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A pro-vaccine anti-mandates dad weighs in on why he’s against mandating medicine<\/p><\/div>\n

April 17, 2019 (Ashland, OR)\u2014If you\u2019re an educator, doctor, business person, or parent in Oregon and you care about children\u2019s health, you\u2019ve probably heard about HB 3063. This bill seeks to exclude Oregon\u2019s children from public school, private school, daycare, and even Head Start. Unfortunately, it’s being “fast-tracked” through the Oregon House of Representatives right now. A lot of\u00a0pro-vaccine anti-mandates advocates are concerned that school exclusion is un-Oregonian.<\/p>\n

HB 3063 passed out of the House Health Care Committee at the end of March.<\/p>\n

It’s currently in the Joint Ways and Means Committee,<\/a> awaiting assignment to a subcommittee where lawmakers will review its financial impact.<\/p>\n

Against Oregon’s bill HB 3063<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Representatives and senators on both sides have told us that the vast majority of the communication they’ve received (phone calls, letters, emails) has been from pro-vaccine anti-mandates constituents who are against HB 3063<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Many, perhaps most, of these constituents consider themselves “pro-vaccine<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But\u00a0they do not believe medicine should be mandated, that we should do away with religious and philosophical freedom in our state, or that children should be excluded from school based on the religious or philosophical beliefs of their parents. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet some Oregon lawmakers continue to insist that we should force<\/em> vaccination compliance and disallow children from Oregon\u2019s schools if they have not received even just one<\/strong> of the 31 recommended vaccines (31 is\u00a0the number of doses for vaccines required for kindergarten.)<\/p>\n

Business consultant Stephen Sloan: I’m pro-vaccine but anti-mandates<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Consultant Stephen Sloan opposes HB 3063. Here’s a version of the letter he wrote to Oregon lawmakers, which he has graciously agreed to let us publish.<\/p>\n

Stephen Sloan
\nSloan Value Partners, LLC
\nHumane Leadership Conference<\/p>\n

Re: Oppose HB 3063<\/strong><\/p>\n

To the Oregon legislature:<\/p>\n

I am a resident of Ashland, a business consultant, college educator and an active board member in the arts community here. I am writing to you to express my opposition to HB 3063, and to urge you to oppose it as well.<\/p>\n

I am as wary as any educated person of preventable, infectious diseases. While I am pro-vaccine, we chose to vaccinate our three children on a modified schedule, not the standard, multi-vaccine protocols very early in childhood.<\/p>\n

HB 3063 seems aimed at removing the right to make thoughtful, personal choices about immunizations from parents going forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In these troubled days in our culture, it is important for legislators like you to be the exemplars of rational pursuit of truth, justice and civil liberties<\/strong>. Unfortunately, HB 3063 ignores the:<\/p>\n