Australian Vaccination Network @nocompulsoryvac to close
The Australian Vaccination Network, which opposes compulsory vaccination, is likely to close at the end of February, according to a blog post on their website.
Ms Meryl Dorey, the President of the AVN, told us that her organisation maintains there is a possible link between vaccines and autism.
In her blog post, Ms Dorey says she can no longer afford to run the AVN unless donations or sponsorship are found. Dr Rachel Dunlop, a research scientist and critic of the AVN, told us she welcomed the potential closure.
Dr Dunlop also said the AVN misrepresent statistics about the lack of vaccination for whooping cough in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales.
Ms Dorey responded by saying that she isn't aware of increased rates of whooping cough in the Byron Shire.
To listen to what Ms Dorey and Dr Dunlop told us, click on the "play" buttons below. You can also download the audio files.
In a response to the death of a child in India during a clinical test of a pneumonia vaccine, Ms Dorey said last year on the AVN's Yahoo Group:
There will come a time - I pray to God that it will happen in my lifetime - when those who have pushed vaccines upon innocent, helpless babies - doctors, pharmaceutical companies, government officials - will be proven to have lied and cheated these instruments of death into our children's bloodstream. When that occurs, the outcry will be heard around the world and there will not be enough hiding places on the globe for these murderers to hide or enough money to pay for compensation. Of course, it will be too late for the babies, like this poor child, to be saved. But we will be able to take satisfaction from the fact that never again will anyone have to be pushed to poison their child because for once and for all, it will be known as poison and we will all wonder how it was we fell for the vaccine lie for as long as we did. When that time comes, will you be able to say that you did everything in your power to help bring the truth out? Support your local pro-vaccination choice organisation, speak to friends and family about these tragedies and never, ever stay quiet about the dangers of vaccination. Those of us who know owe it to others to speak our truth.
