ACTION ALERT: Parents Are Not Shouting Loud Enough to Stop The Giveaway to Drug Companies

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My letter: As the parent of a child injured by thimerosal in her mandated vaccines, and as a special education teacher and union member, I cannot believe that issues of liability are even being discussed. If someone is injured by a vaccine/medical product, there should be compensation, or people will not trust their government. As a result, the vaccine program will never survive. As it is, parents are more concerned than ever when our government health agencies,Congress, and Administration are more concerned with pharmaceutical needs than its

citizens. In 2005, the most looked-up word in the dictionary was "integrity", and I think it's because it has become extinct. Please bring it back. Sincerely, ConrickTake Action!<http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=8308931 & type=ML> URGENT ACTION NEEDED !!!The A-CHAMP/Eagle Forum 'Open Letter to Congress' is scheduled to run as afull page ad tomorrow in The Washington Times. Your can see the Open Letterto Congress here <http://www.a-champ.org/> 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> :http://www.sarnet.org/lib/EagleAchamp.pdf Our friends in Congress are working hard to convince their colleagues toremove the liability language but some members have informed us that theyare not hearing a big response from the public. We know many of you have sent messages and for that we thank you. This isan 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<http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=8308931 & type=ML> or goingto this url<http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=8308931 & type=ML> :http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=8308931<http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=8308931 & type=ML> & type=ML Please forward this message to everyone you know and ask them to take a fewminutes 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'sflood those office tomorrow and remind our representatives in Congress thatthey 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-injuredchildren by opposing the unfair liability immunity giveaway proposed fordrug companies.There are ten or more bills pending in Congress that contain language thatseverely limits the rights of children injured by vaccines. I am shocked tolearn that one of these provisions may be slipped into proposed legislation- the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill Conference Report - in amanner similar to the provisions snuck in the dead of night into theHomeland Security bill in 2002. If any of these provisions is enacted, avaccine-injured child's right to have his or her day in court will beunnecessarily and unfairly taken away. Enactment of this legislation will bea dark day for the tradition of fair play and equity in the American justicesystem, not to mention that such action will violate the Seventh Amendment'spreservation of every American's right to a jury trial.As a voter who cares deeply about children

injured by vaccines, I opposelegislation that will provide unprecedented immunity to a vaccine industrythat has caused tragic injury to some children. Such liability protection isunnecessary. There has been minimal number of vaccine lawsuits over the past30 years - current laws adequately protect vaccine manufacturers. Theapparent lack of vaccine manufacturing capacity in our country is not due tolawsuits but to other causes, such as the consolidation of pharmaceuticalindustry via merger and market factors that pose economic barriers tovaccine production. Liability concerns have little to do with vaccinemanufacturing problems - eminent public health experts like the NIH's Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walter Orenstein, formerly of the CDC's NationalImmunization Program, have said so. Liability is not the problem.In addition, representatives of biotechnology companies have through the useof the latest technology that eliminates

dangerous protein contaminantsvaccines can be produced more safely than through the methods used by themajor drug companies. These biotech companies say that they do not needliability protection in order to move ahead to manufacture the newgeneration of safe vaccines. Biotech firms using new technology havesufficiently high confidence in the safety of their product that they arenot worried about lawsuits.I urge you to place the interests of injured children above those of thepharmaceutical industry. Along with many of voters across the country, I amdeeply concerned that should unnecessary liability protection be enactedvaccine manufacturers will cease to have an incentive to make their productssafe. Lack of vaccine safety endangers all Americans.Please act to protect Americans and ensure that safety is our vaccineprogram'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)224-9450Senator Ted s (AK) Phone: (202) 224-3004 Fax:(202) 224-2354 Senator Arlen Specter (PA) Phone: 202-224-4254 Fax: 202-228-1229Senator Pete Domenici (NM) Phone: (202) 224-6621 Fax: (202) 228-3261Senator Bond (MO) Phone: (202) 224-5721 Fax: (202) 224-8149Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: (202) 224-2541 Fax: (202) 224-2499Senator Shelby (AL) Phone: (202) 224-5744 Fax: (202) 224-3416Senator Judd Gregg (NH) Phone: (202) 224 - 3324 Fax: (202) 224 - 4952Senator Kay Hutchison (TX) Phone: 202-224-5922 Fax: 202-224-0776Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: 202-224-2644 Fax: 202-224-8594Senator Inouye (Ranking Member) (HI) Phone: 202-224-3934 Fax:202-224-6747Senator C. Byrd (WV) Phone:

202-224-3954 Fax: 202-228-0002Senator Leahy (VT) Phone: 202-224-4242 Fax: 202-224-3479Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Phone: (202) 224-3254 Fax: (202) 224-9369 Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) Phone: 202-224-2551 Fax: 202-224-1193Senator Durbin (IL) Phone: (202) 224-2152 Fax: (202) 228-0400Senator Harry Reid (NV) Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7327Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) Phone: (202) 224-3841 Fax: (202) 228-3954Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD) Phone: 202-224-4654 Fax: 202-224-8858Senator Kennedy (MA) Phone: 202-224-4543 Fax: 202-224-2417Senator Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: 202-224-5344 Fax: 202-224-1946Senator (ME) Phone: 202-224-2523 Fax: 202-224-2693Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI) Phone: 202-224-4822 Fax: 202-228-0325Senator Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Phone: 202-224-2921 Fax:

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