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How to Eliminate Parental Rights in Three Acts

In my last post, How the “Anti-Vaccine” Movement Threatens Us All, I discuss the vaccine debate as high drama, by design. Parents are playing into a polarized narrative that’s a lose-lose proposition for us and a home run for special interests. We may think it’s about vaccines. It’s really about parental rights and the role […]...

April 5, 2017 4:24PM      FACEBOOK   /   TWEET   /   EMAIL

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How the “Anti-Vaccine” Movement Threatens Us All

Step back and take a good look. It’s a full blown, parent on parent brawl. I’m struck with an urgency that the vaccine discussion is perilously off track and acutely needs correction. The anti-vaccine controversy isn’t really about disease, public health, science, autism, or chronic illness. It’s not even about vaccines. It’s about the role of government […]...

March 31, 2017 2:30PM      FACEBOOK   /   TWEET   /   EMAIL

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What Would Trump’s Vaccine Safety Commission Reveal?

A presidential vaccine safety commission led by Robert Kennedy, Jr. could raise questions about the incentives driving vaccine recommendations. I investigate some of these elements in my recent piece in The American Conservative. My interest in the issue did not stem from any personal experience with autism or vaccine injury. Nor, contrary to the speculation, did […]...

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Why We Protect Religious Exemptions to Vaccines: Part 3

by Valerie Borek, Esq. Our three-part series reviews the many important reasons that we protect religious exemptions to vaccines. In Part 1, we discuss the myriad ways that their denial offends the Constitution. In Part 2, we draw a powerful analogy to forced sterilization to illustrate a very slippery slope when we permit governments to […]...

April 21, 2016 2:02PM      FACEBOOK   /   TWEET   /   EMAIL

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Honest Disagreement in a Pro-Vaccine World

Like and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Sign up here. This article is copyrighted by Fearless Parent™ 2016 by Louise Kuo Habakus We received a comment from “Anonymous” in response to a recent post who expressed dismay that she had to rely on other parents to vaccinate their children in order to keep her immunocompromised daughter with Selective IgA […]...

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