The number of vaccines on the CDC’s recommended childhood schedule has increased dramatically since the passage of the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which exempted vaccine manufacturers from liability for injury.
Children following the standard CDC schedule will receive 73 vaccine disease doses by the time they are 18 years-old, including four prenatal doses (flu and Tdap).
As parents have begun to balk at this bloated schedule, state governments and their pharmaceutical partners have turned increasingly to strong-arm tactics to enforce the regimen, including restricting school exemption rights and trying to bypass parents altogether. Colorado is no exception to this trend.
Senate Bill 20-163
Restricting Vaccine Exemption Rights
Senate Bill 21-016
Bypassing Parental Consent for Vaccines
COVID Policy
Putting Children Last
Colorado Senate Bill 20-163 took effect in autumn 2021. SB163 is a coercive vaccine law that was written with the help of Pharma lobbyists. It was passed, based on dishonest talking points, by the state legislature in June 2020 on a party line vote. SB163 takes control over private medical decisions away from parents and cedes it to unelected officials at the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE).
Emboldened by the passage of SB20-163, the Colorado Legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 21-016 in June 2021, again on a party line vote (Democrats for, Republicans against). Gov. Polis signed it into law on July 5, 2021. SB21-016 permits administration of HepB and HPV (Gardasil) vaccines to children as young as 9 years old without parental knowledge or consent, potentially at school-based clinics. Are we facing a slippery slope in Colorado where State authorities will increasingly push parents aside to claim more and more power over children’s health and medical choices?
Current state and federal COVID policies seem poised to keep our kids in a state of fear and anxiety, and under pressure to submit to an experimental vaccine. These policies, which deny the importance of natural immunity and put almost all eggs in the vaccine basket, led pediatric health leaders to declare a mental health “state of emergency” among Colorado’s youth population in May, 2021. Yet many school districts in Colorado kept strict COVID protocols in place for most of the 2021-22 school year.