Guest guest Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 One more thing you can take action on. Protect your rights to make choices about your own body! Patty Mercola.com Dr. ph Mercola All Health, No Hype FREE Weekly Health Newsletter Your Email Address: Previous Newsletters Issue 382 December 4, 2002 Dr. Vonk Atkins Diet Right for You? No/Low-Grain Diet The Best Juicer on the Market Osteoporosis vs. Breast Cancer Risk High-Cost Health Insurance New U.S. Cancer Statistics Wrong Prescriptions for Glasses Forced Immunizations The Danger of Vaccines Health Resources Complete Nutrition Plan Less Grains / Sugars More Omega 3 More Water Emotional Health Effective Sleep Home New Patients Recommended Products Like It or Not, Americans May Now Receive Forced Immunizations The controversial Homeland Security Act was recently approved by the Senate and President Bush. What does this mean for Americans? It means that, if one man deems it necessary, we can all now be forced to receive immunizations -- no personal, religious or medical exemptions allowed -- and refusing to accept them is punishable by fine and imprisonment. Moreover, as it stands the bill protects pharmaceutical companies from potential liability in vaccine-related injury lawsuits. The bill was passed under the guise of necessity for protecting the population from impending bio-terrorism threats, and with a promise that the special interest conditions, such as the one relating to pharmaceutical companies above, would be revised early next year. The concern is that corporate interests are overwhelmingly influencing legislation in an already turbulent, post-9/11 environment, raising the questions of whose interests homeland security is serving, and does it leave the public to fend for themselves? Vaccinations were already an unsettling topic, even before the passing of this new bill, with one of the most disconcerting aspects being the association of autism with pediatric vaccinations. The number of cases of autism in the U.S. tripled in the 90s, around the same time researchers discovered that Thimerosal, a preservative found in many infant vaccines, contained levels of mercury that were above those allowed by Environmental Protection Agency guidelines. Though the vaccines contained enough toxic mercury to cause neural damage in children, many medical practitioners denied the association. However, in 1999 the FDA recommended that Thimerosal be removed from vaccine formulas, which raised doubts about the vaccines’ safety and created some public and political support against pharmaceutical companies. The recent bill makes it so that victims of mercury poisoning, Gulf War Syndrome, cancers and the other slew of illnesses potentially linked to vaccinations will have no legal recourse against the pharmaceutical companies that produced the vaccines. A related bill that also potentially limited the freedom of Americans, the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA), was passed in December 2001. This law gave state legislatures the right to vaccinate people, enforce quarantines, seize and destroy property without any compensation and ration medical supplies, food and fuel in emergency situations. As of July 2002, 22 states have rejected or stalled the law while 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed all or parts of it. In states where the law was passed, citizens will be charged with a crime if they refuse vaccinations. The new Homeland Security Act takes the choice of whether vaccinations are beneficial or harmful away from the individual. This violation of freedom takes away our right to decide what is best for our own bodies and leaves it in the hands of the federal government, and the special interest groups that potentially control it. GuerillaNews.Com November 20, 2002 DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: So is the situation completely hopeless? Never. In fact, not even close in this case. As the article states, the U.S. Senators who approved Homeland Security made “a promise that the special interest provisions … would be revised early next year.” These include the provisions (otherwise known as “pork”) in the bill that let pharmaceutical companies off the hook for the great damage their vaccines may have done, and that eliminates your rights to refuse vaccinations for medical, personal or religious reasons. So what can you do right now? 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 revise these provisions 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, - (R - AK) (202) 224-6665s, Ted - (R - AK) (202) 224-3004 Sessions, Jeff - (R - AL) (202) 224-4124Shelby, - (R - AL) (202) 224-5744 Hutchinson, Tim - (R - AR) (202) 224-2353Lincoln, Blanche - (D - AR) (202) 224-4843 Kyl, Jon - (R - AZ) (202) 224-4521Sen. McCain (R-AZ) 202-224-2235 Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA) (202) 224-3553Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA) (202) 224-3841 Allard, Wayne - (R - CO) (202) 224-5941Sen. (R-CO) 202-224-5852 Dodd, - (D - CT) (202) 224-2823Lieberman, ph - (D - CT) (202) 224-4041 Biden, ph - (D - DE) (202) 224-5042Carper, - (D - DE) (202) 224-2441 Graham, Bob - (D - FL) (202) 224-3041, Bill - (D - FL) (202) 224-5274 Cleland, Max - (D - GA) (202) 224-3521Sen. (D-GA) 202-224-3643 Akaka, - (D - HI) (202) 224-6361Inouye, - (D - HI) (202) 224-3934 Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA) (202) 224-3744Harkin, Tom - (D - IA) (202) 224-3254 Craig, Larry - (R - ID) (202) 224-2752Crapo, - (R - ID) (202) 224-6142 Durbin, - (D - IL) (202) 224-2152Sen. Fitzgerald (R-IL) 202-224-2854 Lugar, - (R - IN) (202) 224-4814Sen. Bayh (D-IN) 202-224-5623 Brownback, Sam - (R - KS) (202) 224-6521, Pat - (R - KS) (202) 224-4774 Bunning, Jim - (R - KY) (202) 224-4343McConnell, Mitch - (R - KY) (202) 224-2541 Landrieu, - (D - LA) (202) 224-5824Sen. Breaux (D-LA) 202-224-4623 Kennedy, - (D - MA) (202) 224-4543Kerry, - (D - MA) (202) 224-2742 Mikulski, Barbara - (D - MD) (202) 224-4654Sarbanes, - (D - MD) (202) 224-4524 Levin, Carl - (D - MI) (202) 224-6221Stabenow, Debbie - (D - MI) (202) 224-4822 Dayton, Mark - (D - MN) (202) 224-3244Sen. Barkley (I-MN) 202-224-9430 Bond, - (R - MO) (202) 224-5721Carnahan, - (D - MO) (202) 224-6154 Cochran, Thad - (R - MS) (202) 224-5054Lott, Trent - (R - MS) (202) 224-6253 Sen. (R-ME) 202-224-2523Sen. Snowe (R-PA) 202-224-5344 Baucus, Max - (D - MT) (202) 224-2651Burns, Conrad - (R - MT) (202) 224-2644 , - (D - NC) (202) 224-3154Helms, - (R - NC) (202) 224-6342 Conrad, Kent - (D - ND) (202) 224-2043Dorgan, Byron - (D - ND)(202) 224-2551 Hagel, Chuck - (R - NE) (202) 224-4224Sen. Ben (D-NE) 202-224-6551 Gregg, Judd - (R - NH) (202) 224-3324Sen. (R-NH) 202-2242841 Corzine, Jon - (D - NJ) (202) 224-4744Torricelli, - (D - NJ) (202) 224-3224 Bingaman, Jeff - (D - NM) (202) 224-5521Domenici, Pete - (R - NM) (202) 224-6621 Ensign, - (R - NV) (202) 224-6244Reid, Harry - (D - NV) (202) 224-3542 Clinton, Hillary - (D - NY) (202) 224-4451Schumer, - (D - NY) (202) 224-6542 DeWine, Mike - (R - OH) (202) 224-2315Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) 202-224-3353 Inhofe, - (R - OK) (202) 224-4721Nickles, Don - (R - OK) (202) 224-5754 , Gordon - (R - OR) (202) 224-3753Wyden, Ron - (D - OR) (202) 224-5244 Sen. Santorum (R-PA) 202-224-6324Sen. Specter (R-PA) 202-224-4254 , Jack - (D - RI) (202) 224-4642Sen. Chafee (R-RI) 202-224-2921 Hollings, Ernest - (D - SC) (202) 224-6121Thurmond, Strom - (R - SC) (202) 224-5972 Daschle, - (D - SD) (202) 224-2321, Tim - (D - SD) (202) 224-5842 Frist, Bill - (R - TN) (202) 224-3344Sen. (R-TN) 202-224-4944 Gramm, Phil - (R - TX) (202) 224-2934Hutchison, Kay - (R - TX) (202) 224-5922 , - (R - UT) (202) 224-5444Hatch, Orrin - (R - UT) (202) 224-5251 , - (R - VA) (202) 224-4024Warner, - (R - VA) (202) 224-2023 Leahy, - (D - VT) (202) 224-4242Sen. Jeffords (I-VT) 202-224-5141 Cantwell, - (D - WA) (202) 224-3441Murray, Patty - (D - WA) (202) 224-2621 Feingold, - (D - WI) (202) 224-5323Kohl, Herb - (D - WI) (202) 224-5653 Byrd, - (D - WV) (202) 224-3954Rockefeller, - (D - WV) (202) 224-6472 Enzi, - (R - WY) (202) 224-3424, Craig - (R - WY) (202) 224-6441 Related Articles: Save Your Vaccination Rights: Tell Your Senators to Vote NO to Homeland Security Bill! Return to Table of Contents #382 Privacy/Security Current Newsletter Contact Info ©Copyright 1997-2002 Dr. ph Mercola. . This content may be copied in full, with copyright; contact; creation; and information intact, without specific permission, when used only in a not-for-profit format. 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