by TVR Staff - Published January 30, 2019
Arizona State Senator Paul Boyer has introduced Senate Bill 1115 in the Arizona State Senate requiring health care professionals to provide a full list of vaccine ingredients and side effects to adults and parents of minor children prior to administration of any vaccine.
Sen. Boyer, who says he does not oppose vaccinations, believes that doctors and others who give vaccines should provide the same benefit and risk details about them as they would for other medical interventions such as surgery. He maintains this is the only way to ensure patients can give proper “informed consent” to the medical procedure.1 2
“Everybody who goes for an operation, procedure or anything, they’re informed,” says Boyer. “They’re told of all the risks that could happen with whatever procedure it is. They’re not given the surgery and then, after the fact, ‘Oh, by the way, here are the known adverse effects.'”1
Will Humble, who is executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, is concerned that Senate Bill 1115 will require doctors to provide people with too much information that they might find confusing or even scary, thus forcing physicians to take time from “what’s important during pediatric visits” to explain the benefits and risks associated with a vaccine in a manner that can be understood.
“When a patient or parents get a whole bunch of information that they don’t understand, then that pediatric appointment can easily become about the 12-page sheet of paper that they don’t understand rather than doing all the developmental screening that needs to be done in that 15, 20, 25 minute appointment,” says Humble.1
One of the problems, though, may be that many health care professionals themselves are not be fully informed about the ingredients in vaccines.
According to neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD:
“You’d be amazed at the number of physicians, you ask them what’s in a vaccine? They’ll say, well, there’s the bacteria, the virus you want to vaccinate against, and then there’s a little immune stimulant in there to help stimulate the immunity so they react against those viral antigens. They don’t know about these other chemicals in there like formaldehyde, special proteins, special lipids that are known to be brain toxic, that are known to induce autoimmunity in the brain. They’re not aware of that. They don’t know that MSG is in a lot of vaccines―monosodium glutamate, a brain excitotoxin. They’re not aware of what’s in the vaccine they’re giving.”
Pediatrician Larry Palevsky, MD has noted:
“There are a number of ingredients in the vaccines, and it was only after 15 years of being in medicine that a mother came up to me in 1998 and said did you know that there was mercury in vaccines? So you could see being a trained pediatrician, we did not have med school lectures about vaccine ingredients. Most of the public, and most of my colleagues in medicine, are unaware that small particles of these products are being injected into children, and most children are receiving almost all of them at once because they’re receiving so many vaccines at the same time.”
Arizona State Senator Boyer disagrees with Humble about withholding information about childhood vaccines from parents.
“I think we should trust parents. I don’t think anybody should be afraid of more information and what’s in these vaccines we’re giving to our children.”
Here is the actual wording of Arizona Senate Bill 1115:
REFERENCE TITLE: informed consent; vaccinations
State of Arizona Senate
Fifty-fourth Legislature
First Regular Session
2019 SB 1115
Introduced by Senator Boyer: Representative Barto
AN ACT AMENDING TITLE 32, CHAPTER 32,
ARTICLE 1, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING SECTION 32-3226;
AMENDING SECTIONS 36-672 AND 36-673, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES;
RELATING TO IMMUNIZATIONS.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 32, chapter 32, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 32-3226, to read:
Informed consent; vaccines
A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL WHO ADMINISTERS VACCINES MUST PROVIDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO THE PATIENT OR, IF THE PATIENT IS A MINOR, THE PATIENT'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OR PERSON IN LOCO PARENTIS OF THE MINOR BEFORE ADMINISTERING A VACCINE:
THE BENEFITS AND RISKS OF EACH VACCINE.
THE VACCINE MANUFACTURER'S PRODUCT INSERT.
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION'S VACCINE EXCIPIENT AND MEDIA SUMMARY.
HOW TO REPORT A VACCINE-ADVERSE EVENT.
Sec. 2. Section 36-672, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
Immunizations; department rules; required information
A. Consistent with section 15-873, the director shall adopt rules prescribing required immunizations for school attendance, the approved means of immunization and indicated reinforcing immunizations for diseases and identifying types of health agencies and health care providers which THAT may sign a laboratory evidence of immunity. The rules shall include the required doses, recommended optimum ages for administration of the immunizations, persons who are authorized representatives to sign on behalf of a health agency and other provisions necessary to implement this article.
B. The director, in consultation with the superintendent of public instruction, shall develop by rule standards for documentary proof.
C. ANY INFORMATIONAL OR EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS THE DEPARTMENT DEVELOPS OR PROVIDES TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS SHALL INCLUDE ALL OF THE INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED FOR INFORMED CONSENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 32-3226.
D. Immunization against the human papillomavirus is not required for school attendance.
Sec. 3. Section 36-673, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
Duties of local health departments; immunization; reimbursement; training; informed consent
A. A local health department in cooperation with each school within the county shall provide for the required immunization of pupils attending school.
B. A local health department shall provide immunizations required for school attendance at no cost to the pupil or pupil's parent, guardian or person in loco parentis. In order to receive reimbursement for the cost of the immunization from the pupil's or parent's private health insurance coverage, the local health department may enter into a contract governing the terms of reimbursement and claims with the corresponding private health care insurer. The local health department may enter into a contract with a private health care insurer on its own, in conjunction with other local health departments or through a qualified intermediary. If the local health department chooses not to contract with a private health care insurer or does not respond to the request to contract from a private health care insurer within ninety days of AFTER the request, the insurer is not required to reimburse the local health department for the immunization. If a private health care insurer declines or does not respond to a request to contract with a local health department, with a coalition of other local health departments or through a qualified intermediary within ninety days of AFTER the request to contract, the private health care insurer must reimburse the local health department at the rate paid to an in-network provider.
C. A local health department, on request by a school nurse and approval by the school administrator, shall train and authorize the school nurse to administer required immunizations.
D. A pupil shall MAY not be immunized without the informed consent of the parent, guardian or person in loco parentis of the pupil AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 32-3226. A pupil who is at least eighteen years of age or is emancipated may consent to immunization.