The Raging War on Vaccine Choice: Is 2011 the Make or Break Year?

While the U.S. Supreme Court votes to protect Big Pharma from vaccine liability and states watch successful assaults on vaccine exemptions, the venerable consumer vaccine safety watchdog, the National Vaccine Information Center, organizes Americans to fight to protect exemp- tions with its new advocacy portal. Meanwhile, the Dallas International Film Festival hosts the world premiere of a groundbreaking documentary on vaccination.

On February 22, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. From now on, drug companies selling vaccines in America will not be held accountable by a jury of our peers in a court of law if those vaccines cause brain damage but could have been made less toxic. If you get paralyzed by a flu shot, or if your child has a serious reaction to a vaccine required for school and becomes learning disabled, epileptic, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic or developmentally disabled, you are on your own.

From now on—unless we stand up and draw the line on vac- cine mandates—the government can legally use police powers to force every American to get hundreds of vaccinations or be punished, while those hurt by vaccination can be more easily swept under the rug and left to fend for themselves.