A-CHAMP: Parents Are Not Shouting Loud Enough to Stop The Giveaway to Drug Companies

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URGENT ACTION NEEDED !!!

The A-CHAMP/Eagle Forum  'Open Letter to Congress' is scheduled to run

as a full page ad tomorrow in The Washington Times.

You can see the Open Letter to Congress here and here:    

http://www.a-champ.org/

For a pdf file of the Washington Times ad go here:

http://www.sarnet.org/lib/EagleAchamp.pdf 

Our friends in Congress are working hard to convince their colleagues

to remove the liability language but some members have informed us that

they are not hearing a big response from the public.

We know many of you have sent messages and for that we thank you. 

This is an especially critical  time,  however, and we need to ask

everyone to call, fax and send another message through the A-CHAMP

messaging system.

You can send a message in seconds by clicking here or going to this url:

http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=8308931 & type=ML 

Please forward this message to everyone you know and ask them to take a

few minutes to help us protect the rights of all Americans and to

answer this 'Call to Action'.  We know that members track the phone

calls on each issue. Please ask every member of your family to

participate in this effort. Let's flood those office tomorrow and

remind our representatives in Congress that they were elected to serve

the people.

Thank you,

Your A-CHAMP legislative team.

 

Sample Letter and telephone and fax numbers of key United States

Senators: 

Dear  _________:

I respectfully request that you act to protect the rights of

vaccine-injured children by opposing the unfair liability immunity

giveaway proposed for drug companies.

There are ten or more bills pending in Congress that contain language

that severely limits the rights of children injured by vaccines. I am

shocked to learn that one of these provisions may be slipped into

proposed legislation – the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill

Conference Report - in a manner similar to the provisions snuck in the

dead of night into the Homeland Security bill in 2002. If any of these

provisions is enacted, a vaccine-injured child's right to have his or

her day in court will be unnecessarily and unfairly taken away.

Enactment of this legislation will be a dark day for the tradition of

fair play and equity in the American justice system, not to mention

that such action will violate the Seventh Amendment’s preservation of

every American’s right to a jury trial.

As a voter who cares deeply about children injured by vaccines, I

oppose legislation that will provide unprecedented immunity to a

vaccine industry that has caused tragic injury to some children. Such

liability protection is unnecessary. There has been minimal number of

vaccine lawsuits over the past 30 years - current laws adequately

protect vaccine manufacturers. The apparent lack of vaccine

manufacturing capacity in our country is not due to lawsuits but to

other causes, such as the consolidation of pharmaceutical industry via

merger and market factors that pose economic barriers to vaccine

production. Liability concerns have little to do with vaccine

manufacturing problems — eminent public health experts like the NIH’s

Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walter Orenstein, formerly of the CDC’s

National Immunization Program, have said so. Liability is not the

problem.

In addition, representatives of biotechnology companies have through

the use of the latest technology that eliminates dangerous protein

contaminants vaccines can be produced more safely than through the

methods used by the major drug companies.  These biotech companies say

that they do not need liability protection in order to move ahead to

manufacture the new generation of safe vaccines. Biotech firms using

new technology have sufficiently high confidence in the safety of their

product that they are not worried about lawsuits.

I urge you to place the interests of injured children above those of

the pharmaceutical industry.  Along with many of voters across the

country, I am deeply concerned that should unnecessary liability

protection be enacted vaccine manufacturers will cease to have an

incentive to make their products safe.  Lack of vaccine safety

endangers all Americans.

Please act to protect Americans and ensure that safety is our vaccine

program's highest priority.

Sincerely,

 _____________

 CALL ALL of these Senators (and one House Member) ASAP!!!

 Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman) Phone: (202) 224-5054  Fax:

(202) 224-9450

 Senator Ted s (AK) Phone: (202) 224-3004  Fax:(202) 224-2354

 Senator Arlen Specter (PA) Phone: 202-224-4254  Fax: 202-228-1229

 Senator Pete Domenici (NM) Phone: (202) 224-6621  Fax: (202) 228-3261

 Senator Bond (MO) Phone: (202) 224-5721 Fax: (202)

224-8149

 Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: (202) 224-2541  Fax: (202)

224-2499

 Senator Shelby (AL) Phone: (202) 224-5744  Fax: (202) 224-3416

 Senator Judd Gregg (NH) Phone: (202) 224 – 3324 Fax: (202) 224 - 4952

 Senator Kay Hutchison (TX) Phone: 202-224-5922  Fax:

202-224-0776

 Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: 202-224-2644  Fax: 202-224-8594

 Senator Inouye (Ranking Member) (HI) Phone: 202-224-3934 Fax:

202-224-6747

 Senator C. Byrd (WV) Phone: 202-224-3954  Fax: 202-228-0002

 Senator Leahy (VT) Phone:  202-224-4242   Fax: 202-224-3479

 Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Phone: (202) 224-3254 Fax: (202) 224-9369

 Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) Phone: 202-224-2551 Fax: 202-224-1193

 Senator Durbin (IL) Phone: (202) 224-2152  Fax: (202) 228-0400

 Senator Harry Reid (NV)  Phone: 202-224-3542  Fax: 202-224-7327

 Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA)  Phone: (202) 224-3841   Fax: (202)

228-3954

 Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD) Phone:  202-224-4654 Fax: 202-224-8858

 Senator Kennedy (MA)  Phone: 202-224-4543 Fax: 202-224-2417

 Senator Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: 202-224-5344 Fax: 202-224-1946

 Senator (ME) Phone: 202-224-2523  Fax: 202-224-2693

 Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI) Phone: 202-224-4822 Fax: 202-228-0325

 Senator Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Phone: 202-224-2921 Fax: 202-228-2853

 Senator McCain (AZ) Phone: 202-224-2235 Fax:  202-228-2862

 Senator Graham DC Phone:  202-224-5972 Fax: 202-224-3808

 

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