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Families separated by WV Vaccination Mandates

Families separated by WV Vaccination Mandates

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Started by Holly Garrison 6 years, 6 months ago

Read our story and sign our petition if you have a similar story.

I watched my older children struggle after vaccination injuries. I started researching. I found out about many other families struggling with injuries. I found out that many vaccines are developed with aborted fetal tissue. I found out that sometimes children and adults can even die from a vaccine reaction. I saw this with my own eyes. It happened in my own family. We have a lot of family members with autoimmune diseases including Guillian-Barre Syndrome resulting from a flu shot. I could no longer in good conscience and good faith participate in the vaccination program. While my older boys are fully vaccinated and struggle with learning and other neurological issues in the public school, my youngest is not allowed to attend school in WV, because I will not consent to her vaccination.

After years of struggling to run my business and homeschool my daughter, we made the hard decision to cross state lines, separating my child from her brothers, her grandparents, her cousins, and her friends. With a simple form she is allowed to attend a public school in another state. There are no scary outbreaks. She is not the only unvaccinated child in her school. She is thriving and making straight A's. I closed my business in WV and now pay taxes in another state all due to the mandatory vaccine law in WV. We drive home on the weekends, but it has still divided our family.

WV can't afford to keep losing the families who grew up here. We are losing highly educated, productive members of our society, daily. There are more families that decide not to move here because of the West Virginia's restrictive vaccine mandates. They don't bring their families here. They don't bring their businesses here. Statistics have shown that the families who choose to stop vaccinating are among the highly educated. These are the people who flee or stay away.

The only other option is homeschooling which works out well for many families but has an economic impact on single parent households like mine. We have strong family values in WV, but did you know that households that have children with special needs are more likely to get divorced? Now imagine the stress that comes when a child dies. It may seem rare but it does happen. The national Vaccine Events Reporting System (VAERS) reports over 100 vaccine-related deaths per year. There are many families who have lost a child to vaccines so how can we force those parents to play Russian roulette with their other children. There are many people in our state who are pro-life and object to vaccines made with cells from aborted babies. How can we force those parents to choose between their religious convictions and their child's equal access to an education?

If you have a similar story and have left WV over the vaccine laws, or you have decided not to move to WV due to the vaccine laws, please sign our petition. Let your voice be heard.

Updates

February 4, 2020

The state government still ignores the families they have exiled just to enforce these rigid mandates. I am hearing from more parents everyday who have been forced to choose between their children and their homes. We are keeping the pressure on because the bureaucrats in Charleston clearly think they can outwait us.

February 4, 2020

The bureaucrats in West Virginia are finally feeling the heat because of this massive wave of support. They forced families to break apart for the sake of their rigid mandates but we are proving that people have had enough. Keep the pressure on them until they realize this state cannot function while tearing families to pieces.

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Heather Johnson
6 years ago Featured

Born and raised in WV. Attended WVU on a Promise Scholarship. Never imagined I’d leave home but we left West Virginia this summer due to vaccine laws. I would love to be able to move home and raise my children with their grandparents and cousins.

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Anonymous
6 years ago Featured

We had religious convections against vaccines. But due to the laws chose to vaccinate. My daughter almost died from the first vaccination that she had as a small baby. In WV it is difficult to get medical exceptions and to deal with the school system even after receiving one. Our youngest child is not vaccinated due to the worry of having the same reactions that his older sister did. We are moving to another state and one of the factors is vaccination choice. It should be a right of a person to choose what goes into their body. It is us that must deal with the side effects and consequences, not pharmaceutical companies, not the doctors, not the politicians.

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Anonymous
6 years ago Featured

As a pro life a Christian, my rights have been taken away due to vaccine laws for schooling. I should not have to inject aborted fetal cells or support the abortion industry in order to send my kids to school. Where is the line? Forced medical procedures is unconstitutional. Where there is risk there must be choice.

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Lisa hart
6 years ago Featured

I have lost my daughter and her family to another state due to the extreme vaccine laws here in WV. She went to college with the promise scholarship received her degree and was forced to leave the state. I look around at the poverty in my area and realize that it’s only going to get worse as the working folks are being forced to leave for the safety of their children

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Jessica Cobb
6 years ago Featured

As a new WV resident, I’d love to make my life here. We love the rustic beauty of the state and the local culture. We bought a beautiful house that I want my toddler to grow up in. But we have a plan in place to move before our toddler reaches school age because I will not vaccinate her. After learning about the toxic ingredients and host of of animal and fetal DNA used to make these vaccines, I was convicted by GOD to stop defining my children’s bodies with these ingredients. And my toddler is the healthiest of my four children and deserves the right to an education just like my older girls. If the state of WV, a state that I love and feel at home in, cannot offer us a religious exemption from vaccines, we have no choice but to move.

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Michele
6 years ago Featured

My family is also thinking about moving out of West Virginia. Mine and my husband's families have been in Greenbrier County WV for over 5generations and now that we have a learned the hard away about vaccines we are plan to our move. If the laws don't change we will be forced to leave our families land and go to another state where are vaccine injured child will not be required to be poisoned to attend a school our taxes pay for.

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Faith SIMMONS
6 years ago

I have a Lyme 3 year old who should be attending prek this year, but due to forced vax laws, I will not be able to work for our family of 5 and will be homeschooling. My other option is move back to MD with my mom, leave her dad and sisters in WV all because I cannot obtain an exemption for injuries or based off autoimmune disease where another vaccination, 7 more live diseases... which could full throttle force back deadly symptoms. As a scared mother I hear these stories often in WV and we are not alone. We need to talk about it. Our children deserve to go to school like their unvaccinated teachers and coaches, like the neighboring states schools we play. WV is only hirting themselves. There are no outbreaks and there are 0 deaths by vaccine preventable diseases... WV has many sick kids. 52% of our children take a daily pill or have autoimmune. Most parents dont have a choice and vax anyways, furthering hurting our children. Which will grow to be community contributors or community liabilities. WV, we need real exemptions for real cases. An Immunization Officer who has 0 medical degrees should not be making conscience decisions for our children. Point blank. Autoimmune diseases need addressed better, it's much harder to recognize the difference in injury and autoimmune. Please listen and understand that 15000 homeschooled WV kids are causing school districts to lose funding. These sick kids will grow to sicker adults. And it's because of WV crazy vax schedule. If we had the healthiest kids in America, maybe vaccines would be a worthwhile argument. But look at our kids, they are sick. We are closing schools for Flu when so many are vaccinated against it... we however have 0 measles or Polio. But numerous cases of HFM when school starts... conveiniently after siblings get Polio live vaccine. Hear our stories, we deserve a voice. And our injured children deserve a right to go to school, so the mommas can work and contribute to the community. Thank you for reading❤

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Ginger Westmoreland Steele
6 years ago

Free choice!!!

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