Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate and the current Vice President under the Joe Biden administration, previously served as Attorney General for the state government of California, during which time she served the financial interests of pharmaceutical industry.
For that reason, she makes an appearance in my 2021 book The War on Informed Consent: The Persecution of Dr. Paul Thomas by the Oregon Medical Board.
Here’s the relevant excerpt:
Paul Thomas’s approach of grounding his practice in the principle of informed consent and focusing on health outcomes stands in stark contrast to the approach taken by the state government of violating informed consent to achieve high vaccination rates.
Oregon, of course, is not alone. All the states have taken the approach of mandating vaccinations for school attendance. In the extremity of its coercion, Oregon was outdone by California, which in 2016 passed a law eliminating “non-medical” exemptions.
However, that did not have the intended effect because it incentivized parents to go to pediatricians who are respectful of informed consent to obtain a medical exemption. The problem, as perceived by those myopically focused on achieving high vaccination rates, was that physicians might grant exemptions “for indications outside of accepted contraindications”, such as on the basis of “family medical history”.
The law was considered to “work” not based on whether it achieved a healthier childhood population but whether it increased the childhood vaccination rate. Pediatricians who would write medical exemptions for reasons such as the patient having a family history of autoimmune disease were regarded as “accomplices”—as though by enabling parents to exercise their right to informed consent they were engaging in criminal activity.
The state Senator who spearheaded the elimination of “non-medical” exemptions, Dr. Richard Pan, subsequently introduced a bill he described as being intended strengthen “oversight” of physicians to stop them from writing “fake” medical exemptions, which were those found by the state “to be fraudulent or inconsistent with contraindications to vaccination per CDC guidelines.” (Emphasis added.)
With the passage of that bill into law in September 2019, the state declared for itself the authority to revoke medical exemptions written by licensed physicians, with the clear warning communicated to doctors that if they write exemptions for any reasons other than CDC-defined contraindications, the state was going to come after them for their “unscrupulous” behavior.
Richard Pan expressed his view on the matter very clearly in a commentary in the AAP’s journal Pediatrics. When physicians write medical exemptions to state vaccine mandates, he wrote, it is “not the practice of medicine but of a state authority to licensed physicians” who are “fulfilling an administrative role” on behalf of the state.
Thus, in Pan’s view, the state’s proper role is to insert itself into the doctor-patient relationship by dictating how pediatricians should practice medicine, and informed consent for the parents is not an option.
Incidentally, according to The Sacramento Bee, California legislators had received $2 million from pharmaceutical companies, with Richard Pan having received $95,000, in the two years prior to the passage of the first bill eliminating non-medical exemptions.
The message delivered by the second law was underscored by the state’s prior treatment of Dr. Bob Sears, who published a book in 2007 titled The Vaccine Book in response to growing parental concerns about the safety of vaccinating their children according to the CDC’s schedule. In the book, Dr. Sears provided an alternative schedule to allay concerns and to guide parents who wish to do fewer vaccines or to space them out more.
Among the sins committed by Sears in his book were informing parents that doctors like him learn very little about vaccines in medical school and should listen to and be open to learning from parents who’ve done more research, acknowledging that the CDC and pharmaceutical industry are untrustworthy, advocating respect for the right to informed consent, failing to instill proper fear into parents of the diseases for which there are vaccines, and informing parents that there are important differences in the immunity conferred by vaccines versus infection.
In 2016, the California Medical Board charged Dr. Sears with “professional misconduct” and threatened to revoke his license for having enabled a mother to exercise her right to decline further vaccinations for her two-year-old child by writing a letter exempting her from all future vaccinations. In the state’s judgment, the fact that the mom was concerned because the boy had gone “limp ‘like a ragdoll’ lasting 24 hours” and was “not himself for up to a week” after receiving his 3-month-old vaccines was insufficient reason for Sears to write the exemption.
Incidentally, that charge was leveled at Sears by Kamala D. Harris, the current Vice President of the United States, who was then Attorney General of California.
The result was that in 2018, Dr. Sears was placed under a 35-month probation for “deviating from standards of care” by respecting the mother’s right to decline further vaccinations on the medical grounds that the boy had previously suffered a serious reaction that would no doubt cause any parent to think twice and avoid the risk of doing the same thing again to their child.
For full references, and to get the whole story on how the federal and state governments have been waging an all-out assault on your right to make your own informed choices about whether or not to receive a pharmaceutical product:
