E-Newsletter March 2008 #2 - Mini Edition
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In this edition:
| 1. | Action Alert: Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2007 |  |
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| 2. | Jenny McCarthy: JULIE GERBERDING MUST GO! | |
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| 3. | Missed the recent coverage on the landmark vaccines and autism case? | |
| 1 | Action Alert: Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2007 |
| Please read the press release below from Congressman Weldon and contact your members of Congress to ask them to co-sponsor H.R.1973. It's time to take vaccine safety away from the CDC. Visit www.congress.org for contact information for your local representative.
Federal Government Admits Child's Autism is Linked to Vaccinations Weldon's Vaccine Safety Legislation Eliminates Conflicts of Interest, Funds Vigorous Safety Office Press Release from Congressman Dave Weldon WASHINGTON, D.C. - At a press conference earlier today, in federal court the Federal Government admitted to Dr. Jon and Terry Poling that their child's autism was directly related to the five vaccines their daughter received at 20 months of age. Yet, the federal government lacks a vigorous and independent vaccine safety program to investigate this issue further and to discern which other children may be at risk. "Sadly, the federal government is ill-prepared to address the serious issues raised by this admission," said US Congressman Dave Weldon, a physician. "As vaccine safety concerns have grown over the past decade, CDC's response has been to bury their head in the sand hoping the problem would go away. After today's admission, the CDC responded by digging deeper." "They sent their vaccine promotion officer - rather than their vaccine safety officer - out to reassure the public that 'large studies don't support a relationship between vaccines and autism.' It's past time for the Federal government to replace their statistics books and calculators with microscopes and research so that we can understand the biological mechanisms that are taking place. We need to be able to develop safer vaccines and screen for children who are at risk." "I am a strong supporter of childhood immunizations, but it is critically important that our immunization program have a vigorous, independent and well-funded safety program," added Weldon. "The CDC is the principle federal agency charged with vaccine safety research, but they are seriously conflicted. Their top priority is maintaining high immunization rates, while vaccine safety ranks near the bottom both in priorities and funding. " Reps. Dave Weldon, M.D. and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2007 (H.R. 1973) to establish an independent office to address, investigate, and head off potential vaccine safety problems in an objective and nonconflicted office whose sole purpose is vaccine safety and evaluation. The bill funds the program at $80 million. "The public has begun to question whether our government is doing all it can to ensure vaccine safety-and they are absolutely right to do so," said Congresswoman Maloney. "When we in government require children to be vaccinated, we must make every possible effort to ensure that vaccines are safe." |
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| 2. | Jenny McCarthy: JULIE GERBERDING MUST GO! |
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By Jenny McCarthy www.ageofautism.org I'm asking all parents and autism groups to join me in demanding Julie Gerberding's immediate resignation as Director of the CDC. On Monday, March 10th, beginning at 9:00am Eastern Daylight Time, let's all start calling the White House and ask President Bush Laura Bush to demand Julie Gerberding's resignation for incompetence during the autism epidemic. The White House switchboard can be reached at: 202-456-1414. Also, on the same day, please call your local Congressperson and Senators from your state and ask them to call for her resignation, too. Julie Gerberding has led the CDC for 6 years during a time when the autism epidemic has only gotten worse. Despite tens of thousands of children who declined just like Hannah Poling, Ms. Gerberding stood before cameras yesterday defiant, cold, and defensive. Where is her humanity in the face of such tragedy? Why couldn't she have said, "We at CDC want to make sure what happened to Hannah doesn't happen to any other children, we want to make vaccines safe"? Rather than listen to the heartbreaking stories of so many parents, you can be sure that Ms. Gerberding is spending her time right now trying to get the Spin Machine up and running to minimize, confuse, and deceive the American public. The autism epidemic won't end until we fix the vaccine schedule by reducing total vaccines, separating shots, waiting until our kids are older to begin shots, greening our vaccines, and screening for at-risk kids. Ms Gerberding has stood by and watched self-interested parties more than triple our vaccine schedule and I'm certain her inactivity to help our kids will continue. The chances of Ms. Gerberding taking the radical steps to reform the CDC and reform our vaccine schedule to make it kid-safe are zero! We need a new CDC Director who is an open-minded reformer and who recognizes that we are experiencing an epidemic of autism, which Ms. Gerberding has never publicly admitted. Please, parents and national autism organizations, let's all help make our voices heard on Monday. Thank you, Jenny McCarthy is an actress, author and autism advocate. |
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Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) provides general information of interest to the autism community. The information comes from a variety of sources and TACA does not independently verify any of it. The views expressed herein are not necessarily TACA’s. TACA does not engage in lobbying or other political activities.
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