Fw: Representative Roy Blunt responds to 's Email!

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From: " (by way of ilena rose) " <s_laliberte_2001@...>

Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 12:47 PM

Subject: Representative Roy Blunt responds to 's Email!

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> From: Blunt Public Mail <Blunt@...>

> " ' ' " <s_laliberte_2001@...>

> Subject: RE: breast implants

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> Thanks for your words of encouragement. I believed in the need for the

> bill when I filed it and nothing that Mentor has said changes my mind.

> Thanks for sharing your experience. There are many other women who let me

> know of the problems they've faced with implants. I am working to get

this

> bill before Congress.

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> Roy

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> -----Original Message----- From:

> [<mailto:s_laliberte_2001@... " >mailto:s_laliberte_2001@...]

> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 11:11 PM Blunt Public Mail Subject:

> breast implants

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> Dear Congressman Blunt,

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> My name is laliberte, I have read the recent testimony from Mentor,

> I would like to tell you I have had silicone and saline implants in since

> my mastectomy in 1989 at the age of 28. To date I have had 17 operations

> and have been diagnosed with multiple problems the latest being multiple

> sclerosis and now on beta seron injections. My neuro believes the silicone

> was one of the major reasons for my gettting the MS. Mentor would like to

> have you believe that all those studies they sited clear the implants

> safety that could not be further from the truth.

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> Not one of those studies once stated implants were safe.

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> I am sending to you a site where all my photos are on there, it is very

> visible what happened, this did not happen because I am a hysterical woman

> or a woman with psychiatric problems it happened because of the unsafe

> implants.

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> Please feel free to use my photos, I realize I am from Canada but to me

> this is a world wide problem and affects all women. I hope this bill will

> be passed, if only the risks had of been told to me back in 1989 I would

> never of opted fro reconstructive surgery.

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> Sincerely, Laliberte

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> Note from Ilena: Here is the entire transcript (must be on one line, no

> breaks)

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http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_house_hearings

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