National Vaccine Information Center Cites “Betrayal” of Consumers by U.S. Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma

[Guest guest]

I would remind all that Barbara Fisher was warned by many at the time to

not sleep with the devil and help in setting up this Vaccine Injury Law

which only would work against people (and now we have seen for the last

few decades and this month the result of it)

Sheri

" NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said “Parents of

vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in the

early 1980’s on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American judges,

who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine injury

under the bus in order to give complete liability protection to a wealthy

industry with a long history of hiding their

products’ risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised.

If we had known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug corporations

now making

substantial profits from vaccines mandated by government.”

"

National Vaccine Information Center Cites “Betrayal” of Consumers by U.S.

Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/02/national-vaccine-information-center-cites-betrayal-of-consumers-by-us-supreme-court-giving-.html

February 23, 2011 08:03 AM Eastern Time

WASHINGTON--(EON: Enhanced Online

News)--The National Vaccine Information Center

(

NVIC), whose co-founders worked with Congress on the National

Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986

(

PL-99-660), is calling yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision giving

drug companies total liability protection for injuries and deaths caused

by government mandated vaccines a “betrayal” of the American

consumer.

“The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a $20 billion

dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be”

In a

6-2 decision, the Court majority voted to reject substantial evidence

in the Act’s legislative history that the 99th Congress fully

intended to protect an American’s right to sue a pharmaceutical

corporation for injuries that could have been prevented if the company

had elected to make a safer vaccine.

NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher, said “Parents of

vaccine injured children, who worked in good faith with Congress in the

early 1980’s on the 1986 law, have been betrayed by six American judges,

who ignored congressional intent and threw victims of vaccine injury

under the bus in order to give complete liability protection to a wealthy

industry with a long history of hiding their

products’ risks. They have removed the safety net we were promised.

If we had known this day would come, we would have vigorously opposed any

federal legislation that limited civil liability for drug corporations

now making

substantial profits from vaccines mandated by government.”

Hannah Bruesewitz was

brain injured by DPT vaccine as a child but she was denied

compensation by the U.S. Court of Claims, which administers the federal

vaccine injury compensation program created by the 1986 Act that has

turned

away two out of three plaintiffs. Her attorneys then sued in civil

court, providing evidence that Wyeth-Lederle had the technology to

produce a less reactive, purified pertussis vaccine but declined to do

so.

“The U.S. Supreme Court has removed all financial incentive for

multi-national pharmaceutical corporations, which enjoy a

$

20 billion dollar business, to make vaccines as safe as they can be,”

said Fisher. “This is a sad day for all Americans

forced by law to use dozens of doses of vaccines or be barred from

school or health insurance or employment. The only leverage left to

American consumers to ensure that vaccines with the fewest health risks

are produced is to oppose vaccine mandates and

work to defendvaccine exemptions in all public health laws.”

The National Vaccine Information Center is a non-profit charity founded

in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education.

NVIC co-founders were responsible for inclusion of vaccine safety and

research provisions in the 1986 Act, including

the

Vaccine

Adverse Events Reporting System, and for ensuring that the Act

protected the right of those injured by vaccines to access the civil

court system if they were turned down for compensation or offered too

little to meet their lifetime medical care needs.

NVIC has been

critical of the

failure of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human

Services to implement the 1986 law in accordance with legislative

language, history and congressional intent. For more information, go to

http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.NVIC.org & esheet=6622408 & lan=en-US & anchor=www.NVIC.org & index=15 & md5=d3fb2d1052731c8207935bdcc708556e