which life and happiness cannot be built…. is also being usurped by vaccine laws that cause damage to physical and mental and emotional life and further impeding right to life by MEDICAL LAWS or PROCEDURES that disallow modes of healing that are more favorable to our intrinsic nature and connection to Earth, our life giving force. After the illegality of having its citizens purposefully and deceitfully forced into allowing foreign matter into their bodies causing damage, the US representatives hired to protect our Constitutional laws further usurp our rights to life by:
A.
Turning a blind eye and deaf ear to the obvious damages and concerns of its citizens who have made their voices about vaccine damage loud and clear for decades:
1. To their doctors in doctors’ offices
2. To school board of education districts
3. To our court system
4. To the ILLEGAL Vaccine Injury Compensation Kangaroo Court
5. To our State representatives
6. To our State Senators
7. To our Supreme Court – WHO RULED VACCINES ARE “UNAVOIDABLY UNSAFE PRODUCTS”.
B.
Turning a blind eye to:
1. the SCIENCE EVIDENCING THAT VACCINES DO CAUSE DAMAGE AND EVEN DEATH
2. those agencies hired to protect citizens like the FDA and CDC whose scientists and employees have come forward to blow the whistle of having, the agencies AND THEMSELVES, committed scientific fraud in their vaccine study reports and actions. These whistleblowers and their fraud and corruption investigations have been allowed to be quieted by the same agencies, and even promoted, when a full blown investigation should have been pursued FOR THE PROTECTION OF US CITIZENS the MOMENT THE SCIENTISTS SPEAK. We are talking decades of fraud being perpetrated and if a few cases exist, what does that say about the integrity of the CDC as a whole??
3. SCIENTISTS and doctors working for the pharmaceutical companies declaring corruption
4. Pharmaceutical SALES REPRESENTATIVES declaring corruption in Pharma
C.
By not calling for an in depth investigation into the safety of vaccines and not calling for scientific studies INTO THE CHILDREN SUSTAINING DAMAGES OR DEATH AS A RESULT OF VACCINES. Neither are GOLD STANDARD long standing studies being pursued nor PROPER THOROUGH MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION INTO THE INJURED CHILDREN.
D.
By not calling a moratorium of vaccines while “C” is being pursued which scientific evidence points to its probability.
E. By not making Pharma and the medical system ACCOUNTABLE for their negligence in handling the consequences of their errors
F.
And finally….. if all that is not enough…
LIMITING OUR CHOICES TO MEDICAL TREATMENTS AND FURTHER FORCING DAMAGE BY FORCING SYNTHETIC DRUGS UPON OUR CHILDREN AND ADULTS THAT DO NOTHING FOR THE HEALING OF THE CAUSE OF VACCINE DAMAGE.
Our medical system is not equipped to handle these damages. Our medical system ABANDONS our vaccine injured with having no damage control initiatives created, except in some cases with administering drugs that only cause more damage and HAVE NO ABILITY TO CORRECT THE ISSUES CREATED.
Our medical system DENIES the use of treatments, not within their realm of synthetic drugs to hide symptoms, THAT ARE PROVING TO REVERSE MUCH OF VACCINE DAMAGE TO MANY. These are NATURAL TREATMENTS and non invasive treatments with food, detoxes, frequency medicine, and natural botanical and herb medicines long used in our human history.
THIS MEDICAL SYSTEM NEGATION, LIMITATION, AND RESTRICTION OF LIFE HEALING AND LIFE SUSTAINING NATURAL PRODUCTS AND NON INVASIVE TOXIC TREATMENT GOES AGAINST OUR RIGHT TO LIFE AND LIBERTY… AND TO OUR VERY INTRINSIC HUMAN CONNECTION AND BIOLOGICAL CELL DEPENDENCE ON EARTH…. and ultimately an obstruction to self responsibility.
LET US DECIDE WHAT TREATMENTS TO USE AND TO PUT INTO OUR BODIES!!!
STOP CENSORING NATURAL TREATMENT INFORMATION.
Our medical “legality” has been passed BUT ILEGALLY. It forces upon our bodies that which we do not want.
BOTTOM LINE:
Our human rights to life are being trampled upon in every societal and legal and ilegal direction.
STAND UP REPRESENTATIVES, UNITE UNITE AND DO YOUR JOB OF UPHOLDING OUR CONSTITUTION AND ACTUALLY USING YOUR CONSCIENCE !!!!
Governor Murphy, I have been a Family Physician since 1995. I urge you to protect the rights of the citizens of NJ to choose what medical procedures they undergo. Forced vaccination in unethical and unconstitutional. It violates the HIppocratic Oath to first do no harm.
Neither the pharmaceutical industry nor the government should have the power to decide what medical procedures are deemed appropriate, safe, and necessary for a child. That decision should and must be made by the parents according to their beliefs, including their willingness to take on the risks of the procedure as well as any anticipated benefit.
Parents often come to my office to discuss this issue, and they are informed, responsible, and concerned. They understand much about this highly charged issue of forced, mass vaccination. Honestly, parents I talk to are often far more knowledgeable about this issue than most of my medical colleagues.
Please hear our voices that are raised in protest to forced vaccination and the erosion of religious and civil liberties, and do all in your power to protect the rights of NJ families to choose what medical procedures they undergo.
Governor Murphy – I stand with Louise Kuo Habakus.
Louise please consider running for government – we will vote for you !
Informed consent for all!!!
Protect our children and parental rights!
Please protect our parental rights! I live next door to Brick, NJ. As of a few years ago, Brick had the highest Autism rates in the state. I don’t know if this is still true. My fully unvaccinated children, thankfully, don’t have Autism, allergies, or learning disabilities. We would be happy to be a part of a study. How many unvaccinated children have Autism? I want those numbers.
Please protect our parental rights as parents who believe that vaccines are harmful to our children!
I stand with Louise. Please Gov. Murphy, protect our rights.
Stop the Madness…..
Govenor Murphy,
I am writing on behalf of the current attack on my family’s religious belief’s regarding bill A3818. We are a family all born and raised in NJ and are productive, hard-working, tax paying and active voting citizens. Besides ourselves many family and friends in both our regular community and our faith community are outraged at our state government’s attempts to bypass our religious protections under the false guise of health and community safety. This is no more about health and safety as it is about big money/Pharma and attacking the valid religious beliefs of our citizens, the ones you are supposed to protect. Our faith in God and our beliefs have no right being dragged into the political arena which the First Amendment is there to protect.
As written in Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes:
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
It is unfortunate that we are now considering/looking to move out of state to a state that respects our religious beliefs and the faith that guides our daily lives.
*****Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s”. (I Corinthians 6:19,20)
Please please we beg you please honor your word, and leave us our freedom to choose. Too many people are being injured, and too many people need to honor their religious beliefs. we are a free nation, let us stand together, and not divide us!
We ❤️ you, Louise Kuo Habakus for your advocacy, your eloquence, and your tireless efforts for thousands of New Jerseyans!
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