Instructions for Hep B Vaccination Legislation

Dear Members of the NJ Senate,

I am writing to ask you to please vote against Bill S-1119 which is a Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandate for college and High School age children. Contrary to all of the scary pronouncements about the dangers of Hepatitis B outlined in the A-1888, Hepatitis B is not a killer infection for most people.

Symptoms of hepatitis B infection include nausea, vomiting, fatigue, low grade fever, pain and swelling joints, headache and cough that may occur one to two weeks before onset of jaundice and enlargement and tenderness of the liver, which can last for three to four weeks. Fatigue can last up to a year. In cases of acute Hepatitis B "most patients do not require hospital care" and "95% of patients have a favorable course and recover completely" with the case-fatality ratio being "very low (approximately 0.1%)". [Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (1994)]

The United States had one of the lowest rates of hepatitis B infection in the world before the hepatitis B vaccine was introduced. ["Critics say Required Hepatitis B Vaccine not Safe for Everyone," ABC.NEWS.com; and "Hepatitis B Vaccine Reaction Reports Outnumbered Disease Cases in Children According to Vaccine Safety Group," NVIC, 1999]

By late 1998, there were 439 deaths in the United States attributed to the hepatitis B Vaccine. [Data released in Jan. 1999 by the NVIC from VAERS figures.] Between 1991 and 1999, 25,000 adverse reactions to the hepatitis B Vaccine were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS). [http://www.vaclib.org/toc.htm#vaers]

In 1998, 15,000 people filed a class action lawsuit against the French Government because the officially mandated hepatitis B vaccine caused thousands to develop MS-like symptoms. That year, France ended compulsory hepatitis B vaccinations. ["Hep B Vaccine Linked Directly to Autoimmune Rheumatoid Diseases," from Doctor's Guide to Medical and Other News, www.pslgroup.com/mednews.htm]

Many Gulf War veterans who had received numerous experimental vaccines fathered "thalidomide" babies after the war. The government tried to say it was some bioterror chemicals sprayed in Iraq. However, some of these babies were born to soldiers who never went overseas. [LIFE, Nov. 1995] Also French soldiers who were never used as guinea pigs for vaccine experiments also did not acquire "Gulf War Syndrome". [www.mercola.com]

My concern about mandating more vaccines is: WHERE ARE THE STUDIES PROVING SAFETY AND EFFICACY ? Children born within the last twelve years are the most highly vaccinated children in history. How do we know they are going to be able to reproduce? If they can, how do we know that they aren't going to be producing a crop of "thalidomide" babies? And why are American legislators so eager to force their own children to be used as medical experiments for untested vaccines BY LAW? There are 300 more vaccines in the developmental pipeline. I hope you can draw the line somewhere.

Sincerely,

						June 10, 2002

Dear Assembly Speaker Sires,

I am writing on behalf of people I personally know, in this tri-state area, who have become crippled from the Hepatitis B vaccine and families who have had a baby die outright from the Hepatitis B Vaccine. I am asking you to hold Bill A-1888 (S-1119) which is a Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandate for High School and College Age Students for a full Assembly vote this Thursday, June 13 for two reasons:

The first is that as of late 1998, according to VAERS Government Data there were 439 deaths in the United States attributed to the hepatitis B Vaccine. Between 1991 and 1999, 25,000 adverse reactions to the hepatitis B Vaccine were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). [http://www.vaclib.org/toc.htm#vaers].

Hepatitis B is not epidemic in the US and it is not a serious infection. In fact, according to Harrison�s Principles of Internal Medicine (1994): "95% of patients have a favorable course and recover completely" with the case-fatality ratio being "very low (approximately 0.1%)." We are obviously forcing a very deadly and defective vaccine on the public by law for a disease that is not only not deadly or crippling, IT IS NOT EPIDEMIC!

The second reason is that since 1947 the right of the Public Health Council to write vaccination regulations appears in the State Sanitary Code 26:1A-7 just preceding the rules regarding the use of privies and cesspools. To my knowledge the New Jersey Legislature has NEVER PASSED A MANDATORY VACCINATION LAW.

The Hepatitis B vaccine mandate for infants in 1999 was the first vaccine mandate to be voted on and passed by the NJ Assembly. However, as it was to be voted on in the full, Senate, I approached then Senate President DiFrancesco with the testimonies I had of New Jersey parents whose babies had either died or become seriously paralyzed from the Hepatitis B vaccine. He immediately and unhesitatingly said to me that the bill was controversial and he would be happy to hold it for a vote. The following year the Health Department wrote the Hepatitis B vaccine mandate into law over the heads of our elected officials. So technically, to date, the blood of these killed and maimed infants is on the hands of the Health Department and not the New Jersey Legislature. If you succeed in passing this bill you will be the first legislator in New Jersey history to be passing these needless death sentences on our children.

Lastly, I would like to point out that it has not always been taboo to criticize Vaccines in the United States. The following is taken from God's Perfect Child, Caroline Fraser, a "1999, pgs. 262-271: The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1847. One of its first goals was to see if it could legislate the new religion of Christian Science (started by Mary Baker Eddy at about the same time) out of existence.

In 1890, the first formulation of the diphtheria antitoxin was introduced. Christian Scientist parents were brought up on charges when their children died, while other bereaved parents were considered blameless. Indeed, the argument that children died under medical care as often as, if not more often than, children under Christian Science care became one of the most effective legal tools in Scientists� defense.

In Los Angeles in 1902, Merrill Reed and his wife, both Scientists, were tried for manslaughter after their young daughter died of diphtheria without medical care. Their lawyer argued, among other things, that the diphtheria antitoxin was still considered an experimental, controversial treatment among doctors; that a significant percentage of diphtheria sufferers still died even after receiving the antitoxin; and that the Reeds had believed that their daughter�s condition was improving shortly before she died. In 1902, the Reeds were acquitted.

By 1910, the legislative crusade of the AMA against Christian Science had markedly failed, just as its former crusade against homeopathy had also failed. Not only did it fail, it inspired Christian Scientists to pressure legislators to pass statutes exempting Christian Scientists from medical licensing requirements, or to revise prohibitive legislation. So, when the medical societies fell back on their first line of defense�the prosecution of Christian Scientists for practicing medicine without a license�they found themselves stymied.

These aggressive tactics eventually antagonized many fair-minded medical doctors, clergymen and legislators who spoke up for the rights of Scientists. In March 1898, William James eloquently testified before the Massachusetts legislature against a bill proposing that only physicians and surgeons could be legally licensed to treat sick:

I come to protest against the bill simply as a citizen who cares for sound laws and for the advance of medical knowledge. Were medicine a finished science, with all practitioners in agreement about methods of treatment, a bill to make it penal to treat a patient without having passed an examination would be unobjectionable. But the present condition of medical knowledge is widely different from such a state. Both as to principle and as to practice our knowledge is deplorably imperfect. The whole face of medicine changes unexpectedly from one generation to another in consequence of widening experience, and as we look back with a mixture of amusement and horror at the practice of our grandfathers, so we cannot be sure how large a portion of our present practice will awaken similar feelings in our posterity.

I am here having no axes to grind, except the axe of truth, that "Truth" for which Harvard University of which I am an officer, professes to exist. I am a Doctor of Medicine, and count some of the advocates of this proposed law among my dearest friends, and well do I know how I shall stand in their eyes hereafter for standing to-day in my present position. But I cannot look on passively, and I must urge my point. That point is this: that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is not a medical body. Has no right to a medical opinion, and should not dare to take sides in a medical controversy. ["Editor�s Table," Christian Science Journal 16, no. 1 (April 1898) pp. 68-69.]

I hope that the "Commonwealth of New Jersey" will follow former Acting Governor DiFrancesco�s lead in recognizing that it too has no business taking sides in this most serious medical controversy of forcing deadly, untested and unproven vaccinations on our young people by law.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Best Wishes and may God Bless you!

Sincerely,

Barbara Flynn
CC: New Jersey Legislature and Hon. Donald T. DiFrancesco