Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Saturday that he had joined eleven other attorneys general in a letter calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) not to include the COVID-19 vaccination on the list of child immunizations.
“This week, the CDC acted without proper authorization in voting to release its child immunization recommendations before the close of the public comment period,” AG Marshall said. “But that’s just for starters. The CDC’s decision is unnecessary and in many states subjects children to retaliation for their parent or guardian’s decision to decline COVID-19 vaccinations.
“Fortunately, Alabama law prohibits institutions of education—both public and private – from requiring students to prove any new immunization status as a condition of attendance,” Marshall continued. “However, the CDC’s recent move is damaging to the nation at large and is another example of that body and the medical community forcing unproven policies and medicines on children who are not at risk of bodily harm.”
On Thursday, Attorney General Marshall and his colleague attorneys general wrote CDC Director Rochelle Wolensky, calling on the CDC not to include the COVID-19 vaccine in the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC), a program created by Congress in the wake of a measles outbreak to ensure that kids from low-income families have access to free vaccines.
The COVID-19 vaccine has been added to the VFC, but is not required for admission to a public school within the state of Alabama.
“The COVID-19 vaccine does not provide the same protection against life-threatening illnesses,” the attorneys general wrote in their letter. “Instead, it could put more kids at risk instead of protecting them, which is the purpose of the VCF. The CDC should not be treating kids in low-income households as lab experiments. Nor should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to use low-income families as cash cows.”
The COVID-19 vaccines have proven to be enormously ineffective and come with a number of side effects.
“Given the lack of need for kids to obtain the vaccines and their lack of effectiveness, adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of childhood immunizations amounts to little more than a payout to big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of kids and parents,” added the attorneys general.
The letter was originally written by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
The attorneys general of Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah also joined the letter.
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