Contact Your Legislators

This link will give you contact information for your legislators, based on your zip code.

Please call them, email them, fax them, write them, and tell them you are against mandatory vaccination.

http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/FindLegislator.htm

Take Action Against Mandatory Vaccination in Georgia

Please sign petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/nomanvac/petition.html

Please contact Governor Sonny Perdue, send him a hard copy of the petition at:
203 State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334

Call Governor Perdue at 404-656-1776 and politely demand ammendments now to Senate Bill 385 and House Bill 217

Groundwork Laid for Mandatory Vaccination in Georgia

If you live in the state of Georgia and believe you have the right to refuse vaccination of yourself or your children, you had better think again.

Mandatory, forcible vaccination has been passed into State Law. Twice.

First, let's review key sections of Senate Bill 385, signed into law on May 16, 2002:

Senate Bill 385 can be found at the following link:
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2001_02/fulltext/sb385.htm

The items in bold print are taken directly from Senate Bill 385:

• Section 8 (a) states "The department (Department of Human Resources) and all county boards of health are empowered to require, by appropriate rules and regulations, persons located within their respective jurisdictions to submit to vaccination against infectious disease where the particular disease may occur, whether or not the disease may be an active threat."

• Section 8 (b) states "In the absence of an epidemic or immediate threat thereof, this Code section shall not apply to any person who objects in writing thereto on grounds that such immunization conflicts with his religious beliefs."

The religious exemptions, often used by parents choosing not to vaccinate their children, would become null and void in a publicly declared pandemic.

• Section 12 (a) states "In the event of actual or impending emergency....or a public health emergency..the Governor may declare that a state of emergency or disaster exists."

Once this declaration has been made, the bill allows the Governor to hand control of the "public health emergency" to The Department of Human Resources, which, as cited above, has legal authority to forcibly vaccinate anyone, including children, without exemption.

• Section 15 (i)(1) states "The Governor may direct the Department of Human Resources to coordinate all matters pertaining to the response of the state to a public health emergency including without limitation:
• (A) Planning and executing public health emergency assessments, mitigation, preparedness response and recovery for the state..."

Senate Bill 385 gives the Governor of Georgia, when HE believes there is an emergency or an impending emergency, the power to declare a "public health emergency," allowing the government vast and unconstitutional powers, including forced vaccination of ANYONE.

On April 28, 2009, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed House Bill 217 into law. House Bill 217 fine tunes Senate Bill 385, and lays the tactical groundwork for mandatory vaccinations; enabling physicians, nurses, and pharmacists to perform forcible vaccinations with legal immunity.

House Bill 217 can be found at the following link:
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/versions/hb217_HB_217_AP_10.htm

Listed below are a few, not all, of the powers granted to the state government. Each item in bold print is taken directly from the Bill.

• The introduction states (physicians are given the right to) “authorize the use of influenza vaccine orders for a group of patients.”
  

In the Bill, there is no definition provided for "group of patients." Thus a group of patients could be residents of a certain county, students of a school, children of a certain age group, adults of a certain age group, ANYONE.

• Section 1 (n) states “No physician who complies with the provisions of this code shall be subject to criminal or civil liability or discipline for 1) entering into an influenza agreement with a pharmacist or nurse, 2) issuing an influenza vaccine order."
  

Any physician who follows this code is exempt from any legal recourse.

• Section 1 (q) states “Consent of the child's parent or legal guardian shall be a condition precedent to the administration of an influenza vaccine to a child under the age of 18."
  

In an effort to define “Condition Precedent,” The University of Chicago School of Law states that:

“To the extent that the non-occurrence of a condition would cause disproportionate forfeiture (in this case the possibility of forfeiture of public health due to the H1N1 flu) a court may excuse the condition…”

May a court excuse a promise? No. Again, according to the University of Chicago Law School:

“If a term is described as a promise rather than a condition precedent, both parties would still owe the duties pledged to each other.” The wording in the LAW is clearly stated as a condition precedent – not a promise.

Thus, the particular wording of this law allows for the Physician (at the direction of the state government) to disregard the Parent’s wishes.

University of Chicago interpretation of Condition Precedent:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~jmellis/condition%20precedent.html

• Section 1(g) states “Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a nurse acting pursuant to an influenza vaccine protocol agreement as provided in this Code section may possess and transport influenza vaccine and epinephrine."
  

The above item allows a nurse to travel with the vaccine.

Where is the nurse taking it? To a school? To a home? No further clarification is provided.

• Section 6 states “All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed,” so there is no law to the contrary.

• Finally, Section 4(a) specifically adds a "pandemic influenza emergency" as a valid reason for the Governor to declare a state of emergency.

This addition is particularly menacing in the context of the current H1N1"pandemic."

Taken as a whole, these two Bills allow mandatory vaccination of any person if the Government deems it necessary, even in the person’s own home.