United Methodist Church Passes Resolution Against Mercury in Medicine

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United

Methodist Church Passes Resolution Against Mercury In Medicine

In A First – Faith Community Takes Historic

Position Opposing Mercury in Medicines & Vaccines

United Methodist Church

Passes Resolution

Against Mercury in Medicine

Press

Release

Contacts:

For Immediate

Release CoMeD President [The Rev. K. Sykes (Richmond, VA)

]

April 29, 2008

CoMeD Sci. Advisor [Dr. G. King (Lake Hiawatha, NJ)

]

With

passage of a historic resolution today at its 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist

Church has become the

first faith community to officially oppose the use of mercury, in any form,

including Thimerosal, in medicines, especially vaccines.

Beginning

in 2005, several United Methodist Annual Conferences and its Women's Division,

an organization of nearly 1 million women globally, passed a resolution

entitled, " Protecting Children from Mercury-containing Drugs. " Today,

the validity of this urgent issue was further affirmed by the General

Conference of the United

Methodist Church,

which speaks authoritatively for the denomination's 11.5 million members

worldwide.

This

faith-based resolution, passed April 29, 2008, is a challenge to the current

acceptance of mercury in medicine by the U.S. Government, the American Medical

Association, the American

Academy of Pediatrics,

and the vaccine manufacturers.

Among its

provisions, the resolution seeks: the immediate prioritization of mercury-free

vaccines and other drugs for vulnerable children and pregnant women, the

opportunity of informed consent whenever mercury is administered as part of a

pharmaceutical product, and a ban of mercury-containing drugs. The complete

text and details of the resolution's passage may be found at http://calms.umc.org/2008/Menu.aspx?type=Petition & mod...

In

addition, the resolution calls for United Methodist hospitals, clinics, and

missions around the world to express a preference for mercury-free vaccines and

other medicines. This is crucial because most of the Thimerosal-containing

vaccines sent to the developing world still contain unreduced levels of

mercury, as do most flu shots, and some other vaccines and drugs in the United States.

The Rev.

K. Sykes, President of CoMeD, Inc, mother of a mercury-toxic child and a

United Methodist clergywoman who has helped to shepherd this activist movement

within The United Methodist Church, declared:

" This is the start of a Second Great Temperance

Movement. More than a hundred years ago, our church fought widespread alcohol

intoxication. With this resolution, we begin to fight widespread and, until

now, unrecognized mercury intoxication from unsafe mercury-containing

medicines. "

CoMeD, Inc.

is a not-for-profit 501©(3) corporation actively engaged in legal,

educational and scientific efforts to stop all use of mercury in medicine, and

to ban the use of all existing in-date mercury-containing medicines. To support

CoMeD's efforts financially, please use the PayPal link on CoMeD's website, http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org ,

for your tax-deductible contributions.

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