Action Alert – Minor Consent
Say NO to Minor Consent for Vaccines
Vermont’s Senate Committee on Health and Welfare is moving a bill that would make it legal for doctors to see children age 12+ and to vaccinate and medicate children, expressly without parental consent or notification.
Contact Senators to Oppose S.151/Minor Consent!
S.151, an otherwise innocuous bill, contains one section that is being lobbied by the AAP:
(a) A minor 12 years of age or older may consent to medical care by a licensed physician related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted infection.
(b) Consent under this section shall not be subject to disaffirmance due to minority of the individual consenting. The consent of the parent or legal guardian of a minor consenting under this section shall not be necessary to authorize care as described in this subsection.
(c) A minor 12 years of age or older who has or is suspected to have a sexually transmitted infection may consent to treatment in accordance with the provisions of section 4226 of this title.
TAKE ACTION:
Urge Senators to STRIKE Section 4 "CONSENT TO PREVENTIVE SERVICES AND TREATMENT BY MINORS" + VOTE No on Minor Consent.
1-Contact Senators on Health & Welfare Committee
>> URGE to STRIKE Section 4 "CONSENT TO PREVENTIVE SERVICES AND TREATMENT BY MINORS" (link to latest markup of S.151, here)
Email: vlyons@leg.state.vt.us, dweeks@leg.state.vt.us, tkwilliams@leg.state.vt.us, rhardy@leg.state.vt.us, mgulick@leg.state.vt.us
Telephone: 1-802-828-8228, leave messages for: Senate Health Chair Ginny Lyons, Vice Chair Weeks, Senators Williams, Hardy & Gulick
2-URGE YOUR elected Senator to VOTE NO on Minor Consent, should this come to the Senate floor for a vote.
Email & Telephone your Senators – Have a polite, respectful CONVERSATION
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Minor Consent is an end-run around parents.
Many adults have vaccine safety concerns. Many have been injured.
Many families have deeply held religious beliefs opposed to vaccination.
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Vaccines are big business – and teens are vulnerable to pressure.
Vaccines marketed as “prevention for sexually transmitted infections” include 3 doses each of Hep B and HPV vaccines & many more are in the pipeline.
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All vaccines carry risk of death and debilitating side effects.
As recently as 2019 the Chief of Rheumatology Department, National Institute of Cardiology of Mexico wrote: “HPV vaccine: adverse event signals were minimised or ignored” (BMJ, 2019). The country of Japan withdrew the HPV vaccines, due to side effects in 2013. It's irresponsible to leave parents out.
Minor Consent places tweens and teens in harm’s way, because they're not equipped to weigh complicated medical histories v. marketing propaganda, and their parents will not know how to help them.
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Education is Key!
In 2015, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave important testimony here in Vermont, explaining that the only thing standing between our children and the pharmaceutical industry, is the parents (watch the video!) Everything he said, still remains true today.
