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Vaccination
by author Edda West

Health officials in Canada habitually and deliberately fail to inform the public of their right to refuse vaccines. They ignore the fact that there are no laws in Canada that can force a person to be vaccinated against their will. Parents are often pressured to vaccinate their young infants with the threat that the child won't be allowed in school–even though most provinces don't have acts legislating compulsory vaccination.

In the three provinces (Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba) that have legislation for school-entry vaccinations, parents are rarely told that exemptions for reasons of conscience and/or religion exist within these laws to allow their children to opt out of having any shots.

Provinces like Ontario–where the Immunization of School Pupils Act mandates that all school children show proof of vaccination for diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, polio and tetanus–often fail to inform parents of their legal right to refuse all of the required vaccines. The suppression of information regarding legal exemptions has enabled health officials to bully, badger, threaten and coerce parents into vaccinating their children.

This violates the most basic principles of Canadian Medical Law, which grants "every individual the right to information on material risks and the fundamental right to persons to be free from unwanted physical interference. Medical care is wrongful and a 'battery' unless the patient has given consent to it." Furthermore, the patient must understand the risks and be willing to submit to a medical treatment for there to be express consent.

Parental Resistance

Although there is no specific law in British Columbia that governs vaccination for school entry, the Infant's Act gives health officials a veritable carte blanche to perform medical procedures on children without parental knowledge and consent. The Vaccine Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) has been contacted on several occasions by parents whose children were hauled in by school nurses and vaccinated against their will despite the child's protest that they were not to get any vaccines.

My advice to parents who do not wish their children to be vaccinated in the school setting is to write a clear and strong letter to school officials. State that under no circumstances is your child to receive any drugs, medication or vaccines while at school. Communicate your position personally to the school principal and your child's teacher, and make sure your letter is secured in your child's file at school. If you know in advance the days that vaccines are being given at the school, consider keeping your children at home to protect them from zealous public health nurses who can invoke the dreaded Infant's Act.

Human Rights Violation

On a broader level, the vaccine situation involving nursing students, students in teachers' college, dental tech students, health care workers and workers in nursing homes is fairly grim. These people are often threatened with expulsion and job loss if they refuse to submit to hepatitis B, tuberculosis tests or flu shots.

Recently, health workers who refused the flu shots have been laid-off their nursing home jobs without pay when cases of flu have broken out. Those who do agree to get the flu shot are required to sign a waiver that absolves the institution, the union and the pharmaceutical company from any liability for damages should health injury or disabilities occur from vaccine reactions.

The right to "informed consent" when considering any medical procedure or drug, is a fundamental human right and a key medical ethic that governs medical law in Canada and internationally. This ethic has grown from the Nuremberg trials after World War II. It forbids human experimentation and the use of force or intimidation in medical procedures.

The institutions that are using these strong-arm tactics are in violation of fundamental medical ethics and must be challenged forcefully if we are to preserve what remains of health freedoms in Canada. The unions who have conspired with the various institutions to enforce workplace vaccination must also be called to task for failing to protect workers' rights from medical coercion and battery. Strong associations and alliances need to be formed and legal steps taken, to stop this trend of enforced medication on health workers and post-secondary students.

At the pinnacle of defending our health freedoms, we need to muster strong political will to secure an amendment to the Canadian Charter that will guarantee freedom of choice in health care, and protection from enforced medication.

Edda West is the coordinator ofVRAN, a resource group committed to educating the public about the risks of vaccines and to empower individuals to make informed decisions when considering vaccination.

Source: alive #210, April 2000

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