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A new national parental rights campaign demanding that the federal government remove the COVID mRNA shot from the childhood immunization schedule is mobilizing the same grassroots activism that propelled the confirmation of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Launched by the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), Smart Moms Ask is demanding that HHS “stop mRNA COVID shots for kids and pregnant women” and inviting Americans to sign its petition asking HHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to “reverse the CDC’s recommendation for the COVID-19 mRNA shots and take them off the childhood vaccine schedule.”
“Moms are the fiercest protectors of their children, yet they’ve been bullied into accepting mRNA shots with devastating risks,” said Dr. Kat Lindley, IMA Fellowship Program Director and mother of five. “This campaign unites their voices to demand HHS and CDC act now to safeguard our kids and expectant mothers.”
The Smart Moms Ask campaign comes as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said this week the evidence to support giving healthy children the mRNA COVID shot “does not exist.”
“Look, I’d love to see the evidence to show that giving young, healthy children another COVID shot – you know, a sixth COVID booster – would help them,” Makary said during an interview with conservative host Charlie Kirk. “But that evidence does not exist, and so we’re not just going to rubber-stamp things at the FDA, and I don’t think you’re going to see a push at the CDC to be pushing COVID shots in young, healthy children.”
Makary acknowledged the issue is “being discussed right now.”
“I think you’re going to see some announcement on that in the coming weeks, but I know they are trying to review all of the scientific data. And guess what? There’s no data,” he asserted. “There’s no good randomized control data that the current version, the latest formulation of the COVID shot, is necessary for young, healthy children.”
The commissioner further observed that “other countries have already recommended against it. Other leading countries in Europe have recommended against it for young, healthy children.”
“So, I think you’re going to see a look at this, and you’re going to hear something forthcoming,” he predicted.
Smart Moms Ask is sponsored by IMA, an organization of medical specialists which, under its former title of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), developed early treatment protocols for the COVID-19 virus.
“The risks are real, and parents deserve the truth,” the campaign asserts, citing the following statistics gathered from “peer-reviewed studies”:
- 9.5 million U.S. children aged 6 months to 17 years have received the COVID-19 mRNA shot as of April 19, 2025
- 620% increase in myocarditis among young men post-vaccination, raising questions about safety in adolescent populations as sourced in a 2025 peer-reviewed study
- Miscarriage rates as high as 81% compared to an average rate of 13% have been reported in a Pfizer Patient Safety study
- ~33% lower successful conception for vaccinated women compared to unvaccinated women in 2022
In October 2022, the CDC’s independent vaccine advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend adding the mRNA COVID shots to the new Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for children as young as six months.
At that time, Kennedy referred to the move in a post to the X platform as a “reckless action” that serves as “final proof of the cynicism, corruption + capture of a once exemplary public health agency.”
“ACIP members have demonstrated that fealty to their pharma overlords eclipses any residual concerns they may harbor for child welfare,” he asserted.