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The Greater Good Movie

a documentary film about vaccines in America

The AAP: A kind of Gestapo?

October 16, 2013,

Do you want advice or orders from your pediatrician?

The idea that patients should be in charge of their health seems like a horrific inconvenience to the pediatricians leading the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and their frustration is evidenced by a disgusting form they recommend pediatricians require parents who decline vaccines (or “refuse” in their language) to sign.

The form is called, “Documenting Parental Refusal to Have Their Children Vaccinated.” Not only does the AAP want you to sign it if you decline/refuse any or all vaccines, but they also want pediatricians to document if you REFUSED to sign the form and to have a witness thereof.

Sounds a little like a tactic of Nazi Germany’s former secret police or Gestapo. And it raises many questions.

Under what authority does the AAP – a trade group funded in part by the drug industry – think they have the right to push patients to sign a form for which their is no legal requirement or need?

Why exactly should any parent sign this form and why exactly does the AAP think that it has any right to ask a parent to do so?

Why exactly does the AAP think it should be noted in your chart if you don’t sign and why does the AAP recommend pediatricians obtain legal advice about this issue?

More to the point, why would any parent accept a medical procedure that pediatricians have to resort to coercion to induce patients to use?

Why would any parent accept a procedure for which the pediatrician profits while bearing zero liability for its impact? (Not to mention the fact that the vaccine maker / drug industry giants bear zero liability as well.)

Would you buy a new car from a dealer or manufacturer who bore zero liability for it? Then why do so many people do that very thing with vaccines and their children’s health?

Why do so many people treat doctors like gods rather than the fallible people they truly are?

It really seems like the AAP has lost all touch with reality which is probably why more and more parents are choosing to maintain their children’s health through a healthy diet (not the nutritionally deficient diet advocated by federal health agencies), natural remedies and the support of a health, wellbeing, and prevention based health practitioner like a naturopath, chiropractor, functional medicine expert, or homeopath instead of someone whose expertise is dispensing drugs.

Don’t you wonder why more parents aren’t rising up in revolt and choosing to forego the drug based approach of the AAP and its backers?

Just a little food for thought.

Read the AAP’s “Refusal to Vaccinate” form.

Filed Under: News & Views Tagged With: AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics, coercion, forced vaccination, immunization, immunize, informed consent, mandatory vaccination, pharmaceutical, science, the greater good, vaccination, vaccine

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