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  • Debunked: Faith Healing Religious Exemption Hysteria

    A political organization walked public graveyards, and then recorded the children’s names listed there. They then claimed that these children would have lived, had they been to a doctor. They fail to mention that they have little documentation to the cause of death. Nor do they reveal the fact that their numbers span the course of three decades. 

    Their political campaign “Let Them Live” is supported by Merck-funded vaccine advocate Paul Offit. Their intent is to change public opinion using nuggets of truth surrounded by a web of half-truths and lies, innuendos and assumptions. They are well-funded and skilled in using media-manipulation to create drama in order to elicit emotion and move legislative policy towards a preconceived goal. 

    That goal? The forced compliance of government mandated treatments by CPS and the State Health and Welfare Department. 

    It’s very sad, right? 182 childhood deaths in Idaho since 1971. 

    The deaths are true, but this campaign isn’t. It’s fake news.


    What do the actual numbers reveal?

    • We only have statistics for 5 YEARS! (not three decades!)
      The Child Fatality Review Team noted the following statistics based on their through analysis of public records, medical records and complete access to death records for Idaho: more children die under a doctor’s care than those who have never received treatment. The top causes of death in Idaho for infants is birth defects and SIDS, for children; accidents and suicide. These are the ONLY years available, since the Idaho Child Death Review Team was established in 2013 following an executive order from Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter (No. 2012-03). Any other numbers given are purely conjecture!
    2011:   195 children died after receiving medical care. *3 deaths identified as families who refused medical intervention.
    2012: 168 children died after receiving medical care. *2 deaths identified as families who refused doctor’s intervention
    2013:    182 children died after receiving medical care.  *5 deaths to newborn infants who were not born under direct medical intervention

    2014: 187 children died after receiving medical care.                           *NO DEATHS reported to families who refused medical intervention.

    2015: 163 children died after receiving medical care.                           *2 infants

    Infant Deaths

    The statistics clearly reveal that even our best medical care doesn’t guarantee saving our precious children’s lives. Annually more than 160 children die each year after receiving medical treatment. More than 2/3’rd of annual deaths for Idaho children are infants under the age of one. Here’s some aggregate figures that are documented by the State of Idaho in their annual report.
    The Idaho Child Death Review Team published this chart: Ten Leading Causes of Death to Idaho Child Residents, Ten-year aggregate, 2002-2011

    The figures used by the Idaho Let Them Live campaign are purely conjecture. 

    Without any medical history, this political campaign wishes to manipulate the public into thinking that 118 infants lives would have been saved “if only they have been under a doctor’s care.” The names listed were pulled from gravestones in a public cemetery. Those gravestones do not list a ’cause of death’. Families who laid their children to rest in the cemetery may have sought medical treatment. While the public and media doesn’t have access the personal history behind each headstone, the cause of death is investigated and recorded by the coroner.

    Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris, coroner since 1991, says that her office are called to every child death in the church. She doesn’t see signs of neglect or abuse. Current Idaho statutes protect children from abuse and neglect. “If we saw signs of child abuse we have a duty to report, and we would do so,” she said.

    So whose behind the manipulation of truth?

    Recently the director of the organization Protect Idaho Kids stated on his website that due to the fact they were unsuccessful in the Legislature to pass laws, they should manipulate public opinion.  They mixed together a recipe for fake news, using a false narrative and unsubstantiated statistics. They are then funding advertisements designed to look like news reports in the media outlets to sway public opinion.

    • In 2016 – 2017, the “Let Them Live” media campaign was driven by a false narrative of an Idaho woman who claims her rare heart condition was not treated by her parent’s involvement in a religious sect that refuses all medical treatment for their children. Mariah Walton’s mother has refuted the claim that she was trying to treat her daughter’s health condition with prayer. Mariah’s parents were UNAWARE of the rare heart defect. They used holistic care, chiropractic care as well as prayer to provide for their daughter’s asthmatic childhood symptoms. Bruce Wingate, April Hoy and other leaders of the campaign were been made aware that Mariah’s condition should not be construed as ‘faith healing’, yet they continued to promote the false narrative for political gain. See Sara Walton Brady’s testimony at Child At Risk:Faith Healing Exemption Workgroup 
    • 2017, the group wrote and supported a bill 1182 that would change Idaho child neglect statute to target CPS involvement for all parents who didn’t follow a standard treatment of care for their children. (See our article and analysis of S 1182)
    • In 2018, they hatched this newest campaign with little documentation, numbers stretching a course of three decades and a heart wrenching march with caskets from a the park to the Capitol. 

    What is their final goal?

    There is a very real move on the part of our Child Protective community to remove parental right to the choice of health care treatment options for their children. This organization seeks to create statute to increase governmental authority to remove children based on personal opinion that courts should mandate a specific method of care. Watch Jean fischer’s statements to the Legislative Workgroup August 2016.

    Year after year, legislation has been brought up by this organization to force parental compliance to state standards of medical care. Each year, legislators have responded saying the protection of religious freedom and parental authority must be upheld in Idaho.

    Every life is precious. Our hearts go out to each of these families. But this isn’t just about life, is it?

    Those coffins are a stark reminder of how precious life is, but this campaign also reminds us how precious truth is, applied truthfully. 

    So, let’s mourn the loss of life and stand up for the truth that keeps us free. 

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  • Offit Campaigning in Idaho concerns Health Freedom Advocates

    Paul Offit has accepted the invitation of Bruce Wingate of Protect Idaho Kids to manipulate public opinion into believing there is a significant issue of abuse and neglect affecting Idaho’s children. The ultimate goal of the campaign is to change the Idaho statute to force parents into compliance of government mandated treatments using CPS and Health and Welfare. Their campaign’s target is a small group of families, who reside in Idaho, who do not use medical treatments for religious reasons. Throughout the 2017 Legislative session, Health Freedom Idaho shared the concerns that the approach being taken was a direct violation of religious freedom and the erosion of parental rights. Legislators agreed and voted down SB 1182. <See Health Freedom Idaho’s specific concerns about this legislation> Health Freedom Idaho anticipates Offit’s organization will make another attempt. 

    WHY WOULD OFFIT TARGET IDAHO TO UNDERMINE PARENTAL AUTHORITY IN HEALTHCARE CHOICES? 

    Dr. Paul Offit holds a Merck-funded 1.5 million dollar research chair at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has stated that children can safely receive 10,000 vaccines in one sitting, and is the co-inventor of a massively profitable rotavirus vaccine called RotaTeq1  which has caused serious suffering in the form of hospitalization, surgery,  and death to more than 1,000 U.S. infants2.

    Therefore, it is ironic that he (a non Idaho resident) has joined a Protect Idaho Kids campaign entitled “Let Them Live”3 which targets the current Faith Healing Exemption law in our state. Many citizens fear the removal of this exemption to be a slippery slope to the inevitable and insidiously motivated, the end goal to further the removal of other parental rights concerning the medical treatment of our children.

    Offit stated in his December 15, 2015 video blog, that parents questioning vaccine safety hold “ill-founded beliefs.” Certainly the parents of the children that were dosed with Offit’s vaccine and hospitalized by this “preventive medicine” once held a firm belief in medical science. That is, until it killed or severely injured their previously healthy infants.

    His books, lectures and television commercials assert his belief that any public outcry advocating Informed Consent is “a threat to public safety” and is “undermining modern medicine.” Clearly, he (and his massive financial incentive) is threatened by individuals doing independent research about the safety, efficacy, and necessity of modern, allopathic medicine.

    In this video, he states that parents that choose not vaccinate their children in accordance with the entire CDC recommended vaccine schedule (which includes HIS vaccine among others) should be forced to relinquish their children to the State.  4 

    Dr. Paul Offit has joined a Statewide campaign calling for changes in our state laws force parental compliance with the use of CPS and Health and Welfare. It begs the question from Health Freedom Advocates, “Is Dr. Offit sincerely interested in protecting Idaho’s children or just self-interested?”

    MORE RESEARCH RESOURCES: 

    RotaTeq Virus ADVERSE REACTIONS

    2 Reports on VAERS (June 15, 2016) for the Offit/Merck Rotateq vaccine introduced in 2006 list 1,135 cases of intussusception with 10 accompanying deaths  (1 in 107) while Rotarix (introduced in 2008) has 583 cases of intussusception  and 11 deaths  (a very disturbing rate of 1 in 50).

    RotaTeq Virus CONTAMINATION

    On May 7, 2010, the FDA announced that RotaTeq vaccine was contaminated with DNA from two porcine circoviruses: PCV1 and PCV2.  To date, the vaccine manufacturer, Merck, has not given any information regarding if, or when, PCV1 and PCV2 will be removed from this vaccine.  Although PCV1 has not been associated with clinical disease in pigs, PCV2 is a lethal pig virus that causes immune suppression and a serious wasting disease in baby pigs that damages lungs, kidneys, the reproductive system, brain and ultimately causes death.  The FDA recommended temporary suspension of the use of Rotarix vaccine on March 22nd after DNA from PCV1 was identified in Rotarix, but did not call for suspension of the use of RotaTeq vaccine after PCV2 was found in RotaTeq. On June 1st, NVIC called on Merck to voluntarily withdraw RotaTeq from the market until PCV2, especially, is removed from the vaccine.
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    Millions of Children Infected with “Vaccine Safety Expert’s” Rotateq Vaccine: Dr. Paul Offit.

    Paul Offit says you can safely administer 10,000 vaccines to infants at once. But he also profits from the patent he holds for the Rotateq vaccine. What’s wrong with this picture?
    A 2010 study published in Journal of Virology revealed that his multi-million dollar-grossing patent on the Rotateq vaccine contains a live Simian Retrovirus (with a 96% match of certainty) that has likely infected millions of children over the past few years causing great harm.  Retrovirus infections are permanent, and can carry on indefinitely into future generations. In other words, once they are inserted into the human genome they cannot be removed.