Montana, We Have a Hero Amongst Us

On August 15th, a federal lawsuit was filed against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on behalf of two physicians and Stand For Freedom, a nonprofit organization based in Indiana. The lawsuit “challenges the CDC’s recommended childhood immunization schedule, a 72+ dose regimen that represents the most aggressive vaccination program in the world.”

“Our children are being used in the largest untested medical experiment in history,” said Leah Wilson, co-founder of Stand for Health Freedom.

Per this article in Bloomberg, “they are urging the US District Court for the District of Columbia to declare CDC vaccine practices unconstitutional, loosen vaccine requirements for US children, and force the agency to undertake ‘rigorous studies’ of the shots administered to children.”

A Brief History of the Recommended Childhood Vaccine Schedule:

The childhood vaccine schedule is recommended by the CDC, as directed through the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and is updated annually in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

The ACIP was established in 1964 with the purpose of standardizing and improving immunization practices. Although initially developed to provide recommendations, most states now incorporate ACIP’s recommended vaccines directly into statute, along with the very narrow contraindications “allowed” for medical exemptions.

Prior to 1986, there were four vaccines covering eight diseases on the recommended schedule (Smallpox, Measles/Mumps/Rubella, Diphtheria/Tetanus/Pertussis, Oral Polio Virus) compared to the 2025 schedule that includes an astounding 72 dose regimen.

“By the time an American child reaches twelve months of age they will receive twenty-eight vaccines, beginning the day of birth, the most of any country. As many as eight vaccines may be given during a single “well child” appointment.” Unavoidably Unsafe, Geehr & Barke

What has come to light in recent years is the lack of gold-standard trials for ALL vaccines on the childhood schedule. Per Geehr and Barke, “No vaccines on the CDC’s childhood Immunization Schedule has been subjected to the gold-standard of testing: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial (RCT). The argument against this type of testing is that it would be unethical for some children to be unvaccinated.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) was passed in 1986 under President Reagan in response to the onslaught of vaccine injury litigation.

“The toxicity of the vaccines was so well established that exemption from liability was based on the theory that vaccines are unavoidably unsafe.” (Geehr and Barke).

This Act provided blanket immunity to vaccine manufacturers and opened the floodgates to the vaccine cash cow, with the help of the government allocating billions of dollars through various federal programs towards vaccine development.

To provide assistance to the children who would inevitably be harmed by vaccines, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was formed to compensate individuals (or their families) injured or killed by covered vaccines. There are many concerns with this fund — victims reporting a slow process (sometimes taking years to obtain relief), rejected claims, and capped rewards. Critics complain that the program only reinforces poor safety testing on vaccines, as manufacturers are shielded from all liability.

The NCVIA also established a requirement that HHS was to file a vaccine safety report to Congress every two years. A report has not been submitted since 1998. Secretary Kennedy, in his official capacity, was recently sued over this abandonment of duty. The biannual report will be resuming.

The Merits of this Lawsuit:

This is a groundbreaking lawsuit that has the potential to change EVERYTHING about the childhood vaccine schedule. Besides the unacceptable risks that single vaccines present to children, this complaint brings to light the fact that “ACIP's vaccine framework is only based on an evaluation of short-term individual vaccine risks. The CDC has never studied the combined effects and the accumulating dangers of administering all of the vaccines on the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccination schedule.”

Read that again — The CDC has NEVER studied the COMBINED effects of administering all of the vaccines on the CDC’s recommended schedule.

Yet, this schedule is pushed on nearly every child like it’s settled science — from the CDC, the AAP, and your local pediatrician. No questions allowed. Ask if it’s possible to delay one dose or skip a vaccine that seems unnecessary, and you may find yourself fired from your pediatrician.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an “independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public. Established in 1970, the IOM is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which was chartered under President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.”

The IOM has been recommending for over twenty years that the CDC study the cumulative effects of the childhood vaccine schedule — to no avail.

Here is the list of leading questions it posed in 2013. None have been studied.

One of the major “asks” of the lawsuit is for the ACIP to move the childhood vaccines from “Category A” (the recommendations apply universally to all children in an age group)” to “Category B” (involves shared clinical decision-making between physician and family based on individual circumstances). Currently, only COVID-19 and MenB vaccines for adolescents fall under Category B.

This would allow physicians to exercise independent clinical judgement and shared decision making with parents/guardians on ALL childhood vaccines, according to individual history, risk factors, environment, etc. This is especially important now due to the recent policy change of the AAP recently pushing to remove all religious and nonmedical exemptions from the vaccine schedule — potentially obliterating parental rights.

The two physicians who are plaintiffs in the case are Paul Thomas, M.D. and Kenneth Stoller, M.D. Dr. Thomas was a board-certified pediatrician operating a thriving practice of over 10,000 patients in Oregon until his medical license was suspended. He lost his license after publishing peer-reviewed research comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children.

Dr. Stoller was a licensed physician practicing in California and specializing in integrative medicine. He had 40 years of pediatric experience before his license was revoked. He had discovered a technique to use genetic testing to identify children who may be at risk for vaccine injury and issued medical exemptions based on those findings. His license was revoked for deviating from the CDC’s oppressive standards.

I (Erin Laws) had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Stoller several days after the lawsuit was filed, as he is now a resident of Bozeman. His passion for truth seeking and innovative treatments was apparent almost immediately. He doesn’t regret the actions that caused him to lose his license because he knows that children were saved.

“My priority was to do no harm and make sure no harm came to my patients — not protect my medical license. At my kangaroo court hearing, I said that we should not be sending out our most vulnerable children to the front lines in the war against infectious disease any more than we would send troops in wheelchairs to the front lines of a kinetic war.”

These two physicians are taking on the federal government, Big Pharma, and Corporate Medicine and need our prayers. Also, for Attorney Rick Jaffe and Stand for Health Freedom. They are fighting for informed consent, parental rights, the ability of physicians to practice medicine without fear of retribution — they are fighting for all of us who believe in medical freedom.

To listen to Stand for Freedom’s podcast discussing this lawsuit, click here.

To donate to the legal funds for this case, click here.

God Bless these freedom fighters — we stand beside you!