The following information is from Children’s Health Defense.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is backing a new federal lawsuit challenging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over its Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program — a policy critics say punishes doctors and low-income families who opt out of COVID-19 vaccination.
The suit was filed on behalf of California pediatrician Dr. Samara Cardenas, who refused to give COVID-19 vaccines to healthy children. Because of that stance, she was expelled from the VFC program, lost her Medicaid contract, and was ultimately forced to shut down her practice.
Under current CDC rules, doctors serving Medicaid patients through the VFC Program are required to offer all vaccines on the CDC’s schedule — including COVID-19 shots — or be excluded from the program entirely. For physicians who object on scientific or ethical grounds, there’s no middle ground.
“It shocks the conscience. Physicians in California must be free to exercise their best judgment, especially when it comes to administering experimental injections.”
— Ray Flores, Attorney
The lawsuit claims the policy violates the Fifth Amendment by coercing doctors to violate their medical judgment and by discriminating against low-income children, who rely on VFC providers for care. Pediatricians unwilling to administer the COVID shot are effectively barred from treating Medicaid patients — leaving those families with fewer healthcare options.
“Can the government tell a doctor what she must inject in order to treat the poor? That’s what this case asks. And the answer should be ‘no.”
— Children’s Health Defense legal team
The legal filing also questions the CDC’s process of adding COVID-19 shots to the childhood immunization schedule, pointing to a lack of long-term safety data and international precedent. Sweden and the UK, for example, do not recommend COVID vaccination for healthy children under 12. CHD attorneys argue that unelected committees like the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are bypassing proper safeguards and accountability.
The lawsuit also cites government data showing hundreds of thousands of adverse events reported following COVID-19 vaccination — including serious reactions and deaths. As of March 28, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) listed 72,924 reports involving people age 18 and under, including 6,122 serious adverse events and 201 deaths. The actual numbers may be far higher due to significant underreporting.
The lawsuit does not seek monetary damages. Its aim is to block enforcement of the CDC’s rule and restore the rights of doctors to treat patients without being forced to deliver unwanted or unnecessary injections.
For more information, read the full article here.
How is it possible that covid-19 vaccines are still being offered to anyone, especially children. Clearly all at CDC that are responsible for offering these vaccines should be fired. These vaccines should be removed from the market until studies can show they have value and are SAFE.
Absolutely awful that we are still here offering vaccines that studies show and common sense dictates they are NOT SAFE FOR ANYONE!!!!!!!!
Thx for covering our case Sharyl. Stay tuned for my Defender guest editorial on why I filed it, and what we’re really going after.
Rick Jaffe, Esq.
The state has usurped physicians’ responsible charge; in my opinion the state is, in effect, comitting malpractice.
There are parallels in the relationship between insurance companies and doctors.
That the medical profession (and the public, admittedly ignorant) ever allowed such to occur is a travesty.