ACTION ALERT, DC MEETING ON VACCINES/AUTISM

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Rep. Carol Maloney, one of the Good Guys who has been advocating for

our kids for years, is holding a meeting in DC tomorrow regarding

vaccines and autism.

Our Senators and Rep. are not yet committed to attending or sending a

staffer according to the latest RVSPs on Age of Autism. I encourage

you STRONGLY to email or call their offices.It only takes a few

minutes -- there are many distractions with the budget bailout and

hurricane but this is so important. If time is short, just say " I

respectfully request that Sen. ______ or Rep. _____ attend or send a

representative to Rep. Carol Maloney's meeting tomorrow regarding

vaccines and autism.

Below are emails to two schedulers for Hutchison and , and

Cornyn's phone number (they wouldn't give me an email address).

Here are the details if they ask:

Wednesday, September 24 at 2:00 PM

210 Cannon House Office Building

Independence Avenue, Washington, DC.FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Kay -Hutchison scheduler@...

Cornyn would not give scheduler e-mail, CALL!! 1-

Ron jennifer.bailey@...

Below is my letter, hastily prepared so not perfect, but feel free to

use any wording you want -- but you know what you want to say,

Regards,

As a constituent knowledgeable about autism and the mother of two

children with autism spectrum disorders, I noted with concern that

your office has not committed to attending Rep. Carol Maloney's

meeting tomorrow regarding vaccines and autism.

This is perhaps the most critical and contentious healthcare debate

of our time. A CDC study published one year ago established

prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders as one in 150 children. This

is a six year old study, on eight year old children, so this birth

cohort is now 14 years old, and today's numbers are likely much

higher. Of 50,000 students in our school district, 620 are

identified with ASD's, more than 1 percent, and that does not include

children who are homeschooled or not " in the system " .

Strictly heritable diseases do NOT explode in prevalence, as

Insel, M. D., director of the National Institutes of Mental Health

reported at the National Autism Conference in 2007. There simply

must be environmental contributors to the autism explosion and the

complex interactions between individual immune system status and the

most aggressive vaccination schedule in the world are not at all well

understood.

The news reports in the popular press and the information provided by

pharmaceutical lobbyists, and even the conflicted CDC, do not

accurately represent the evidence regarding a link between vaccines

(including costituents of vaccines as well as the overall schedule)

and autism.

I strongly and respectfully encourage you to attend this meeting or

send a representative to hear the concerns set forth by Rep. Maloney

and thousands of Texas parents who believe this is far from a closed

case, and the most important debate of our time.

Regards,