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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/13/2007 10:11:56 AM Home School Legal Defense Association West Virginia: Calls Needed to Halt Government Encroachment on Parental Rights |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== February 9, 2007 West Virginia: Calls Needed to Halt Government Encroachment on Parental Rights Dear HSLDA members and friends: Your calls are needed to stop H.B. 2835, a bill that would add the human papillomavirus to the list of mandatory immunizations. Parents who refuse to permit their children to be given this immunization without being able to provide a certificate from a physician showing sufficient reason why it should not be done will be guilty of a misdemeanor. This would apply to homeschoolers in the same way it would apply to everyone else. This bill is currently being held in the House of Delegates Health and Human Resources Committee. ACTION REQUESTED: Please call and email the following members of the West Virginia House of Delegates Health and Human Services Committee and deliver the following message: "Please oppose H.B. 2835 if and when it is offered to the Health and Human Services Committee for approval. Not only does this bill mandate that young girls receive a highly controversial and inadequately tested vaccine, but it ignores the rights of the parent to make decisions with regard to the health of their children. Parents should determine whether or not this immunization is right for their daughters, not the legislature." Contact information for the members of the House Health and Human Services Committee is below: Delegate Perdue - Chair Email: dperdue@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3269 Delegate Hatfield - Vice-Chair Email: hatfield@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3140 Delegate Border - Minority Chair Email: bordel@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3136 Delegate Canterbury - Minority Vice-Chair Email: rcanter1@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3131 Delegate Boggs Email: Boggsr34@aol.com Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3280 Delegate Campbell Email: wvdeltc@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3129 Delegate Cann Email: whocann@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3118 Delegate Eldridge Email: eldridge@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3174 Delegate Fleischauer Email: barbaraf@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3169 Delegate Long Email: mclong@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3120 Delegate Longstreth Email: llongstr@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3124 Delegate Marshall Email: chmarsh@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3186 Delegate Moore Email: cmoore@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3189 Delegate Moye Email: rmoye@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3162 Delegate Pino Email: jpino@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3170 Delegate Rodigherio Email: rrodigh@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3154 Delegate Spencer Email: delspencer@aol.com Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3218 Delegate Staggers Email: mstagg@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3197 Delegate Stalnaker Email: dstalna1@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3396 Delegate Wysong Email: lwysong@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3135 Delegate Ashley Email: bashley@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3185 Delegate Lane Email: patlane@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3275 Delegate Miller, J. Email: jonathan@delegatejmiller.com Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3147 Delegate Rowan Email: rrowan@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3157 Delegate Sumner Email: lsumner@mail.wvnet.edu Capitol Phone: (304) 340-3180 BACKGROUND: > Forty-eight states provide for religious or conscientious/philosophical exemptions for parents who choose not to immunize their children. Seventeen states allow for conscientious parental choice exemptions: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. Only Mississippi and West Virginia have no religious or philosophical exemptions. However, Mississippi does allow an automatic exemption for homeschool students. > According to surveys conducted by Centers for Disease Control, states allowing for conscientious choice exemptions do not have higher rates of vaccine preventable illnesses. For more information on immunizations and parental rights, please see our issue analysis page on immunization at http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000002/00000231.asp Sincerely, Scott A. Woodruff HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> How long are you in for? Some families are facing what seems like a lifelong commitment to homeschooling, with children at both ends of the spectrum -- some graduating and some just reaching school age. If you're going to be "in" for a while, consider a lifetime membership with HSLDA. It's a good deal for families with more than 10 years of homeschooling ahead. More reasons to join HSLDA... http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=1936 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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