Governor-Elect Youngkin, Keep Your Campaign Promise: Protect the Right of Virginia Parents to Make Medical Decisions for Their Children

The COVID-19 vaccine is an experimental intervention. Many studies have shown that the health risks are numerous and are not rare.1 They can include permanent damage to the brain and heart, and to the immune and reproductive systems. The injuries may be immediate and acute, or may not appear for years. There are no long-term studies to inform the medical community. Once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable.2

The lifelong impact of the vaccine on one of Pfizer’s pediatric trial participants, 12-year-old Maddie de Garay, illustrates the risk. Maddie experienced crippling pain immediately upon receiving her second injection. After three hospitalizations, she is still in a wheelchair and dependent on a nasogastric tube.

Yet Pfizer did not inform the FDA of Maddie’s serious life-altering vaccine injuries, but falsely described them in their application to the FDA as “functional abdominal pain.”3 The vaccine was then approved for emergency use for children based on this fraudulent data. Although the FDA, CDC, and HHS are aware of Pfizer’s malfeasance, they continue to promote this vaccine as safe for children as young as five years old.

We are now witnessing the highest rates of vaccine adverse events in U.S. history. As of December 3, 2021, there have been 19,886 reports of death, 946,461 total injuries, and 32,644 reports of permanent disability. Yet government officials ignore the safety data and continue to use coercive language and incentives to compel children to take this experimental mRNA medical intervention. As the CDC Director has acknowledged, the COVID-19 vaccine does not even prevent transmission.4

Two months ago, Governor-Elect Youngkin promised Virginians:

“I will not mandate the vaccine and I don’t think schools should, particularly for young children. I think that’s a parent’s decision. I believe in parents’ rights, fundamental rights to make decisions with regards to their children and as Governor I’m going to make sure I’m standing up for parents’ rights.” October 2021 interview at 1:12.

We, the undersigned citizens of Virginia, call upon our future governor to fulfill his promise: protect Virginia parents’ most fundamental right to make informed medical decisions on behalf of their children.

In light of the importance and urgency of this matter, we request Governor-Elect Youngkin to issue an Executive Order immediately upon taking office to reaffirm his commitment to parental rights by:

Prohibiting the State Health Commissioner from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for children;

Prohibiting local and state government officials from using coercive language and bribery to incentivize vaccine compliance;

Banning the State Health Commissioner and all state public health officials from describing the COVID-19 vaccine as “safe”; and

Requiring the State Health Commissioner to provide parents with written information documenting all known potential health risks and unknown long-term effects before they consent to their child’s vaccination.