Guest post by Kelly

I’m more then disappointed with California’s recent passage of bill SB277.  The law takes away the basic parental right of deciding what is right for their child if that child is enrolled in a public or private school. For now the law does not affect homeschooling families, but who knows for how long.

We as parents are our child(ren)’s guardians; protecting and shielding them from harm. I do not believe I can fulfill that sacred role if I have to succumb to a mandated law that demands that I subject them to compulsory vaccinations that will adversely affect their development be it physical, mental or spiritual.

Thousands of reported cases of  debilitating illnesses and severe reactions after routine immunization are reported yearly and yet those reports largely fall on deaf ears with little being done to change the drugs or the administration schedule (the pharmaceutical lobby is powerful$$).

When my oldest son was a babe and I was a naive young mother, I started the immunization process. After his second MMR shot he couldn’t hold himself up and in fact his whole left leg was paralyzed. Fortunately it was temporary,only lasting for a couple of days, but it was a wake up call for me and he nor his siblings were subject to those vaccinations again while they were young. When my daughter was in highschool the vaccine for HPV (Human papillomavirus) came on the scene. The rate of illness and severe reactions to this vaccine seems to be much higher than all the rest. Its a vaccine that bouts protection from HPV virus which could lead to cervical cancer even though most cases of hpv clear on their own. I am very thankful that I live in a state where we are still allowed personal belief exemptions to immunization and I was able to choose which drugs to have administered and when.

We as parents need to stay informed, to gather as much information as we can and then use that information in making the right decisions and choices for our children. For me that decision was to not vaccinate. It takes courage to go against the status quo, but then as a homeschooler and a Waldorf homeschooler at that I think I might be  preaching to the choir!

Below is an article that ran in the Independant on June 1, 2015 about Emily and Caron Ryall’s unfortunate story that unfolded after Emily’s routine school vaccination.  To read the story on The Independance site click HERE

Posted on July 1, 2015 in Family, Society & Parenting