Oklahomans For Vaccine Choice: A very important week!

Let's be ready!

This is the last week for SB 83 to be heard so it is HIGHLY LIKELY that it will be heard this week, either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Please check our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter for daily updates. It is extremely important, as always, for as many members as possible to come to the capitol when the bill is being heard so let's all be ready to go at a moment's notice!

Until then, have you called, emailed, and made an appointment with your senator? If SB 83 passes, it will go to the House. This makes more work for us so let's kill it NOW!

Don't know who your senator is? Click here to look up your state senator and state representative. Enter your address with zip code, scroll to the bottom until you see "State Senator" and "State Representative," and click on their pictures to get the phone number and email address of each. Please call and email your senator about SB 83! In the subject line of your email, put "From your constituent - NO SB83"

SB 83 impedes our religious expression and violates our first amendment rights. It also sets the stage for more rights to be stripped. In light of the increase in vaccines, our exemption rates are not low (only 1.4% are non-medical exemptions). As more vaccines are added that have no liability, the exemptions will rise! Tell them the problem is not parents exempting their children! It's the out-of-control vaccine schedule produced by vaccine makers who have no liability! Parents need to trust, not distrust the system!!

Update on HB 1922

Last week, we reported that there was an amendment to HB 1922 that removed the word "neglect" from the bill. Rep. Kannady was attempting two amendments in HB 1922, both with an apparent end in mind. Removing one of his amendments and leaving the other means he will have achieved half of his objectives. We know from experience that change is made incrementally and that by the time next session rolls around folks will have forgotten what the objections were and only one little word will have to be changed - adding neglect back in. And Oklahoma Justice Society has this objection to the "a child" change: "We object to the change from "the" to "a" because it opens up way too many allegations that cannot meet the due process standards under Crawford and the right to confront."

We believe it is better to err on the side of caution and not advance this bill.

This means we are back to opposing HB 1922. So call and email your representative TODAY as this bill will also very likely be heard this week in the House. If it passes, it will go on to the Senate. This bill is potentially more dangerous than SB 83, so PLEASE don't let this one slide by!