Concerns Over Childhood Vaccination Practices

Millions of parents all over America today

are breathing an enormous sigh of relief.

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'll 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 going to change all their sleep,

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 going to 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 going to let the

parent and the doctor make a sound medical decision.

And I want to 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 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 going to 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, Dave.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Mr. President.

It's an honor to be here.