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Take Action: 1 in 88 Press Conference, NYC--Feds, Wake Up!

Take Action: 1 in 88--Feds: Wake up!Take Action!Press Conference in NYC on Monday Autism Rate Now 1 in 88, 1 in 54 Boys; What Will it Take for the Feds to Act? “When will the federal health authorities wake up? Will it be 1 in 25? 1 in 10? How many children have to suffer from autism to call this an emergency?†New York, NY, March 29, 2012

– Grassroots autism advocacy organizations representing over 100,000 autism families will hold a press conference Monday, April 2, 2012, World Autism Day, at 11:00 at Hilton Manhattan

East, 304 East 42nd St., to push for official recognition of autism as a national public health emergency and to analyze the federal health authorities’ ongoing failure to respond.Please email a copy of this press release to your Senators, Member of the House and President Obama by clicking on the Take Action link above. And please share this email with friends and family and please post to Facebook and other social networks. And if you support the work of the Autism Action Network please make a donation at www.autismactionnetwork.org/donation.htmlThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced new prevalence rates among 8-year-olds from 2008 as 1 in 88 children and 1 in 54 boys. “These numbers are staggering,†said

, daughter of Autism Speaks co-founders Bob and Suzanne and board member of the National Autism Association. “When will the federal health authorities wake

up? Will it be 1 in 25? 1 in 10? How many children have to suffer from autism to call this an emergency?†Recent research from Stanford University conclusively shows that environmental triggers account for most cases of autism, not genetic predisposition. “Parents have been calling on the NIH to study environmental factors for decades, but almost all the money has gone into genetic studies. No matter how high the autism rate soars, the CDC’s continued denial of an autism epidemic is certitude comparable to death and taxes,†said Mark Blaxill, Editor-at-Large of Age of Autism web-based newspaper.These advocacy groups believe that ongoing government research appears to be driven by corporations that fear being implicated

in any environmental relationship with the autism epidemic, and believe that these apparent conflicts of interest must be exposed.The organizations call for three urgent action

steps:1. Secretary Sebelius should declare a national health emergency and order the NIH and CDC to shift their research focus to prevention efforts, especially investigation of long overlooked environmental factors.2. The Government Accounting Office should initiate a study of past research funding that has ignored environmental causes. We need to understand whether this was the result of lobbying to avoid possible liability that might be uncovered with examination of environmental triggers.3. The U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee should initiate promised hearings as soon as possible on the failure of federal health agencies in appropriately responding to

this epidemic. It has been about ten years since this Committee examined the role of the federal authorities in the autism epidemic. We can think of no other instance of any

comparable epidemic that has gone on so long without Congressional oversight. Grassroots organizations represented at the press conference: Age of Autism, AutismOne, Autism Action Network, Autism File, The Canary Party, Center for Personal Rights, The Coalition for Safe Minds, Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy, Focus Autism, National Autism Association, Talk About Curing Autism.Contacts:Barbara Fischkin Barbara@...Rebecca Estepp rebecca.estepp@... Press conference: Monday, April 2, 11:00 a.m. Hilton Manhattan East 304 East 42nd St. New York, NY

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smart, hard working and persistent parents, family members and physicians

fighting for a cause so important to all of us. I believe they got good press

coverage today.

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Press Conference in NYC on Monday

 

Autism Rate Now 1 in 88, 1 in 54 Boys; What Will it Take for the Feds to Act?  

" When will the federal health authorities wake up?  Will it be 1 in 25? 1 in 10?

How many children have to suffer from autism to call this an emergency? "    

New York, NY, March 29, 2012 - Grassroots autism advocacy organizations

representing over 100,000 autism families will hold a press conference Monday,

April 2, 2012, World Autism Day, at 11:00 at Hilton Manhattan East, 304 East

42nd St., to push for official recognition of autism as a national public health

emergency and to analyze the federal health authorities' ongoing failure to

respond.

Please email a copy of this press release to your Senators, Member of the House

and President Obama by clicking on the Take Action link above. And please share

this email with friends and family and please post to Facebook and other social

networks. And if you support the work of the Autism Action Network please make a

donation at www.autismactionnetwork.org/donation.html

http://www.autismactionnetwork.org/donation.html>

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced new prevalence

rates among 8-year-olds from 2008 as 1 in 88 children and 1 in 54 boys.  " These

numbers are staggering, " said , daughter of Autism Speaks

co-founders Bob and Suzanne and board member of the National Autism

Association.  " When will the federal health authorities wake up?  Will it be 1

in 25? 1 in 10? How many children have to suffer from autism to call this an

emergency? " Recent research from Stanford University conclusively shows that

environmental triggers account for most cases of autism, not genetic

predisposition. 

" Parents have been calling on the NIH to study environmental factors for

decades, but almost all the money has gone into genetic studies.  No matter how

high the autism rate soars, the CDC's continued denial of an autism epidemic is

certitude comparable to death and taxes, " said Mark Blaxill, Editor-at-Large of

Age of Autism web-based newspaper.

These advocacy groups believe that ongoing government research appears to be

driven by corporations that fear being implicated in any environmental

relationship with the autism epidemic, and believe that these apparent conflicts

of interest must be exposed.

The organizations call for three urgent action steps:

1. Secretary Sebelius should declare a national health emergency and order the

NIH and CDC to shift their research focus to prevention efforts, especially

investigation of long overlooked environmental factors.

2.      The Government Accounting Office should initiate a study of past

research funding that has ignored environmental causes.  We need to understand

whether this was the result of lobbying to avoid possible liability that might

be uncovered with examination of environmental triggers.

3.      The U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee should

initiate promised hearings as soon as possible on the failure of federal health

agencies in appropriately responding to this epidemic. It has been about ten

years since this Committee examined the role of the federal authorities in the

autism epidemic. 

We can think of no other instance of any comparable epidemic that has gone on so

long without Congressional oversight. Grassroots organizations represented at

the press conference: Age of Autism, AutismOne, Autism Action Network, Autism

File, The Canary Party, Center for Personal Rights, The Coalition for Safe

Minds, Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy, Focus Autism, National

Autism Association, Talk About Curing Autism.

Contacts:

Barbara Fischkin Barbara@...

Estepp rebecca.estepp@...  

Press conference: Monday, April 2, 11:00 a.m. Hilton Manhattan East 304 East

42nd St. New York, NY

 

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I was just in NY/ NjJ fir five days and there is info on autism everywhere. Every school I passed had a board with Lught Up For Autism on it in big letters and signs everywhere about April being Autusm Awareness Month as well as families doing private fundraisers for the Autism Soeaks walks. There were tons of restaurants with gluten free choices on the menu as well as many events set up for peoole with autism throughout the next three months.Sent from my Samsung Epicâ„¢ 4G Renata on wrote:Thanks for sending this. I was in NYC and was able to attend. Always good to see smart, hard working and persistent parents, family members and physicians fighting for a cause so important to all of us. I believe they got good press coverage today.Sent via BlackBerry by AT & T Take Action: 1 in 88 Press Conference, NYC--Feds, Wake Up! Take Action: 1 in 88 Press Conference, NYC--Feds, Wake Up! Take Action: 1 in 88--Feds: Wake up! <http://capwiz.com/a-champ/utr/1/HDCZROKFYK/JFIYROKGDU/8118385086> Take & nbsp;Action! <http://capwiz.com/a-champ/utr/1/HDCZROKFYK/JFIYROKGDU/8118385086> Press Conference in NYC on Monday Autism Rate Now 1 in 88, 1 in 54 Boys; What Will it Take for the Feds to Act? "When will the federal health authorities wake up? Will it be 1 in 25? 1 in 10? How many children have to suffer from autism to call this an emergency?" New York, NY, March 29, 2012 - Grassroots autism advocacy organizations representing over 100,000 autism families will hold a press conference Monday, April 2, 2012, World Autism Day, at 11:00 at Hilton Manhattan East, 304 East 42nd St., to push for official recognition of autism as a national public health emergency and to analyze the federal health authorities' ongoing failure to respond.Please email a copy of this press release to your Senators, Member of the House and President Obama by clicking on the Take Action link above. And please share this email with friends and family and please post to Facebook and other social networks. And if you support the work of the Autism Action Network please make a donation at www.autismactionnetwork.org/donation.html <http://www.autismactionnetwork.org/donation.html> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced new prevalence rates among 8-year-olds from 2008 as 1 in 88 children and 1 in 54 boys. "These numbers are staggering," said , daughter of Autism Speaks co-founders Bob and Suzanne and board member of the National Autism Association. "When will the federal health authorities wake up? Will it be 1 in 25? 1 in 10? How many children have to suffer from autism to call this an emergency?" Recent research from Stanford University conclusively shows that environmental triggers account for most cases of autism, not genetic predisposition. "Parents have been calling on the NIH to study environmental factors for decades, but almost all the money has gone into genetic studies. No matter how high the autism rate soars, the CDC's continued denial of an autism epidemic is certitude comparable to death and taxes," said Mark Blaxill, Editor-at-Large of Age of Autism web-based newspaper.These advocacy groups believe that ongoing government research appears to be driven by corporations that fear being implicated in any environmental relationship with the autism epidemic, and believe that these apparent conflicts of interest must be exposed.The organizations call for three urgent action steps:1. Secretary Sebelius should declare a national health emergency and order the NIH and CDC to shift their research focus to prevention efforts, especially investigation of long overlooked environmental factors.2. The Government Accounting Office should initiate a study of past research funding that has ignored environmental causes. We need to understand whether this was the result of lobbying to avoid possible liability that might be uncovered with examination of environmental triggers.3. The U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee should initiate promised hearings as soon as possible on the failure of federal health agencies in appropriately responding to this epidemic. It has been about ten years since this Committee examined the role of the federal authorities in the autism epidemic. We can think of no other instance of any comparable epidemic that has gone on so long without Congressional oversight. Grassroots organizations represented at the press conference: Age of Autism, AutismOne, Autism Action Network, Autism File, The Canary Party, Center for Personal Rights, The Coalition for Safe Minds, Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy, Focus Autism, National Autism Association, Talk About Curing Autism.Contacts:Barbara Fischkin Barbara@...Rebecca Estepp rebecca.estepp@... Press conference: Monday, April 2, 11:00 a.m. Hilton Manhattan East 304 East 42nd St. New York, NY If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from us, please click here <http://capwiz.com/a-champ/lmx/u/?jobid=208560830 & amp;queueid=8118385086> . <http://capwiz.com/a-champ/utr/i1/HDCZROKFYK/8118385086/img/capwizlogo.gif> ------------------------------------