NOTE: This is a petition addressed to West Virginia Governor Jim Justice from parents, family members, or friends of West Virginia children. If you are not one, please do not sign this letter. However, we encourage you to send it to those who are qualified to add their name. Please read this petition and if you agree with it, TODAY click the link at the end and complete the boxes at the bottom of the petition at the link and submit. Time is of the essence. Thank you.
We, the undersigned, kindly request you, Governor Jim Justice, to take immediate action and sign HB 5105 to improve health freedom for West Virginia parents and children.
As a parent, family member, or friend of one or more children in West Virginia, a state whose motto is Mountaineers are always free, it is disheartening to be unable to make medical decisions for them about vaccination without being coerced by current state law that mandates vaccines to attend public, private, and parochial schools, and state-regulated child care centers.
State law does not affect me alone. Countless families are affected by it. Many have started homeschooling or moved out of state as a result. The number of children in public school education in West Virginia is plummeting. By signing HB 5105 into law, at least you are improving opportunities for children in private and parochial schools.
One more thing. If HB 5105 becomes law, the medical community is predicting a dire calamity. They fail to recognize that 45 other states offer religious exemptions in public as well as private and parochial schools without children dying of measles and polio as they suggest. Their rhetoric is unsupported. On their website, the CDC acknowledges that the polio vaccine does not stop transmission of polio virus. It lives in the GI tract and can be transmitted in the stool of vaccinated children. Other childhood vaccines such as diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis also do NOT stop transmission.
West Virginia is not at the top of the states in children’s health. It is close to the bottom. Please do not be misled by those who say otherwise. West Virginia’s draconian vaccine law and medical exemption process are not making West Virginia children healthier.
Therefore, we kindly request that you, Governor Jim Justice, sign HB 5105.
Working with West Virginia parents, you can help to make West Virginia free and great again!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[Please provide name and county]