Vermont: Say NO to Minor Consent for Vaccines
Our Stand: At-A-Glance
- Vermont’s Senate Committee on Health and Welfare is moving a bill that would make it legal for doctors to see children age 12+ and to vaccinate and medicate children, expressly without parental consent or notification.
- S151, an otherwise innocuous bill, contains one section that is being lobbied by the AAP:
- A minor 12 years of age or older may consent to medical care by a licensed physician related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted infection.
- Consent under this section shall not be subject to disaffirmance due to minority of the individual consenting. The consent of the parent or legal guardian of a minor consenting under this section shall not be necessary to authorize care as described in this subsection.
- A minor 12 years of age or older who has or is suspected to have a sexually transmitted infection may consent to treatment in accordance with the provisions of section 4226 of this title.
- Please contact the Senate Health & Welfare Committee and ask them to STRIKE Section 4 “CONSENT TO PREVENTIVE SERVICES AND TREATMENT BY MINORS” (link to latest markup of S.151, here.
- Drugs and vaccines carry both known and unknown risks. Worse yet, vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any injuries the shots may cause.
- Children should never be coerced into accepting vaccines or any medical treatment. And parents should never be cut out of the process. In fact, it is a violation of federal law to do so.
- Parents make these decisions since they assume 100% of the risk, should their child be sickened or killed by a shot. And sadly, this does happen. Over 860 reports have already been filed since 2000 concerning Vermont children under age 18, including 12 deaths.
- Positioned as “preventative,” a swath of “teen vaccines” would be enabled by this bill, to be given without parental knowledge or consent..
- Children are not equipped to adequately assess medical risk. That’s why the statutory age for medical consent is 18. Tell select members of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee to amend or vote no, now! We must protect our children by protecting parental rights.