Opinion and Commentary By Donna Westfall – June 13, 2025

Trump appointed RFK, Jr to the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services. RFK Jr. questioned the validity of so many vaccinations for infants and children. One of the groups that “investigates” vaccinations is supposedly the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, known as ACIP.

Since assuming the position of Secretary of HHS, he’s been shaking up vaccination research and recommendations. He said he was going to do it and he is doing it. On Monday, June 10th, he retired all 17 members of ACIP because he suggested they are a rubber-stamp group that has a lot of conflicts of interest. He plans on reconstituting the group with all new members.

Thank goodness we actually have someone in a position of power that wants to see America become healthy again.

ACIP has never recommended against a vaccination it’s been asked to advise on, even vaccines that were later withdrawn for safety reasons. “It has failed to scrutinize vaccine products given to babies and pregnant women,” he wrote.

When I learned that these days over 70 vaccinations are given to infants and children, I knew something was terribly wrong. Not to say that all vaccinations are bad, but only to suggest that so many are not necessary and probably harmful. It gets back to the question of why are so many of our children plagued with autism?

What’s more is that “To make matters worse, the groups that inform ACIP meet behind closed doors, violating the legal and ethical principle of transparency crucial to maintaining public trust,” RFK said.

This sounds very familiar to our own Harbor doesn’t it?

It will be good to watch over the coming years just how RFK Jr. turns our situation around. I look forward to it.