Global Drug Industry Launches All-Out Attack on Rights of Thimerosal-Injured Children

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

I'm forwarding this e-mail from Larry Plumlee, M.D. because

it's important that this outrageous senate bill be stopped immediately.

The chemical/pharmaceutical industry is trying to pull another fast one.

For years it has been putting methyl mercury, a potent neurotoxin, into

children's vaccines despite woefully inadequate health testing.

The methyl mercury additive known as Thimerosal is suspected of triggering

a range of illnesses and neurological problems in children. Most people who

follow this issue agree that it is unconscionable that it be ever was

allowed

to be injected into infants and children despite extremely poor health data

on its

effects.

There has been enormous pressure for years from families, doctors, and

independent

health organizations to get mercury out of vaccines and to conduct the

research

needed to see what it has been doing to our children. Children have almost

no

choice when born or starting school -- they are required to have these

shots.

Because of mounting pressure in England to finally do the required studies,

Chem/Pharm may be worried that methyl mercury can be linked to the

skyrocketing

rates of autoimmune and neurological diseases, especially Autism - which has

been

skyrocketing in both the U.S. and Europe.

Please read this and contact your senator with the handy URL below this note

that will take you a senator locater for your state. From the site you will

quickly be able to contact them.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

A complete list of senators who sit on the health committee where this

bill initially was considered, is at the very bottom of this message.

Please help with this. This is a blatant attempt to shield Chem/Pharm

and take away the right of children to have their day in court. It

is important that we all take the time to do this and to circulate it

widely.

Best Wishes,

Hotz

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Original message from Larry Plumlee, M.D.

At the AAEM meeting this weekend, I learned of this evil proposed

legislation in the U.S. Senate, and hope you will go to the website

http://www.stopfristbill.org/ and write your own and other senators on

the Health Committee, perhaps using the sample letter at the bottom of this

page.

Gratefully,

Larry

Global Drug Industry Launches All-Out Attack on Rights of Thimerosal-Injured

Children

Thimerosal is a mercury-based additive to vaccines that has potentially

poisoned hundreds of thousands of American children. Faced with the

prospect of thousands of lawsuits seeking compensation for the devastating

injuries caused by thimerosal poisoning, the international pharmaceutical

companies and their army of lobbyists are pushing a bill in Congress to

wipe out the rights of children and their families to get legal relief.

Rather than seek an answer in a fair court, these corporations have

instructed Senator Frist to champion legislation that would refuse these

children their day in court. Sponsored by Senator Bill Frist (Republican,

TN), the legislation known as SB 2053 or " the Frist Bill " would:

require that every thimerosal-injury lawsuit currently pending anywhere in

America be immediately dismissed

force thimerosal injury claims into a bureaucratic administrative program

in Washington, DC that is not designed to handle these claims

prohibit any judge from ordering the drug companies to provide the money

for desperately needed research and medical monitoring of children exposed

to thimerosal

forever deprive any child over the age of 8 of any legal remedy

whatosoever, either in the courts or in the federal administrative program

prohibit class action lawsuits related to thimerosal injuries and

thimerosal exposure

This website will give you the background information and tools you need to

defeat this anti-child, anti-justice, pro-industry bill. Time is of the

essence, and making sure your voice as well of the voices of your friends

and families need to be heard in Congress to stop this terrible bill.

Please send the following text to your Senator or the Health Committee

embers listed on this page:

Dear Senator _________________________________,

I believe that every citizen of this country

has the right to a fair pursuit of justice when wronged.

The drug companies are attempting to move Frist Bill SB2053 forward

quickly. It is set for a hearing in front of Sen Kennedy's Health

Committee.

I am asking you to refuse SB2053 (the " Frist Bill " ). It is

anti-child, pro-corporation and anti-justice.

The Frist Bill addresses thimerosal and is specifically putting

corporate welfare before that of our children. Thimerosal is a

mercury-based preservative that may have damaged thousands of

children. These children and their families have the right to

pursue this issue in court. The Frist Bill blocks that right

unilaterally and in perpetuity in all venues.

I ask you, Senator, as a protector of our nation to choose our

children over the corporations in this matter and stop the Frist

Bill from going forward.

See: http://www.stopfristbill.org/ and

http://www.stopfristbill.org/background.html

LIST OF SENATORS THAT SIT ON THE HEALTH COMMITTEE

Sen. Dodd (D)

Sen. Tom Harkin (D)

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D)

Sen. Jim Jeffords (I)

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D)

Sen. Wellstone (D)

Sen. Patty Murray (D)

Sen. F. 'Jack' (D)

Sen. (D)

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)

Sen. Judd Gregg ®

Sen. Frist ®

Sen. Mike Enzi ®

Sen. Tim Hutchinson ®

Sen. Warner ®

Sen. Bond ®

Sen. Pat ®

Sen. ®

Sen. Jeff Sessions ®

Sen. Mike DeWine ®