How do I refuse infant immunizations and vaccines in the state of Iowa?

Question

Does anyone know the legalities of refusing infant immunizations and vaccines at the hospital? I would appreciate advice from anyone in the state of Iowa who has done this or web sites that could help me out.

Answer 1

Why would you want to???

When you weigh up the very, very, very, very tiny risk of it having an adverse affect (can't impress how tiny) against the benefits of having your kids protected against serious illnesses that can kill them, as well as protecting others who for genuine medical reasons can't have vaccinations, it's a no brainer, surely?

Apart from chicken pox vaccine. That's pointless. You don't even get it in Europe.

Answer 2

http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/iowa.htm

Check out this sight. it has the forms you need for the vaccination exemptions.  

Answer 3

What you can do is demand a guarantee from the hospital (or the doctor doing the immunization) that these inoculations will cause absolutely no harm to your child, neither now nor in the long term (in his/her adult life). You insist that you'll only let your child be vaccinated if you obtain such a guarantee.

If the institution or the person doing the inoculations is so certain - as they pretend - that it is perfectly safe, why shouldn't they let you have such a guarantee? Because there is no such guarantee!

No-one can give you that. According to the latest research at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, vaccinations are the cause of autism and with they aluminium contents contribute later in life to MS, ME, Alzheimer and Parkinson's.

Look at the history of vaccination: diseases stopped spreading after Semmelweiss discovered that medical personnel needed to wash their hands between each patient visit instead of spreading bacteria from bed to bed. They were actually the cause of the spreading of a lot of infections.

Systematic vaccination was only introduced much later and has not contributed to stopping diseases. It's a myth well maintained by the medical community and even more by the pharmaceutical community which makes huge bucks with the systematic sale of vaccines.

Don't be fooled! You're absolutely right to refuse!

Answer 4

I don't vax for several reasons and you are welcome to contact me for those reasons.

I gave my doctor a religious waiver for each of my children.  The vac-lib website that another answerer gave you is a GREAT resource.  I had my hospital papers in order for my last birth just in case we had to transfer from home (home birth w/ CNM).

The newborn procedures done at birth are crazy these days.  They give Heb B like those S****y little babies are going out to shoot up with drugs and have multiple sexual partners (ok I'm being facetious).  Then every one of them has to have the Vit K shot (contains aluminum and is just as bad as mercury).  And to add to it, the goober up their eyes with antibiotic ointment which should only be applied if the mother has STDs or tested GBS positive.  They also do PKU testing  to test for other things, and with Bush's new DNA registry the blood that is taken from your baby is put into a huge registry to be used for God knows what.

Here are some other websites that will help you in your journey to keep your children healthy and further educate yourself to the lies we are being told:

http://nvic.org/

http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Health_Co...

http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/iowa.htm

http://vaccinenation.net/

http://www.thinktwice.com/

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.ph...

http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/package_ins...

Some books that come highly reccomended:

Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?  By Neil Z. Miller

Vaccine Safety Manual: For Concerned Families and Health Practicioners By Neil Z. Miller

How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor by R.S. Mendelsohn

Answer 5

Unless you like having a sick unhealthy baby i suggest you don't. THEY ARE MODERN MEDICINE THEY ARE GOOD FOR THE BABY THEY MAY SAVE HIS OR HER LIFE

Answer 6

You can put on your birthplan that your baby is not to recieve any vaccines.  Tell the nurse when you arrive.  Let your midwife/OB know before you deliver.  

With my kids, I made sure they *never* left my room.  If I had to sleep, a family member/friend was in the room with our baby.  My kids never went to the nursery- I requested that their checks be done in my room.  I bathed them myself.  I also checked out early.  You'll probably be asked to signs waivers- no big deal.

You'll most likely have to use a religious exemption (come school time).  It's hard to obtain a medical exemption from any doctor.  You do not have to be a christian (backed up with Bible quotes) to use the religious exemption.

Congrats on your upcoming birth. :)

Answer 7

I refuse the mmr shot when my son was small in 1979 when I took him to the health department and they told me because of an egg allergy he could stop breathing and I would need to have it given at the hospital.  Mortified at this risk, I decided not to give him this shot.

It wasn't too big of a problem till he reached school age.  He was at the time enrolled in a parochial school (but I did refuse him from the school in 5th grade due to a horrible nun I had volunteered in her classroom the previous year and felt she would be detrimental to my son and then returned the following year.  I really do not recall having any program at the public school as far as the shot that year.

But I was told I must give him the shot for him to remain in kindergarten and school.  I believe I called the health department and was told I could get an exemption due to valid medical concerns.  I had to do paperwork and I also wrote the school and asked them they be the ones to take responsibility if my son stopped breathing and died and would they be the ones to bear the grief and the pain at his loss.  I wrote a compelling letter with my reason for not getting this shot and in the end, they let him stay without it.  

After I had filed the paperwork for the medical exemption, they let me alone.  I think they just wanted that paper protecting them. So you might try calling the local or state health dept and trying to find out if there is a similar thing in Iowa.  

I never had to have any doctor statement, just my own reasons.  

I know I read in mothering magazine that some mothers have chickenpox parties to get their children chickenpox which serves to protect them from greater harm down the road.  You might try to find this article.

back then we did not know the dangers in vaccinations..everyone got them.  In the 50's as a young kid, we were given the oral polio vaccine.  I have since read that there is a bacteria or virus that was in the oral vaccine (I forget the name of it) but they sterilized it and gave it anyway.  Then they discovered that every cancer case has been found to have this virus in their system.  When it came out about some of this, they immediately recalled the vaccine.  It heard this from Dr Richard Schulze a naturepath.  he recommends that you never have anything deliberately puncture the skin and inject into your veins.

Had I known then the dangers, had there been the huge increase in autism related to the mercury in these shots, I might well have fought other vaccines as well when my kids were small.  My son never had any problems from not receiving the MMR vaccine.

I would suggest gathering articles and a summary of the medical dangers and reasons you refuse to get your child this shot to help your case,

I also recommend subscribing to mothering magazine as it has many, many articles on the topic and generally supports attachment parenting and not giving vaccines and immunizations.

furthermore, I recommend that you avail your self to their online info and their forums.  I an sure there is likely a thread on this topic and other mothers to aid and support you and it is a good place to get further suggestions on it or what other moms considering the same thing tried, know or considered,'

It is mothering.com

good luck but thoroughly research your decisions as there are pros and cons to this one and once you have researched and weighed everything out, if you still feel the same, follow your heart on this despite peer pressure I feel as one who always did a lot of research and weighed people's opinions and then did what my instincts and mind and heart told me was the best despite what anyone said and my kids turned out well.