Re: National Vaccine Information Center Cites “Betrayal” of Consumers by U.S. Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma

[Guest guest]

I would love to understand this better. Sheri could you explain the comment

about Barbara more completely...the background exactly? The info below it is

difficult to extract an understanding.

Thanks

Liz

>

> I would remind all that Barbara Fisher was warned by many at the time

> to not sleep with the devil and help in setting up this Vaccine

> Injury Law which only would work against people (and now we have seen

> for the last few decades and this month the result of it)

> Sheri

>

> " NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

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ml & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=products%27+risks & index=4 & md5=f1fd4540b546943\

ce2cc31889da06974>products'

> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

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2Fnews-Vaccine-Markets-A-Refuge-for-Big-Pharma-11311.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-\

US & anchor=substantial+profits+ & index=5 & md5=68169a847bad343ffa36782eb1cfaf2d>subs\

tantial

> profits from vaccines mandated by government. " "

> National Vaccine Information Center Cites " Betrayal " of Consumers by

> U.S. Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma

>

>

>

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/02/national-vaccine-information-center-cites-bet\

rayal-of-consumers-by-us-supreme-court-giving-.html

>

>

> February 23, 2011 08:03 AM Eastern Time

>

> WASHINGTON--(<http://eon.businesswire.com/>EON: Enhanced Online

> News)--The National Vaccine Information Center

>

(<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NVIC.org & e\

sheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=NVIC & index=1 & md5=e27e63307dd485509b685db2dee2d565\

>NVIC),

> whose co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood

> Vaccine Injury Act of 1986

>

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Fvaccinecompensation%2Fauthorizinglegislation.pdf & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & ancho\

r=PL-99-660 & index=2 & md5=21965fbc8d819c1e005178429c5fc671>PL-99-660),

> is calling yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court decision giving drug

> companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused

> by government mandated vaccines a " betrayal " of the American consumer.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a $20 billion

> dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be "

>

> In a

>

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t.gov%2Fopinions%2F10pdf%2F09-152.pdf & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=6-2+decisi\

on & index=3 & md5=8f25dd4f998d52a6982a7537dbf26c3d>6-2

> decision, the Court majority voted to reject substantial evidence in

> the Act's legislative history that the 99th Congress fully intended

> to protect an American's right to sue a pharmaceutical corporation

> for injuries that could have been prevented if the company had

> elected to make a safer vaccine.

>

> NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.c\

om%2Fnews%2F2010-07-27%2Fmerck-paid-3-468-death-claims-to-resolve-vioxx-suits.ht\

ml & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=products%27+risks & index=4 & md5=f1fd4540b546943\

ce2cc31889da06974>products'

> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dddmag.com%\

2Fnews-Vaccine-Markets-A-Refuge-for-Big-Pharma-11311.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-\

US & anchor=substantial+profits+ & index=5 & md5=68169a847bad343ffa36782eb1cfaf2d>subs\

tantial

> profits from vaccines mandated by government. "

>

> Hannah Bruesewitz was

>

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Fopenbook.php%3Frecord_id%3D9814%26page-R1 & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=brain\

+injured+by+DPT+ & index=6 & md5=ae1c253777f6d8220a340942792f1f3e>brain

> injured by DPT vaccine as a child but she was denied compensation by

> the U.S. Court of Claims, which administers the federal vaccine

> injury compensation program created by the 1986 Act that has

>

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ed & index=7 & md5=62fee06cb225a07cfeeedfa5112783d0>turned

>

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+two+out+of+three & index=8 & md5=9c8a97dd39ae84cf9000286d762e41bc>away

> two out of three plaintiffs. Her attorneys then sued in civil court,

> providing evidence that Wyeth-Lederle had the technology to produce a

> less reactive, purified pertussis vaccine but declined to do so.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a

>

$<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcare\

financenews.com%2Fnews%2Fglobal-vaccine-market-now-exceeds-20b & esheet=6622408 & la\

n=en-US & anchor=20+billion+dollar & index=9 & md5=71d8ef1844b98eec1fd8cfbf0facaff6>20

> billion dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be, "

> said Fisher. " This is a sad day for all Americans

>

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Vaccine-Laws%2Fstate-vaccine-requirements.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=f\

orced+by+law & index=10 & md5=c14ab9890afcebbb478c745414f8b52e>forced

> by law to use dozens of doses of vaccines or be barred from school or

> health insurance or employment. The only leverage left to American

> consumers to ensure that vaccines with the fewest health risks are

> produced is to oppose vaccine mandates and

>

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y.org & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=work+to+defend & index=11 & md5=0ad298df357aab\

52ced9855844bb984e>work

> to defendvaccine exemptions in all public health laws. "

>

> The National Vaccine Information Center is a non-profit charity

> founded in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public

> education. NVIC co-founders were responsible for inclusion of vaccine

> safety and research provisions in the 1986 Act, including

>

the<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medalert\

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> Adverse Events Reporting System, and for ensuring that the Act

> protected the right of those injured by vaccines to access the civil

> court system if they were turned down for compensation or offered too

> little to meet their lifetime medical care needs.

>

> NVIC has been

>

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nvic-archives%2Ftestimony%2Fcongresstestimonysept281999.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=\

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> of the

>

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& index=14 & md5=878c7fb4f1ca01ea6b3251a0a5f040a2>failure

> of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to

> implement the 1986 law in accordance with legislative language,

> history and congressional intent. For more information, go to

>

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C.org & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=www.NVIC.org & index=15 & md5=d3fb2d1052731c82\

07935bdcc708556e

>

[Guest guest]

I would love to understand this better. Sheri could you explain the comment

about Barbara more completely...the background exactly? The info below it is

difficult to extract an understanding.

Thanks

Liz

>

> I would remind all that Barbara Fisher was warned by many at the time

> to not sleep with the devil and help in setting up this Vaccine

> Injury Law which only would work against people (and now we have seen

> for the last few decades and this month the result of it)

> Sheri

>

> " NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.c\

om%2Fnews%2F2010-07-27%2Fmerck-paid-3-468-death-claims-to-resolve-vioxx-suits.ht\

ml & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=products%27+risks & index=4 & md5=f1fd4540b546943\

ce2cc31889da06974>products'

> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dddmag.com%\

2Fnews-Vaccine-Markets-A-Refuge-for-Big-Pharma-11311.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-\

US & anchor=substantial+profits+ & index=5 & md5=68169a847bad343ffa36782eb1cfaf2d>subs\

tantial

> profits from vaccines mandated by government. " "

> National Vaccine Information Center Cites " Betrayal " of Consumers by

> U.S. Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma

>

>

>

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/02/national-vaccine-information-center-cites-bet\

rayal-of-consumers-by-us-supreme-court-giving-.html

>

>

> February 23, 2011 08:03 AM Eastern Time

>

> WASHINGTON--(<http://eon.businesswire.com/>EON: Enhanced Online

> News)--The National Vaccine Information Center

>

(<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NVIC.org & e\

sheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=NVIC & index=1 & md5=e27e63307dd485509b685db2dee2d565\

>NVIC),

> whose co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood

> Vaccine Injury Act of 1986

>

(<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrsa.gov%2\

Fvaccinecompensation%2Fauthorizinglegislation.pdf & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & ancho\

r=PL-99-660 & index=2 & md5=21965fbc8d819c1e005178429c5fc671>PL-99-660),

> is calling yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court decision giving drug

> companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused

> by government mandated vaccines a " betrayal " of the American consumer.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a $20 billion

> dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be "

>

> In a

>

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t.gov%2Fopinions%2F10pdf%2F09-152.pdf & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=6-2+decisi\

on & index=3 & md5=8f25dd4f998d52a6982a7537dbf26c3d>6-2

> decision, the Court majority voted to reject substantial evidence in

> the Act's legislative history that the 99th Congress fully intended

> to protect an American's right to sue a pharmaceutical corporation

> for injuries that could have been prevented if the company had

> elected to make a safer vaccine.

>

> NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.c\

om%2Fnews%2F2010-07-27%2Fmerck-paid-3-468-death-claims-to-resolve-vioxx-suits.ht\

ml & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=products%27+risks & index=4 & md5=f1fd4540b546943\

ce2cc31889da06974>products'

> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dddmag.com%\

2Fnews-Vaccine-Markets-A-Refuge-for-Big-Pharma-11311.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-\

US & anchor=substantial+profits+ & index=5 & md5=68169a847bad343ffa36782eb1cfaf2d>subs\

tantial

> profits from vaccines mandated by government. "

>

> Hannah Bruesewitz was

>

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Fopenbook.php%3Frecord_id%3D9814%26page-R1 & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=brain\

+injured+by+DPT+ & index=6 & md5=ae1c253777f6d8220a340942792f1f3e>brain

> injured by DPT vaccine as a child but she was denied compensation by

> the U.S. Court of Claims, which administers the federal vaccine

> injury compensation program created by the 1986 Act that has

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrsa.gov%2F\

vaccinecompensation%2Fstatistics_report.htm & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=turn\

ed & index=7 & md5=62fee06cb225a07cfeeedfa5112783d0>turned

>

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+two+out+of+three & index=8 & md5=9c8a97dd39ae84cf9000286d762e41bc>away

> two out of three plaintiffs. Her attorneys then sued in civil court,

> providing evidence that Wyeth-Lederle had the technology to produce a

> less reactive, purified pertussis vaccine but declined to do so.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a

>

$<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcare\

financenews.com%2Fnews%2Fglobal-vaccine-market-now-exceeds-20b & esheet=6622408 & la\

n=en-US & anchor=20+billion+dollar & index=9 & md5=71d8ef1844b98eec1fd8cfbf0facaff6>20

> billion dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be, "

> said Fisher. " This is a sad day for all Americans

>

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Vaccine-Laws%2Fstate-vaccine-requirements.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=f\

orced+by+law & index=10 & md5=c14ab9890afcebbb478c745414f8b52e>forced

> by law to use dozens of doses of vaccines or be barred from school or

> health insurance or employment. The only leverage left to American

> consumers to ensure that vaccines with the fewest health risks are

> produced is to oppose vaccine mandates and

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NVICAdvocac\

y.org & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=work+to+defend & index=11 & md5=0ad298df357aab\

52ced9855844bb984e>work

> to defendvaccine exemptions in all public health laws. "

>

> The National Vaccine Information Center is a non-profit charity

> founded in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public

> education. NVIC co-founders were responsible for inclusion of vaccine

> safety and research provisions in the 1986 Act, including

>

the<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medalert\

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> Adverse Events Reporting System, and for ensuring that the Act

> protected the right of those injured by vaccines to access the civil

> court system if they were turned down for compensation or offered too

> little to meet their lifetime medical care needs.

>

> NVIC has been

>

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nvic-archives%2Ftestimony%2Fcongresstestimonysept281999.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=\

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& index=14 & md5=878c7fb4f1ca01ea6b3251a0a5f040a2>failure

> of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to

> implement the 1986 law in accordance with legislative language,

> history and congressional intent. For more information, go to

>

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C.org & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=www.NVIC.org & index=15 & md5=d3fb2d1052731c82\

07935bdcc708556e

>

[Guest guest]

I would love to understand this better. Sheri could you explain the comment

about Barbara more completely...the background exactly? The info below it is

difficult to extract an understanding.

Thanks

Liz

>

> I would remind all that Barbara Fisher was warned by many at the time

> to not sleep with the devil and help in setting up this Vaccine

> Injury Law which only would work against people (and now we have seen

> for the last few decades and this month the result of it)

> Sheri

>

> " NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.c\

om%2Fnews%2F2010-07-27%2Fmerck-paid-3-468-death-claims-to-resolve-vioxx-suits.ht\

ml & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=products%27+risks & index=4 & md5=f1fd4540b546943\

ce2cc31889da06974>products'

> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dddmag.com%\

2Fnews-Vaccine-Markets-A-Refuge-for-Big-Pharma-11311.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-\

US & anchor=substantial+profits+ & index=5 & md5=68169a847bad343ffa36782eb1cfaf2d>subs\

tantial

> profits from vaccines mandated by government. " "

> National Vaccine Information Center Cites " Betrayal " of Consumers by

> U.S. Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma

>

>

>

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/02/national-vaccine-information-center-cites-bet\

rayal-of-consumers-by-us-supreme-court-giving-.html

>

>

> February 23, 2011 08:03 AM Eastern Time

>

> WASHINGTON--(<http://eon.businesswire.com/>EON: Enhanced Online

> News)--The National Vaccine Information Center

>

(<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NVIC.org & e\

sheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=NVIC & index=1 & md5=e27e63307dd485509b685db2dee2d565\

>NVIC),

> whose co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood

> Vaccine Injury Act of 1986

>

(<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrsa.gov%2\

Fvaccinecompensation%2Fauthorizinglegislation.pdf & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & ancho\

r=PL-99-660 & index=2 & md5=21965fbc8d819c1e005178429c5fc671>PL-99-660),

> is calling yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court decision giving drug

> companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused

> by government mandated vaccines a " betrayal " of the American consumer.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a $20 billion

> dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be "

>

> In a

>

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t.gov%2Fopinions%2F10pdf%2F09-152.pdf & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=6-2+decisi\

on & index=3 & md5=8f25dd4f998d52a6982a7537dbf26c3d>6-2

> decision, the Court majority voted to reject substantial evidence in

> the Act's legislative history that the 99th Congress fully intended

> to protect an American's right to sue a pharmaceutical corporation

> for injuries that could have been prevented if the company had

> elected to make a safer vaccine.

>

> NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

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> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

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> profits from vaccines mandated by government. "

>

> Hannah Bruesewitz was

>

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> injured by DPT vaccine as a child but she was denied compensation by

> the U.S. Court of Claims, which administers the federal vaccine

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>

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>

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> two out of three plaintiffs. Her attorneys then sued in civil court,

> providing evidence that Wyeth-Lederle had the technology to produce a

> less reactive, purified pertussis vaccine but declined to do so.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a

>

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> billion dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be, "

> said Fisher. " This is a sad day for all Americans

>

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> by law to use dozens of doses of vaccines or be barred from school or

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> consumers to ensure that vaccines with the fewest health risks are

> produced is to oppose vaccine mandates and

>

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> to defendvaccine exemptions in all public health laws. "

>

> The National Vaccine Information Center is a non-profit charity

> founded in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public

> education. NVIC co-founders were responsible for inclusion of vaccine

> safety and research provisions in the 1986 Act, including

>

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> Adverse Events Reporting System, and for ensuring that the Act

> protected the right of those injured by vaccines to access the civil

> court system if they were turned down for compensation or offered too

> little to meet their lifetime medical care needs.

>

> NVIC has been

>

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> of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to

> implement the 1986 law in accordance with legislative language,

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>

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>

[Guest guest]

I would love to understand this better. Sheri could you explain the comment

about Barbara more completely...the background exactly? The info below it is

difficult to extract an understanding.

Thanks

Liz

>

> I would remind all that Barbara Fisher was warned by many at the time

> to not sleep with the devil and help in setting up this Vaccine

> Injury Law which only would work against people (and now we have seen

> for the last few decades and this month the result of it)

> Sheri

>

> " NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

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ml & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=products%27+risks & index=4 & md5=f1fd4540b546943\

ce2cc31889da06974>products'

> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

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US & anchor=substantial+profits+ & index=5 & md5=68169a847bad343ffa36782eb1cfaf2d>subs\

tantial

> profits from vaccines mandated by government. " "

> National Vaccine Information Center Cites " Betrayal " of Consumers by

> U.S. Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma

>

>

>

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/02/national-vaccine-information-center-cites-bet\

rayal-of-consumers-by-us-supreme-court-giving-.html

>

>

> February 23, 2011 08:03 AM Eastern Time

>

> WASHINGTON--(<http://eon.businesswire.com/>EON: Enhanced Online

> News)--The National Vaccine Information Center

>

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>NVIC),

> whose co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood

> Vaccine Injury Act of 1986

>

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> is calling yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court decision giving drug

> companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused

> by government mandated vaccines a " betrayal " of the American consumer.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a $20 billion

> dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be "

>

> In a

>

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on & index=3 & md5=8f25dd4f998d52a6982a7537dbf26c3d>6-2

> decision, the Court majority voted to reject substantial evidence in

> the Act's legislative history that the 99th Congress fully intended

> to protect an American's right to sue a pharmaceutical corporation

> for injuries that could have been prevented if the company had

> elected to make a safer vaccine.

>

> NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said " Parents of

> vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in

> the early 1980's on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American

> judges, who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine

> injury under the bus in order to give complete liability protection

> to a wealthy industry with a long history of hiding their

>

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ce2cc31889da06974>products'

> risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised. If we had

> known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

> federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug

> corporations now making

>

<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dddmag.com%\

2Fnews-Vaccine-Markets-A-Refuge-for-Big-Pharma-11311.aspx & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-\

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tantial

> profits from vaccines mandated by government. "

>

> Hannah Bruesewitz was

>

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> injured by DPT vaccine as a child but she was denied compensation by

> the U.S. Court of Claims, which administers the federal vaccine

> injury compensation program created by the 1986 Act that has

>

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>

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> two out of three plaintiffs. Her attorneys then sued in civil court,

> providing evidence that Wyeth-Lederle had the technology to produce a

> less reactive, purified pertussis vaccine but declined to do so.

>

> " The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

> multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a

>

$<http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcare\

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> said Fisher. " This is a sad day for all Americans

>

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> by law to use dozens of doses of vaccines or be barred from school or

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> consumers to ensure that vaccines with the fewest health risks are

> produced is to oppose vaccine mandates and

>

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52ced9855844bb984e>work

> to defendvaccine exemptions in all public health laws. "

>

> The National Vaccine Information Center is a non-profit charity

> founded in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public

> education. NVIC co-founders were responsible for inclusion of vaccine

> safety and research provisions in the 1986 Act, including

>

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> protected the right of those injured by vaccines to access the civil

> court system if they were turned down for compensation or offered too

> little to meet their lifetime medical care needs.

>

> NVIC has been

>

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> implement the 1986 law in accordance with legislative language,

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>

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