AB 659 HPV Vaccine Mandate Schools in California (2023)

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Letter from School District in New York re HPV Vaccine bill mandate December 2019

SBHCs and the anti-parent agenda (School-based Health Centers (SBHCs) July 2023

"Don’t let the name fool you (or your lawmakers). They sound old hat, but School-based Health Centers are not your typical school-nurse model of care where minor illnesses and injuries are treated. SBHCs are intended by the Biden-Harris administration to be the “medical home” for your child, including primary health care services, reproductive counseling, dental care, and mental health counseling, replacing what the child would typically receive from providers outside of the school....."

"What’s worse, we’re seeing a wave of states across the country filing bills to lower the age of consent to medical care from age 18 to as low as age 11. This means schools do not have to get parental consent to treat the child and, even worse, parental objection to treatment is meaningless. When you combine the push for health care expansion within schools (a place where children are away from their parents) with the push for minor consent laws (nullifying the need for parents), the anti-parent agenda becomes clear.

One example of this playing out in real time can be seen in California. In 2011, California passed a minor consent law allowing children to consent to their own medical care beginning at age 12. In July 2022, Harvard’s Center for Policy Law and Innovation and University of California, Davis jointly published their research showing that School-based Health Centers are even more effective at increasing HPV vaccination rates than state mandates. Pairing SBHCs with minor consent laws almost entirely eliminates the biggest obstacle to HPV vaccines: parental objection."

‘Cancer Prevention Act’ Tricks Students into Taking HPV Vaccine April 26, 2023

VIDEO Josh Coleman from Visforvaccine.com reports the ‘Cancer Prevention Act’ is a Trojan horse to mandate the HPV vaccine in order to attend school in California

HPV Vaccine: Is It Even Worth It? April 25, 2023

"“If 100,000 People are vaccinated with the HPV vaccine, at best, eight cases of cervical cancer might be prevented, but at the same time 2,300 people—2.3 percent—will experience serious adverse events,” Joshua Coleman, a father of a vaccine-injured child, testified during the bill’s hearing in front of California’s Committee on Health on April 18, 2023.

Coleman presented an insert from Merck’s Gardasil 9 vaccine, which is the only HPV vaccine available in the United States. The insert lists the risks associated with the vaccine and notes that 2.3 percent of the participants in its clinical studies experienced a serious adverse event (SAE). The FDA defines an SAE as an event that causes death, threatens life, results in hospitalization, or intensive treatment, or disrupts the ability to live a normal life."

Should California push sexually-transmitted disease vaccine for college? Bill could mandate it Sacramento Bee April 11, 2023

"Flores Martin said the Immunization Coalition has not yet taken a position on Aguiar-Curry’s bill. A letter from the group suggests checking for the HPV vaccine at seventh grade, as schools already do for the tdap and chickenpox shots. The group would also like to see Hepatitis B added back onto the list of shots mandated for seventh graders. “Education is great,” Flores Martin said. “.... But I think a lot of education is already happening. So, not a bad thing, but we were sort of in a position of do a mandate or not, basically. So it’s great that they want to check it, if they’re proposing checking at college. But if you’re going to do a mandate, the preferred time would be at junior high age.”

False claims circulate about HPV vaccine amid Gardasil lawsuits AP News March 7, 2023

"“Wisner Baum has been litigating these cases for four years and we’ve amassed millions of pages of internal Merck documents,” he wrote in a statement, referring to his Los Angeles-based law firm. “We are in the process of the declassification of internal docs that support our allegations.”

Litigation is also playing out in a number of state courts, including seven cases in California, one in New York and one in New Jersey, according to Josephson, of Merck.

Some of the California cases had been slated to go to trial this September but were recently postponed to September 2024 in order to coordinate their progress with the federal claims, he confirmed."

Proposed legislation would require HPV vaccine for California eighth graders February 16, 2023

""If there is a way to prevent cancer, why not do this?," said state Assembly Member Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, who proposed this new bill. She pointed out that because this vaccine would be administered years after kids get their MMR shots, they can determine if they have any adverse reactions to vaccine.

"With that additional time, parents of vaccine-vulnerable children have plenty of time to take advantage of the medical exemption that is in the bill," Aguiar-Curry told CBS 8. "

CA bill would mandate HPV vaccine for all students entering 8th grade February 14, 2023

"In 2005, San Francisco was one of a few cities in the United States conducting clinical trials. Now 17 years later, we spoke to the lead investigator of that study in the Bay Area.

"With this HPV vaccine, there is no legitimate debate, there are no side effects, there is no toxicity and it is now shown unequivocally to prevent infection and cancer, so there is no reason why young people shouldn't get this vaccine," explained Dr. Jacob Lalezar."

HPV Vaccine: The Science Behind The Controversy NPR September 19, 2011

"But Dr. Diane Harper, a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, says the vaccine is being way oversold.

That's pretty striking, because Harper worked on studies that got the vaccines approved. And she has accepted grants from the manufacturers, although she says she doesn't any longer.

Harper changed her mind when the vaccine makers started lobbying state legislatures to require schoolkids to get vaccinated.

"Ninety-five percent of women who are infected with HPV never, ever get cervical cancer," she says. "It seemed very odd to be mandating something for which 95 percent of infections never amount to anything."

By Harper's calculations, the tried-and-true method of regular Pap smears is a more effective way to prevent cervical cancer than the vaccines. "Pap smear screening is far and away the biggest thing a woman can do to protect herself, to prevent cervical cancer," she says."

Low enrollment in our schools and looming deficit in state budget already an issue in California

Gavin Newsom predicted massive budget deficit for California. Reality was even worse, analysis finds February 21, 2023

"The California Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO), a government agency that analyzes the budget for the state legislature, estimates in a report published last week that Newsom's forecast undershot the mark by about $7 billion, thanks to about $10 billion less in tax revenues than expected.

"In particular, using recent revenue collections and economic data, we estimate there is a two‑in‑three chance that state revenues will be lower than the governor's budget estimates for 2022‑23 and 2023‑24," writes Gabe Patek, the legislature's budget analyst. "Our best estimate is that revenues for these two years will be roughly $10 billion lower — implying a larger budget problem by about $7 billion.""

Seniority, performance most often weighed in teacher layoffs February 13, 2023

"Teaching positions could be on the chopping block as public schools face decreasing enrollment and September 2024 spending deadlines for federal pandemic relief funds — and the resulting possibility of budget cuts. "

Dual Enrollment

Dual enrollment: How to increase access for all students EdSource (VIDEO)

Public Policy Institute of California What's Next for Higher Education in 2023?

Newsom offers new money if California college systems meet equity goals EdSource