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If you are a parent, you'll want to have all of the available information out there to educate yourself about the possibility of childhood immunizations being linked to autism and neurological disorders and health concerns like asthma. The Vaccine War will be on tonight (4/27/10) and I recommend watching PBS Frontline for this reason. In Denver it will air at 9pm, but check your local listing to be sure, or it seems you can also view it online as of today. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist
From the preview available at that link, it looks like the parents might not get a fair shake in the report, but we shall see. There may not be any discussion about the cells of aborted babies that have been used in the creations of vaccines, either. http://www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/vaccine-components/human-fetal-links-some-vaccines In the meantime, here are just the initial arguments for and against the vaccinations that have been given in the debate.
Fathers and mothers experience having a child without any characteristics of autism, yet following the administration of childhood immunizations, the child presents as though a different person, withdrawn, flapping hands, lack of social interaction, non-verbal communication, and other autistic descriptions.
Many scientists and doctors claim that there are no conclusive studies to prove that autism is linked to vaccines.
Parents have sued and won big money in court over autism that they claim resulted from vaccinations.
Pharmaceutical companies have a lucrative stake in the vaccines.
There are also concerns by society, including living amongst those without childhood immunizations.
Some important questions are:
Why isn't the government studying the possibility, rather than dismissing any possible connection with mercury and other potentially harmful substances? What is causing this explosion in numbers accounting for 1 in 150 births being on the autism spectrum? What are the results and the conclusions of studies that have been done, who did them, what is the significance, and who funded them? Is this another case similar to the global warming hoax that liberals imposed upon us world-wide while silencing honest scientists with valid views that differed from theirs? What are the risks and benefits of childhood vaccinations concerning my own children? Are there alternatives to those shots in question?
That's just a starting point for me. I know I'll be watching The Vaccine War tonight for some answers. From what I've been reading, even the flu shots are suspect. Let's get to the truth, I have no agenda, I have kids.
Blogger The Badger Catholic posted something extremely important and upsetting that I want all parents to read about, since most of us take our children to the doctor to have them vaccinated. If I didn't know about this, I doubt a lot of other parents have heard this information. I appreciate this horrifying info and I'm passing it on: http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2010/04/which-vaccines-contain-aborted-babies.html
Having worked for several years as an assistant teacher of students with severe and profound special needs, autism is one area of the field that has been of special interest to me. Tens of thousands of parents have suspected that childhood shots are responsible for the cause of autism. This has to do with mercury and the video included in my post explains more. There are about 1 in 150 kids who have been diagnosed with autism. There have been some investigations, but my experience is that generally doctors assure us that they doubt the vaccines are causing autism. At this point, that is a matter of pure opinion.
The parents just might be right. Human body parts, mercury, or a combination of both very well could have an adverse effect on children. Something is causing the numbers to skyrocket. We may soon discover that abortion doesn't end at killing preborn children, but is also the ingredient for disabilities in the little ones who have escaped legal murder in the wombs of their mothers.
Michigan Right to Life brings us the details on the research and some available pro-life vaccine alternatives...
Vaccines, Abortion & Fetal Tissue
For several years now, information has circulated among prolife groups and individuals regarding the development of very common vaccines through the use of tissue taken from aborted babies. While initially the reports and information were not conclusively documented, further detailed research by several prolife groups has provided direct proof of a connection between aborted fetal tissue and most vaccines. That connection, and its implications for whether prolife citizens should consider using the vaccines, raises some complicated issues. In sorting through those issues, this LifeNotes will address the basic science involved, the documentation of the abortion-vaccine connection, the moral/ethical questions about using abortion-tainted vaccines, and information about available alternative vaccines.
U.S. Produced Vaccines from Aborted Cell Lines
Disease
Vaccine Name
Manufacturer
Cell line (fetal)
Polio
Poliovax
Aventis-Pasteur
MRC-5
Rabies
Imovax
Aventis-Pasteur
MRC-5
Hepatitis A
Havrix
Merck & Co.
MRC-5
Hepatitis A
Vaqta
Glaxo/SmithKline
MRC-5
Hepatitis A-B Combo
Twinrix
Glaxo/SmithKline
MRC-5
Smallpox
Acambis 1000
Acambis
MRC-5
Chickenpox
Varivax
Merck & Co.
MRC-5/WI-38
Measles, Mumps, Rubella
MMR II
Merck & Co
WI-38
Mumps-Rubella
Biavax II
Merck & Co
WI-38
Measles-Rubella
MR-VAX
Merck & Co
WI-38
Rubella only
Meruvax II
Merck & Co
WI-38
U.S. Produced Alternative Vaccines
(There are no U.S. alternatives for Chickenpox, Rubella, Hepatitis-A)
Pray, pray, pray for our country and all of her citizens whether born or preborn for our right to liberty and to life. There are so many links I can add to this post later, but for now, I just really want to encourage everyone to pray united together, prayer warriors joining to the army of the Lord. Myriads of angels are fighting. We need to get into the fight as well, for this is not just one small battle we may lose but certainly a major loss in the war from the culture of death. Many do not even realize that their tax dollars are already going to fund abortions in other places in the world. We have money going to developing countries. Look up the Mexico City Policy. And read what the Bishops have said about it: http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2009/09-022.shtml . Also read "Building and Promoting a Culture of Life" by Archbishop Chaput for explanations of excellent "do"s and "don't" in the fight for life: http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/1406 . I will also add a photo later as well. Not now. My heart is so heavy. Yet miracles are very real and they can and do happen. Lord God, we need a mighty miracle. Holy Mary, Mother of God, intercede for us and for our nation, for if this bill becomes law, we surely will see the judgment of our Lord come upon us with great fury. Lord have mercy on us. Amen. Wow, just in time w/ the finish here, it's the Holy Rosary on EWTN. Joining...
This St. Patrick's Day is one historical day. People have something to say. It is a spiritual battle and here are just a few of the details. While the Catholic Bishops oppose the Senate version of the health care bill, making news in the Catholic press, what gets plastered in headlines of the secular news that reaches everyone is that Catholic nuns support and endorse the bill, and hey, THEY are the ones who work with the people, so they are supposedly the real voice of the Catholic Church. They are "progressive" they claim. Liberals, socialists, communists, and the pro-death sites are running with this in gleeful distribution of this Catholic support of their views. Here is one: http://www.feministing.com/archives/020405.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Feministing+(Feministing)&utm_content=Twitter
It is important to note who is pleased with the "Catholic nuns" who are opposing the stance of the USCCB because this tells you something.
Archbishop Chaput linked to his statement on facebook. Finally we are beginning to call these people out and name them. Here it is: http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/3614
TO THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO
In the past two days, congressional leaders and the White House have brought tremendous pressure on prolife Democratic members of Congress to support a fatally flawed Senate version of health care reform.
Regrettably, groups like Network and the Catholic Health Association have done a grave disservice to the American Catholic community by undermining the leadership of the nation’s Catholic bishops, sowing confusion among faithful Catholics, and misleading legislators through their support of the Senate bill.
Do not be fooled. Nothing has changed. The Senate bill remains gravely flawed on the issues of abortion funding, conscience protections and the inclusion of immigrants. Unless seriously revised to address these issues, the Senate version of health care is unethical and should be firmly opposed. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. Archbishop of Denver James D. Conley, S.T.L. Auxiliary Bishop of Denver
Catholics United has an ad that they are airing, it looks like in the prolife Democrat districts to sway minds in those areas stating that the Reform is endorsed by the Catholic Health Association: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Catholic_group_pushes_back_on_abortion_claims.html?showall These people are using the "Catholic" title to confuse people. How many people know that this is a liberal group that is breaking with the Catholic Bishops who are opposing the Senate version of the health care bill? We Catholics must begin to understand and to accept the fact that there are real wolves dressed in sheep's clothing in our Holy Catholic Church. RealCatholicTV call them "snakes"...
As Catholics, we are very much in tune with not pulling up the weeds and letting them grow along with the wheat, just as our Lord, Jesus, told us to do. And yet, the Holy Scriptures must be taken as a whole, not in part. They must be interpreted along with our Tradition, and Jesus Himself cried out: "You are of your father, the devil" to the Jewish leadership. These people who are priests and nuns who are hurting our people, need to be shown the door forthwith. We have excommunication. It is high time we began to implement this service. And certainly it is a service to save the souls of many millions of Catholics who are otherwise deceived and taught that Marxist belief trumps even the sanctity of human life for Catholic faithful believers. It is time for this to end. Let the word, the title, Catholic, mean something again.
Glenn Beck has recently stated that if you are in a church that teaches "social justice" you should leave that church. Some people were shocked, and they say he was attacking the Catholic Church. I agree that he was. And I also agree that he understands very well this code wording of "social justice" that ultimately means communistic thought, leaving the redeeming of souls out of their personal mission inside of the Church. The virtue of justice is being used as a useful good, a tool for conversion, capturing hearts, destroying lives, and causing the loss of souls. This is not true virtue. But how successfully deceptive. Take a look at how "good" these caring Catholics seem to be: http://www.catholics-united.org/?q=about Since they care to much about people who are victims of injustice, why are they opposing the Catholic Bishops who are upholding the sanctity of human life? Jesus said, "you shall know them by their fruits" and this is fruit positive of their views.
But I disagree with Beck on what needs to be done about the problem, the infiltration of heretics and "progressive" new age deceivers. Show them the door. They are in our church for one reason--to twist the teachings of our Church and to deceive as many as they can. They are a cancer in our midst, spreading their lying poison. Here is something insightful that Glenn had to say on St. Patrick's Day: Obama is Marxist:
Some 59 "Catholic nuns" signed a letter in support of the bill that was sent to members of Congress on the 14th of the month, yet even today all over twitter the word is that 59,000 Catholic nuns support the bill. Lies of this sort, exaggerated and hyped are being regularly retweeted by liberal, pro-death, and homosexual groups. They want the word out that Catholics are for the passage of the bill because it serves their purposes. Keep telling the lie and it is seen as the truth. Supposedly the smaller number of nuns represent the larger number of Catholics in their groups. If that is true, all the more reason to begin kicking them out of our Church. Today if possible. The faithful Catholic laity welcomes this to save our true Catholic identity.
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has already refuted that claim with his own letter opposing the bill.
George pointed out the slew of flaws that the U.S. bishops find “deeply disturbing” in the Senate health bill, including its lack of conscience protections, [lack of] Hyde-amendment protections against federal abortion funding, and the millions in new funds for Community Health Centers which will be available to fund abortions.
“It expands federal funding and the role of the federal government in the provision of abortion procedures,” he explained. “In so doing, it forces all of us to become involved in an act that profoundly violates the conscience of many, the deliberate destruction of unwanted members of the human family still waiting to be born.” http://www.lifenews.com/nat6140.html
St. Patrick was a Bishop. May God bless our faithful Bishops. And may our Bishops be faithful to our Catholic laity by driving out the snakes. Amen. St. Patrick, please pray for our people in the Catholic Church and in our great country, the United States of America. Amen.
St. Joseph and St. Patrick pray for us.Strengthen us Catholic patriots to take a courageous stand in the upcoming days as this tyrannical government take over becomes the law of the land w/o even a vote. I believe this will happen with the socialist health care bill, I figure the left knows it is now or never. If I'm wrong, great.
St. Joseph was and is a man of God, a man of great faith, obedient to our Lord, protector of and provider for the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Christ Jesus, the Holy Son of God. St. Joseph pray for us for our families are at stake along with our country.
St. Patrick converted Ireland. He risked his life and stood strong. We need the Catholic Church to stand strong now in America and speak the truth to our youth and lead the pagans or secularists to Christ. This does not mean just the priests or the Pope or good Catholic schools. It means YOU and it means ME. St. Patrick, pray for us and for our country.
Catholics would really do themselves a service and educate themselves on reconciling in their minds things like going to war and worrying about if it might be gossip or bad to call out leftist deceitful Catholics by reading the book of Judith. Also let us faithfully take out our most powerful weapons, our Rosaries. Contemplate, contemplate, contemplate. Amen.
Senator Michael Bennet had emails sent out inviting feedback on "how to fix Washington." So I sent this letter via email.
Dear Senator Michael Bennet:
Kill the pro-death healthcare bill.
I will keep you in my prayers, for you are one of those who are most in need of God's mercy. Blind, deaf, and unrepentant.
The way to fix Washington is for everyone over there to find a low-paying job and learn some humility. (You should be able to get a job, although regular US citizens cannot find any that are gainful to provide for our families now.)
Faithful Catholics are so misunderstood. There are also many Catholics with an identity crisis. Agreeing that the horror of butchering the innocent through abortion is a necessary evil. Believing that religion is nothing more than old-fashioned superstition. Yet these people call themselves Catholics. Catholics for homosexuality. Catholics for modern relativistic thought and lifestyle. In short, the majority of Catholics in America are wayward lost souls.
The media has poisoned the minds of our young for many years. The public education system has done the same. Everything exists and is shared with God left out. Even in Italy, crosses have now been stripped from public places as if this is good for all people to have liberty from religious influence. (However, this topic in detail will be revisited in another post.) At the present time, the atheists are doing everything that they can right now to oust God from every place and from every mind, as willing vessels of the deceiver. They believe that they are fighting for their own voice in a place where Christianity is proved to them to be a farce, and allows them little freedom to have a world without the law of God. They have asserted themselves not as noble heroes to emulate with great compassionate deeds, but as a vile army of sarcastic voices all about making a mockery out of God and out of those of us who have faith.
What then follows unfortunately, is that their disbelief is contagious. On top of that, those who call themselves Christian are not walking the walk, but only talking the talk. So who do our young people believe? They believe what is being put before them, that Christians are hypocrites, being provided with yet another example of such. Of course, there is little mention of pagans committing crimes against humanity and horrific attacks by extremist Muslims practicing Islamic terror. There is nothing shared in the secular media about the sinfulness of all mankind.
In fact, our great nation is under attack from the forces of evil from every direction. The faces change constantly to make the unwitting accept evil as good. Standing against this onslaught, taking my place in the holy battle, with God's help, the reason for this blog is to shed light on things, and to gain insight from others who are also soldiers of the Light. There are many things to think about and to share--and to change, if we are able. There are many issues to write about as evil rages on in so many forms.
It is with a heavy heart that this first post is created. Opinions abound. This blog exists for openness, clarification, and truth. What is truth? Who is foolish and who is wise? These questions become resolved in the source of wisdom and truth--our God.
Those who do not have much use for God, yet have conservative values, have learned to distinguish good from evil mostly through parents or grandparents who believed in God. Yet children are now being raised without any knowledge of these values and principles being Judeo-Christian at their root. Being a Christian does not make one a good and holy person, however, Christianity does create a solid basis for knowing what is right and wrong. That taking the life of an unborn innocent human being is cruel and inhumane murder, among other things.
Presently, the Senate is in the process of trying to force a health care reform upon the citizens of the United States, and the immoral legislation of having to pay for abortions whether one agrees with this so-called "choice" or not. This is evil. Morals are legislated. So, too, is immorality. Those who say this isn't true are lying to themselves.
It is time to stand up and take action against these types of evils. Whether in our Churches, in our political arena, in the many venues of media, in public education, and in every other place that compromising our values and principles rears it's ugly head, be encouraged to stand with me to expose evil and pray against evil and to actively do something to halt or prevent evil.
Archbishop Chaput of Denver is a signatory of the Manhattan Declaration. He stated:
“Now and always, we need to trust in God; and then we also need to act. Right here, right now, in this country, the work of organizing and struggling in the public square for what we believe belongs to us. That means all of us, and each of us."
It is time to hold one another accountable. It is time to repent. It is time to return to God. It is time to defend the faith. And it is time to take our country back! One place to begin is by signing the Manhattan Declaration available here: http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/ May God continue to bless America. Amen.
