There was an incredible THREE DAYS OF ACTION last week calling the State Representatives serving on the committees assigned a series of lame duck bills threatening vaccine exemptions (HB6205-10). These bills will die at the end of this year if we can keep them from being heard in committee. For detailed assessment of the bills follow THIS LINK. 

FOR THIS WEEK, we have made it really easy to reach out to your own State Representative and let them know you oppose House Bills 6205 - 6210. 

These bills erode our medical/vaccine freedoms, increase personal medical tracking, and invade data privacy for Michigan citizens. 

Even if your legislators do not have the direct ability to vote on these, we expect that they will communicate your view directly with the legislators who can impact these bills. 

And we've made it really easy for you! Send one of our THREE key messages through this alert and please add in your personal story on why vaccine exemptions matter to you. 

Thank you for supporting our medical freedom here in Michigan and please share this alert with all your family and friends so we can ensure our voices are heard in Lansing!

Below is a brief summary of key points of this bill package:

• Require parents attend a one-sided lecture at their local health department on the benefits of vaccines, without proper informed consent, or discussing true benefits vs. harm. 
  • Health departments and schools have been requiring parents to attend these sessions through a promulgated rule, which is in opposition to current state law on exemptions. Many parents do not comply and are able to use their own vaccine exemption statement (or MVC's statement) to meet the school requirement. These bills would make attending the session and sharing your child's data state law.
  • Stricter requirements and reporting for doctors who write medical vaccine exemptions
  • Forces doctors and parents to agree with statements (compelled speech) about exclusion of their children from school if another child contracts a vaccine-targeted illness
  • Combines religious and philosophical exemptions into one exemption: a nonmedical exemption - a strategy used in other states to eventually remove both religious and philosophical exemptions altogether.
• Requires childcare providers to be vaccinated with no exemptions and the ability of the health department to add new vaccine requirements at any time
• Requires childcare providers to post vaccination rates of children within the childcare center publicly