Vaccine Manufacturers Shirk Potential Autism Liability

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Vaccine Manufacturers Shirk Potential Autism Liability

 

 

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The Homeland Security Bill, recently passed in the Senate and

signed by President Bush, includes a provision that protects manufacturers of

vaccine additive thimerosal -- an additive that may cause autism -- from

liability in vaccine-related lawsuits. According to supporters of the provision,

lawsuits could ruin vaccine-producing companies in a time when vaccines are

essential to protect the country against a looming biochemical attack.

 

 

About 150 individual autism lawsuits, with thousands more

being prepared, are aimed at Eli Lilly and Co., the inventors of the additive

that has been used in common children’s vaccines until recently and whose

chairman is on the White House Advisory Council on Homeland Security. Critics of

the liability provision say that it did not go through the usual committee

process and call it a “gift to politically influential drug companies.” Although

vaccine manufacturers have been protected from liability since 1988, the

provision will extend protection given to vaccines to include vaccine additives

 

 

The provision was taken out of a stalled vaccine bill and

added to the Homeland Security Bill as it was nearing approval. Since January

2001, Republicans have received $14 million from the pharmaceutical industry,

compared with Democrats’ $5.2 million, leading Democrats to say that the

provision is a payback to the industry from Republicans.

 

 

Countering this, Republicans say that lawyers who opposed the

provision have given $45 million to Democrats and $17.5 million to Republicans

since January 2001.

 

 

The number of autism, a developmental disability, cases has

tripled over the last 10 years, and many people have blamed mercury-containing

thimerosal for the increase. In 1999, the Food and Drug Administration said that

infants who received recommended vaccinations were exposed to excessive levels

of mercury and asked vaccine manufacturers to remove the substance from

vaccines. Although no evidence has been found to prove or disprove the link

between thimerosal and autism, some say that vaccine manufacturers were aware of

thimerosal’s risks in the 1970s but continued to use the additive despite

scientists warnings.

 

 

News Day November 24, 2002

 

 

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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

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Some powerful people who wanted to protect vaccine

manufacturers slipped this “special provision” into the Homeland Security Bill

at the last minute. Through this newsletter and other efforts, many people

contacted their Senators to oppose the bill, but while this initiated some

awareness in the general media, the bill still passed. However, the Senators

promised to revisit and potentially alter this and other special provisions in

the bill in early 2003.

 

 

So what can you do? Remind your Senators to stick to their

word and make sure this special provision that lets drug companies off the hook

is indeed revisited -- and eliminated.

 

 

The evidence is quite clear that the mercury in the vaccines

is damaging children. These companies would have been successfully sued for

their negligence that resulted in damaging tens of thousands of infants, but if

this special provision in the Homeland Security Bill is not seriously altered or

eliminated, they will get off scot-free

 

 

And if that occurs -- an obvious act of a few powerful people

doing a few other powerful people a favor at the expense of all the rest of us

-- that will be a very sad commentary on the state of our nation. That children

have been damaged as a result of mercury in their vaccinations is already sad

enough.

 

So contact both of your state Senators, multiple times if you

so choose, and remind them how important it is that they keep their word and

eliminate this provision in early 2003!

 

To enhance your knowledge, you can also search this site for a

long list of stories about the danger of vaccines, such as this Update on

Mercury Poisoning from earlier in 2002, or you can consider the " The Danger of

Vaccines, and How You Can Legally Avoid Them” audio tape from a discussion I

hosted with nationally renowned vaccine expert Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

 

 

But by all means, contact your Senators and tell them to keep

their promise!

 

 

This contact list for U.S. Senators provides phone, mail and

email addresses, or you can use the recent Senator phone list below:

 

 

U.S. Senators:

 

Murkowski, Frank - (R - AK) (202) 224-6665

Stevens, Ted - (R - AK) (202) 224-3004

 

Sessions, Jeff - (R - AL) (202) 224-4124

Shelby, Richard - (R - AL) (202) 224-5744

 

Hutchinson, Tim - (R - AR) (202) 224-2353

Lincoln, Blanche - (D - AR) (202) 224-4843

 

Kyl, Jon - (R - AZ) (202) 224-4521

Sen. McCain (R-AZ) 202-224-2235

 

Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA) (202) 224-3553

Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA) (202) 224-3841

 

Allard, Wayne - (R - CO) (202) 224-5941

Sen. Campbell (R-CO) 202-224-5852

 

Dodd, Christopher - (D - CT) (202) 224-2823

Lieberman, Joseph - (D - CT) (202) 224-4041

 

Biden, Joseph - (D - DE) (202) 224-5042

Carper, Thomas - (D - DE) (202) 224-2441

 

Graham, Bob - (D - FL) (202) 224-3041

Nelson, Bill - (D - FL) (202) 224-5274

 

Cleland, Max - (D - GA) (202) 224-3521

Sen. Miller (D-GA) 202-224-3643

 

Akaka, Daniel - (D - HI) (202) 224-6361

Inouye, Daniel - (D - HI) (202) 224-3934

 

Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA) (202) 224-3744

Harkin, Tom - (D - IA) (202) 224-3254

 

Craig, Larry - (R - ID) (202) 224-2752

Crapo, Michael - (R - ID) (202) 224-6142

 

Durbin, Richard - (D - IL) (202) 224-2152

Sen. Fitzgerald (R-IL) 202-224-2854

 

Lugar, Richard - (R - IN) (202) 224-4814

Sen. Bayh (D-IN) 202-224-5623

 

Brownback, Sam - (R - KS) (202) 224-6521

Roberts, Pat - (R - KS) (202) 224-4774

 

Bunning, Jim - (R - KY) (202) 224-4343

McConnell, Mitch - (R - KY) (202) 224-2541

 

Landrieu, Mary - (D - LA) (202) 224-5824

Sen. Breaux (D-LA) 202-224-4623

 

Kennedy, Edward - (D - MA) (202) 224-4543

Kerry, John - (D - MA) (202) 224-2742

 

Mikulski, Barbara - (D - MD) (202) 224-4654

Sarbanes, Paul - (D - MD) (202) 224-4524

 

Levin, Carl - (D - MI) (202) 224-6221

Stabenow, Debbie - (D - MI) (202) 224-4822

 

Dayton, Mark - (D - MN) (202) 224-3244

Sen. Barkley (I-MN) 202-224-9430

 

Bond, Christopher - (R - MO) (202) 224-5721

Carnahan, Jean - (D - MO) (202) 224-6154

 

Cochran, Thad - (R - MS) (202) 224-5054

Lott, Trent - (R - MS) (202) 224-6253

 

Sen. Collins (R-ME) 202-224-2523

Sen. Snowe (R-PA) 202-224-5344

 

Baucus, Max - (D - MT) (202) 224-2651

Burns, Conrad - (R - MT) (202) 224-2644

 

Edwards, John - (D - NC) (202) 224-3154

Helms, Jesse - (R - NC) (202) 224-6342

 

Conrad, Kent - (D - ND) (202) 224-2043

Dorgan, Byron - (D - ND)(202) 224-2551

 

Hagel, Chuck - (R - NE) (202) 224-4224

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) 202-224-6551

 

Gregg, Judd - (R - NH) (202) 224-3324

Sen. Smith (R-NH) 202-2242841

 

Corzine, Jon - (D - NJ) (202) 224-4744

Torricelli, Robert - (D - NJ) (202) 224-3224

 

Bingaman, Jeff - (D - NM) (202) 224-5521

Domenici, Pete - (R - NM) (202) 224-6621

 

Ensign, John - (R - NV) (202) 224-6244

Reid, Harry - (D - NV) (202) 224-3542

 

Clinton, Hillary - (D - NY) (202) 224-4451

Schumer, Charles - (D - NY) (202) 224-6542

 

DeWine, Mike - (R - OH) (202) 224-2315

Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) 202-224-3353

 

Inhofe, James - (R - OK) (202) 224-4721

Nickles, Don - (R - OK) (202) 224-5754

 

Smith, Gordon - (R - OR) (202) 224-3753

Wyden, Ron - (D - OR) (202) 224-5244

 

Sen. Santorum (R-PA) 202-224-6324

Sen. Specter (R-PA) 202-224-4254

 

Reed, Jack - (D - RI) (202) 224-4642

Sen. Chafee (R-RI) 202-224-2921

 

Hollings, Ernest - (D - SC) (202) 224-6121

Thurmond, Strom - (R - SC) (202) 224-5972

 

Daschle, Thomas - (D - SD) (202) 224-2321

Johnson, Tim - (D - SD) (202) 224-5842

 

Frist, Bill - (R - TN) (202) 224-3344

Sen. Thompson (R-TN) 202-224-4944

 

Gramm, Phil - (R - TX) (202) 224-2934

Hutchison, Kay - (R - TX) (202) 224-5922

 

Bennett, Robert - (R - UT) (202) 224-5444

Hatch, Orrin - (R - UT) (202) 224-5251

 

Allen, George - (R - VA) (202) 224-4024

Warner, John - (R - VA) (202) 224-2023

 

Leahy, Patrick - (D - VT) (202) 224-4242

Sen. Jeffords (I-VT) 202-224-5141

 

Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA) (202) 224-3441

Murray, Patty - (D - WA) (202) 224-2621

 

Feingold, Russell - (D - WI) (202) 224-5323

Kohl, Herb - (D - WI) (202) 224-5653

 

Byrd, Robert - (D - WV) (202) 224-3954

Rockefeller, John - (D - WV) (202) 224-6472

 

Enzi, Michael - (R - WY) (202) 224-3424

Thomas, Craig - (R - WY) (202) 224-6441

 

 

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