Concerns Over Childhood Vaccination Practices

Millions of parents all over America today are breathing an

enormous sigh of relief.

I, I say this as the parent of young children

myself.

Millions and millions of parents feel they've been pressured when their children

are just weeks out of the hospital to take five shots,

six shots, seven shots all at once. They're told it will be normal.

"Your kid will have a fever of 103 for three or four days.

Your kid will stop eating for a week. Your kid's gonna change all their

sleeping.

Don't worry, it's totally fine, it's totally normal." Nobody has studied

it.

Nobody's looked at it. Nobody's thought about it.

The pressure from the pharmaceutical industry and from aspects

of the medical industry to pump your kids full of

shots days after birth with no understanding of the

long-term consequences has been a medical travesty.

This is an issue, Mr. President, that you have been leading on for years,

and of

course the man to your left has been leading on this issue for years as well,

too.

It's a really incredible moment to stand here today and finally see the

concerns of parents around this country addressed.

There's been so much heartache where parents have had healthy children with no

issues. They know they've been pressured into

doing things that they didn't want to

do, and medical science has told them for

years that their concerns are not

valid. This order does two fundamental, incredibly

important things. First is we get off of this

ridiculous path of having our children get 70 to

90 shots. That is wantonly excessive.

Remember, each and every one of these shots produces

a profound

immunological response. So across any large population, if

you give a kid shot after shot after shot, you're going to have vaccine

injuries. You're going to have immunological issues.

You're gonna have potentially neurological issues.

Secondly, and so important to you, Mr.

President, is the unbundling of the shot.

Why do you need to have these shots bundled into these

packages? Why can't you split it into five visits

and give

this young body, if a parent wants to do a vaccine,

one shot at a time?

Why is it that in Japan you can get a separate measles shot, a

separate mumps shot, a separate rubella shot,

but in America it has to all be

packaged together? This is a courageous action, Mr. President.

This is an action that ensures the dignity of patients,

the dignity of

parents. It restores choice. It says we're gonna let the parent and the

doctor make a sound medical decision.

And let me also say one more time, the fact that you

have had the courage to push this forward, knowing the unfair

criticisms from some in the establishment, and to, and to give the chance

for Bobby, who spent decades representing parents,

to stand here today, it's such a

profound moment. It's such a beautiful moment,

and it's gonna lead to such

incredible advances in our understanding of children's health,

and making sure that, yes, we can be a country that has safety and

security for our families and our children, while at the same time

protecting patient choice. You can have both these things.

This order accomplishes it. I'm so proud to be standing here today,

Mr. President.

Thank you very much, Steve. Thank you.

Heidi?

Yes, thank you, Mr. President. It's an honor-