lifesitenews--2020-12-15--GOP electors keep Trump legal battle alive as Democrats cast ‘official’ vote for Biden

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UNITED STATES , December 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Mainstream media outlets touted a victory for Joe Biden today as a majority of the nation ’ s presidential electors , nominated by the 50 states ’ governors , cast their votes for Biden after a hotly contested , controversial , and drawn out presidential election .
However , in several battleground states whose governors appointed Democrat electors , an “ alternate ” slate of Republican electors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Donald Trump .
The New York Times hailed what is being called the official vote , saying Biden was thus “ formally securing the presidency in the manner set out in the Constitution , some six weeks after Election Day.
” CNN called the event “ a crushing blow to President Trump ’ s controversial and unprecedented attempts to block Biden ’ s victory in the Electoral College by filing longshot lawsuits and pressuring lawmakers in battleground states to overturn millions of legal votes.
” However , nuances in the constitutional process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s alleged victory still in doubt .
Republican electors in Pennsylvania , Nevada , Georgia , and Arizona — states whose Democrat electors “ officially ” voted for Biden — all cast votes for the president , thus enabling him to “ preserve any legal claims ... going forward.
” The move is to ensure that the legal cases undertaken by the Trump team can continue through the rest of December and into January .
In a statement issued on Monday , the Pennsylvania GOP said , “ We took this procedural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be presented going forward.
” Nevada did likewise , with the Nevada GOP page posting a message saying , “ History made today.
” Meanwhile , the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party , David Shafer , issued a statement explaining the reason behind Georgia GOP electors voting for Trump .
“ Because the President ’ s lawsuit contesting the Georgia election is still pending , the Republican nominees for Presidential Elector met today at noon at the State Capitol today and cast their votes for President and Vice President , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ met today and cast our votes , the President ’ s pending election contest would have been effectively mooted .
Our action today preserves his rights under Georgia law.
” Reports show that the above states were further joined by Michigan and Wisconsin .
In fact , seven states in total have had Republican electors cast votes for President Trump , thus enabling the president to continue his legal battle regarding the election .
Speaking to Fox News on Monday morning , Stephen Miller , a senior Trump campaign adviser , pointed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Constitution ” and said there is “ more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result and certify Donald Trump as the winner of the election.
” The purpose of the alternate Electoral College voters is to “ preserve our rights to ensure an accurate and honest result to this election , ” Miller explained .
“ As we speak , today , an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we ’ re going to send those results up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our legal remedies remain open , ” Miller continued .
“ That means that if we win these cases in the courts , that we can direct that the alternate slate of electors be certified .
The state legislators in Georgia , Wisconsin , Pennsylvania can do the same and likewise Congress has that opportunity as well to do the right thing .
If you just cured three simple constitutional defects , Donald Trump ’ s the winner of this election.
” Electoral College votes , having been cast on December 14 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on January 6 as part of a joint session of Congress , led by Vice President Mike Pence .
Members of the House of Representatives can at this point raise objections to the electors ’ votes .
If for some reason neither Biden nor Trump were to get a majority of 270 votes , then the 435 members of the House would vote by state .
While the Democrats hold a majority in the House , Republicans have a larger number of states under their control , so Trump could be re-elected in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stage .
When questioned as to why the Trump campaign had not enjoyed overwhelming successes in their legal cases so far , Miller answered : “ The pressure from the corrupt corporate media to make everybody cave and bend , is overwhelming , it is overwhelming .
And so , yes , judges are caving , yes , politicians are caving .
We need heroes to step up and do the right thing.
” Meanwhile , Biden gave a speech following the Electoral College results in which he made a dig at Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politicians do n't take power — the people grant it to them .
The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago .
And we now know that nothing — not even a pandemic or an abuse of power — can extinguish that flame.
” Miller , earlier in the day , soundly accused the Democrats of widespread fraud .
“ Think about it , ” he stated .
“ Using the pretext of COVID , state Democrats unilaterally changed their election laws for one sole purpose , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-fraud measure and they did it unilaterally .
They did it illegally , and now they ’ re trying to cover up the results by opposing audits of the vote .
You only do that if you want fraud and encourage fraud .
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PETITION UPDATE (1/15/2021) -
The events of the past month, and especially the past 10 days, have shaken the faith Americans have in their elected and appoint officials.
We continue to call for investigations to be made into allegations of election fraud. Texas is in the process of prosecuting one political operative for illegal ballot harvesting, and multiple state legislatures have called for investigations, too.
However, the judiciary has severely let down the American electorate.
As we have said all along, the integrity of the election is much bigger than President Trump. Election integrity is at the heart of republican democracy, and if we don't have it, we no longer have a functioning republic.
Therefore, we continue to seek the truth for the election outcome. Perhaps that will only be known in the future when state or federal commissions are established to investigate the instances of election fraud which were witnessed and sworn to, by thousands of Americans of all political persuasions.
In the meantime, you may still sign this petition. Thank you!
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PETITION UPDATE (12/10/20) -
On Wednesday, President Trump tweeted: "We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!"
He is referring to the lawsuit which the state of Texas has filed against Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia in the Supreme Court over changes those states made to their election rules, claiming they violated the U.S. Constitution in the process.
Here is the central part of the argument: if Texas were to allow possible voter fraud to go unchecked in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, it would be akin to committing fraud upon the people of Texas, who cast their ballots within the framework of the law.
Indeed, this would apply equally to all citizens who voted within the framework of the law across the United States!
President Trump also tweeted that this case is, "very strong...ALL CRITERIA MET."
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, now.
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PETITION UPDATE (12/7/20) - Since this petition was launched, President Trump's legal team, as well as other concerned citizens, have discovered what appears to be irrefutable evidence of voter fraud in several of the key battleground states, and have initiated legal challenges in six states.
While the situation continues to evolve, this remains a hugely important petition which we encourage you to SIGN and SHARE.
Below, please WATCH and READ about the mounting evidence of voter fraud and how the mainstream media seem determined to ignore even the most egregious instances of vote tampering. Then, please SIGN and SHARE this petition.
'Trump: ‘Our election system is now under assault and siege’ and as president I must defend it'
'Tens of thousands 2020 election votes illegally scanned in Detroit, says Dominion IT contractor'
'Trump campaign files lawsuit demanding ‘a new statewide election for president’ in Georgia'
'Experts flag over 500k ballots in PA with new evidence of major 2020 election voter fraud'
''Smoking gun'? Pennsylvania vote fraud hearing gets gasps from audience'
'FBI and Justice Department have dragged their feet investigating 2020 vote fraud'
''CNN top brass in leaked tape: We won't give Trump 'too much of a platform on his not conceding'
'Twitter censored Trump 63 times over Thanksgiving holiday, Biden untouched'
LifeSite supports President Trump with this petition because we believe he is trying to defend the Constitution, ensuring that electoral fraud does not taint the result of the 2020 general election.
But, since starting this petition, we have launched a separate petition related to the disputed election outcome, calling on the Department of Justice to 'do their job' and engage in meaningful investigations of the mounting evidence of voter fraud.
We believe that conducting forensic audits of ballots and voting machines, as well as issuing subpoenas to collect more evidence, would be a good start.
Thankfully, some of the state started to demand investigations independent of federal agencies. But we still believe that the DoJ needs to use its enormous fact-finding resources to help resolve allegations of election fraud.
Thank you for continuing to SIGN and SHARE all our election-related petitions.
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Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition which calls on all Americans to Stand With President Trump as he uses every legitimate means to find out if voter fraud played any role in the election outcome.
Amid allegations of voter fraud, and at a time when the situation with COVID has been used by many of the states to facilitate the use of mail-in ballots on a massive scale, we need to be very careful in dismissing the possibility of voter fraud.
The fact is, the possibility of wide-spread fraud with mail-in ballots is significant.
But, this is not about Donald Trump or Joe Biden! This about whether or not the sanctity of the ballot box has been tampered with!
Please Stand With President Trump as he attempts to defend the integrity of this election, as well as well as the right to vote itself!
Indeed, this is so important, not so much because one election hangs in the balance, but because our democracy, itself, hangs in the balance.
Americans not only have a right to know, but should demand that every legitimate means be used to discover the truth about these elections!
Please SIGN this petition and Stand With President Trump to ensure that these elections were conducted freely and fairly!
While most all Americans believe in playing by the rules, we also know that some very devious, politically-motivated operatives have been trying to harm the Trump administration from before he even took the oath of office.
This fact should lead us to question how some allegations of voter fraud can be so easily dismissed by state election authorities.
We demand to know the truth, and, for the sake of our democracy, we demand that President Trump keep fighting to learn the truth.
Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this petition today!
**Photo Credit: Shealah Craighead / White House / Flickr


lifesitenews--2020-12-15--Mexico approves biometric ID card to help ‘address demographic changes’

December 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Mexico passed a New General Population Law that aims for the creation of a “ Unique Digital Identity Card ” and to “ enable the government to address demographic changes , mortality , fertility , and international migration.
” The new General Law on Population , Human Mobility and Interculturality , passed by the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico with 426 votes in favor , three abstentions , and one against , “ will enable the Ministry of the Interior to create a database with the personal data of Mexicans , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Cédula Única de Identidad Digital ( Unique Digital Identity Card ) is to become “ the official identification document for all Mexicans , ” and will be issued to those in Mexico and also to those living abroad , according to BiometricUpdate.com .
The card will contain citizens ’ “ names , surnames , date of birth , place of birth , nationality , and biometric data , together with a unique Population Registration Key ( CURP ) number.
” The stated purpose of the identity card is not just to “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but to “ address ” demographic changes .
The identity card “ will enable the government to address demographic changes , mortality , fertility , and international migration , ” according to Representative César Agustín Fernández Pérez ( Morena ) .
The Yucatan Times reported , “ In a bulletin published online , the Chamber of Deputies stated that the new General Population Law aims to “ establish the bases for inter-institutional coordination to formulate and conduct population and intercultural policy that addresses the causes and consequences of demographic dynamics and guarantees the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previous General Population Law , created in 1974 and last reformed in 2014 , provides for the execution of “ measures required ” for family planning programs through “ education and public health services , ” “ with the purpose of rationally regulating and stabilizing the growth of population.
” The new General Population Law requires the National Population Registry to “ contain the certificate number of disability , when applicable , and “ self-inscription as a member of the indigenous peoples or Afro-Mexican population.
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PETITION UPDATE (12/11/2020)
Right before Thanksgiving, YouTube deleted a LifeSite video of a distinguished Canadian physician protesting the "unfounded public hysteria" over COVID-19 and accused us of spreading "medical misinformation."
Our account was suspended, and we were prohibited from posting videos on our YouTube channel for one week. And, while that may not seem like a big deal, it's a huge deal for a news organization like LifeSite.
Then, earlier this week, YouTube again suspended our account – this time for two weeks – over an episode of The Bishop Strickland Show wherein Bishop Strickland said he would not take an unethical COVID-19 vaccine.
We were able to appeal the suspension, and our request was granted.
This means that in YouTube's three-strikes-and-you're-out content-policing, idea-cleansing scheme, we are back down to one strike. But, we still face the threat of losing our account permanently.
And, we're not the only ones.
In a recent turn of events, YouTube just announced that it will remove videos alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
But, what is YouTube afraid of? The truth???
Thankfully, however, there is a one, big bright spot on the horizon: 48 states filed suit against Facebook just this week.
And, although this seems like a step in the right direction, the draconian measures which YouTube just rolled out, which are already wielded by Twitter, are an assault against free speech.
So, the fight for freedom of speech against Big Tech goes on. And, we must do everything we can to protect it!
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-youtube-reverses-ban-on-lifesitenews?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-bans-lifesite-over-video-of-bp-strickland-refusing-to-take-corona-vaccine
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lifesites-channel-was-suspended-by-youtube-heres-how-you-can-still-watch-our-videos
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-starts-removing-videos-that-contain-allegations-of-mass-voter-fraud
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/12/10/facebook-sued-by-48-states-federal-trade-commission-over-allegations-of-monopolistic-practices/
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PETITION UPDATE (11/18/2020)
Everyone thought the censorship by Big Tech corporations would decrease after the 2020 election, but the truth is that censorship is being felt just as much as it was before the election.
And, given the election outcome, perhaps Big Tech censorship now is even more consequential than it was before the election!
The two biggest social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and other Big Tech companies, are still censoring and suppressing stories and posts favorable to conservatives, and especially anything that has to do with election fraud.
Here are a few recent examples:
Women for America First organized the March for Trump on November 14, which was shut down by Facebook, MailChimp and Eventbrite. Despite Big Tech’s best efforts to cancel the event, the march went on and gathered a huge crowd.
Twitter has been suppressing a large number of President Trump’s Tweets. Most of his Tweets have been flagged arbitrarily with a warning stating: “This claim about election fraud is disputed."
Please READ this recent article about Big Tech's attempt to choke information conerning the recent Million MAGA March in Washington, DC: '5 things mainstream media won’t tell you about massive DC ‘Stop the Steal’ rally'
Then, please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
PETITION UPDATE (10/15/2020)
In a remarkable development, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham have announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas to Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg for their company's suppression of two critical expose news stories about how Hunter Biden and the Biden Family allegedly profited from business deals made because of Joe Biden's position as Vice President.
Please WATCH LifeSite's exclusive video of the announcement by Senator Ted Cruz below.
According to the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham, the subpoenas will be issued next Tuesday, for hearings to be held on Friday of next week.
This is a MASSIVE development, and should be welcomed by those who champion freedom of speech.
Again, this is all happening because Twitter and Facebook refuse to allow their members to share stories which would be favorable to conservatives.
Here's the timeline:
Yesterday, Twitter and Facebook suppressed a NY Post story about how Hunter Biden allegedly profited from introducing a Ukrainian businessman to his then-Vice President father, Joe Biden. The story also alleges that Vice President Biden then subsequently pressured Ukrainian authorities to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the businessman's company.
And, just this morning, Twitter suppressed another expose by the NY Post alleging that the Biden Family improperly profitted from deals made with one of the largest Chinese energy companies because of Vice President Biden's position in government.
But, right after the story broke, Senator Cruz tried to share the latest story on Twitter and was blocked. Twitter says that they are blocking the stories because they claim that the information was obtained illegally. However, Twitter showed no problem allowing illegally obtained information about President Trump's tax returns to be shared.
Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
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'GOP senators decry Big Tech censorship of NY Post story exposing Biden corruption' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gop-senators-decry-big-tech-censorship-of-ny-post-story-exposing-biden-corruption
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PETITION UPDATE (9/17/2020)
Big Tech is out to kill free speech. LifeSite is out to protect it!
LifeSite has been digging deep into the many claims of liberal bias and selective censorship of pro-life, pro-family, and conservative voices on social media.
And, we are now launching our new series 'Uncensored: Big Tech vs. Free Speech', which will unpack how the actions of Big Tech censors actually affect conservative and Christian organization and individuals.
Please WATCH the first video in our series featuring Brigitte Gabriel, the Founder of ACT For America, one of the nation's premier national security grassroots organizations.
Ms. Gabriel's organization, ACT For America, has been targeted by Big Tech especially in the manipulation of search results.
Big Tech “think[s] they are God and they are exercising their godly power over everybody else,” Gabriel explained. "Because in today's world, anytime you want to find out any information about somebody, what do you do? Google. You go to the internet to find out some information about them. When you research anything about somebody, the first thing that comes up [in the search results] is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labeling of ‘hate groups.’”
“And who are the ‘hate groups’? Family Research Council is a hate group because they are pro-family. American Family Radio is a hate group…LifeSiteNews is a hate group. My organization is a hate group because we sound the alarm about terrorism and protecting our constitutional freedom. And so they try to character assassinate you. And they control the language.”
LifeSite's research shows that Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and others have become far too dangerous for democracy.
They can and do sway elections and public opinion in whatever direction they want, primarily by manipulating search results, tracking our online behavior, and by blocking truthful content from their platforms.
Today, LifeSite is starting to fight back, with facts and with stories of conservatives and Christians who are being negatively impacted by Big Tech's liberal bias.
Please continue to follow our 'Big Tech vs. Free Speech' series which aims to launch a new video each week for the next eight weeks.
And, please sign our petition demanding that Big Tech monopolies are broken up. Thank you!
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ORIGINAL PETITION BACKGROUND TEXT:
The outrageous erasing of the White Coat Summit from the internet is only the latest in a long series of brazen acts of censorship against conservatives and all those who support legitimate free speech.
You may agree or disagree with the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, but everyone should agree on this point:
No Big Tech company should have the power to erase from the internet the medical opinions of licensed practicing doctors simply because they do not like what they have to say about the coronavirus or their experience treating it. Americans and other free peoples do not need leftist computer programmers deciding what the best course of medical treatment is for them.
Google/Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and their Big Tech friends want to control what you see, what you read, what you think, and ultimately, how you vote. Not only do they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying congress and buttering up big Washington DC think tanks, but now they brazenly and directly censor any content they don't want you to see.
Big Tech, like other interest groups, aggressively lobby to help their businesses thrive, but increasingly, Big Tech is using blatant internet censorship to impose its radical world view over those they consider to be "deplorables."
This must stop, but it won't unless we demand it as forcefully as legally possible. We believe that we have reached the point were Big Tech must be broken up if legitimate free speech is going to survive and continue to thrive on the internet.
Please sign our petition to demand real consequences for Big Tech's suppression of legitimate free speech.
In 2016, emails revealed by Fox News' Tucker Carlson proved that Google tried to influence the election by affecting voter turnout. Thankfully they failed. But they didn't give up. Instead, they have been preparing and testing how to manipulate information to continue to abuse their monopolistic power.
In 2018, Google/Youtube et. al. succeeded in manipulating the Irish abortion referendum by blacklisting pro-life videos, manipulating pro-life search terms and results and intentionally withholding pro-life information. Again, this is not an opinion or a conspiracy theory, Project Veritas obtained first hand information proving the intentional censorship by Big Tech.
And the Coronavirus has just made things worse. You see, scared people are more easily manipulated into giving up their freedom of speech. Children are being kept from going to school, tens of millions of Americans are out of work, and rioting has broken out in most major American cities.
Now, more than ever, freedom of speech is necessary to secure all of our freedoms. Freedom of speech is crucial to truly exercise the freedom to vote for the person that best represents one's own views, or the freedom to decide what course of medical treatment to accept - especially the decision to control what vaccines are administered to our children.
Some experts, like Dr. Robert Epstein, a behavioral psychologist who has testified before congress against Big Tech believes that we may already be too late to control Big Tech's tyrannical control over information.
President Trump took a step in the right direction with his Executive Order calling for increased regulation of Big Tech. But much more can be done and needs to be done right now.
In an era where almost everything is polarized, there is an overwhelming support for breaking up the Big Tech monopolies. A recent Pew poll found that 75% of Americans believe that Big Tech companies have too much influence.
It is time to bring serious accountability to Big Tech for their attempts to use their monopolies to kill free speech.
It is time to break up Big Tech.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Google, Facebook, Twitter shut down ‘frontline’ US doctors who promote ‘cure for COVID’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/google-facebook-twitter-shut-down-frontline-us-doctors-who-promote-cure-for-covid?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard
Americans overwhelmingly agree Big Tech has too much power: Pew poll - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll
Leaked Google employee's email reveals effort to boost Latino vote, surprise that some voted for Trump - https://www.foxnews.com/tech/leaked-google-employees-email-reveals-effort-to-boost-latino-vote-surprise-that-some-voted-for-trump
Undercover video proves Google interfered in Irish abortion referendum - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll


lifesitenews--2020-12-15--Groundbreaking study shows unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children

December 14 , 2020 ( Chidlren ’ s Health Defense ) — Unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children , according to a new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health .
The study — “ Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination ” — by James Lyons-Weiler , PhD and Paul Thomas , MD , was conducted among 3,300 patients at Dr. Thomas ’ Oregon pediatrics practice , Integrative Pediatric .
This study adds to a growing list of published peer-reviewed papers ( Mawson , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) that compare the health of vaccinated children to the health of unvaccinated children .
These studies suggest we have long underestimated the scope of vaccine harms , and that the epidemic of chronic illness in children is hardly a mystery .
The study the CDC refused to do Since 1986 , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) has been legally obligated to conduct safety studies and issue a safety report on children ’ s vaccinations every two years .
In 2018 , it was determined they had never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon non-governmental groups to do the work the CDC refuses to do .
As the leading governmental organization driving vaccination among Americans , the CDC refuses to incriminate themselves in the epidemic of childhood chronic illness .
It is a classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse .
They are complicit in creating an evidence vacuum to deliberately manage against the possibility of the public turning against vaccination .
Since the Lyons-Weiler and Thomas study demonstrates that vaccinated children have more chronic illness and were also more likely to get respiratory infections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be sent into another round of apoplectic machinations to attempt to invalidate the results .
Despite the rigor with which this study was conducted , expect critics to do anything but cite opposing science .
They can not .
It simply has not been done .
Instead , expect critics to draw from a hackneyed playbook to draw the attention away from these scientific findings by directing ad hominem attacks on the authors , criticizing the journal where it was published , and claiming that the study design was not sound .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dominant scientific paradigm , it ’ s important to remember that the playground of science is not in proof , but in the accumulation of evidence that bolsters an emerging paradigm .
The Lyons-Weiler and Thomas study strengthens this emerging paradigm that vaccines may cause more harm than previously documented and characterized .
A perfect pediatric practice to study health outcomes among varying rates of vaccination Thomas ’ pediatric practice follows The Dr. Paul Approved Vaccine Plan , allowing for fully informed consent and parental decision-making in vaccination choices for their children .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to aluminum-containing vaccines and to allow parents to stop or delay vaccinations if some telltale signs of vaccine injury were starting to appear .
Conditions like allergies , eczema , developmental delay or autoimmune conditions are typical signs that a child ’ s immune system is not processing vaccines normally .
These conditions serve as early indicators to help the parent and pediatrician consider slowing or stopping vaccination .
As such , Dr. Thomas ’ practice has an incredible mix of children who range from fully vaccinated , to partially vaccinated , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the perfect pediatric practice to mine for insights into side effects of vaccination .
The Lyons-Weiler and Thomas study was conducted among pediatric patient records spanning 10 years , from Thomas ’ practice in Oregon .
Instead of using odds ratios of diagnoses in the two groups , the authors found that the relative incidence of office visit was more powerful .
Even after controlling for health care exposure , age , family history of autoimmunity and gender , the associations of vaccination with many poor health outcomes were robust .
Unvaccinated children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pediatric care outside well-child visits The study found that vaccinated children in the study see the doctor more often than unvaccinated children .
The CDC recommends 70 doses of 16 vaccines before a child reaches the age of 18 .
The more vaccines a child in the study received , the more likely the child presented with fever at an office visit .
The study had unique data that allowed the researchers to study healthcare seeking behavior .
Unlike increases in fever accompanied by increased vaccine uptake , which is accepted as causally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acceptance was not accompanied by a major increase in well-child visits .
In fact , regardless of how many vaccinations parents decided their children would have , the number of well-child visits was about the same .
Any concerns that the non-vaccinated or less-vaccinated children would avoid the doctor are unfounded , and puts the jaw-droppingly large difference in office visits in perspective — outside of well-child visits , children who received 90 to 95 % of the CDC-recommended vaccines for their age group were about 25 times more likely than the unvaccinated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appointment related to fever .
Compared to their unvaccinated counterparts , vaccinated children in the study were three to six times more likely to show up in the pediatrician ’ s office for treatment related to anemia , asthma , allergies and sinusitis .
The striking charts below show age-specific cumulative office visits for various conditions among the fully vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated .
In a stunning finding sure to rock the psychiatric community , not a single unvaccinated child in the study was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group were diagnosed with ADHD .
Likely due to the vaccine-friendly plan parent-doctor dyad decision-making at Dr. Thomas ’ practice , the overall rates of ADHD and autism in the practice were roughly half the rates found in the general population of American children .
Low levels of chicken pox and whooping cough in vaccinated and unvaccinated Regarding the question of whether or not vaccines prevent the infections they are intended to prevent , a quarter of a percent of the vaccinated were diagnosed with either chicken pox or whooping cough , while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diagnosed with chickenpox , whooping cough , or rotavirus .
Significantly , there were no cases of measles , mumps , rubella , tetanus , hepatitis or other vaccine-targeted infections in either the vaccinated or unvaccinated , during the entire 10.5 year study period .
Vaccinated 70 % more likely to have any respiratory infection Vaccinations do appear to make recipients more generally susceptible to infections , so it is ironic , yet not surprising that the vaccinated children in the study appeared at the doctor ’ s office for respiratory infections 70 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This finding is likely why vaccinated children present to the pediatrician so often with fevers .
Your grandmother was right when she asked why kids these days seem to be sick all the time , despite heavy vaccination .
Family history of autoimmunity correlated with ear infection and allergic conditions Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld and others have described a condition called autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants ( ASIA ) , where genetics and family history of autoimmunity appear to pre-dispose vaccinated patients to higher risks of developing an autoimmune condition .
With this in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from those with a family history of autoimmune conditions — such as multiple sclerosis , type I diabetes or Hashimoto ’ s thyroiditis — to patients whose families do not have autoimmunity .
The results were striking .
Vaccination among children with autoimmunity in their family appeared to increase the risk of ear infection , asthma , allergies and skin rashes relative to the unvaccinated with family history of autoimmunity .
Readers of the study will learn about flaws in past vaccine safety studies , such as over-adjustment bias , in which the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ search of the right combination of variables to make associations of adverse health outcomes with vaccines go away .
One of the most important findings of this study is that the comparison of the number of office visits related to specific health condition is a far more accurate tool than just using the incidence of diagnoses .
In fact , the study authors show this with simulation — and they point out that studies that use odds ratios with incidence of diagnosis are using a low-powered special case of the method introduced by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office visits , because patients with a “ diagnosis ” have at least one billed office visit related to the diagnosis .
The authors conclude that future vaccine safety studies should avoid using weak measures such as odds ratios of incidence of diagnosis .
Since the study found healthcare seeking behavior could not explain vaccination rates , the only remaining explanation of why vaccinated patients require more healthcare for symptoms of chronic illness associated with vaccination is that vaccines are not only associated with adverse health outcomes — they are also associated with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Recalling that 54 % of children and young adults in the U.S. have chronic illnesses that lead to life-long pharmaceutical prescriptions , it seems a lot of human pain and suffering could be reduced by adhering to informed choice regarding the true risks of vaccination , and heeding signs of vaccine sensitivity .
Although the authors call for more studies to be conducted using similar methodology , this study should certainly cause pediatricians to pause and wonder if they are contributing to life-long chronic illness in some of their patients .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children 's Health Defense .
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Despite the rigor with which this study was conducted, expect critics to do anything but cite opposing science. They cannot.
December 14, 2020 (Chidlren’s Health Defense) — Unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The study — “Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination” — by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD and Paul Thomas, MD, was conducted among 3,300 patients at Dr. Thomas’ Oregon pediatrics practice, Integrative Pediatric.
This study adds to a growing list of published peer-reviewed papers (Mawson, 2017; Hooker and Miller, 2020) that compare the health of vaccinated children to the health of unvaccinated children. These studies suggest we have long underestimated the scope of vaccine harms, and that the epidemic of chronic illness in children is hardly a mystery.
The study the CDC refused to do
Since 1986, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been legally obligated to conduct safety studies and issue a safety report on children’s vaccinations every two years. In 2018, it was determined they had never done so. It is therefore incumbent upon non-governmental groups to do the work the CDC refuses to do.
— Article continues below Petition — SIGN: Join petition calling for a stop to COVID vaccine testing in Europe Show Petition Text 16601 have signed the petition. Let's get to 17500 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition Concerns over the health and safety of the human test subjects in Pfizer's European COVID vaccine study have caused two eminent doctors to launch a petition calling for an immediate halt to those studies. On December 1, 2020, Dr. Michael Yeadon, an ex chief of research at Pfizer and Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a lung specialist and former department head of public health lodged an appeal to the EMA, the European Medicine Agency responsible for approving drugs across the EU, asking them to suspend the ongoing Pfizer/BioNtech COVID vaccine study on BNT162b (EudraCT number 2020-002641-42). LifeSite is joining Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg in their call for an immediate suspension of this study and we are encouraging people to co-sign their petition to the EMA which is to be found in the petition section on this page. Please SIGN and SHARE this important petition, and then please contact the EMA at the address listed below, in the 'For More Information' section. In their application to the EMA, Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg give the following reasons why the Pfizer study could pose dangers to the health and safety of the study participants: First, the doctors say that the study design must be improved as the highly inaccurate PCR test is currently being used to detect the presence of COVID in the study participants. This means that the efficacy of the vaccine is in doubt. The doctors recommend changing from the PCR test to Sanger sequencing.
Second, and more important, the doctors advocate animal testing of the vaccine to exclude the possibility of the risks to the life and health of human participants from known side-effects of other similar studies on corona viruses. These side-effects can include: an exaggerated immune response when the subject comes into contact with the "real world" virus; possible infertility of an "indefinite duration" for women; severe allergic responses to polyethylene glycol which is contained in the mRNA vaccine being tested by Pfizer; and, other latent, serious side effects which, because of the short duration of the study, may only become known well after the conclusion of the study. Because of these unacceptable risks to the life and health of the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID vaccine study participants, we are joining with Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg as co-signers of their petition to the European Medicine Agency, asking for an immediate halt to these studies. Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING, today! And, after you have signed this petition, please send the sample email in the section below to the official European Medicine Agency email: [email protected] FOR MORE INFORMATION: Actual Petition Text (pdf): https://2020news.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Wodarg_Yeadon_EMA_Petition_Pfizer_Trial_FINAL_01DEC2020_EN_unsigned_with_Exhibits.pdf Sample Email: Subject: Please act on the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon and stay the Phase III clinical trial(s) of BNT162b Dear Sir or Madam, I am hereby co-signing the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon to support their urgent request to stay the Phase III clinical trial(s) of BNT162b (EudraCT Number 2020-002641-42) and other clinical trials. The full text of the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon can be found here: https://2020news.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Wodarg_Yeadon_EMA_Petition_Pfizer_Trial_FINAL_01DEC2020_EN_unsigned_with_Exhibits.pdf I hereby respectfully request that EMA act on the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon immediately. Regards, [Your name] **Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
As the leading governmental organization driving vaccination among Americans, the CDC refuses to incriminate themselves in the epidemic of childhood chronic illness. It is a classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse. They are complicit in creating an evidence vacuum to deliberately manage against the possibility of the public turning against vaccination.
Since the Lyons-Weiler and Thomas study demonstrates that vaccinated children have more chronic illness and were also more likely to get respiratory infections, those who downplay vaccine risks will be sent into another round of apoplectic machinations to attempt to invalidate the results.
Despite the rigor with which this study was conducted, expect critics to do anything but cite opposing science. They cannot. It simply has not been done. Instead, expect critics to draw from a hackneyed playbook to draw the attention away from these scientific findings by directing ad hominem attacks on the authors, criticizing the journal where it was published, and claiming that the study design was not sound.
When research highlights anomalies that diverge from a dominant scientific paradigm, it’s important to remember that the playground of science is not in proof, but in the accumulation of evidence that bolsters an emerging paradigm. The Lyons-Weiler and Thomas study strengthens this emerging paradigm that vaccines may cause more harm than previously documented and characterized.
A perfect pediatric practice to study health outcomes among varying rates of vaccination
Thomas’ pediatric practice follows The Dr. Paul Approved Vaccine Plan, allowing for fully informed consent and parental decision-making in vaccination choices for their children. The plan was developed to reduce exposures to aluminum-containing vaccines and to allow parents to stop or delay vaccinations if some telltale signs of vaccine injury were starting to appear. Conditions like allergies, eczema, developmental delay or autoimmune conditions are typical signs that a child’s immune system is not processing vaccines normally.
These conditions serve as early indicators to help the parent and pediatrician consider slowing or stopping vaccination. As such, Dr. Thomas’ practice has an incredible mix of children who range from fully vaccinated, to partially vaccinated, to not vaccinated at all, making it the perfect pediatric practice to mine for insights into side effects of vaccination.
Study results based on relative incidence of office visits
The Lyons-Weiler and Thomas study was conducted among pediatric patient records spanning 10 years, from Thomas’ practice in Oregon. Instead of using odds ratios of diagnoses in the two groups, the authors found that the relative incidence of office visit was more powerful. Even after controlling for health care exposure, age, family history of autoimmunity and gender, the associations of vaccination with many poor health outcomes were robust.
Unvaccinated children have less fever, seek 25X less pediatric care outside well-child visits
The study found that vaccinated children in the study see the doctor more often than unvaccinated children. The CDC recommends 70 doses of 16 vaccines before a child reaches the age of 18. The more vaccines a child in the study received, the more likely the child presented with fever at an office visit.
The study had unique data that allowed the researchers to study healthcare seeking behavior. Unlike increases in fever accompanied by increased vaccine uptake, which is accepted as causally related to vaccination, increases in vaccine acceptance was not accompanied by a major increase in well-child visits. In fact, regardless of how many vaccinations parents decided their children would have, the number of well-child visits was about the same.
Any concerns that the non-vaccinated or less-vaccinated children would avoid the doctor are unfounded, and puts the jaw-droppingly large difference in office visits in perspective — outside of well-child visits, children who received 90 to 95% of the CDC-recommended vaccines for their age group were about 25 times more likely than the unvaccinated group to see the pediatrician for an appointment related to fever.
Compared to their unvaccinated counterparts, vaccinated children in the study were three to six times more likely to show up in the pediatrician’s office for treatment related to anemia, asthma, allergies and sinusitis. The striking charts below show age-specific cumulative office visits for various conditions among the fully vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.
No ADHD among unvaccinated
In a stunning finding sure to rock the psychiatric community, not a single unvaccinated child in the study was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD,) while 0.063% of the vaccinated group were diagnosed with ADHD. Likely due to the vaccine-friendly plan parent-doctor dyad decision-making at Dr. Thomas’ practice, the overall rates of ADHD and autism in the practice were roughly half the rates found in the general population of American children.
Low levels of chicken pox and whooping cough in vaccinated and unvaccinated
Regarding the question of whether or not vaccines prevent the infections they are intended to prevent, a quarter of a percent of the vaccinated were diagnosed with either chicken pox or whooping cough, while a half percent of the unvaccinated were diagnosed with chickenpox, whooping cough, or rotavirus.
Significantly, there were no cases of measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, hepatitis or other vaccine-targeted infections in either the vaccinated or unvaccinated, during the entire 10.5 year study period.
Vaccinated 70% more likely to have any respiratory infection
Vaccinations do appear to make recipients more generally susceptible to infections, so it is ironic, yet not surprising that the vaccinated children in the study appeared at the doctor’s office for respiratory infections 70% more often than the unvaccinated. This finding is likely why vaccinated children present to the pediatrician so often with fevers. Your grandmother was right when she asked why kids these days seem to be sick all the time, despite heavy vaccination.
Family history of autoimmunity correlated with ear infection and allergic conditions
Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld and others have described a condition called autoimmune syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA), where genetics and family history of autoimmunity appear to pre-dispose vaccinated patients to higher risks of developing an autoimmune condition. With this in mind, the authors compared patient records from those with a family history of autoimmune conditions — such as multiple sclerosis, type I diabetes or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis — to patients whose families do not have autoimmunity. The results were striking. Vaccination among children with autoimmunity in their family appeared to increase the risk of ear infection, asthma, allergies and skin rashes relative to the unvaccinated with family history of autoimmunity.
Past studies have used a weaker statistic
Readers of the study will learn about flaws in past vaccine safety studies, such as over-adjustment bias, in which the data are analyzed many times over in search of the right combination of variables to make associations of adverse health outcomes with vaccines go away. One of the most important findings of this study is that the comparison of the number of office visits related to specific health condition is a far more accurate tool than just using the incidence of diagnoses. In fact, the study authors show this with simulation — and they point out that studies that use odds ratios with incidence of diagnosis are using a low-powered special case of the method introduced by their study, the relative incidence of office visits, because patients with a “diagnosis” have at least one billed office visit related to the diagnosis. The authors conclude that future vaccine safety studies should avoid using weak measures such as odds ratios of incidence of diagnosis.
Conclusion
Since the study found healthcare seeking behavior could not explain vaccination rates, the only remaining explanation of why vaccinated patients require more healthcare for symptoms of chronic illness associated with vaccination is that vaccines are not only associated with adverse health outcomes — they are also associated with more severe and chronic adverse health outcomes. Recalling that 54% of children and young adults in the U.S. have chronic illnesses that lead to life-long pharmaceutical prescriptions, it seems a lot of human pain and suffering could be reduced by adhering to informed choice regarding the true risks of vaccination, and heeding signs of vaccine sensitivity. Although the authors call for more studies to be conducted using similar methodology, this study should certainly cause pediatricians to pause and wonder if they are contributing to life-long chronic illness in some of their patients.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children's Health Defense.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-15--Pope Francis pledges zero CO2 by 2050 at pro-abortion UN climate conference

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VATICAN CITY , December 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — “ The moment has come for a change of direction , ” Pope Francis urged the world in a video to the U.N. virtual Climate Ambition summit on Saturday , before begging viewers not to “ rob the new generations of their hope in a better future.
” The summit , attended by numerous state leaders , was held to mark five years since the creation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ address , Francis promised that the “ Vatican City State is committed to reducing net emissions to zero by 2050 , ” to be achieved by “ intensifying the efforts at environmental management that have already been in process for some years.
” Furthermore , he promised that the “ Holy See is committed to promoting education in integral ecology , ” explaining that this means that “ [ p ] olitical and technical measures must be united with an educational process that favors a cultural model of development and sustainability.
” Francis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anything remotely religious , in his appearance at the summit , instead basing his statements on “ fraternity and the alliance between the human being and the environment.
” “ Integral ecology ” is a term featured in Francis ’ s talks on climate change , most notably in his encyclical Laudato Si .
According to Francis , the idea behind an “ integral ecology ” is that we are “ interdependent on each other , as well as on our Mother Earth.
” Only by “ reflecting on our lifestyle and our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serene harmony with creation , ” since the “ environment is ... on loan to each generation , which must then hand it on to the next.
” These words echo the Pope ’ s TED talk from October of this year , wherein he called the world to “ urgent action , ” lest we initiate “ radical and catastrophic climate change.
” Francis announced here that our goal should be to create “ a world where we can meet the needs of the present generations , including everyone , without compromising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mention of eternal salvation or the need to spread the Gospel was made throughout the course of the 13-minute video .
The secretary general of the U.N. , António Guterres , also had some strong words to say at Saturday ’ s virtual summit .
He opened by warning that “ [ f ] ive years after Paris we are still not going in the right direction , ” in reference to the Paris Climate Agreement .
According to Guterres , “ commitments are not being met , ” leading to “ carbon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highs.
” “ If we don ’ t change course , we may be headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of more than 3.0 degrees this century , ” Guterres lamented .
He went on to call “ on all leaders worldwide to declare a state of climate emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached.
” Former vice president Joe Biden offered his full support to the summit , claiming that the “ United States will re-join the Paris Agreement on day one of [ his ] presidency ” and will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economies for a climate summit within [ his ] first 100 days in office.
” Upon hearing of Biden ’ s plan to re-join the Paris Agreement , Guterres said : “ [ We ] look forward for a very active U.S. leadership in climate action from now on .
The United States is the largest economy in the world , it ’ s absolutely essential for our goals to be reached.
” The Paris Climate Agreement advances many moral evils , including abortion and contraception .
Within the agreement ’ s Sustainable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have achieved “ universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights , ” a well known euphemism for abortion , contraception , and sterilization .
The United Nations Population Fund states that “ sexual and reproductive health ” includes access for all to “ the safe , effective , affordable and acceptable contraception method of their choice , ” which can include types of contraception that are abortifacient .
Voice of the Family have prepared a detailed and chilling report on the extent to which the Paris Agreement advances pro-abortion and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ language .
Notwithstanding the moral concerns regarding the Paris Climate Agreement , the Francis pontificate still offers its full support to the accord , seemingly without qualification .

Remarks attributed to Pope Francis (and, not denied by the Vatican) in support of homosexual civil unions have caused grave scandal to the faithful.
Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks Pope Francis to clarify and rectify these heterodox and scandalous remarks on homosexual civil unions, and which will be delivered both to the Vatican and to the Papal Nuncio of the United States (the Pope's official representative in the U.S.).
As the last guarantor of the Faith, the Pope should clarify and rectify these remarks, which go against the perennial teaching of the Church, even including the teaching of his living predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
"What we have to create is a law of civil coexistence [meaning civil union law, for homosexuals]...," Pope Francis is reported to have remarked, in what is arguably his clearest statement of public support for a practice morally prohibited by official Catholic Church teaching.
In fact, the Church has been crystal clear in Her opposition to homosexual unions.
Just in 2003, Pope Saint John Paul II approved a document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, titled 'Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons' and written by Cardinal Ratzinger (now, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), which concludes with the following:
"The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The Church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself."
It could not be more clear: the Church is calling people to repentance, not to be left to indulge in grave sin.
Since becoming public, several senior prelates as well as other notable Catholic figures have voiced their opposition to these remarks attributed to the Pontiff.
Cardinal Raymond Burke stated: "It is a source of deepest sadness and pressing pastoral concern that the private opinions reported with so much emphasis by the press and attributed to Pope Francis do not correspond to the constant teaching of the Church, as it is expressed in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition."
Cardinal Gerhard Müller commented: "Where there is tension between the plain and obvious Word of God and the infallible interpretation on the one hand, and private expressions of opinion even by the highest church authorities on the other, the principle always applies: in dubio pro DEO [When in doubt, be in favor of God]."
And, Catholic theologian and apologist Scott Hahn, without directly quoting Pope Francis, shared on Facebook the 'Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,' published by the CDF in 1986, with the statement: "Holy Father, respectfully and humbly, I beg to differ... if that is indeed what you said. In any case, please clarify and rectify your statement, especially in view of the official teaching of our Lord through the magisterium of His Church."
But, the silence from the Vatican has been deafening, with no clarification forthcoming.
We must, therefore, ask the Pope for clarification in this serious matter.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition which asks Pope Francis to clarify and rectify remarks attributed to him in support of homosexual civil unions.
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'Cardinal says Catholics ‘can and should’ disagree with Pope’s ‘opinion’ on gay civil unions' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/cdl.mueller-popes-words-on-gay-civil-unions-purely-private-expression-of-opinion-which-every-catholic-can-and-should-freely-contradict
'Archbishop Vigano, Bishops Tobin and Strickland respond to Pope’s approval of homosexual civil unions' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/archbishop-vigano-and-bishops-tobin-strickland-respond-to-popes-approval-of-homosexual-civil-unions
'Pope’s comments on gay civil unions cause shockwaves around the world' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/deepest-sadness-cardinal-burke-condemns-pope-franciss-remarks-supporting-civil-unions


lifesitenews--2020-12-14--Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard introduces late-term abortion ban

WASHINGTON , D.C. , December 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Former presidential candidate and Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii proposed a bill to the U.S. House of Representatives that would ban most late-term abortions .
At the urging of pro-life groups , Republicans in both chambers of Congress have long pushed for such legislation , which has previously been introduced as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act .
The United States is one of only seven countries that allows late-term abortion until birth .
Gabbard ’ s bill , the “ Late Term Abortion Ban Act , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children , ” which could change the current legislation to introduce a hard limit of 20 weeks .
The text of the bill , which LifeSiteNews has seen but is not yet publicly available , is almost identical to previous versions .
Previous versions of the bill allow babies conceived in rape and incest to be aborted .
Gabbard ’ s includes those exceptions and one for when “ abortion is necessary [ sic ] to prevent the loss of life or severe injury ( the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or emotional conditions ) of a pregnant woman endangered by a physical disorder , physical illness , or physical injury , including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself , but not including psychological or emotional conditions.
” According to the Charlotte Lozier Institute , there are more than 11,000 late-term abortions in the United States every year : The most recent data from both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) and the Guttmacher Institute on total abortions and late-term abortions suggest that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out at 21 weeks of gestation and above .
The true percentage may be even higher , as the CDC estimate does not include multiple states where late-term abortions take place .
The most recent national abortion total from the Guttmacher Institute and its direct surveys of abortion facilities found that there were an estimated 862,320 abortions in the United States in 2017 .
Even using the low estimate of 1.3 percent , that translates into more than 11,200 late-term abortions in that year .
Late-term abortions constitute as much as 3 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the country ’ s most notorious late-term abortion centers is located ] .
There is a heated debate around when babies can begin to feel pain in the womb , but recent studies demonstrate that babies can feel pain in the womb as early as 12 or 13 weeks into a pregnancy .
At 20 weeks , an unborn baby is the size of a small cantaloupe .
Mothers can feel their babies kicking in utero .
The bill also notes that “ Pain receptors ( nociceptors ) are present throughout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nerves link these receptors to the brain 's thalamus and subcortical plate by no later than 20 weeks after fertilization , ” and offers more detailed information on how one can know unborn children feel pain as they are ripped apart in their mother ’ s wombs .
The announcement of this bill comes just days after Gabbard bucked her party ’ s pro-abortion line by introducing a “ born-alive ” bill , which would protect babies born alive during the process of an abortion , and also a bill preventing men and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the opposite sex .
Gabbard , whose foreign policy views lean libertarian and who also said during her presidential run she supported limiting late-term abortion , voted against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in 2017 .
She also previously supported measures forcing transgender bathrooms on students .
Gabbard ’ s term ends in January 2021 .
She is not seeking re-election .
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PETITION UPDATE (3/15/21) -
Reports suggest that the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference (USCCB) is preparing a vote on what to do about pro-abortion Joe Biden (and, presumably, other abortion-promoting politicians) who continues to present himself (themselves) for Holy Communion.
Public excommunication would be a suitable response for Biden's obstinate, public and grave sin of scandalously promoting abortion.
Please continue to SIGN and SHARE this important petition.
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PETITION UPDATE (2/4/20)
Since Joe Biden was sworn-in on the 20th of January, he has wasted no time in signing Executive Orders to destroy the protections which former President Trump offered to the unborn and to the innocence and modesty of children of the United States.
In one executive order, Biden rescinded the Mexico City Policy prohibiting the federal government from spending taxpayer monies on abortion and the promotion of abortion.
And, in another executive order, Biden seeks to force girls' athletic programs, restrooms, and locker rooms to accept gender-confused males.
Since the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was shamefully silent throughout the presidential campaign on the pre-eminent issues of abortion and gender ideology, and what Biden vowed he would do as president, it is cold comfort that their pro-life office is now speaking up about this Administration's wilful disregard for human life and for God's design of human nature (i.e., two biological sexes).
Stated plainly, Joe Biden is as bad as he said he would be, and the bishop, acting in unison (as the USCCB) have an obligation to the Lord (first) and to the faithful (second) to refuse Holy Communion to this grave public sinner.
With all due respect to these bishops, they diminish the Holy Eucharist and their high office, as well as cause grave scandal to the faithful, by dialoguing with a man who is promoting mass murder of the unborn against the constant teaching of the Church.
A man who continues to use the church as a backdrop for statements about how "Catholic/religious" he is, but, at the same time, is now doing everything in his power to protect the murder of the innocent, needs to publicly repent before dialogue can begin.
The bishops should not dialogue with or congratulate someone who has publicly betrayed the Church's teaching and who is leading others astray.
It's an embarrassment and a scandal for the bishops to continue to allow him to receive Holy Communion.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
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PETITION UPDATE (12/10/20)
Prior to the election on November 3, the U.S. bishops did not address Joe Biden’s anti-Catholic position regarding faith and morals as a unified body.
The USCCB, the organization to which every U.S. bishop belongs and which is staffed and led by bishops, remained disgracefully silent in the run-up to the election.
What were the bishops afraid of, losing their charitable tax status with the IRS, or being deprived of fat checks from the HHS (immigration programs) and USAID (foreign aid programs)?
Or, were they just too cowardly to clearly declare Christ's law to be above man's law and risk the ire of a Joe Biden as president?
Either way, the bishops’ lack of clarity in this regard is a terrible scandal in itself and probably greatly contributed to the possible election of a pro-abortion, anti-Catholic Catholic to the presidency.
Given the fact that exit polling shows Catholics split their vote 50-50 for Trump and Biden, even a slight deviation in the heavily-Catholic swing-states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania could have produced different results.
The bishops could have spoken out against Biden’s pro-abortion stance collectively, but, again, they were overwhelmingly and shamefully silent.
Because of this, they will be at least partly responsible for the policies advanced by a Biden administration, in the event that Biden is sworn into office.
However, the bishops can, even now, mitigate the damage done by their inaction by taking the following steps: 1) Speak with one voice, as the USCCB, and plainly condemn Biden's pro-abortion stance; 2) Publicly advise Biden not to present himself for Holy Communion because of his scandalous position on abortion and homosexual "marriage;" and, 3) Tell Biden to publicly repent of publicly promoting the wilfull murder of the preborn, sins against nature, and diminishing the natural family.
Thankfully, some individual bishops have spoken out forcefully on Biden's scandalous behavior, and his standing in the Church.
On November 9, Archbishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas tweeted: “A dark cloud has descended on this nation when the USCCB and Planned Parenthood speak in unison in support of a Biden-Harris administration that supports the slaughter of innocents by abortion for all 9 months of pregnancy.”
Additionally, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver, Colorado and Archbishop Charles Chaput have both declared publicly that Joe Biden “should not receive Holy Communion."
But, to add insult to injury, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C. has said that he will give Holy Communion to Biden because “it’s a matter of the responsibility that I have as the archbishop to be engaged and to be in dialogue with him, even in those areas where we obviously have some differences.”
And, Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington, Delaware and Bishop McElroy of San Diego also congratulated Biden in statements, but they have not indicated whether or not they would administer Holy Communion to him.
With all due respect to these bishops, they diminish the Holy Eucharist and their high office, as well as cause grave scandal to the faithful, by dialoguing with a man who is promoting mass murder of the unborn against the constant teaching of the Church.
A man who uses the church as a backdrop to make sickening political advertisements about how "Catholic/religious" he is, but, at the same time, says that he will do everything in his power to protect the murder of the innocent, needs to publicly repent before dialogue can begin.
The bishops should not dialogue with or congratulate someone who has publicly betrayed the Church's teaching and who is leading others astray.
It's an embarrassment and a scandal for the bishops to continue to allow him to receive Holy Communion.
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-bishops-concerned-about-pro-abortion-biden-previously-hailed-him-as-second-catholic-president
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-aquila-backs-call-for-pro-abortion-catholic-joe-biden-to-be-denied-holy-communion?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=standard
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-philly-archbishop-biden-not-in-full-communion-with-the-catholic-church
https://www.thesoutherncross.org/news/bishop-mcelroy-offers-prayers-and-congratulations-to-president-elect-biden/
https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/us-catholics-weigh-mixed-reaction-biden-win
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PETITION UPDATE (9/29/20)
Cardinal Raymond Burke has stated that Democratic candidate Joe Biden should not receive Holy Communion because of his support for abortion.
In an interview for Thomas McKenna's Catholic Action for Faith and Family podcast, Cardinal Burke states the following (starting around 5:00):
First of all, I would tell him [Biden] not to approach to receive Holy Communion, out of charity toward him, because that would be a sacrilege and endanger the salvation of his own soul.
But, also, he should not approach to receive Holy Communion because he gives scandal to everyone, because if someone says, 'I'm a devout Catholic," and, at the same time is promoting abortion, it gives the impression to others that it's acceptable for a Catholic to be in favor of abortion.
Of course, it's absolutely not acceptable, and never has been, and never will be.
We give thanks for Cardinal Burke's frankness and clarity. And, we call on every U.S. Catholic bishop to follow Cardinal Burke's lead and call out Joe Biden for his bloody-minded hypocrisy on the issue of abortion.
To reiterate: You cannot be a Catholic and support abortion.
Thank you for continuing to sign this urgent petition.
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PETITION UPDATE (8/17/20)
The Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, keeps claiming to be Catholic but has said he will do everything in his power to support abortion.
And, with his pick of California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, Biden has just cemented abortion into the Democrats' 2020 presidential ticket.
Indeed, Harris is vehemently pro-abortion.
During her time as attorney general of California, Harris played a key role in defending Planned Parenthood over its sale of aborted baby parts (which violated multiple federal laws, according to undercover video of abortion industry personnel).
And, last year, Harris unveiled a plan to essentially force pro-life states to seek permission from the federal government before pro-life laws can take effect.
Additionally, Harris has dangerous views on religious liberty and freedom of speech.
Harris displayed anti-Catholic bigotry in the confirmation hearings of Judge Brian Buescher. Harris cited his membership in the “all-male society” the Knights of Columbus and its stances against abortion and same-sex “marriage” as grounds for rejecting Buescher for a federal district court in Nebraska.
And, David Daleiden, head of the pro-life investigative group Center for Medical Progress, wrote that from his firsthand experience, he considers Harris the “greatest threat to First Amendment civil rights our country has ever seen.”
Joe Biden has seriously erred by taking on Kamala Harris as his running mate, further distancing himself from the truths of the Catholic Faith, especially that every life is sacred from conception till natural death.
Please CLICK HERE to read an article which details one U.S. bishop's warning about the Biden-Harris ticket.
And, please continue to SIGN and SHARE this petition.
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Of course, these two things are incompatible: you cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion.
And, a "Catholic" politician's responsibility in this regard is absolute: On pain of serious sin, he or she can never promote abortion because abortion is the wilful murder of innocent preborn human beings, and also because doing so causes grave scandal to the Church and the faithful.
Please SIGN this urgent petition asking the bishops of the United States to refuse to give Holy Communion to Joe Biden until he publicly repents from his scandalous promotion of abortion.
Biden recently promised to “codify Roe v. Wade” as president, adding, "my Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate a woman’s protected, constitutional right to choose."
And, since starting his latest run for the presidency, Biden also flip-flopped against the Hyde Amendment, saying that he would allow federal funds to be spent on abortion - a position he claimed to be against for more than 40 years.
In short, Joe Biden will do everything in his power to enable and defend the wilful murder of innocent preborn human beings.
So, this should not be a hard decision for our U.S. bishops. In fact, in another circumstance, it was already done by an Illinois bishop.
Indeed, Bishop Paprocki, of Springfield, Illinois, invoked Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law to withdraw Holy Communion from two Illinois state politicians who had worked to enact radical new abortion legislation in 2019.
Canon 915 states: "Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."
Of course, no-one, least of all the bishops, wants anyone to be deprived of Holy Communion.
A politician who publicly and obstinately advocates for the murder of innocent preborn babies puts himself out-of-communion with the Church and her teaching.
Pro-abortion politicians should not think that they can advocate for the murder of the unborn and receive the Body of Christ at the same time. This would be to defile the Eucharist while giving scandal to the faithful.
Depriving politicians of Holy Communion is not just meant to prevent scandal; it is also designed to bring a grave public sinner to repentance. In this way, such an action is meant to be for the good of their souls, too.
Thank you for SIGNING this urgent petition which calls on the U.S. Catholic bishops to refuse to admit Joe Biden to Holy Communion until he publicly repents from his scandalous promotion of abortion.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Joe Biden: I support abortion ‘under any circumstance’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/joe-biden-i-support-abortion-under-any-circumstance
Catholic priest denies Joe Biden Holy Communion for pro-abortion stance - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-priest-denies-joe-biden-holy-communion-for-pro-abortion-stance
Cardinal McCarrick and the Concealing of Rome’s Position on Denying Communion - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-mccarrick-and-the-concealing-of-romes-position-on-denying-communio
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lifesitenews--2020-12-14--‘Let Us Worship’ pastor calls for Christian revival amid COVID-19 lockdowns

December 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In an exclusive video interview , Let Us Worship pastor Sean Feucht speaks with LifeSite ’ s Lisa Stover about a movement that is making a splash all across America amid lockdowns and various coronavirus restrictions .
What started out with 400 on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco , California grew to 1,000 on Huntington Beach .
A couple of days later , there were 5,000 gathered to worship Our Savior on the beach in San Diego .
There have been over 50 gatherings since , in cities of strive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and his team felt the call to go into these places to simply bring the hope of the Gospel message .
Feucht shares that religious freedom is at stake in America , and he doesn ’ t say that lightly .
The leaders he ’ s connected to in North Korea , Iraq , Afghanistan , Russia , and China are concerned .
“ I ’ m alarmed because they ’ re alarmed , ” Feucht shares .
These pastors and leaders in other nations around the world are saying this is how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China .
“ It starts with a slow chipping away ” at freedom and the Church simply has to wake up in this season .
“ Do we fear God or do we fear man ?
Are we willing to take a stand to break the rules to honor God ?
...
It ’ s not time for us to stop now.
” He shared that Americans have the United States Constitution and First Amendment to protect them ; we are guaranteed the right to peaceably assemble regardless of what ’ s happening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to maintain these freedoms .
If we become lazy , they will be chipped away.
” The Let Us Worship team ’ s prayer is that their gatherings would “ start a movement of boldness and courage across America.
” Feucht shares that his children will look back on 2020 and remember revival , worship , prayer , and people coming to know Christ as their Lord and Savior .
Feucht closes his interview with Stover by encouraging every Christian to remain hopeful and faithful in this time : “ There ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can plug into that .
Get into the Word of God and gather with other believers who carry hope.
” Learn more about upcoming Let Us Worship events HERE .

'Do we fear God or do we fear man? Are we willing to take a stand to break the rules to honor God?'
December 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In an exclusive video interview, Let Us Worship pastor Sean Feucht speaks with LifeSite’s Lisa Stover about a movement that is making a splash all across America amid lockdowns and various coronavirus restrictions.
What started out with 400 on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California grew to 1,000 on Huntington Beach. A couple of days later, there were 5,000 gathered to worship Our Savior on the beach in San Diego. There have been over 50 gatherings since, in cities of strive, calamity, and riots. Feucht and his team felt the call to go into these places to simply bring the hope of the Gospel message.
Feucht shares that religious freedom is at stake in America, and he doesn’t say that lightly. The leaders he’s connected to in North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, and China are concerned. “I’m alarmed because they’re alarmed,” Feucht shares. These pastors and leaders in other nations around the world are saying this is how it all started in Russia, in China.
“It starts with a slow chipping away” at freedom and the Church simply has to wake up in this season.
“Do we fear God or do we fear man? Are we willing to take a stand to break the rules to honor God?…It’s not time for us to stop now.”
He shared that Americans have the United States Constitution and First Amendment to protect them; we are guaranteed the right to peaceably assemble regardless of what’s happening. “We simply have to fight to maintain these freedoms. If we become lazy, they will be chipped away.”
The Let Us Worship team’s prayer is that their gatherings would “start a movement of boldness and courage across America.” Feucht shares that his children will look back on 2020 and remember revival, worship, prayer, and people coming to know Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Feucht closes his interview with Stover by encouraging every Christian to remain hopeful and faithful in this time: “There’s a story God’s writing and we can plug into that. Get into the Word of God and gather with other believers who carry hope.”
Learn more about upcoming Let Us Worship events HERE.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-14--Health Canada warns people not to take Pfizer COVID vaccine if they’re allergic to ‘any’ ingredients

December 14 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Health Canada is warning Canadians to avoid the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine created by Pfizer-BioNTech if they have allergies to any of its ingredients after some allergic reactions were reported in the U.K. “ People with allergies to any of the ingredients in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID 19 vaccine should not receive it , ” cautioned the Government of Canada ’ s health department in a Dec. 12 communication .
“ Speak with your health professional about any serious allergies or other health conditions you may have before you receive this vaccine , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that two individuals in the U.K. reported “ severe allergic reactions to Pfizer BioNTech ’ s COVID-19 vaccine on December 8 , 2020.
” “ Health Canada has followed up on the two reports of anaphylactoid reactions to Pfizer BioNTech ’ s COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K .
These reactions occurred on December 8 , 2020 .
Both individuals in the U.K. had a history of severe allergic reactions and carried adrenaline auto injectors .
They both were treated and have recovered , ” the health department stated .
Health Canada listed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine , which was tested using fetal cells from an aborted baby , on Wednesday last week .
Children of God for Life reported that although the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was not developed using a cell line derived from an aborted baby , it was tested — that is , the laboratory phase which verifies the quality of the vaccine on cell tissues — using the HEK-293 cell line , which was derived from an aborted baby .
The vaccine is currently approved for people who are “ 16 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety and effectiveness in people younger than 16 years of age have not yet been established , ” the government agency said in its report authorizing use in Canada .
While the vaccine in Canada is , so far , voluntary , some Canadian provinces are now floating the idea of a COVID-19 “ immunity passport ” in order to travel , go to work , visit the theater , etc .
“ That ’ s going to be really important for people to have [ proof of COVID vaccination ] for travel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for going to theatres or cinemas or any other places where people will be in closer physical contact when we get through the worst of the pandemic , ” Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott told reporters last Tuesday .
“ So yes , that will be essential for people to have that .
… That ’ s their choice .
This is not going to be a mandatory campaign .
It will be voluntary .
There may be some restrictions that may be placed on people that don ’ t have vaccines for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go to theaters and other places , ” she added .
The left-leaning Canadian Civil Liberties Association ( CCLA ) called the idea of an “ immunity passport ” “ wrongheaded.
” Michael Bryant , CCLA ’ s executive director and general counsel , warned in a Dec. 12 email to supporters against the “ dangers of society stratification -- historic oppression and discrimination that comes with publicly labelling haves and have nots.
” “ Besides , the public health goal of the vaccine is to cross the threshold for herd immunity within @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the public health challenge , not publicly identifying the innoculators , ” Bryant said .
“ None of this is intended to encourage or discourage personal choices about vaccination .
The impugned Cabinet Minister herself emphasized that vaccines would not be forced upon anyone by law , ” he continued .
“ My favourite point ends up being made by Dr. Seuss , for which I have our privacy director to thank .
Rather than pitting the star-bellied Sneetches against those without , we are better off affirming that Canadians are Canadians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mobility , regardless of whether they advertise their vaccine credentials , ” Bryant added .
The CCLA sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Dec. 12 to warn him about the “ bad idea ” of immunity passports .
“ But first it must be said , that the overall human rights challenge with Immunity Passports arises from the disconnect between means and ends .
As you know well , the point of the vaccine is to achieve the herd immunity threshold , upon which the proportion of the population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the percentage of the population capable of getting the disease for it to spread .
That threshold crossed , the whole community becomes protected – not just the immunized .
Herd immunity makes it possible to protect the population from a disease , including those who can not be vaccinated , such as newborns or those who have compromised immune systems , ” the letter stated .
“ If the point of an Immunity Passport is to coerce inoculation , then this raises the issue of individual liberty and government mandated medical treatment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say that they are not mandating inoculation .
Accordingly , the purpose of the Immunity Passport , or Immunization Passport , is unrelated to crossing the herd immunity threshold .
If it is not about herd immunity , we would argue , then its purpose is wrongheaded and misleading , ” it continued .
“ It is wrongheaded because of its negative human rights consequences , discussed below .
It is misleading , because possession of an inoculation record does not , in fact , equal immunity or proof of not being infected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passport mean that the person is a carrier of COVID , or otherwise susceptible .
The inoculated could be infected – they could be one of the few for whom the vaccine fails – just as the uninoculated could be immune .
The herd immunity threshold can be achieved notwithstanding these exceptions , however , which is why immunity passports put the cart before the horse , ” the letter added .
LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page .
View it here .

'People with allergies to any of the ingredients in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID 19 vaccine should not receive it.'
December 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Health Canada is warning Canadians to avoid the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine created by Pfizer-BioNTech if they have allergies to any of its ingredients after some allergic reactions were reported in the U.K.
“People with allergies to any of the ingredients in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID 19 vaccine should not receive it,” cautioned the Government of Canada’s health department in a Dec. 12 communication.
“Speak with your health professional about any serious allergies or other health conditions you may have before you receive this vaccine,” it added.
Health Canada related that two individuals in the U.K. reported “severe allergic reactions to Pfizer BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on December 8, 2020.”
“Health Canada has followed up on the two reports of anaphylactoid reactions to Pfizer BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K. These reactions occurred on December 8, 2020. Both individuals in the U.K. had a history of severe allergic reactions and carried adrenaline auto injectors. They both were treated and have recovered,” the health department stated.
Health Canada listed the ingredients of the vaccine.
Medicinal ingredient:
mRNA
Non-medicinal ingredients:
ALC-0315 = ((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate)
ALC-0159 = 2-[(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide
1,2-Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine
cholesterol
dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate
monobasic potassium phosphate
potassium chloride
sodium chloride
sucrose
water for injection
Canada approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, which was tested using fetal cells from an aborted baby, on Wednesday last week.
Children of God for Life reported that although the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was not developed using a cell line derived from an aborted baby, it was tested — that is, the laboratory phase which verifies the quality of the vaccine on cell tissues — using the HEK-293 cell line, which was derived from an aborted baby.
The vaccine is currently approved for people who are “16 years of age and older.”
“Its safety and effectiveness in people younger than 16 years of age have not yet been established,” the government agency said in its report authorizing use in Canada.
While the vaccine in Canada is, so far, voluntary, some Canadian provinces are now floating the idea of a COVID-19 “immunity passport” in order to travel, go to work, visit the theater, etc.
“That’s going to be really important for people to have [proof of COVID vaccination] for travel purposes, perhaps for work purposes, for going to theatres or cinemas or any other places where people will be in closer physical contact when we get through the worst of the pandemic,” Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott told reporters last Tuesday.
“So yes, that will be essential for people to have that. … That’s their choice. This is not going to be a mandatory campaign. It will be voluntary. There may be some restrictions that may be placed on people that don’t have vaccines for travel purposes, to be able to go to theaters and other places,” she added.
The left-leaning Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) called the idea of an “immunity passport” “wrongheaded.”
Michael Bryant, CCLA’s executive director and general counsel, warned in a Dec. 12 email to supporters against the “dangers of society stratification — historic oppression and discrimination that comes with publicly labelling haves and have nots.”
“Besides, the public health goal of the vaccine is to cross the threshold for herd immunity within a population. Getting to that threshold is the public health challenge, not publicly identifying the innoculators,” Bryant said.
“None of this is intended to encourage or discourage personal choices about vaccination. The impugned Cabinet Minister herself emphasized that vaccines would not be forced upon anyone by law,” he continued.
“My favourite point ends up being made by Dr. Seuss, for which I have our privacy director to thank. Rather than pitting the star-bellied Sneetches against those without, we are better off affirming that Canadians are Canadians, deserving of privacy, equality and mobility, regardless of whether they advertise their vaccine credentials,” Bryant added.
The CCLA sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Dec. 12 to warn him about the “bad idea” of immunity passports.
“But first it must be said, that the overall human rights challenge with Immunity Passports arises from the disconnect between means and ends. As you know well, the point of the vaccine is to achieve the herd immunity threshold, upon which the proportion of the population immune to the disease is greater than the percentage of the population capable of getting the disease for it to spread. That threshold crossed, the whole community becomes protected – not just the immunized. Herd immunity makes it possible to protect the population from a disease, including those who cannot be vaccinated, such as newborns or those who have compromised immune systems,” the letter stated.
“If the point of an Immunity Passport is to coerce inoculation, then this raises the issue of individual liberty and government mandated medical treatment, discussed below. But Canadian governments say that they are not mandating inoculation. Accordingly, the purpose of the Immunity Passport, or Immunization Passport, is unrelated to crossing the herd immunity threshold. If it is not about herd immunity, we would argue, then its purpose is wrongheaded and misleading,” it continued.
“It is wrongheaded because of its negative human rights consequences, discussed below. It is misleading, because possession of an inoculation record does not, in fact, equal immunity or proof of not being infected. Nor does the absence of a passport mean that the person is a carrier of COVID, or otherwise susceptible. The inoculated could be infected – they could be one of the few for whom the vaccine fails – just as the uninoculated could be immune. The herd immunity threshold can be achieved notwithstanding these exceptions, however, which is why immunity passports put the cart before the horse,” the letter added.
LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page. View it here.
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