Powerful speech by Atty Aaron Siri on vaccines and Informed Consent

Powerful speech by Aaron Siri...

"Everybody who wants a vaccine should be free to get one. Get as many as you want. That's freedom. This is about religious freedom. This is about impinging on people's rights who don't want to receive these vaccines."

"And I think the governor's point is very well taken about what would happen if there were a religious exemption. The children in this state right now excluded from school because their parents hold sincerely held beliefs contrary to one or another practices regarding organizations, they're not locked away. They don't disappear. These are God's children, and they are here. Amen."

"And they're part of West Virginia. How many people in this room, by show of hands, know somebody whose children could be excluded from school if the governor's executive order is not honored? Almost everybody in the room raised their hand. And it's and it's not about the executive orders, the governor said."

"He's just interpreting the existing law of the state of West Virginia. He's just interpreting EPRA, which came after the vaccination law, which provides religious freedom needs to be respected. If the EPRA is not interpreted to look back at the laws that exist and the conduct that's occurred, then what's the point of it? Of course, it has to look back at existing laws and existing conduct in the state That's right. And infuse the right to religious freedom within the existing conduct of government."

"Otherwise, the law is pointless. Now I'd like to just speak broadly for a second about religious freedom just because I feel like sometimes we lose sight of how important it is as a right in this country. You know, the the the point of the first amendment on the United States constitution when it was adopted by the states in the late seventeen hundreds was to limit government. It was to tell government there's a line after which you shall not trespass. Why?"

"Because every form of government that preceded this country didn't believe in individual rights for the most part. They believe somebody else should be able to decide how you live your life, whether it's a sexual authority, a king, a dictator. And this country was founded on the idea that individual rights are more important and that, yes, they come with their own risks."

"Letting people free, say what they want surely is a, you know, a a risk to the king and to can't come with dangers or letting people assemble or letting people practice their religion, but that the greater risk is always to take away people's individual rights. And hence, the first amendment enshrined as the very first right to freedom of religion."

"And I want you to think about how difficult life was in the late seventeen seventies in The United States Of America. It was brutal compared to the life we live today, but yet that line was drawn for the times even harder than those. And that right was carried forward into the West Virginia constitution, and that was enshrined in the EPRA law. And that is the law that and and that is the framework I believe through which we need to view these rights. Whatever risks even others might wanna put up, the greater risk is taking away that right."

"The plaintiff here is a God fearing woman, single mother, who's just trying to raise her child. She's a nurse. And without being able to send her child to school, she will not be able to maintain her job. She has a number of religious exemption, religious beliefs that are contrary to these giving these products to her child, including as the governor said, a number of these products and actually all of them in one way or another are implicated in abortion."

"For example the MMR and the varicella vaccine in every single vial has millions of pieces of cellular and DNA debris from the cultured cell membrane of fetus. If you don't if you would take issue with that, you're taking issue with the CDC and the FDA and all the literature that explains how those products are developed. Gotta grow virus on some kind of cellular medium, and that's the cellular medium on which it grows. And you can't filter it all out, so a lot of it ends up in the vial. Some people find that objectionable."

"Others don't, and that's their freedom to do so. But she does, and so do many others. They shouldn't be forced to participate in that kind of product if they find that against their religious convictions. Others, including the plaintiff here, take objection to the idea that while the Bible says you should heal your sick, what it doesn't say is that God messed up and that a child born today needs 29 injections by the first year of life, including in utero. I mean, that's up from, by the way, three injections in the first year of life from the CDC schedule just not that long ago in 1986."

"Trust in God, not man. But yet she's gonna be persecuted for those views by, as the governor said, an unelected board who believe that their beliefs should trump her beliefs and believing they have their own set of beliefs. Their beliefs, for example, include that these products all prevent transmission even though that's not true for most of them. Most of the vaccines required for school, for example, don't prevent transmission."

"For example, the pertussis vaccine. In fact, according to the FDA and the worldwide consensus about that product, those who are vaccinated will have a reduction in symptoms, but they carry just as much pertussis spectrum and the nasopharynx are just as likely to spread it. Again, you'd have to argue with the FDA if if you take issue with that, fact. K. That is a fact. So what does that mean?"

"Who's more likely to set spread pertussis in school? It's actually the children are vaccinated because they're less likely to have symptoms. Again, there's actually more circulating in pertussis bacterium in The United States right now than before introduction of the acellular pertussis vaccine. That is fact in the literature precisely because of the phenomenon I just told you or at least the same amount. Do we exclude children from school who are vaccinated for pertussis?"

"Of course not. Because rights should be invulnerable. You should not violate them even though they are more likely, according to the science, to potentially spread the pathogen. But here's the thing. The unelected bureaucrats at the board of education, it's not about the facts in some ways."

"They have beliefs about these products, and they want my client and parents across this state to adopt their beliefs over their own beliefs. And but that's not how the EPRA works. That's not how the West Virginia constitution work, and it's certainly not what the first amendment was intended to protect. I have a message too to all the medical organizations out there who are fighting against letting kids back in school. Again, children who are not disappearing."

"They're not locked up. They're part of this community. There are communities in West Virginia. There are communities in this country. They're not going anywhere. They're in this room, I'm sure. They're in this building. They are in the malls. They are everywhere. They are God's children, and they shouldn't be excluded from school."

"And the attempts by medical, quote, unquote, health authorities to exclude them by these organizations, you're hurting your own agenda. When you try to bully people rather than persuade them on the merits, that doesn't cause them to come around. That causes them to fight. And if you want parents to vaccinate, persuade them. Convince them."

"Don't bully them. Don't coerce them. Don't be like the dictators of all that preceded what this country was founded upon, which was individual rights. As the governor pointed out, West Virginia is, very religious state. I believe it's one of the most religious in the country. And if, you know, we can't protect religious freedom in this state, then we have we are in very good trouble as a country. Thank you."