The Bischofs' story

I'd like to explain how my husband Tre and I came to the decision not to vaccinate.

I was researching parenting issues when I was pregnant with my first daughter, Emma. I stumbled upon some information suggesting that vaccines are not always safe...and that the health care industry downplays the risks. I
read through it and expressed my concern to Tre. We decided to talk to the doctor about it.

After my daughter was born, her pediatrician mentioned that "some parents are afraid of vaccines, but it is much more dangerous NOT to vaccinate." Even though I didn't feel entirely right about it, I felt that I had to be able to trust my pediatrician, so we let Emma get the hep b, as well as the first two sets of vaccinations.

Emma suffered some negative reactions after both sets of vaccinations. Something told me not to continue with the shots, and so we visited with four different pediatricians (in the same group) to get their take on the issue. We got four very different answers. One was very pro-vaccine, saying that it was dangerous not to vaccinate (Emma's original pediatrician.) The second said that vaccines did hold risks, and that he had seen vaccine damage and would fully support our decision not to vaccinate. The third told us that there was nothing to worry about, and that vaccines did NOT contain mercury (which was my major concern at the time.) And the last one said that there WAS mercury in the shots, but that you could ask for the shots mercury-free.

We realized after all of this that we had just heard a bunch of medical OPINIONS. Which one should we believe?

In Dr. Robert W. Sears' book The Vaccine Book, he explains that "Doctors, myself included, learn a lot about diseases in medical school, but we learn very little about vaccines...We don't review the research ourselves...We never learn what goes into making vaccines or how their safety is studied."

Tre' and I have been researching this issue for four years now. We've spoken to many doctors, nurses, chiropractors, and parents. I have met non-vaccinating doctors and parents who have vaccine damaged children. The more I learn about vaccines, the more confident I feel that we have made the right decision. I now strongly believe it was my instinct telling me to stop vaccinating. Emma is an extremely bright but hypersensitive, hyperactive, moody, and emotional child. After learning about the preservatives and neuro-toxins which are in vaccines and the fact that these poisons are cumulative in the body, I feel strongly that Emma would have suffered damage from any further sets of vaccinations. I don't think her little brain could have handled any more thimerisol, aluminum and formaldehyde. Our second daughter, Adeline, has not received any vaccinations.

We've continued to research and seek out others who have made a similar decision so that we can grow in our understanding of this issue.

The fact that there is something called 'The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program' sets off a major red flag for me, and I am deeply disturbed by the facts surrounding it. The basics (borrowed from Alan Phillip's report dispelling vaccination myths) are as follows:

"The Federal government VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) was established by Congress under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986. It receives about 11,000 reports of serious adverse reactions to vaccinations annually, which include as many as one to two hundred deaths, and several times that number of permanent disabilities." (This was as of 2002.)

The part that is really infuriating is that the money that is "awarded" to people who have vaccine damaged children is not taken from the vaccine makers. There is a tax added to vaccines...so anyone purchasing a vaccine for their child is helping to pay for the vaccine damage settlements.

Please contact me to discuss this issue further:

Kellie Bischof
Organizer, Hattiesburg Discuss Vaccination Options
601-374-0674
emma1325@hotmail.com