A Call to Action: Protect Children, Restore Informed Consent, and Pass the Louisiana Medical Freedom Act

Before 1986, vaccine injury was not controversial or fringe. It was openly acknowledged by Congress, leading pediatricians, federal agencies, and national newspapers. As detailed in Stand for Health Freedom’s exposé, “What Congress Knew in 1986: The Hidden History of Vaccine Injury Policy,” lawmakers debated the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) with full awareness that some children would be paralyzed, brain-injured, or killed by routine vaccines. Injury was described as inevitable, a tragic “cost” of school mandates.

In a 1986 Washington Post op-ed, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), author of NCVIA, wrote:

“. . . these vaccines, which we take for granted now, are not completely safe. Some children will suffer adverse side effects for a few days. Some will face severe reactions, even mental retardation, permanent disability or death…

…vaccines are a unique product. They are required for all children… They are inherently unsafe.”

There was no denial.
No gaslighting.
No insistence that injury was impossible.
Vaccine injury was accepted as fact.

But once NCVIA passed and manufacturers were shielded from liability, the truth began to disappear from public discourse.

Federal agencies were required to conduct meaningful safety studies, improve reporting systems, and submit biennial safety reports to Congress. Yet those obligations were abandoned. The CDC and HHS admitted under oath that no safety reports were produced for nearly 40 years. No cumulative-schedule studies were conducted. VAERS remained deeply inadequate, capturing fewer than 1% of adverse events. New vaccines were approved using active placebos.

Vaccine injury continued.
Only the willingness to acknowledge it vanished.

2025: Two Federal Admissions Shatter the Narrative

1. The CDC quietly admitted the evidence isn’t there.

In a quiet update to its “Autism and Vaccines” webpage, the CDC acknowledged:

• There is no scientific evidence supporting the claim that “vaccines do not cause autism.”
• Concerning studies were not disproven — they were ignored.
• Federal agencies are now evaluating biologic mechanisms long dismissed by medical institutions.

This is a seismic admission.
It validates decades of parental testimony.
And it exposes the fragile foundation beneath a liability-free system built on mandates.

2. The FDA’s CBER just acknowledged definitive child deaths from COVID vaccination.

In a newly released internal November 2025 communication to staff, CBER leadership confirmed:

• Definitive pediatric deaths following COVID vaccination
• Internal acknowledgment that investigations must not be suppressed
• Recognition that causality cannot be dismissed

For the first time, federal regulators acknowledged vaccine deaths in children from a product marketed as “safe and effective" - COVID vaccines. 

This revelation does not represent a new phenomenon — it confirms the expectation of harm that Congress openly recognized when it passed NCVIA.

A System Built on Silence

Yet instead of confronting these acknowledgments, professional medical organizations rushed to “correct” the CDC, insisting the science is “settled.” Their reaction reveals what has been true for decades:

Acknowledging harm threatens the architecture of a liability-free system where children have long been treated as acceptable casualties.

Like the ritual in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, society came to accept that someone else’s child could be harmed “for the good of the community” — a quiet, unspoken bargain underpinning the modern mandate culture. Injury became invisible not because it ceased, but because acknowledging it would unravel the illusion of safety.

This is not science.
This is not ethics.
And it is not acceptable.

The Path Forward: The Medical Freedom Act

The only moral and scientifically defensible path is a no-mandates policy that restores informed consent and parental rights.

The Louisiana Medical Freedom Act accomplishes exactly that, protecting:

• parental decision-making
• informed consent
• medical privacy
• physicians and families from coercion
• the right to decline any medical product without penalty

No child should ever be considered an expendable sacrifice.
Not in 1986.
Not in 2025.
Not ever.

Now Is the Time for Action

📣 Contact your state legislators and Governor Landry immediately.
Tell them the CDC’s and CBER’s own admissions prove the safety foundation of the schedule is incomplete — and that children cannot be treated as expendable.

📣 Urge them to pass the Louisiana Medical Freedom Act in 2026.
Tell them informed consent requires freedom, not compliance enforced through mandates.

If vaccine injury was openly acknowledged in 1986,
and evidence gaps are openly acknowledged in 2025,
and federal regulators now confirm child deaths associated with vaccination…

then denying harm today is not science. It is politics. And children pay the price.

Let us reject the “lottery” expectation of sacrifice.
Let us choose informed consent.
Let us choose freedom.
Let us protect every child — not just most of them.