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AB 499 Headed for Senate Floor Vote
Permits Consent for STD Vaccinations by 12 year olds
Ask State Senator to Vote No

AB 499, the bill that permits 12 year old children to give consent without their parents' knowledge for vaccines or other medication to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, today advanced to the floor of the CA Senate. It will likely come to a vote within a week. This is the last step before it goes to the Governor to be signed into law.

ACTION Urge senators to vote NO vote on AB 499. It is bad healthcare policy, and an attack on the rights of parents and the rights of children to have the protection and guidance of their parents. Find your State Senator. Visit CCG's Facebook page and share the posting about this bill with your Facebook friends. And, most importantly, pray. Resources: A copy of the letter that CCG sent to members of the California Senate. Talking points, and background

This bill is one of the most egregious violations of parental rights, next to the right to provide abortions for minors without parent knowledge. If it passes, parents will have no right to decide whether or not their child will receive vaccinations that could jeopardize their health. Additionally, children will be approached by Planned Parenthood and other adults encouraging them to be vaccinated to prepare them to become sexually active. AB 499 is an outrage that must be stopped, but it will take a massive public outcry to do it.

Please ask your state senator to vote NO on AB 499 today. It is critical to get others to call as well. We must keep up the pressure until the final vote.

This bill is an end run by the pharmaceutical giant Merck to push their vaccine, Gardasil, on California children at taxpayer's expense. A major public outcry in 2007 killed an effort to make the vaccinations mandatory when Merck proposed it then. Now, if AB 499 becomes law, children as young as 12 years old will face coercion from adults motivated by profit or other agendas to receive vaccines that they don't need and could be harmful.

• The Center for Disease Control has reported deaths of 51 girls and 2 boys after being administered Gardasil, just one of the vaccines covered by this bill. There are many more reports of children maimed for life from the drug. (See http://truthaboutgardasil.org/.) Children are not equipped to evaluate risks and stand up to pressure from adults without the support of their parents.



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• Former Merck researcher, Dr. Diane Harper says, “It is silly to mandate vaccination of 11- to 12-year-old girls... There also is not enough evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is not an issue."

It is time for parents and anyone who cares about the welfare of California’s children to mobilize.
Let’s flood senator’s offices with phone calls and letters.
For the Common Good,

Bill May
Chairman, Catholics for the Common Good
415 651 4171
415 738 0421 (Fax)

Vaccination Without Parent Knowledge Bill's Opposition Growing from Catholics for the Common Good

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Vaccination Without Parent Knowledge Bill's Opposition Growing
the bill which permits 12 year old children to give consent, without their parents' knowledge, for vaccines or other medication to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, was surprisingly pulled from the Senate floor July 7 and referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. A new hearing has been scheduled for August 15.

This move is no doubt in response to letters and phone calls of opposition flooding state senators' offices as the awareness of this sinister bill is increasing all over the state. Because the bill was crafted to avoid key words used in such medical legislation, organizations like the National Vaccine Information Center, a watch-dog group that is concerned with educating the public on problematic vaccines, was completely unaware of the bill, as were a number of other interested groups. Thanks to CCG's outreach efforts, these organizations are now becoming actively engage.
Bill's Author Responds to CCG on Pharmaceutical Blog

The fact that the California Catholic Conference and CCG have been leading the way on this bill has come to the attention of the pharmaceutical trade press. An article in the award winning pharmaceutical trade blog Pharmalot quoted CCG and gave credence to arguments of an end run that drug companies and providers are trying to make through this bill. They will profit from by-passing parents and coercing children into receiving the vaccines for certain STDs. The article is linked to others reporting how similar efforts have backfired in the past.

The bill's author, Toni Atkins of San Diego, apparently felt she needed to respond but did so in a most disingenuous way. She indicated that she was approached to author the bill by the American College of Gynecology (ACOG), not the drug company Merck, the manufacturer of controversial vaccine Gardasil. Some of the readers of the blog called her on this fact by pointing out that Merck had given almost $500,000 in funding to ACOG last year and another $100,000 in the first quarter of 2011. In an effort to dismiss the critical issue of parents' rights and a child's right to the counsel of her parents on grave matters concerning health, Atkins then responded a second time by saying that Catholic opposition to the bill was really just an extension of our opposition to abortion and "reproductive health of women".

Talking points, extensive background, my testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, and a copy of the letter that CCG sent to members of the Judiciary Committee are available for your reference.

We will continue to keep those who sign up for emails up to date on activities to oppose AB499.

STD Vacination without Parent Knowledge Bill Moves to CA Senate Floor

Catholics for the Common Good Institute
Yesterday, on a party-line vote, the California Senate Judiciary committee passed AB499 without debate. The bill permits 12 year old children to give consent, without their parents' knowledge, for vaccines or other medication to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Unbelievably, the only opposition at the hearing came from the California Catholic Conference, Catholics for the Common Good and one member of a local Tea Party organization. AB499 Links


Talking Points and CCG Letter

More Background: CA Legislature: Children Should Decide on Controversial Vaccinations

In a state of over 37 million people and thousands of associations, only three people were there to stand up against medical witnesses, state agencies, and others advocating for an end-run on parental rights to push a sinister agenda of sexualizing our children. If I had know that would be the case, I would have sent out a call for every able-bodied person within driving distance of Sacramento to show up and pack the hearing room.

Unanswered Questions

Recognizing that the committee was stacked in favor of passage, in my testimony, aside from the violation of parental rights to protect the welfare of their minor children, I appealed to the consciences of the members to consider flaws in the poorly thought-out bill and appealed to the committee to address the following questions:

The Center for Disease Control has reported deaths of 51 girls and 2 boys after being administered one of the vaccines covered by this bill (Gardasil). Why are there no assurances in the bill that children will be told that receiving these vaccines could cause them to die, although the risk is small. What about the other possible debilitating side effects of these vaccines?

How can a 12 year old evaluate risks and statistics? How do their brains process such information? Has there ever been a study on that?

Children can be easily intimidated or influenced by the authority of adults. There is money to be made by administering these vaccines and other drugs by the drug companies and service providers (like Planned Parenthood). What protects children from coercion driven by the profit motive?

If there are allergic reactions and other side effects to the vaccines, how will parents be able to recognize them and act on them quickly if they don’t know that their child has received the vaccine? It is critical to react quickly to save lives and to prevent long-term consequences for the child.

No one on the committee asked any of these questions, not even the lone Republican who showed up for the hearing. The committee chairman, Senator Noreen Evans, said the bill was necessary because parents are not competent to make sure their children are protected from sexually transmitted diseases, so the state needs to step in. The statement made evident their intent to try to vaccinate every child they possibly can even though there was a public outcry when they tried to make such vaccinations mandatory in 2007.

I do not believe California parents have become so cynical and apathetic that they are ready to give up on their rights and the health and welfare of their children. We have got to do a better job of spreading the word and getting more engaged in opposing this bill as it comes to a vote on the Senate floor. We are a small apostolate with limited resources. We need your support and participation. Here is what needs to be done.

First, take out your checkbooks and write a tax deductable check to Catholics for the Common Good Institute. You can find the address or make an online donation at http://ccgaction.org/donate/CCGIdonation. The threat is ongoing, so please consider signing up for monthly donations. We are overwhelmed by the volume of legislation geared to undermining children’s understanding of love, relationships, family, and marriage. We need your help.

Write a letter or make a phone call to your state senator and ask them to vote NO on AB499. Find your state senator at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html.

Write a letter to the editor. Express your feelings about this bill and ask others to join you in opposing it. If you write a letter to the editor, also send it to CCG so we can share it with other letter writers. Send it to info@ccgaction.org.

Call radio talk shows to explain what AB 499 does and why people need to oppose it.

If you know doctors or other medical professionals who will oppose AB499, ask them to write letters to the editor or commentaries.

Make announcements about this bill at meetings and events in which you participate. We need to let everyone know about the pending threat to our children.
Send this email to at least 5 other people and ask them to get involved in this issue.
And, most importantly pray.

Talking points and a copy of the letter that CCG sent to members of the Judiciary Committee are available for your reference.

We will continue to keep you up to date on activities to oppose AB499. Don’t forget, please send copies of your letters to the editor to info@ccgaction.org.

For the Common Good,
Bill May
Chairman, Catholics for the Common Good
415 651 4171
415 738 0421 (Fax)

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