As members and supporters of Parents for an Informed Choice, we are neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vaccine. Rather, we are pro-parent.  We believe fully in our God-given parental rights to protect our children and we stand in solidarity with all parents as they make informed health decisions regarding their children.

Since there is no evidence that all vaccines are safe and effective for all individuals, parents must have final responsibility for medicating their healthy children. Thus, some parents will choose a standard vaccine schedule; some will choose to space vaccines; some will choose to avoid one or more vaccines. These decisions belong to parents, not diocesan staff.

While we are aware of the current position of the Pontifical Academy for Life, it is false to assume that it supersedes an individual’s responsibility to form his or her own conscience. We are morally outraged that conscientious parents are being coerced by an Archdiocesan mandate into violating their individual consciences in order to enroll their children in Catholic schools. The new policy violates long-standing Church teaching which has always safeguarded parental rights (CCC 2229). 

We ask that you rescind the policy. Given the short time frame in which this policy is scheduled to go into effect, we request an immediate acknowledgement and response to this petition.