EMERGENCY - CONGRESS POISED TO RUSH THROUGH SWEEPING IMMUNITY
FOR POSSIBLY UNSAFE VACCINES AND OTHER DRUGS –
AMERICANS LIKELY TO BECOME HUMAN GUINEA PIGS
Biodefense Bill

From the National Autism Association

Now, more than ever, we must fight for our children.

Parents, grandparents and loved ones: We need your help. Please take a few minutes from your day to join us in calling and sending faxes! We need to send the message: DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TAKING AWAY OUR CHILDREN'S CIVIL RIGHTS!

Parents, we know you are busy. But liability protections to pharmaceutical companies are coming toward us from all angles. Please call and fax ASAP! Faxes and phone calls are very important and tie up their regular lines. Let them know we are watching out for our children! In The Name Of Bioterrorism, Congress Again Plans to Extend Liability Protection To Vaccine Manufacturers, Abandoning America's Vaccine-Injured Children. Here are the three main areas we are fighting:

• The President's Liability Protection Legislation: Six of the vilest, rights-trampling pages you'll ever read including NO lawsuits, NO judicial reviews, NO discovery.
• In the Senate: S 1873, (Sen. Burr) "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005".
• In the House: The Companion bill to the Senate Version, HR3970, (Cong. Issa)- Bioterror and Pandemic Preparedness Protection Act. Points you can make:
  • Drug companies have suppressed safety data and poisoned a generation of children with mercury-laced vaccines.
  • If passed, vaccine makers will have even more incentive to ignore product safety. The reckless disregard for injuries to Americans through dangerous products created by drug manufacturers must not be further sanctioned and encouraged by our lawmakers.

Capitalizing on fear and intimidation, and the reminder of generous campaign donations, drug companies have seduced Congress into awarding the pharmaceutical industry unprecedented liability protection, removing any financial incentive to produce safe vaccines.

The Biodefense/Pandemic Infuenza Bills, influenced by drug industry lobbyists, abandons the children and citizens of this country and rewards a pattern of bad behavior by an industry recognized for suppressing safety data on vaccines.

A parent/advocate has been visiting with legislators this week on Capitol Hill and summed up her visit with two important observations:

• 1) The pharmaceutical protection legislation has become a priority to a greater degree than we've ever seen before. Using a shotgun approach, the plan is that if just one of the several pieces of legislation with the protection language gets through, Pharma is home free. Profit will trump safety to an even greater degree than we've already seen, and our children's rights will be nonexistent.
• 2) Many Senators and Members of Congress expressed that they are not hearing from their constituents about this legislation at all. Some specifically said we must speak louder if we are to be heard.

LET'S MAKE SURE THEY HEAR US LOUD AND CLEAR THIS TIME!

Please also enlist your spouse, in-laws, neighbors, friends, and anyone else you can think of to help with calling and faxing. We need these legislators to hear from as many of us as possible NOW.

What you can do TODAY: Please call and fax the members of the Senate Health Committee, Congressional friends to the community and Congressional Reps that could swing our way on this important legislation. Let them know you and your family oppose rewarding the companies responsible for injuring countless children through unsafe vaccines.

Your communications with the HELP Committee members need not be long or detailed, especially since time is of the essence. Just let them know you are the parent, caregiver, or friend of a vaccine-injured child, and that the language in all the liability protection legislation currently on the table protects the pharmaceutical industry for the results of lax, profit-driven safety standards. Further removal of accountability to this industry is detrimental to public health and unacceptable. Below is a letter you can use if you want to cut and paste.

Dear (Your Congressman or Your Senator);

Say NO to Ripping Off The Rights of Vaccine-Injured Children, And NO to Rewarding the Very Industry That Injured Them! As both a voter and caregiver of a vaccine-injured child, I feel very strongly that my child's rights are about to be jeopardized once again.

I ask you to pledge to put the interests of America's children and families before that of drug companies, and remind you that the public is watching. Just like the Homeland Security Rider, the Biodefense Bill and other bills implementing liability protection will be seen for what they are -- gifts to the pharmaceutical industry in exchange for campaign contributions. This type of corruption must not be allowed to further hurt the innocent children already damaged by unsafe pharmaceuticals.

As a voter, I am asking you to take a firm stand against legislation that will remove my vaccine-injured child's rights to fair litigation, and to send a resounding NO to allowing drug companies even more incentive to put profit before safety.

Thousands of families of special-needs children are going bankrupt, and many are selling their homes just to pay for care that insurance does not cover. More over, lawsuits give our children the voice that was taken away. The right to have fair litigation. The right to have compensation for care.

Please do not support anything that allows pharmaceutical companies more favors than your constituents--especially those that cannot speak for themselves. If you do, parents, grandparents, and caregivers from around the country will make sure that every reporter in your state knows what you have done to your weakest constituents.

Sincerely,
(your name)

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