A-CHAMP Action Alert Regarding Hilary Clinton (for or against her)

February 27, 2008

Ask Hillary to Answer the A-CHAMP questionnaire, Take Action!

, Biden and Obama have.

We have been sending copies of our autism issues questionnaire since

the beginning of December to the Clinton campaign but have not yet

received a response. We have obtained responses from Senators Biden,

and Obama and have posted those responses on our website

(www.a-champ.org). Hopefully, we will receive Senator Clinton's

response before next Tuesday when the Democratic Party nomination

will probably be determined. Copies of the candidates responses have

been shared throughout the autism community through extensive

mailings, online networks and publications.

Here are our questions:

1. Will you fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education

Act?

2. Do you believe that the Combating Autism Act provides enough money

to find the cause, or causes, of autism and effective treatments?

3. How much funding will you request to study potential environmental

triggers of autism?

4. Do you believe there is an autism epidemic in the United States?

5. What will you do to stop health insurers from discriminating

against people with autism and their families?

6. What will you do to assure that health insurers pay for promising

new treatments and behavioral therapy?

7. Do you think vaccines should be investigated as a possible cause

of autism?

8. What will you do to protect Americans, especially young children

and pregnant women, from exposure to mercury through vaccines?

9. What will you do to provide for the lifetime care that 250,000 to

500,000 current children with autism will need in the future?

10. Would you support a large-scale federal study of the differences

in health outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups?

11. Would you support a federal right for families and individuals to

choose for themselves which vaccines they will use?

12. Are you satisfied that the federal vaccine approval process is

free of conflicts of interests, transparent and rigorous?

13. Do you support the creation of an independent agency (separate

from CDC) with authority to oversee and regulate vaccine safety?

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