Victory 1: WE WON! We were 4-0 on the House floor with pro-parent amendments, with two bills being passed into law! HB 7: Two amendments to prevent CPS from using vaccination status as “evidence” to remove children from the home and to terminate parental rights were...
Another day, another outrage. You know, most days even the most egregious atrocities against our movement don’t phase me anymore. Sad, but true. Bullying? Meh. Slander? Meh. Lies about our movement? Like I said, just another day. As we mention often, though, the truth...
Tisk. Tisk. Here we go again coming across a Facebook tag that has me passionately pounding at my keyboard. I am not one to respond to every article I come across; I just don’t have the time nor energy to do so. Despite the media’s insistence that politics...
Here at Texans for Vaccine Choice, we receive a lot of questions, comments, and concerns on a daily basis. For a mostly volunteer organization, it’s nearly too many to keep up with and certainly far more than we can fully investigate or respond to in a proper...
We have received a copy of Austin ISD’s cover letter for the Kick the Flu consent form and, not surprisingly, it is full of misinformation and propaganda. 🚫 “Offering flu vaccinations in a school setting has proven to be effective in preventing illness and...
The following article has been published on politicopro.com and can be viewed here if you have the PRO subscription. Read the article in its entirety below and our response to it here. Small anti-vaccine PAC has outsize clout in Texas politics By Renuka Rayasam...
New shoes, new backpack, colored pencils, glue sticks, calculators — CHECK! All ready to go back to school this week! Wait! According to this article, vaccines are the most important item to get for back to school. Let’s read the article together, shall we? “As...
Back to School time also means that parents need to be prepared for the Kick the Flu (KTF) campaign to return to some Texas school districts. KTF is a school-based flu shot clinic that is coordinated by Florida-based Healthy Schools LLC. These clinics take place on...
“Herd Immunity” is a concept purported by those vested in the vaccine program to try and increase vaccine uptake nationwide. It’s also used by the pharmaceutical lobby in support of their push for legislators to remove informed consent and mandate vaccines across the...
At Texans for Vaccine Choice, we take our job of protecting the liberties of all Texans very seriously. It is our goal to make sure you are fully informed of all vaccine choice and informed consent related issues we are faced with this session. For most bills this...
As some may remember, Texans for Vaccine Choice started in February, 2015 as a small group of moms chatting on Facebook about how to defeat a bill that threatened to remove religious and conscientious exemptions for school vaccination requirements in Texas. While the...
Whether you are following the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccination schedule by getting all of your boosters, following a delayed vaccination schedule carefully planned by you and your doctor, or foregoing vaccinations altogether, Texans for Vaccine Choice supports...
When it comes to your family’s health choices — more specifically, choices affecting the health of your children — what factors do you consider when choosing one course of prevention or treatment over the other? I would imagine the majority of parents very carefully...
Austin, Texas – Tuesday night, Representative Sarah Davis engaged with several individuals about her legislation filed regarding vaccinations. Many of Representative Davis’ bills have caused significant concern for those who believe these medical decisions are best...
Today the terms ‘Anti-Vaccine,’ ‘Anti-Vax’ and ‘Anti-Vaxxer’ are all commonly used labels in the media when discussing anything related to vaccine safety concerns. A simple history lesson would remind us the terms ‘Pro-this’ and ‘Anti-that’ can be used to create and...
In his novel Timeline, Michael Crichton writes, “… if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.” It is important to understand the history of vaccine choice in Texas so that we...
My family’s research into vaccine safety began only because it had to. After our perfectly healthy twin sons became severely ill, and ultimately neurologically disabled following their routine childhood vaccines, we set out to find answers. Like so many, I had blindly...
Epicenter noun 1. Also, epicentrum. Geology. a point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate. Epicenter is also described as the point on the Earth’s surface that is directly above...
