I had literally just finished writing this guest opinion with the title, No-Brainer-STOP Hepatitis B Vaccine for Infants and Children, when President Trump held his press conference on the vaccine-autism link and Acetaminophen-autism link. Dr. Marty Makery, head of the FDA, the agency tasked with ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs stated, “This is the start of a historic shift in medical culture.” Indeed, it is. Even though President Trump agrees with me on the Hepatitis B vaccine, I decided to submit my guest opinion anyway since there is information within it that has not been covered and needs to be heard. Being well informed of the facts makes one well-armed when going to the doctor. So here goes:
Many have written about the hepatitis B vaccine issue recently. It is shocking that this vaccine was even placed on the newborn and childhood vaccine schedule. Hepatitis B Vaccine is the EASIEST of all vaccines to debate as unnecessary for newborns, infants and children. My call to ban this shot for infants and children is a no-brainer. (President Trump correctly stated we just need to use common sense.)
There is more than enough evidence to ban this deadly, dangerous and totally unnecessary Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns and children. The newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) board could not even agree to delay the shot until babies are one month old. That alone is outrageous
ACIP held its September 18-19, 2025, meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, where it discussed and made plans to vote on revisions to the Hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants and children. This was the second meeting following a major reconstitution of the committee by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHR) director RFK Jr. Kennedy.
On June 9, 2025, Secretary Kennedy issued a formal directive to retire all 17 sitting ACIP members, citing conflicts of interest, lack of transparency, and the committee’s role as a “rubber stamp” for vaccines. This was announced via an HHS press release, a Wall Street Journal op-ed, and a post on X.[1] [2]The Biden administration had appointed all 17 members, with 13 of those appointments occurring in 2024. The committee was repopulated by RFK Jr. with 12 new members in total. All the new members said that they were committed to evidence-based reviews, including reevaluation of the childhood vaccine schedule. We had high hopes for the new ACIP members. Hopes were shattered after hearing about their latest meeting. (Maybe hopes will be restored now after hearing the press conference.)
During the September 18-19 meeting the panel focused on whether to delay the universal birth dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine (recommended since 1991 for all newborns within 24 hours, regardless of maternal status) to at least one month of age for infants born to mothers who test negative for Hepatitis B during pregnancy. In a shocking turn of events the new ACIP members appointed by RKF Jr. could not even decide on just “delaying,” (not banning the Hepatitis B vaccine) for newborns until they were one month old. In an 11-1 decision on September 19, ACIP voted to postpone the discussion and decision indefinitely. Some opposing ACIP members cited insufficient evidence, ambiguous wording, and the need for more data and transparent workgroup processes. Dr. Robert Malone moved to postpone the vote “indefinitely,” saying that a “vote today would be premature.”[3] Malone knew that they did not have the votes.
I first questioned the need for the Hepatitis B vaccine in 1997 as an elected official to the Colorado State Board of Education when the Colorado Health Department added it as a requirement for school attendance. Being elected on a platform to represent the parents and children of Colorado, I felt obligated to investigate.
Do newborns need a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease like Hepatitis B if their mothers do not have the STD?
Is Hepatitis B highly contagious in the classroom?
Is Hepatitis B affecting our children at epidemic proportions?
I contacted doctors and scientists locally and internationally and asked them for their research.
First, are newborns at risk for Hepatitis B if mommy does not have the disease?
CDC guidelines recommend that newborns receive the Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth and boosters at 2 and 4 months of age.[4]
Billboards and ads in newspapers with endorsements from sports teams and news stations appeared all over Colorado with a picture of a cute baby. The billboards and ads stated, “To you, your baby is one in a million, but to Hepatitis B she isn’t anywhere near that rare.” According to the fearmongering and false media campaign, parents were warned that their newborns were at risk for Hepatitis B and needed vaccine protection.
After seeing those billboards and ads I contacted the Colorado Health Department (CHD) and asked for the actual numbers of babies and children in Colorado with Hepatitis B.
According to CHD documents:
1996: 0-4 years old: 0 acute cases and 1 chronic case
1997: 0-4 years old: 1 acute case and 1 chronic case
CHD’s own numbers show that Hepatitis B is rare in newborns. Hepatitis B only occurs in babies whose mothers had Hepatitis B or in very rare cases from a blood transfusion with infected blood. For those children whose mothers did not have Hepatitis B or blood transfusions, there is zero in a million cases! I contacted the CHD and newspapers and complained about the misleading information and threatened to expose the lie. As a result, the billboards were taken down, the newspaper ads stopped, and the CHD refused to send me any more medical documents when I requested them. They also wiped the statistics for public viewing off their website. Babies were still given the shot and parents remained clueless unless their baby was injured from the shot. Newborn babies do NOT need this dangerous vaccine if Mommy does not have Hepatitis B.
How contagious is Hepatitis B in a classroom setting?
By grade school Hepatitis B boosters were required because the vaccine given at birth lost its efficacy.[5] Originally, vaccines for school children were only for contagious diseases that could spread in a school room setting from child to child.
According to the CDC Prevention Guidelines: A Guide to Action (1997) “Unlike smallpox, whooping cough or measles, Hepatitis B is not a highly communicable disease and affects adults primarily engaged in high-risk behaviors.” According to a Colorado Department of Health and Environment fact sheet, “Hepatitis B virus is not spread through casual contact or in a typical school, office or food service setting. It is not spread by coughing, sneezing, or drinking out of the same glass. Hepatitis B is transmitted by direct contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. Highest at risk are IV drug users, prostitutes, people who have frequent sex with multiple partners, health care workers exposed to blood, and babies born to infected mothers.”
The CDC’s own Morbidity and Mortality Weekly reported that nationwide there were only 279 children under the age of 14 with Hepatitis B in 1996. Colorado’s Health Department recorded 15 total cases in children ages 0- 14 in 1996 and 17 in 1997. These numbers do not show a highly contagious epidemic requiring schoolchildren to be vaccinated.
Here is the no-brainer common sense equation:
Newborns and schoolchildren are not having sex with multiple partners without protection.
PLUS
Newborns and schoolchildren are not prostitutes.
PLUS
Newborns and schoolchildren are not shooting up drugs and sharing dirty needles.
PLUS
Newborns and school children are not doctors performing surgery or health care workers exposed to blood.
PLUS
Hepatitis B is not contagious in a classroom setting. There has never been one case from a sneeze, cough, water fountain, drinking out of the same glass or sharing food.
EQUALS
NEWBORNS AND SCHOOLCHILDREN DO NOT NEED THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE.
It is a simple, no-brainer, common sense conclusion.
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) opposed mass vaccination of children against Hepatitis B stating, “It is a national experiment on children for a disease that is not highly contagious.” Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of NVIC and parent of a vaccine injured child, stated that, “Our children are a captive market for the vaccine industry.” Ka-ching$$
How deadly is the disease:
According to Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine 1994, Hepatitis B is not a killer for most. Symptoms of Hep B may include low grade fever, headache, cough, pain, joint swelling, fatigue, nausea and vomiting before jaundice and inflammation of the liver set in. The symptoms can last up to four weeks. Fatigue may last a year. In acute cases of Hep B most patients do not need hospital care. 95% of patients recover completely with immunity for life. The fatality ratio is 0.1%. Of those who do not recover completely fewer than 5% become chronic carriers and one fourth of these could possibly be in danger of life-threatening liver disease later in life.
How safe is the Hepatitis B vaccine?
In 1986 the FDA awarded Merck & Co. a license for the first recombinant DNA Hepatitis B vaccine “RECOMBIVAX HB.” Later Smith-Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals was also granted a license for its genetically engineered Hepatitis B vaccine “ENGERIX-B.”
According to the RECOMBIVAX HB package insert the clinical safety trial consisted of only 147 healthy infants and children up to age 10, who were each monitored for ONLY five days after each dose. [6]
The ENGERIX-B vaccine package insert states, “In 36 clinical studies for a total of 13,495 doses of ENGERIX-B were administered to 5,071 healthy adults and children who were initially seronegative for hepatitis B markers, and healthy neonates. All subjects were monitored for 4 days post-administration.” To find the clinical trial data go to section 6.1 Clinical Trials Experience[7]
The trial participants were only followed for four days. The insert does list some serious adverse events which followed later after the vaccine was introduced to the public in the “Post Marketing” Section 6.2:
6.2 Postmarketing Experience
Infections and Infestations
Herpes zoster, meningitis.
Blood and Lymphatic System Disorders
Thrombocytopenia.
Immune System Disorders
Allergic reaction, anaphylactoid reaction, anaphylaxis. An apparent hypersensitivity syndrome (serum sickness-like) of delayed onset has been reported days to weeks after vaccination, including: arthralgia/arthritis (usually transient), fever, and dermatologic reactions such as urticaria, erythema multiforme, ecchymoses, and erythema nodosum.
Nervous System Disorders
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; migraine; multiple sclerosis; neuritis; neuropathy including hypoesthesia, paresthesia, Guillain-Barré syndrome and Bell’s palsy; optic neuritis; paralysis; paresis; seizures; syncope; transverse myelitis.
Eye Disorders
Conjunctivitis, keratitis, visual disturbances.
Ear and Labyrinth Disorders
Earache, tinnitus, vertigo.
Cardiac Disorders
Palpitations, tachycardia.
Vascular Disorders
Vasculitis.
Respiratory, Thoracic, and Mediastinal Disorders
Apnea, bronchospasm including asthma-like symptoms.
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Dyspepsia.
Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Disorders
Alopecia, angioedema, eczema, erythema multiforme including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, erythema nodosum, lichen planus, purpura.
Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Disorders
Arthritis, muscular weakness.
Investigations
Abnormal liver function tests.
I would like to point out that the Apnea side effect listed above occurs when you stop/pause breathing, usually during sleep. When babies stop breathing while sleeping and subsequently die it is called SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in the United Sates and “crib death” in Australia.
According to the acclaimed Mayo Clinic the cause of SIDS is “unknown.” But they do list some possible factors that may cause it like sleeping position of the baby. Interestingly they adamantly state that vaccines do not cause it, “Vaccinate your baby. There’s no evidence that recommended shots to protect against diseases increase the risk of SIDS. Some evidence shows that such shots may help prevent SIDS.”[8]
Other scientists and doctors strongly disagree with the Mayo Clinic.
In my quest for truth, I had several long-distance landline conversations (We did not have a cell phone back then.) with Australian researcher Dr. Vera Scheibner, who developed a baby respiratory monitor for crib death. Her unique research led her to the discovery that almost all crib deaths occurred shortly after babies were vaccinated. This caused her to reevaluate her strong support for all vaccines and compelled her to write a book warning parents to investigate before vaccinating.[9] I read her compelling book,” Vaccination-100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows That Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System.” [10]
Recently, RFK Jr. cited a study of children that had received the Hepatitis B vaccine within thirty days of birth. The study found that those babies who had received the shot within 30 days of birth had a 1135% increased risk of developing autism. [11] RFK Jr. also stated that the dramatic increase of childhood diseases/cancers/immune disorders that were never heard of when he was a child could correlate with the increase in vaccines required for children.
In the 1950’s, when I was a child, cancer was considered an old person’s disease. Now cancer is the number one cause of death in children.
I talked extensively with Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., cell biologist and pioneering vaccine researcher from Baylor Medical College, who had been collecting data on the Hepatitis B vaccine. She had been contacted by doctors and hundreds of patients who reported severe autoimmune and neurological complications post Hepatitis B vaccination in previous healthy children and adults. These included serious rashes, joint pain, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis and lupus-like symptoms, rheumatoid arthritis and neurological dysfunction.[12] He own brother, who was also a researcher at Baylor Medical School, was crippled after receiving the Hepatitis B vaccine. Her research assistant was blinded:
Dunbar has vocally criticized the Hepatitis B vaccine which, she claims, may be more dangerous than Hepatitis B itself…She began suspecting the vaccine was dangerous after her brother, Bohn, developed rashes on his face, fatigue, and a number of other symptoms after being vaccinated with it. In 2000, Dunbar said that her brother “hasn’t been out of bed since” he received the Hepatitis B vaccine.[13]
The interesting fact is that Dr. Dunbar is an avid vaccine proponent yet speaks out against the Hepatitis B vaccine for children AND adults.
A 2004 study showed an association between recombinant Hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis.[14]
The Minister of Health in France suspended the Hepatitis B vaccine for school children after repeated reports of development of autoimmune and neurological disorders after being vaccinated. Subsequently, the July 31, 1998, issue of Science reported that 15,000 French citizens filed a suit against the French government “accusing it of understating the vaccine’s risks and exaggerating the benefits for the average person.”[15]
Dr. Jane Orient M.D. Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) stated:
“Children younger than 14 are three times more likely to die or suffer adverse reactions after receiving Hepatitis B vaccines than to catch the disease. It’s one thing to bar a student from school if he is carrying an infectious disease posing a threat to other children. But to require questionable medical treatment as a condition of attendance crosses over the line of practicing medicine.”[16]
Dr. Michael Belkin, a vascular surgeon, testified before Congress about the dangers of the vaccine:
My daughter Lyla Rose Belkin died on September 16, 1998 at the age of five weeks, shortly after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot. The following comments are intended to be a heads up to parents and potential parents about the risks of the Hepatitis B vaccine (HBV), and a firsthand report questioning the scientific legitimacy of the vaccine industry, which provides $800 million of annual revenue to Merck – the company which makes the Hepatitis B vaccine distributed in the US…..
Dr. Belkin’ testimony reveals much more information that parents and the general public should know. For his full testimony go to this link: https://hepbvaccine.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/5-michael-belkin/
What are some of the ingredients in the Merck RECOMVIVAX HB hepatitis B vaccine:
The purified protein is treated in phosphate buffer with formaldehyde and then coprecipitated with alum (potassium aluminum sulfate) to form bulk vaccine adjuvanted with amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate. Each dose contains less than 1% yeast protein.
All formulations contain approximately 0.5 mg of aluminum (provided as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, previously referred to as aluminum hydroxide) per mL of vaccine. In each formulation, hepatitis B surface antigen is adsorbed onto approximately 0.5 mg of aluminum (provided as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate) per mL of vaccine. The vaccine contains <15 mcg residual formaldehyde.[17]
Imagine pumping formaldehyde and aluminum into a newborn’s precious body. Research has found a strong link between aluminum exposure and Alzheimer’s disease.[18](At the press conference they talked about taking aluminum and mercury out of the vaccines.)
What are some of the ingredients of the Smith-Kline Beecham ENGERIX-B vaccine:
Each 1-mL adult dose contains 20 mcg of hepatitis B surface antigen adsorbed on 0.5 mg aluminum as aluminum hydroxide. The adult formulation contains sodium chloride (9 mg/mL) and phosphate buffers (disodium phosphate dihydrate, 0.98 mg/mL; sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate, 0.71 mg/mL).[19]
Why do doctors and HMOs promote the vaccine?
During a doctor’s visit I saw a poster on the wall promoting the Hepatitis B vaccine for infants and schoolchildren. I pointed to the poster and asked my doctor, “Why would an infant need a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease if the mother does not have the disease?” He agreed that an infant does not need the shot. Then I asked my doctor, “Why should school children get the shot?” He explained, “A child could get Hepatitis B if he has an open cut and comes in contact with an open cut of an infected child during a contact sport.” So, I showed him the Colorado Health Department numbers of how many school children had Hepatitis B and asked, “Why don’t we just restrict the few children who have Hepatitis B from contact sports instead of vaccinating hundreds of thousands of healthy children?” He agreed that it would be a better plan. I then asked him, “Why is the HMO pushing this vaccine?” and I pointed to the poster on the wall again. He said, “To be perfectly honest, the HMO gets financial rewards for every ‘fully’ vaccinated child.” Meaning, children must be given every single vaccine on the CDC schedule for the HMO to get their financial reward from the CDC. Ka-ching $$ …follow the money.
Why do Health Departments put Hepatitis B on the list of required vaccines for babies and schoolchildren?
A Colorado representative from the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) and I set up a meeting with the head of the Colorado Health Department to ask him this question. He told us that they needed to “catch” the children and protect them before they became sexually active. Catch newborns before they become Kindergarteners and become sexually active? How about grade schoolers? What if a parent teaches their child abstinence? He also said that parents who do not give their child the Hepatitis B vaccine should be arrested for child abuse.
Dr. Michael Belkin, whose daughter died from the vaccine gave the real reason:
I’ve discovered the answer is — an unrestrained health bureaucracy decided it couldn’t get junkies, gays, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals to take the Hepatitis B vaccine — so they mandated that all babies must be vaccinated at birth. Drug companies such as Merck (reaching for new markets) were instrumental in pushing government scientists to adopt an at-birth Hepatitis B vaccination policy, although the vaccine was never tested in newborns and no vaccines had ever been mandated at birth before. It is widely recognized that newborns have under-developed immune systems, which can be overwhelmed or shocked.[20]
For parents who don’t teach abstinence and believe the shot is necessary to protect their sexually active teens, they are free to give their child the shot. However, I would warn them that the Hepatitis B shot could give them a false sense of security because it does not protect them from other sexually transmitted diseases. The Colorado Department of Health stated that over 200 sexually transmitted diseases have been identified. Some do not have names yet.[21] [22]Also scientists like Dr. Bonnie Dunbar report it is even dangerous for adults to take the shot.
Is the CDC going to keep adding more vaccines for STDs to infant and school childrens vaccine schedule?
The CDC added the Gardasil shot to the schedule for schoolchildren several years ago with deadly results. The Gardasil shot is for sexually transmitted Human Papillomavirus, aka genital warts. Parents were told the shot was to prevent cancer. Many parents of injured girls have spoken out. Drug companies are currently developing vaccines for Herpes, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and Chlamydia. [23] In 2022 Moderna vaccinated its first participants in a Phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine utilizing mRNA technology.[24] Will the HIV vaccine eventually be added to the list?
I tried to get the Hepatitis B vaccine removed from Colorado’s school entrance requirements.
The Colorado Health Department had control over deciding which vaccines to mandate for school entrance. To get it removed I needed to seek legislation, so I asked a Colorado State Senator to carry legislation to remove the Hepatitis B vaccine off the school requirement list.
Dr. Jane Orient, head of the AAPS (Association of American Physicians and Surgeons),[25] Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, internationally acclaimed vaccine researcher and Barbara Loe Fischer, NVIC founder, flew to Colorado to testify at the hearing. Numerous local doctors, scientists, nurses, and parents whose children had been damaged by the Hepatitis B vaccine came to testify. Everybody had to take a day or two off work to arrive at 9 am when the hearing started. Our experts did not receive any money for flying to Colorado to testify. They did it pro bono.
The hearing started at 9 am. The drug companies, the health department and the pro Hepatitis B vaccine people testified for 6 1/2 hours. The head of the Colorado Health Department called parents who did not vaccinate their children against Hepatitis B child abusers again. At 3:30 we were finally allowed to testify but we were told that the committee members were “tired” of hearing testimony. They restricted our side of the testimony to 3 minutes each and only allowed five people to testify. After 15 minutes the testimony was closed and the legislation to remove the Hepatitis B vaccine was voted on. We lost. This is just one example of how hard the upward battle to gain back control over our children’s health is. I have compassion for RFK Jr. knowing and seeing how difficult this battle can be for him. (Thank God he has President Trump on is side on this vaccine.)
I am halfway through reading a newly published book by Aaron Siri, the lawyer for The Informed Consent Action Network, titled: Vaccines Amen, The Religion of Vaccines. His book is chock full of information for those seeking truth on this issue.[26] The author explains that vaccines are like a religion to some vaccine scientists and doctors. I call it Scientism. Even with all the factual data staring them in the face rebutting their lies, they hold firmly to their beliefs with the faith of a religious zealot.
What can You do?
The Vaccine schedule is decided locally state by state using the recommendations from the CDC.
For example, Florida plans to end all school vaccine mandates, including for diseases like measles, Hepatitis B, and chickenpox, with the state’s health department announcing it would lift these mandates within 90 days. This would make Florida the first state to eliminate such a broad range of vaccine requirements.
Some states provide parents with opt-out provisions for health, religion or personal reasons. But some states are eliminating these exemptions. Many parents whose states do not provide exemptions, have chosen to homeschool. The choice is yours and not the governments or the drug companies. Get involved locally and nationally. Contact your elected representatives. Most importantly, I encourage you to educate yourself further on this issue.
Know the Facts Before You Vax.
Books that you may find helpful in your quest for the truth about vaccines:
Dissolving Illusions, Disease, Vaccines and the Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries MD and Roman Bystrianyk
Turtles All The Way Down, Vaccine Science and Myth, Zoey O’Toole and Mary Holland
Follow The Science, How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, And Prevails by Sharyl Attkisson
Unvaccinated, Why growing numbers of parents are choosing natural immunity for their children by Forrest Maready
The Moth in the Iron Lung by Forrest Maready
Vaccines Amen, The Religion Of Vaccines by Aaron Siri
Note: These are some of the books that I have read recently that I believe can be helpful. I am not getting a commission for recommending these books.