All states allow a medical exemption and some states allow philosophical and/or religious
exemptions. However, the American Medical Association and ChildrensHealthCare.org
are actively promoting the abolishment of religious and philosophical exemptions.
Likewise, other corporate fanatics are also
challenging informed consent.
Scroll down for links to General Information and Exemption Letters.
An exemption form with lots of information to show you are making an informed choice
http://www.vaclib.org/legal/refuselt.htm
Finding Physicians, including doctors who take non-vaccinated children.
Can employees be forced to be vaccinated?
http://www.fairmeasures.com/asklawyer/questions/ask318.html
[Archive of FairMeasures page.]
"California: If you were not a health care worker, the answer would certainly be NO!"
See above link for the "may be's" for nurses or doctors.
http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/immunizations-policy-issues-overview.aspx
Immunization Legislation. Legislative activity on a variety of topics involved in immunization policy. (2011)
If all your state requires is a 'letter', consider modifying the model letters for Idaho:
Idaho Exemption form:
NewIdahoExemptionForm.doc |
NewIdahoExemptionForm.pdf
If you want a great letter written by a lawyer to an Oregon School Board
Letter_Oregon_School_District.htm
This letter was originally found at:
http://www.childscreen.org/Letter%20to %20the%20Oregon%20School%20District.htm, but is no
longer posted on this site so it has been moved to http://www.vaclib.org/pdf/letters/Letter_Oregon_School_District.htm
Religious exemption information for most states in one document!
Includes section on Hepatitis & religious objection:
Archived on Vaclib.org Source:
http://www.rutherford.org/documents/pdf/brief_bank/B18-RE~1.PDF [size= 45K]
Here is a great AFFIDAVIT that can be used for Daycare, Preschools and Schools.
Warning: consult your state laws before modifying any form on our site. Some states require exemption requests to be in the
language of the applicant.
AFFIDAVIT for Colorado Older Child (preschool and school age).
You can use this as a template for other states and simply replace the Colorado with your state and your state's statute.
Please read the entire post about birth certificates as well.
Download the Microsoft Word document here.
VaccineTruth.net/letters/AFFIDAVIT for Colorado Older Child.doc
Edit for your state and insert your state's statute.
(This affidavit is also available as a birth exemption, for adults in colleges and employment situations.
Our email address for Exemption information is posted here:
http://www.vaclib.org/contact.htm )
You do not have to prove membership in any religion to use a religious exemption.
See article taken from www.immunizationattorney.com archived on VacLib.org
A good Summary of the concept that one is not required to hold formal church membership can also be found at:
http://www.alaskawellness.com/archives/school-vacc.htm.
Archived on VacLib.org http://vaclib.org/sites/VacMilitary.html
http://www.geocities.com/titus2birthing/VacMilitary.html
Vaccine Exemption and Military Service
For our Religious page and reference to Military exemptions,
Click Here
For Help with Military Exemptions,
Click Here for list of organizations helping:
Avoiding Vaccinations:
Avoiding Vaccinations on VacLib.org
Two sample medical exemptions for traveling by an MD:
Cholera Sample Letter and Yellow Fever Sample Letter
Archive of letters here
Sample: Statement of Exemption for Personal or philosophical reasons
letters/Louisiana.doc
How to write a letter for personal Religious exemption from immunizations.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050628080012/http://chetday.com/relexempt.html
Scroll down for Statement [letter] Of Religious Objection To Immunization
http://www.rense.com/health/no.htm
Note: If you are writing a letter of objection based on religious beliefs, it is often sufficient to simply state that vaccinations ( * "immunizations") are against your religion without itemizing. Reasons for objection are commonly that:
Vaccines pollute the blood stream
Vaccines are created from aborted fetal tissue (murder)
Taking fetal tissue into the body is cannibalism
It is unethical to to put children at risk by vaccinating
Creating vaccines harm animals
Taking animal tissue into the body is contrary to vegetarian principles
May encourage the belief that one is protected from the results of immoral behavior.
Vaccination is a superstition
*Note 1: Vaccinations are NOT Immunizations.
*Note 2: Non-vaccinated does not mean Non-Immunized. Unvaccinated children have high degrees of immunity.
Warning: consult your state laws before modifying any form on our site or writing an exemption letter.
Some states require exemption requests to be in the
language of the applicant while other states require a state printed form.
Links to
FindLaw
and
WashLaw legal search engines.
Exemption information and links
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/laws-exemptions-emergency-powers
Exemption from Immunization Requirements - international adoption
Vaccination Information Resources (People and contact information) Listed by State & Canada
Catholic Religious Exemptions.
Also "You May Also Contact Children of God for Life for Assistance in Filing
A Religious Exemption in Your State. Please note that due to the large number of religious denominations, we cannot provide specific teachings for all faiths on this subject, however we will assist you with filing instructions and sample letters."
http://www.cogforlife.org/ See link on left side of page.
Finding a Health Care Lawyer in your area
Scroll to near the bottom of this page:
http://health-care.lawyers.com/Immunization-and-Vaccination-Laws-in-the-US.html
OSHA & Hep B
OSHA allows an exemption to recommendations for Hepatitis B vaccine for workers exposed to blood.
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=DIRECTIVES&p_id=2570#XIII
7. Hepatitis B Vaccination - Paragraph (f)(2). The Compliance Officer should determine
whether or not all occupationally exposed employees have had the hepatitis B vaccination
series made available to them after the training required by paragraph (g)(2)(vii)(I)
and within 10 working days of their initial assignment. The term "made available"
includes the healthcare professional's evaluation and arranging for the administration
of the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccination series to begin within the 10 days.
This includes all employees with occupational exposure, regardless of how often the
exposure may occur. Part-time and temporary employees are included in this coverage.
The vaccine does not have to be made available if the employer documents the exemption(s)
set forth in paragraph (f)(2). It does not have to be administered if the employer can
produce the signature of the employee on the mandatory declination form (See Appendix A
of 29 CFR 1910.1030.)
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=10052&p_table=STANDARDS
Regulations (Standards - 29 CFR)
Hepatitis B Vaccine Declination (Mandatory) - 1910.1030 App
[required language of declination form,
NOTE OUR ADDITION OF THE WORDS "
it is alleged that", which we have added for your protection to
prevent the admission of non-existent guilt for refusing an "immunization".]
"I understand that due to my occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious
materials I may be at risk of acquiring hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. I have been
given the opportunity to be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine, at no charge to myself.
However, I decline hepatitis B vaccination at this time. I understand that by declining this vaccine,
it is alleged that I continue to be at risk of acquiring hepatitis B, a serious disease.
If in the future I continue to have occupational exposure to blood or other potentially
infectious materials and I want to be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine, I can receive
the vaccination series at no charge to me."
If you want the above language so that you can simply print the page:
OSHAexemption.doc MS-DOC which can be modified and printed
OSHAexemption.pdf Adobe PDF file for printing.
Mexico
According to this page, now inactive:
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/immunization-policy/indications-recommendations-and-immunization-mandates
"Interestingly, some other countries such as Canada and Mexico do not utilize mandates and have generally higher
immunization rates than in the United States. However, in Canada there is universal health care coverage,
including immunizations, and in Mexico very successful countrywide immunization weeks three times per year
reach almost all of the children."
Mexico has a very agressive "immunization" program. If you are going to live in
Mexico and enroll your children in school, please
enquire locally for the information about how to exempt your children and protect them from the "routine" vaccinations that often occur
directly in the schools.
2011 Binational Immunization recommendation for Mexico compared to USA
www.sdiz.org/documents/schedules/11_binational-schedule-pr.pdf
[Immunization Form] Cartilla-vacunacion mexico 2015 (slides)
http://pediatramonterrey.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cartilla-vacunacion-mexico-2015.jpeg
Mexico vaccination policy (Info thanks to: (
http://www.theyucatantimes.com/)
1) By law, everybody in México has the right to have access to vaccines.
2) It is Free (although you can pay for them to your private physician...)
3) It is Mandatory: Every registered Mexican child is granted a “National Vaccination Card” (which is actually a 3 page booklet),
where their vaccination history has to be registered.
A complete vaccination record, shown and validated in the National Vaccination Card is mandatory for being enrolled in public schools,
as well as the most majority of private ones.
New Zealand
New Zealand does not have compulsory vaccination or financial penalties for non-vaccinators (yet).
They do require a vaccination certificate on entry into childcare or school. This is to identify
non-vaccinated children during a disease outbreak.
Information:
'Vaccination Information Network' (VINE)
http://www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/vaccination-in-new-zealand/
'Vaccination Information Network' (VINE) on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaccination-Information-Network-VINE/69667273997
The following is an edited copy of a page saved from the AMA web site in March 2002.
H-440.970 Religious Exemptions from Immunizations
Since religious/philosophic exemptions from immunizations endanger not only the health of the unvaccinated individual, but also the health of those in his or her group and the community at large, the AMA
(1) encourages state medical associations to seek removal of such exemptions in statutes requiring mandatory immunizations;
(2) encourages physicians and state and local medical associations to work with public health officials to inform religious groups and others who object to immunizations of the benefits of vaccinations and the risk to their own health and that of the general public if they refuse to accept them; and
(3) encourages state and local medical associations to work with public health officials to develop contingency plans for controlling outbreaks in exempt populations and to intensify efforts to achieve high immunization rates in communities where groups having religious exemptions from immunizations reside.
(CSA Rep. B, A-87; Reaffirmed: Sunset Report, I-97)
AMA's current article on this issue:
Why medical reasons should be the only exemptions from vaccinations
JPEG graphic of the AMA article above:
http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/ss99/LakelandRainBarrels/AMAExemptions.jpg
ChildrensHealthCare.org is an organization dedicated to promoting the legal removal of religious exemptions. They promote
the ideas that it is a child's right to be "immunized" but apparently never checked to find out that sanitation, nutrition and hygiene
are the great immunizations.
http://www.childrenshealthcare.org
Source: http://www.fairmeasures.com/asklawyer/questions/ask318.html from archive of 12-12-02 webpage:
Can employees be forced to be vaccinated? 12-12-02
I am being asked to produce documentation of immunization for measles, mumps and rubella for a medical/surgical nursing job. My nurse colleagues and I have never heard of this required for employment to any hospital. Does an employer have a right to force an individual into getting an MMR vaccination for the sole purpose of employment? Look forward to your comments. Thanks.
Ann Kiernan replies:
If you were not a health care worker, the answer would certainly be NO! But since the nature of nursing involves occupational
exposure to infectious diseases, the employer might be able to ask about your immunization status and perhaps even to require
re-vaccination if you do not have proof of current protection.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), after an applicant is given a conditional job offer, but before s/he starts
work, an employer may conduct medical examinations, regardless of whether they are related to the job, as long as it does so
for all entering employees in the same job category. But, after employment begins, an employer may make disability-related
inquiries and require medical examinations only if they are job-related and consistent with business necessity. Also, an
employer may require employees to submit to medical examinations that are required by another federal law or regulation.
29 C.F.R. 1630.15(e)(1998) See:
Enforcement Guidance on Disability-Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations of Employees Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
So, is immunity to measles, mumps and rubella either "job-related and consistent with business necessity" or required by other law? Maybe, according to our research at the Centers for Disease Control.
The CDC report strongly recommends that health care workers be immunized for hepatitis B, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella zoter, and tetanus.
Another federal agency, OSHA, says in its
Technical Manual governing hospitals [Chapter 1. IV B 2. b] that: "Vaccination for rubella, measles, mumps, and influenza is recommended, especially for women of child-bearing age."
[Note: [Chapter 1. III B 3.] also says, "
A safety committee and/or infection control committee should be established within the hospital. Periodic inspection and monitoring is the responsibility of the safety committee. Immunizations, other than the mandatory vaccination for Hepatitis B, should be offered to personnel at risk."
It is not directly relevant to your situation, but a recent federal appeals decision upheld a Navy captain's right to insist that both military and civilian personnel on his ship be vaccinated for anthrax when they were entering " high threat areas and contiguous waters". Mazares v. Dep't of the Navy, 302 F.3d 1382 (Fed. Cir. 2002)
Thanks for raising such an interesting issue. We have only scratched the surface here. This would be a good question to pose to your state nursing society or professional board for a definitive answer.
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