Long before the COVID vaccine mandates stirred people into questioning government overreach, MaryJo Perry was already awake to medical tyranny.
In 2008, she got her youngest son vaccinated for kindergarten in Mississippi.
Within a 72-hour window following his shots, he had multiple grand mal seizures.
Still, more shots were required for him to be allowed to attend school, but it was clear he couldn’t continue with the state’s mandatory vaccine schedule safely, Ms. Perry said.
Her son’s physician wrote to the Mississippi State Health Board (MSHB) to request an exemption based on what had happened but was denied—not just once—but three times, which left Ms. Perry with only one option: to homeschool him.
But at every turn, Perry and others who supported the cause were met with opposition, not from the pro-mandate Democrats but from Republican leadership in the state legislature, she said.
“I have yet to figure out where the incentive comes from and what it is, but Mississippi has an agenda to have the highest vaccine coverage rate in the nation and officials have maintained that for many years, but the way they’ve done that is throwing children like my son under the bus,” Ms. Perry said. “There must be some sort of financial incentive. I don’t know why else they would mistreat the children of Mississippi and reduce them to second-class citizens for not being fully vaccinated when they’re vulnerable to the shots like my son was.”
Mississippi is often considered to be one of the most religious states in the nation, so it never made sense that a religious exemption for the vaccines wasn’t permitted by state officials, Ms. Perry said.
“As a Christian, every decision I make is inspired by God’s word and the leadership of the Holy Spirit, and if I have a check in my spirit about something, I don’t proceed,” Ms. Perry said. “I was concerned about vaccinating my son to begin with because there was something telling me that he was vulnerable. But I did it anyway, and he got hurt. Then we were told we had to do it to him again. It just felt like we were being terrorized by our own government.”
Though she had the benefit of being able to homeschool, Ms. Perry said the problem was that many other parents hadn’t had that option.
“I couldn’t help but think about the child with no father and the mother who had to go to work, or both parents had to go to work,” Ms. Perry said. “It was just shocking to me that our government was that tyrannical and I felt that something had to be done to fix it.”
‘A Force To Be Reckoned With’
Seeing the opposition as politicians who were owned by the medical establishment, Ms. Perry said she realized the voice of the parents had to become bigger than the establishment.“I know in a practical sense one would say that’s not possible, but the fact is when people come together in large numbers, regardless of how much money and power the medical establishment has, it’s the people who vote,” Ms. Perry said.
Ms. Perry made it her mission to inform people who their lawmakers are and encourage them to apply pressure on them to do what’s right, she said.
“Over time, we became somewhat of a force to be reckoned with, and legislators would tell us, ‘Look, I’m going to vote for your bill, but I don’t want it to come out publicly because I’ll get hammered by the White Coats,” Ms. Perry said. “So, we had a lot of legislators friendly to our issue but afraid of the opposition.”
What Ms. Perry found, she said, is money can’t overcome patriot, organized grassroots parents.
‘A Historic Win’
In April, U.S. U.S. District Judge Halil Suleyman Ozerden —appointed by former President George W. Bush—ruled that by July 15, the MSDH must start accepting religious exemptions and that State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney must institute a process by which parents can request the exemptions.Ms. Perry called it “a historic win.”
“It sets a precedent for other states who have recently lost their religious exemptions,” she said.
Up until this month, Mississippi—which lost its religious exemption in 1979—was one of six states without a religious exemption for students to attend public school, the others being California, Connecticut, Maine, New York, and West Virginia.
Fetal Cell Lines In Vaccine Development
Families who oppose the vaccines based on religious grounds do so because the vaccines contain fetal cell lines used from aborted babies, Ms. Perry said.“It is a fact that babies were born alive and butchered between three and five months of gestation in order to manufacture certain viral vaccines that we give our children,” Ms. Perry said. “Though these abortions were done years ago, they use their cell lines and perpetuate them in a lab in order to grow the viral antigen bond to create the vaccine. So, when a child gets an MMR or chickenpox vaccine, they’re being injected with DNA fragments from aborted babies.”
For years, advocates for medical freedom like Ms. Perry were told this wasn’t true; however, a deposition of a physician who helped in manufacturing vaccines in the 1960s ended that debate.
In 2018, Dr. Stanley Plotkin was deposed in the case of Lori Schmitt v. Michael Schmitt, in which the plaintiff, formerly married to the defendant, was suing over the medical freedom to not have to vaccinate her child.
Though the Michigan Court of Appeals sided with the defendant, Dr. Plotkin’s nine-hour deposition went beyond confirming what Ms. Perry and others believed to be true.
Dr. Plotkin was interviewed by Aaron Siri, an attorney with Siri & Glimstad, the firm that represented the families in the religious exemption case in Mississippi.
Initially, Dr. Plotkin answered, “Two.”
Mr. Siri then handed Dr. Plotkin a study on vaccines from the Wistar Institute, in which Dr. Plotkin was named as an author.
While flipping through the study, Mr. Siri asked how many fetuses were used in the study described in the article.
The number went from two to 76.
Dr. Plotkin confirmed that they were normally developed fetuses at three months or older and that a “whole range of tissues” were harvested by his coworkers.
Dr. Plotkin went on to confirm that multiple organs, such as the lungs, pituitary glands, heart, spleen, and kidneys of the fetus, were cut up into pieces and cultured for vaccine development.
“Are you aware that one of the objections to vaccinations by the plaintiff in this case is the inclusion of aborted fetal tissue in the development of vaccines and in fact that it’s actually part of the ingredients of vaccines?” Mr. Siri asked.
Dr. Plotkin responded that he was aware of the objections but that the Catholic church had issued a statement telling its followers to get the vaccine regardless.
“I think it implies that I am the individual who will go to hell because of the use of aborted tissues which I am glad to do,” Dr. Plotkin said.
Dr. Plotkin responded to additional questions by saying he took issue with religious beliefs.
“You have said that ‘Vaccinations is always under attack by religious zealots who believe that the will of God includes death and disease,’” Mr. Siri said. “Do you stand by that statement?”
Dr. Plotkin answered, “Yes, I absolutely do.”
While COVID-19 vaccines at over six months of safety review and over 30,000 people used in the clinical trial, he said, one Hepatitis B vaccine given to 147 infants had a safety monitoring window of five days, with no indication of a control group.
The Hepatitis B vaccine is given to babies when they are first born, then at one month, and later at six months.
‘Get Engaged’
While on the surface it may seem overwhelmingly hopeless, the solution to local, state, and federal governments that have been corrupted by the pharmaceutical industry and other special interest organizations, Ms. Perry said, is for citizens “to get engaged.”“I often hear people complaining about all of the dirty and corrupt politicians, but it’s because we haven’t been engaged,” she said. “Until the people have their own organization to which we’re all connected in a grassroots network and we start raising money to defeat these corrupt politicians and get good people in office, we’re going to keep getting more of the same.”
It’s important, she said, because there’s a “clear agenda” at play.
“We have to get proactive and protect the ability of parents to stand between their vulnerable children and this agenda in which you’ve got a mandatory vaccine schedule that provides these drug companies with continuous amounts of revenue,” she said.
‘Long Overdue’
After her own son was injured by the DTP vaccine in 1980, Barbara Loe Fisher worked with parents of vaccine-injured children to establish the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).Since that time, she’s witnessed federal and state governments lose sight of their responsibility to their citizens and side with the pharmaceutical industry.
By 2020, the National Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 which NVIC helped establish lost its relevance to many in the medical field.
The Act required health care workers to report adverse events to vaccines; however, those reports were met with propaganda-fueled ridicule.
Like Ms. Perry, Ms. Fisher celebrated the Mississippi ruling.
“For decades, parents in Mississippi have been working to educate state legislators about the need to protect the First Amendment right of parents to follow their religious beliefs when it comes to laws requiring children to receive a long list of vaccinations as a condition for attending public or private schools,” Ms. Fisher told The Epoch Times.
She called the ruling upholding the rights of Mississippi families “long overdue.”
“States that fail to provide religious and conscientious belief exemptions to vaccine laws are violating not only the First Amendment of the US Constitution but are also violating the informed consent ethic that serves as the foundation for the ethical practice of medicine,” Ms. Fisher said.
