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Monday URGENT Action needed before 10AM | Save our Vaccine Rights Bill

IMMEDIATE, URGENT CALL TO ACTION. HELP US SAVE OUR VACCINE RIGHTS LEGISLATION LT GOV TATE REEVES HAS TAKEN ACTION TO ENSURE OUR PERSONAL BELIEF EXEMPTION BILL DIES! TODAY IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO SAVE OUR BILLS. PLEASE MAKE THESE CALLS! 1. LT. GOV REEVES' OFFICE BETWEEN 8AM & 10AM TODAY we need at least 200 phone calls made to have any hope of saving our bill. 601.359.3200 Please leave a message with his secretary: "I support Vaccine Rights Senate Bill 2636 and am urging the Lt. Gov. to ask for a committee vote today." Ask to leave your name and number with your message. 2. SENATOR GRAY TOLLISON'S OFFICE BETWEEN 8AM & 10AM TODAY 601.359.2395 Please leave a message with the secretary: "I support Vaccine Rights SB2636 and urge Senator Tollison to call a committee meeting today after the senate adjourns to take a vote on this bill." If Senator Tollison fails to do this, our bill will be dead. Please ask and encourage other like-minded friends and family to make these calls too!

3. Please make these calls across the day today as well: • Senator Dean Kirby: 601.359.3234 • Senator Brice Wiggins: 601.359.3234 (Kirby & Wiggins share a secretary, ask for her to leave separate messages for each Senator) "I support Vaccine Rights legislation Senate Bill 2636 and want the Senator to call a committee meeting and take a vote." Ask to leave your name and phone number. If you happen to be a constituent, make sure you express that. ______________ • Speaker Philip Gunn: 601.359.3300 "I support Vaccine Rights House Bill 1439 and am urging the Speaker to ask for a vote to be taken in the health committee once it passes out of education." Ask to leave your name and number with your message. If you happen to be a constituent, make sure you express that. • Representative Sam Mims: 601.359.3320 "I support Vaccine Rights legislation House Bill 1439. Please tell Representative Mims I would like him to call a committee meeting and take a vote once it passes out of education." Ask to leave your name and phone number. If you happen to be a constituent, make sure you express that.

EXTRA: Please send emails to the following addresses: with a very short note similar to the messages you left with the secretaries to: Subject Line: Support Vaccine Rights [email protected] (Lt. Gov. Reeves) [email protected] (Sen. Tollison) [email protected] (Sen. Kirby) [email protected] (Sen. Wiggins) ___________ Subject Line: Support Vaccine Rights HB1439: [email protected] (Speaker Gunn) [email protected] (Rep. Mims)

IF YOU ARE ON FACEBOOK - FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE POSTED IN YOUR REGIONAL GROUPS. Constituents of these leaders will have detailed instructions forthcoming there. If you have not joined your regional group, please fill out our membership form here. Once you join your secured regional Facebook group, please be sure you have all notifications on.

Remember, we have resources for our activist under "Activist Links" below, just scroll down. Look for our 2017 Talking Points for printing to have in front of you when you contact your lawmakers to ask for support. As always, talk about this issue everywhere you go and help us grow our numbers! Thank you all in advance for making calls! MaryJo Perry & Lindey Magee 601.540.1665 | 601.341.4359 CoDirectors, Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights MPVR.org

IMMEDIATE CALL TO ACTION! MPVR has identical Personal Belief Exemption bills in the House and Senate! The leadership in both houses are trying to kill our bills! ALL MEMBERS please call, in this order, and leave a polite message with the Secretary: SENATE: SB2636 "Please support Vaccine Rights legislation Senate Bill 2636" Ask to leave your name and phone number. Tell them to make note if you are a constituent: • Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves: 601.359.3200 • Sen Dean Kirby: 601.359.3234 • Sen Brice Wiggins: 601.359.3234 (Kirby & Wiggins share a secretary, ask for her to leave separate messages for each Senator) • Sen Gray Tollison: 601.359.2395 HOUSE: HB1457 "Please support Vaccine Rights legislation House Bill 1457" Ask to leave your name and phone number. Tell them to make note if you are a constituent • Speaker Philip Gunn: 601.359.3300 • Representative Sam Mims: 601.359.3320 _____________ IF YOU ARE ON FACEBOOK - FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE POSTED IN YOUR REGIONAL GROUPS. Constituents of these leaders will have detailed instructions forthcoming there. If you have not joined your regional group, please fill out our membership form here. Once you join your secured regional Facebook group, please be sure you have all notifications on. _____________ You can find our 2017 Talking Points here for printing to have in front of you when you contact your own lawmakers to ask for support. Lindey and I will be updating and sending out calls to action in the coming days. Please be checking email as well as our Facebook groups and website www.MPVR.org As always, talk about this issue everywhere you go and help us grow our numbers! Thank you all in advance for making calls! Sincerely, MaryJo Perry CoDirector MS Parents for Vaccine Rights 601.540.1665

Appointments With Vaxxed Producer - Book Now!

Happy New Year!

We are so excited for the opportunities before us over the next two weeks!

As you may know, MPVR is having Del Bigtree flown in from California to meet with our legislators!

Del will be at the capitol on Tuesday, Jan 10th and Wednesday, Jan 11th. Del is the 2x Emmy Award winning medical investigative journalist and producer of the daytime talk show, The Doctors. More importantly, he is the producer of the the documentary film, Vaxxed: From Cover Up to Catastrophe.

If you would like to set up an appointment between Del and your legislator, please let me know ASAP. He is phenomenally gifted at communicating with lawmakers and we are fortunate to have him.

PLEASE make the most of this opportunity. He will be available both Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 9 until 11, both afternoons for about an hour after 1:00, and at 4:00 on Wednesday. Anyone in the Jackson area who can make it both days, try to utilize Tuesday morning. Please send me a private FB message, call, or shoot me a text.

Sincerely,

Cheryl Peeples
Regional Director, MPVR
662.419.2111

Mississippi Medical Association Attacks a Film They've Never Seen

Friends of MPVR at the Capitol brought to our attention today that they received an embarrassingly misinformed email from the Mississippi State Medical Association (MSMA) regarding the documentary movie, Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe. 

We understand that calling vaccine safety into question threatens their current program, but it's hard to imagine MSMA thinks they can criticize a movie they have never seen. Vaxxed is a documentary that presents evidence of government fraud. It is in no way an anti-vaccine film, and to label it that way is dishonest. It is the position of MPVR that anyone responsible for legislating vaccine law should become informed of this most massive medical fraud in history. 

While the MSMA is an organization of doctors, is it not arrogant and irresponsible that they would expect Mississippi legislators to accept a critical review of a film they have never seen?

We challenge medical professionals  and legislators across the state to see this film. One cannot make informed, intelligent decisions without all the data.

The allegation that the CDC has committed fraud must be examined by both medical professionals and lawmakers alike. It is increasingly clear (see the email review above as exhibit A) that the organizations we trust and rely on are failing to do their job in protecting the safety and wellbeing of our children. 

The Mississippi State Medical Association insults the intelligence of Mississippi lawmakers by trying to influence them to bury their heads in the sand while undermining the people of Mississippi who advocate truth and transparency. Is there any wonder why there is growing mistrust between the people and the medical community? What is it these doctors and this organization is so desperate to keep you from seeing?

Find out! You can see where and when Vaxxed is playing across the state, purchase tickets and watch the trailer here.
You can also learn the truth about Dr. Andy Wakefield in this MPVR post. 

HB938 | Crusade at the Capitol Cardboard Testimonials

For too long, parents in Mississippi have lived under the most oppressive vaccine laws and policies in the nation,. We have been lethargic and un-engaged with our lawmakers allowing the drug lobbies and those who profit from vaccines to take advantage of vulnerable young mothers and little children.

It is wrong for an agenda-driven government agency to be granted power to systematically supersede the advice of our children's doctors. Yet, in Mississippi many families and doctors testify that the Mississippi State Department of Health has habitually denied doctors' medical exemptions for vaccine vulnerable children. This inflicts great hardship on MS families, yet it is fiercely defended today by those same lobbies who put it in place years ago.

The balances in our system that should stand between corporate power and our infants and children do not exist in MS's childhood vaccination program. The government is not our children's pediatrician. The days of complacency in Mississippi are OVER. We are fighting back and we are not going away!

On March 2, 2016 Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights gathered at the Mississippi State Capitol to Rally and lobby for HB938 that will repair Mississippi's broken medical exemption process. Activist and parents across Mississippi demonstrated, using cardboard testimonials, the hardship of living under the most restrictive medical exemption vaccine law in the nation. 

 

 

Mississippi's HB938 | The Facts on HB938 and what it will & will not do

WHAT IS HB938?

HB938 repairs our broken medical exemption process. It returns power to our doctors without coercion and erroneous oversight of government bureaucrats at the state health department.

No other state in the nation's medical exemption process looks like Mississippi's. The MSDH has behaved recklessly with the lives of our children, denying our doctor's requests following vaccine injury (via phone rather than in writing so there is no paper trail) while they lie, telling our legislators they accept all requests.

We are able to provide any legislator who is interested with proof that this is indeed what is happening. The people of MS desperately need lawmakers to pass 938 without amendments so that our doctors may practice medicine without the thumb of the MSDH in their backs.

This would only bring us in line with the rest of the nation. As things are now, we do NOT have a medical exemption, but rather...a political one.

Mississippians across the state continually reach out for help in securing a medical exemption they desperately need and deserve for their injured or vaccine susceptible children. Many others have fled our state.

There is NOTHING controversial about giving Doctors the right to practice medicine as they see fit. EVERY OTHER STATE, all of which are healthier than MS, has exercised this very thing for decades. It is time, Mississippi. Let's make this happen!

What HB938 WILL do:
 


• Enforce the current MS law which says any duly licensed physician can write a medical exemption for a child. 
 


• Repair and enforce Mississippi's broken medical exemption process by restoring the authority of physicians to issue a letter of medical exemption to the schools on behalf of a vaccine vulnerable child, without coercion, erroneous oversight, and interference of government bureaucrats at the State Department of Health who have NEVER EXAMINED THE CHILD. 




• Prevent agenda-driven government bureaucrats from putting particularly vulnerable children at risk by requiring those children to be vaccinated against their physician's best advice, as is the current and habitual practice of the MSDH. 



• Bring MS's unreasonably restrictive medical exemption laws more closely in line to that of 49 other healthier states. Almost all other states not only allow religious and/or personal belief exemptions, but they also allow out-of-state physicians, and nurse practitioners, to write medical exemptions to schools, without bureaucratic intervention. These laws in other states have been in place for decades and they work well. 



• Require a physician to examine the child before writing a letter of exemption. (Why is it that some are ok with a bureaucrat who has NEVER SEEN A CHILD denying a medical exemption, yet are freaking out over a physician who HAS examined the child granting one?)



• Create a more family friendly Mississippi for those who are living here and moving here from other states. Many educated and professional, tax paying families are leaving Mississippi. Others won't move here due to our overbearing vaccine law. 



• Give MS children access to true medical exemptions, rather than MS's current “political exemption” which requires legislators get involved to exhort MSDH to honor physician's letters of exemption for medical reasons. 
 

• Save money by eliminating bureaucratic rubber stamping of physician's requests for exemption. If MSDH is granting all requests as they say, taxpayers don't need the added expense of including them in the process.



• Be GOOD for MS children who are currently discriminated against and prevented from attending school in Mississippi, while they, in fact, would be permitted in any school outside of Mississippi.



What HB938 will NOT do:



• Not allow parents to claim religious or personal belief waivers to the vaccine schedule. 



• Not result in massive numbers of children that have no vaccines. Currently, the exemption rate nationwide, including religious and personal belief exemptions, is 1.7%, which is the lowest in history for the most vaccines given in history. 



• Not create an environment where children in schools will be “exposed” by sitting next to a partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, vaccine-vulnerable child. Common sense tells us that missing a shot does not equal infection. Exposure simply cannot occur in the absence of infection.

 

Call to Action | & MPVR Capitol Lobby Day Highlights

MPVR Lobby day at the capitol yesterday was AMAZING. We had a great crowd of activists and it is apparent that we are being heard! Let's ride this wave of momentum and get this done!

Please do NOT wait for someone else to do the work we need YOU to do. It is going to take all of us. The medical community is pushing back HARD, but we are the voters...they can only listen if we are in their ear.

We need EVERYONE making calls to the representatives on the Education Committee. We expect that our bill will be brought up in committee. We need a majority vote to make it onto the next step which is a vote on the house floor.

Our bill author, Representative Mark Formby has asked that we get 16+ cosponsors out of the Education Committee to make certain it passes! That is our priority at this time.

How do we meet that goal?

...We need YOU calling & asking for their support. If/when you have that; ask them to go to the clerk's office and sign on to House Bill 130 then, notify MaryJo and I or your regional director in the appropriate facebook group.  

You can text details: 
lindey: 601.3four1.4359
maryjo: 601.5four0.1665

Use our talking points and confidently call them! Our legislation is being talked about; they expect to hear from us. As we approach the weekend, this is an excellent time to call them at home! 

Tips:
• Focus first on those who represent your district if that applies to any of these 
• Work on to the others focusing on those who have not yet committed to cosign
• Be kind and gracious; stick to the talking points. :)

These representatives make up the House Education Committee:

John L. Moore, Chairman R |  601.946.5833 | rankin simpson  |  Cosponsored

Alyce G. Clarke, Vice-Chairman D  |  662.827.7261 | 662.827.5685 | home: 601.354.5453 | hinds    

William 'Tracy' Arnold  R  |  662.728.9951 | supportive | committed to Cosponsor

Nick Bain  D  |  662.287.1620 | home: 601.287.1620 | alcorn

Mark Baker  R  | 601.824.7455 | home: 601.824.3297 | madison, rankin | Cosponsored 

Toby Barker  R  | 601.307.3802 | 601.307.3802 | forrest, lamar

Randy P. Boyd  R  |  home: 662.282.4045  |  662.231.0133 | itawamba, lee, tishomingo  | Cosponsored 

Clara Burnett  D  |  662.363.2531 | coahoma, panola, quitman, tate, tunica

Charles Busby  R  |  228.769.0501 | jackson

Credell Calhoun  D  |  601.949.7561  |  601.291.2243  | hinds

Gary Chism  R  |  662.327.0777 | clay, lowndes, oktibbeha  | CoSponsor

Carolyn Crawford  R  |  228.452.5029 |  228.861.7303  |  harrison Cosponsor

Becky Currie  R  |  601.833.5953 | copiah, franklin, lincoln

Dennis DeBar  R  |  601.394.4400  | forrest, george, greene, perry, wayne

Reecy L. Dickson  D  |  662.726.9255 | kemper, lauderdale, noxubee

Chuck Espy  D  |  662.627.4182 | coahoma, quitman

James Evans  D  |  601.948.0517 | hinds

Mark Formby  R  |  bill author :)

Herb Frierson  R  |  601.795.6285  | lamar, pearl river

Jeffrey S. Guice R  |  601.576.2508  |  harrison, jackson

Eugene Forrest Hamilton  R  |  662.895.5765  |  desoto  | Cosponsor

Gregory Holloway  D  |  601.894.4228  | claiborne, copiah, hinds

Wanda Jennings  R  |  662.349.3673  |  desoto

Rita Martinson  R  |  601.856.4977  |  madison

Steve Massengill  R  |  662.815.5000  |  662.224.4061  | benton, lafayette, marshall, union 

Brad Mayo  R  |  662.234.8111  |  lafayette

Pat Nelson  R  |  901.493.9393  |  desoto

Rufus Straughter  D  |  662.247.2728  | humphreys, issaquena, sharkey, washington, yazoo

Sara R. Thomas  D   |  662.887.2628 | sunflower

Joseph L. Warren  D  |  601.797.4919 | covington, forrest, jefferson, davis, marion, simpson

Tom Weathersby  R  |  601.720.4552 | copiah, rankin, simpson

Begin with any of these who are your representatives and let them know you are their constituent, but call as many as you can. If you don't reach them, leave a message letting them know you are seeking support of HB130 and would like them to return your call. If you don't hear back from them please call again later or the next day. Persistence is key :)

If you haven't signed our petition yet please do that. Link is at the top of the blog. Please also share it via facebook and email!

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Our lobby day at the capitol was fantastic. We are hearing that the vaccine rights legislation is being discussed much and are so pleased to see that there is copious support, just as there was last year in the house. Knowing our bill has the opportunity to be heard in committee has provided us the hope and ambition to really fight for it's success. 

Leading up to the event, MaryJo had two radio interviews; she was fantastic!

listen here: Download STAR 93.5 MaryJo

Our bill's author is a true champion for this important legislation! Representative Formby met with some of us Thursday morning to discuss our legislation.

We have some precious mascots that are so worth fighting for!

A few more from the day...

As the mother of a vaccine injured child who has been bullied by the MSDH, our Lauren being brave and sharing her story during speaker Gunn's ideas tour made quite the impression on representative Bill Kincade.

 

 

We had several men at the capitol this year fighting for our cause; here are just a few of them.

 

Warriors going to battle. 

Romans 8:31: What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 

MPVR Lobby Day At The Capitol

The 2015 session of the Mississippi Legislature is now upon us and we need you!

Please join us to lobby the MS Legislature to support our bill that will give parents in MS the same rights parents have in 48 other states!

When:   THURSDAY JANUARY 8th 2015 
                 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Where:  MS State Capitol
                 400 High Street
                 Jackson, MS 39201

You may need change for parking. We will update with other parking details. 

Initially, we will meet in the lobby of the Capitol near the steps in the rotunda between 9 and 9:30 a.m. There is a table reserved for us in the rotunda at 12:30 where we will be giving out information to our legislators as they come and go and also provide coffee and baked goods.

We are planning to also have a rally on the capitol steps sometime in late January or early February, so please check back for details.

Many find it helpful to download and print our talking points here: 

Talking Points 2015

If you happen to be on FaceBook you can join our event so we will have an idea of how many to expect.

Facebook Event Page

Please don't hesitate to call or message with any questions or concerns you may have. 

We need to make an impression if we are going to get this done. Hope to see you there!

MaryJo Perry and Lindey Magee
MPVR CoDirectors
601.540.1665

CALLING ALL MISSISSIPPI NURSES TO ACTION!

It has been brought to our attention that the Director of Nursing from the MS State Department of Health (MSDOH), Kay Henry, during a recent presentation given at the Mississippi Nurses Association Convention specifically spoke about our organization (Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights) and is asking all nurses to call their legislators and tell them NOT to support MPVR's bill for personal belief/religious vaccine rights for MS parents!

The MSDOH nurse also announced that she spoke to the Executive Director of the MS Nurses' Association (MNA) and asked MNA to also come out publicly against our bill for personal belief/religious vaccine rights for MS parents by actively lobbying against us. MNA does have a professional PAID lobbyist!

We need ALL of our supporting nurses to go NOW and call and/or email the MNA's Political Action Committee and Executive Director Teresa Malone at:

[email protected] 601.898.0670

Please let her know:
• You are an active member of MPVR who
    1. Supports parental rights regarding the schedule of 49 vaccines by kindergarten in a state where the children are the most heavily vaccinated in the WORLD yet are the most unhealthy in the US.
    2. believes that MS parents deserve the same rights 48 other healthier states have including all of our bordering states.

• (You are also a member of MNA -if that be the case) You feel that she will alienate the many nurses in this state who believe in the parents right to choose for their children.

While MS parents DO NOT have a paid professional lobbyist, our only hope is for our members to TAKE ACTION. Without your voice, our cause is without hope.

PLEASE SHARE personally across social media and encourage others to share with friends who are nurses and in other nursing organizations and groups in MS.

Thank you for fighting with us,
Lindey Magee
MaryJo Perry
CoDirectors, MPVR

Regardless of where you stand personally regarding vaccination, doesn't every nurse owe their first allegiance and responsibility to the patient? The Department of Health nurse Kay Henry prefaced her discussion of Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights by bragging about Mississippi's high vaccination rates. She gives her allegiance to numbers.

Let the TRUTH be heard | Mississippi Vaccine Law IS archaic.

Remember this article we blogged earlier this month where McComb's local newspaper editor spoke in favor of vaccine mandates using much misinformation to justify his stance? Well, our CoDirector, Lindey Magee responded to him with her thoughts on the matter. 

Editor Jack Ryan contacted her to let her know he would run her letter stating that while he does support mandatory vaccination, "I must say that 49 of them seems a bit much." He stated he thinks people should hear both sides. We agree! Vaccine propaganda and fear mongering has seen front and center stage for far too long. So long, in fact that we in Mississippi have found ourselves with no parental vaccine rights while the state continues to add mandates with no end in sight.

We are thankful that Lindey's thoughts on the matter were published and hope many of you will also send letters to your local paper. Just as her words prompted Mr. Ryan to consider that our current schedule may "a bit much." So can YOU spread this TRUTH in the same way. 

And to those who do support mandatory vaccines, but think 49 doses a bit much, well, you can't have it both ways. You cannot sit by and tolerate a mandated vaccine program that shoves 49 doses of 15 vaccines into children before kindergarten, but follow that up with "it may be a bit much." or "I'll never let my child get the Gardasil or Flu or Ebola vaccine" ...because there is NOTHING stopping those from becoming mandated tomorrow.

It's too many too soon with more being added because collectively not enough have boldly stood and said NO MORE! I beg of you...GET INTERESTED; help us fight for our rights here in Mississippi. Our children deserve better. 

Now, we urge you to get right on penning your own letter to your local newspaper. Lindey has sent many emails to her editor over the past year. Persistence pays off, and not much is more worthwhile than fighting for our rights to parent our children, right? That begins with educating people as to what is going on in our state. So many just aren't aware. Once they are though, they too are most typically NOT okay with Mississippi's archaic vaccine law.