Attorney and parent Alan Phillips responded to the North Carolina Chapel Hills school district that sponsored a contest to give away a laptop and Ipod to students who agreed to be vaccinated. Attorney Phillips has his own children in the school district. He sent a letter to the superintendent of the schools:
Dear Dr. Pedersen,
I read with great interest recently your blog entry announcing a contest that rewards adolescent students with the chance to get I-pods or a laptop for getting vaccinated. However, while I applaud the underlying intent, the contest raises serious policy concerns:
1. The Contest discriminates against children who cannot participate due to religious andmedical exemptions to immunizations. Those children are unfairly excluded for reasonsbeyond their control;
2. It erroneously places the incentive to vaccinate on children. The decision to vaccinateor not is entirely up to parents. The contest rewards the wrong persons—children who donot control the vaccination decision;
3. It amounts to state endorsement of one choice from among two or more legitimate options for parents. Parents may refuse mandatory vaccines for medical and religious reasons, and non-mandatory vaccines for medical, religious or personal reasons. These are all legitimate options. Public schools should not take sides;
4. It amounts to state endorsement of private industry by encouraging the only choice from among two or more choices that supports pharmaceutical profits. Public schools should not endorse private industry in personal, parental discretionary matters.
Read the full letter here: http://www.vaccinerights.com/pdf/5-9-11-NC-Ltr-Sch-Spt-Pedersen-re-vax-contest.pdf and the response from the school district here:Â http://www.vaccinerights.com/legislativeprojects.html
Vaccine Epidemic
How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children
by Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland J.D.
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