Parents protesting SB 276
Protests and Near-Arrests in Assembly Appropriations When SB 276 is Passed on Party Lines Ahead of Hearing
The ‘right to choose’ does not apply to childhood vaccination schedules in California
By Katy Grimes, August 30, 2019 2:28 pm
Despite threats of arrests by the California Highway Patrol, opponents of SB 276 by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) who attended the Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing Friday at the California State Capitol, stood on chairs and voiced their opposition to the bill which will end all medical exemptions to state mandated childhood vaccinations.
Most of the parents protesting already have “vaccine-injured” children, and want the medical exemption for their other children.
Committee Chairwoman Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez opened the hearing Friday announcing that she would take SB 276 out of the order of bills scheduled “for the people who traveled.” And then she announced that the bill was passed out of the committee “on a ‘B’ roll call,” meaning all committee Democrats voted “yes” to pass it out, and all Republicans voted “no.”
That’s when the shouting and chanting started.
“You have not represented California for all,” the SB 276 opponents chanted, and chanted and chanted, while Gonzalez carried on with her hearing.
In prior hearings on SB 276, Sen. Pan said, “I want to make sure that every child who needs a medical exemption gets one. That is part of the purpose of this bill.”
But it hasn’t worked out that way.
Parents say because of this bill, they are already running into doctors offices who won’t touch a valid vaccine exemption request. In calling 882 California doctors to ask for a medical exemption for a child who suffered anaphylactic reaction after their 12 month shots, they were told no.
“Unfortunately at our office we wouldn’t do that for you.”
“Our doctors do not write medical exemptions.”
“We have a strict rule here that all children are immunized without exception.”
A Capitol friend outside the hearing room said, “SB 277 got in between a mama and her cub. SB 276 gets in between the mama, cub and the pediatrician.” He’s referring to all of the mandatory vaccine bills: AB 2109, SB 277, SB 276.
And that is the primary objection by parents to Senate Bill 276 – it disallows medical exemptions, even for families with previously vaccine-injured children.
Senate Bill 276 would eliminate almost all vaccine medical exemptions, allegedly to crack down on fraud, California Globe reported. “Under this bill, State bureaucrats — not physicians –would be in charge of deciding whether children may receive medical exemptions and thus whether they can attend school.”
Sen. Pan claims “According to the author, in the first four months of 2019, 465 measles cases have been reported across 19 states, a number far surpassing last year’s number of cases,” SB 276 bill analysis says. However, these parent-opponents of SB 276 did their homework and found that more than half of the adult measles cases in California were vaccinated.
#CAdems #wedid get informed! More than half of adult measle cases in CA were vaccinated. https://t.co/mQsQlO3OXc pic.twitter.com/VRWVvJGswq
— NO!SB276 (@NSb276) August 30, 2019
More than 600 parents opposed to SB 276 peacefully rallied Wednesday at the Capitol, with most carrying signs around the outside of the Capitol, ahead of the Appropriations vote Friday. They reported talking with lawmakers and staffers about their concerns with SB 276.
While proponents of SB 276 call opponents “anti-vaxxers,” at every hearing I’ve attended since Sen. Pan’s first bill mandating vaccinations, AB 109, the majority of parents say they aren’t anti-vaccination, they just want to decide when their infants and toddlers receive the immunizations, rather than the state deciding.
Pan received $432k from healthcare/medical interests. And Pan says the contributions did not influence his votes. Laughable since he's the author of AB2109, SB277 and SB276. And now he gunning for every adult to be vaccinated w/shingles & flu shots. #WeDid https://t.co/JLls13WD2j
— (((Silent Spring))) (@SilentSpring05) August 27, 2019
Parental choice and decision making over childhood vaccinations was removed in California because of a state law passed in 2012. Assembly Bill 2109 by then-Assemblyman Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), orders that California school-aged children will not be allowed to attend public school without proof that parents have been counseled, and children vaccinated, in accordance with the vaccination schedule of the federal Center for Disease Control.
The only exception to the law was a personal belief or religious exemption – the only way Pan could get the bill passed.
As attorney Mary Holland warned this week at California Globe, “If the government wants to mandate vaccinations, it must ensure that they are safe for all children.” And that is all parents want.
Cal Assembly members,
Of the fraudulent exemptions cases that the Medical Board of California has investigated to date, there have been no fraudulent medical exemptions found.
The REAL reason SB276 is in front of you is these Pharma Donors to @DrPanMD (partial list of donors) pic.twitter.com/CescbC9mff— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) August 30, 2019
Four years later, Sen. Richard Pan came back with another bill, Senate Bill 277, to remove even the personal belief/religious exemption, following the measles outbreak at Disneyland. “We are in a situation where there are not enough people being vaccinated to contain these dangerous diseases,” Pan said at a news conference in February 2015. But he refused to address parents’ concerns about the volume and safety of vaccinations given to children.
But that wasn’t enough.
Sen. Pan came back again in 2019 with SB 276 , to address the medical exemptions parents were receiving from family physicians. SB 276 requires the Department of Public Health to develop a statewide standardized medical exemption request form for immunization requirements; requires the request form to be the only medical exemption documentation that a governing authority may accept; requires a request form to be approved or denied only by the State Public Health Officer.
Read all of California Globe’s reporting on SB 276:
The ‘Right To Choose’ Does not Apply to Childhood Vaccinations Under Senate Bill 276
SB 276 Will Violate the Doctor-Patient Relationship by Eliminating Medical Exemptions
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Thank you for sharing the truth! This is the first news report I’ve read that has been honest.
We are not anti vaxxers. We are pro medical freedom for ALL!!
Thank you!!!!
Thank you for reporting the TRUTH. We have so many crooked media writers right now and you are making the right choice! Thank you!
Thank you for your true and accurate journalism!
Thank you for an article that accurately represents the reality of this situation. These mandates are not about public health, they are about control, discrimination, and politicians writing policy for kickbacks from corporate donors.
Great factual article! This may very well BE the only truthful news reported on this topic. Ever. Thank you for being our voice!
SB 276 does NOT end all medical exemptions; it provides oversight of medical exemptions.
SB 276 effectively ends medical exemptions because it has disallowed a physician’s medical judgement in determining whether a medical condition could be worsened by a vaccine. The “oversight” (cute term by the way!) in the bill requires that a state employee determines whether the child has suffered a table injury as described in the vaccine compensation program. If the child has not suffered a vaccine table injury they are not allowed to get an exemption. Doctors that were giving legitimate exemptions in order to PREVENT a vaccine injury, were told that they should not write them. This legislation basically wants to codify the bullying that has been going on by legislators towards doctors that dare to stand up against the unreasonable expectation that every child can safely receive a vaccine- until they prove otherwise by becoming seriously injured. The vaccine compensation program was developed in order to compensate someone for a lifelong injury from vaccines. It was not developed to provide a guideline for which medical conditions would necessitate a temporary or permanent medical exemption. Only a physician working with ones patient would be able to do that. We can’t require that every child suffer a lifelong injury before getting a medical exemption. But I’m sure the above poster already understands that, and simply does not CARE. Unfortunately there are too many individuals who believe that media sound bites encompass all the risks of a vaccine, when really all they focus on is anaphylactic shock-leaving out many other medical problems that can impact a child’s health after a vaccine is received.
Yea right. Try getting one now even for the narrow CDC near death events. Call 100’s of doctors and hear no. They are afraid of the witch hunt already starting.
Essentially ends them all. Your child will have to go into anaphylactic shock or a comma in order to be exempt from just ONE vaccine. They’ll still have to have the rest in order to stay in school.
Thank you. It is refreshing to see real news journalism again. Let’s hope the others follow your lead.
Thank you for the honest reporting! So rare to find truthful media on this topic!!! God bless you!
So when do you start recalling these politicians???
No on Newsom
No on Pan
No on Gonzalez (Fletcher)
No on Becerra
No on Padilla
No on everyone except Moorlach and McClintock
Yes, we need to start recall procedures if we want to have any freedoms left at all.
Lots of false anti vaccine propaganda in this article.
Brian, this is not anti-vaccine at all This is about parents and doctors being able to make the decisions without the state getting in between them. All of the parents I have talked to aren’t anti-vaccines; but they are questioning why even vaccine-injured children are not given medical considerations regarding future vaccinations, as well as other siblings. That’s all.
If you read the entire article you will see that.
I read the whole article. That’s how I know it’s dishonest anti-vaccine propaganda.
Make no mistake, this isn’t about “parental rights” or “health freedom” or anything like that. Those are all excuses for pure anti-vaccine activism. Look at the details-
The author claims in the first paragraph that the “will end all medical exemptions to state mandated childhood vaccinations”.
Nope. The bill says the opposite. If you can point out where the bill aims to “end all medical exemptions”, I’ll donate $10,000 to the charity of your choice.
In the second paragraph, the author says “most of the parents protesting already have “vaccine-injured” children”.
Nope. The scare quotes are appropriate, because for the vast majority of cases, the children of these parents are not vaccine-injured, but rather have conditions completely unrelated to vaccination (like autism, etc.), but the parents are looking for a scapegoat.
The anti-sb276 crowd is full of anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists, like RFK Jr. and those you quote in the article. If they really cared about “informed consent”, then why are they fine with promoting such blatant misinformation?
Contrary to their chants and picket signs-
Yes, vaccines are extensively tested for safety and efficacy.
Yes, they are tested against placebos.
Yes, the unvaccinated are far more likely to become infected compared to the vaccinated.
So why do the “no on SB276” people allow such dishonesty in their activism?
Brian it’s sad that you are so blind. If you want to see it then go look at Hep B given on day ONE of a child’s life. They only studied it for 5 days before bringing it to the FDA and got it approved. Oh and when it comes to a placebo, the Aluminium adjuvant is what they use to test for safety. *Not an inert substance.
The saddest part, Brian, is the fact that people like you want to assume that these mandated medical toxic products/procedures are necessary for the sake of human kind.
We survived with our them before and we had the healthiest nation. Now, along with the rise of autoimmune diseases, ADD, asthma, Gillian Bare Syndrome, Autism, there is the same rise in Vaccines.
We went from 3 different vaccines ( 16 shots) to 16 vaccines (72 vaccines) and they have never ONCE tested the schedule. If they have please show me I would like to see it, I have been searching for 9 months.
I thought they were nothing but safe, effective, and save lives… until I looked Deeper into what I was being told.
Brian, if you want to see it for yourselve go to the CDC website and look at the Pre-licensure studies and see what the Regulatory aggencies think is “safe”.
If you look at your food labels, why wouldn’t you look at your vaccine label? You would be surprised to know the amount of Aluminium in the Hep B vaccine contains 14.8 x more Aluminium than what is the allowed INGESTED amount…
Read between the lines, do your own research, and don’t damn people for wanting to choose what medical procedures they want for their child, when those parents have done more research than most nurses and doctors have. Not saying the doctors and nurses are dumb, they just have been going along doing the standard procedures, doing what they are told…
Don’t tell people they are something they are not.
Just because I don’t want to vaccinate at the rate the CDC recommends, doesn’t make me, or any other that shares my views “Anti-vaccine”
Listin to the stories… and you’ll see they are all the same..
My child was vaccinated with DTAP/ MMR and Regressed and my Doctor denied any connection…
if Autism comes at the age that we are vaccinating… then shouldn’t we just vaccinate when they are older than 1&2&3 years old.
Go look at the CDC schedule, tell me if it okay with you. Then, go look at the Adult CDC schedule and get caught up. Chances are you haven’t been vaccinated in 3-5 years and your vaccines have worn off.. So, go get vaccinated you walking “Anti-vaxxer”
Wow! Almost every sentence of this comment is complete nonsense, but thanks for proving me correct that this is not about “health freedom”, but rather it’s all about your anti-vaccine conspiracies.
For example, Stephanie said “They only studied [the Hep B vaccine] for 5 days before bringing it to the FDA and got it approved.” This is completely false, and just a few minutes looking up the clinical trials reveals that there were literally thousands of people involved in dozens of studies and they lasted several years. Anti-vaccine fraudsters make up nonsense and know their followers are too gullible to notice.
Brian it’s sad that you are so blind. If you want to see it then go look at Hep B given on day ONE of a child’s life. They only studied it for 5 days before bringing it to the FDA and got it approved. Oh and when it comes to a placebo, the Aluminium adjuvant is what they use to test for safety. *Not an inert substance.
The saddest part, Brian, is the fact that people like you want to assume that these mandated medical toxic products/procedures are necessary for the sake of human kind.
We survived with our them before and we had the healthiest nation. Now, along with the rise of autoimmune diseases, ADD, asthma, Gillian Bare Syndrome, Autism, there is the same rise in Vaccines.
We went from 3 different vaccines ( 16 shots) to 16 vaccines (72 vaccines) and they have never ONCE tested the schedule. If they have please show me I would like to see it, I have been searching for 9 months.
I thought they were nothing but safe, effective, and save lives… until I looked Deeper into what I was being told.
Brian, if you want to see it for yourselve go to the CDC website and look at the Pre-licensure studies and see what the Regulatory aggencies think is “safe”.
If you look at your food labels, why wouldn’t you look at your vaccine label? You would be surprised to know the amount of Aluminium in the Hep B vaccine contains 14.8 x more Aluminium than what is the allowed INGESTED amount…
Read between the lines, do your own research, and don’t damn people for wanting to choose what medical procedures they want for their child, when those parents have done more research than most nurses and doctors have. Not saying the doctors and nurses are dumb, they just have been going along doing the standard procedures, doing what they are told…
Don’t tell people they are something they are not.
Just because I don’t want to vaccinate at the rate the CDC recommends, doesn’t make me, or any other that shares my views “Anti-vaccine”
Listin to the stories… and you’ll see they are all the same..
My child was vaccinated with DTAP/ MMR and Regressed and my Doctor denied any connection…
if Autism comes at the age that we are vaccinating… then shouldn’t we just vaccinate when they are older than 1&2&3 years old.
Go look at the CDC schedule, tell me if it okay with you. Then, go look at the Adult CDC schedule and get caught up. Chances are you haven’t been vaccinated in 3-5 years and your vaccines have worn off.. So, go get vaccinated you walking “Anti-vaxxer” ????
Repeal the the 1986 Vaccine. This will all be settled.
I appreciate this article, keep it up.
So ….the “leadership” here … is ??????? Del Bigtree? Who is in charge for the opposition? Nobody? This is just “Occupy Wall Street” 2.0? Unbelievable. Shouting and carrying signs ….that’s the plan? How many people did Del Bigtree sponsor with some of that “VAXXED” $$$ to fun for public office, to oppose ALL infringements upon individual civil rights Why hasn’t this movement reached out beyond its cult-like, narrow base to others seeking to protect civil rights? I can only image the horror on the faces of most of these virtue-signally people if they were to approach an organization like the NRA. Either you are for ALL individual civil rights… or lose ALL of them. You cannot pick-and-choose which ones for which interest group to protect. Divide-and-rule is as old as humanity. You would think by now most who have caught on. But …lets re-visit OWS shall we? And wow .. they really knocked it out of the proverbial ballpark. Wall Street is begging for mercy. Stop this cult-like Postmodernist behavior. Start partnering with other groups outside your base. Support ALL Rights.
If government was looking to protect your life, liberty and property, they wouldn’t be the first ones looking to take it.
Looks like the Harmaceutical shills are squatting the comments section here. Hopefully, critical thinking skills haven’t been lost.
Any government which claims the power to inject a substance into the body of a human who is objecting to the injection is a RAPIST government. Anyone who can support rape by coercion and abuse of authority is truly brainwashed.
If all parents will pull their children out of public and private schools, I suspect they will be taken more seriously. Then if the CA legislature tries to compel them back and threatens to outlaw home schooling, these parents can threaten to leave the state. They must be willing to follow through on this, even if they have to camp out in other states. CA can’t have students when there are no school age children there. I realize such threats will be cumbersome, but this is necessary to force politicians to surrender.