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Charles F. Morrison: Blind support for over-vaccination is short-sighted

Your support of the vaccine bill is (hopefully) short-sighted. What next? A bar code tattoo so scanners can be placed at the entrance to any public place to deny entry to the un-vaccinated? SWAT teams kicking down doors so that we and our children can choose vaccination at the point of a gun? Or children forcibly removed and vaccinated and parents hauled off to jail?

“Fun Camp” Hillary no doubt agrees. At the Women of the World Summit she said, in reference to abortion, “Laws have to be backed up with resources ... and deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed.” Really?

Since 1988, when the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was established, over 15,000 claims of injury were filed and 4,075 of those received compensation. Since 1980 they have quadrupled the number of vaccines children receive by age six. I’m 55, and no kids died of disease at any school I attended, and it was only eight shots by age six; now it’s 33!

Flu vaccines still contain Thimerasol. Others contain pig-kidney, toxic aluminum, aborted fetal tissue and other nasty things that inspire a desire for exemption. Have you read a History of Vaccination? Or are you only willing to accept the word of industry/government scientists?

Charles F. Morrison, Modesto

This story was originally published May 20, 2015 at 11:50 AM with the headline "Charles F. Morrison: Blind support for over-vaccination is short-sighted."

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