ACTION ALERT to fight the most sweeping threat to our children's rights.

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From the National Autism Association

EMERGENCY ALERT!

POWER OF PARENTS CALL-IN CAMPAIGN WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN SWARM WASHINGTON

WITH PHONES CALLS TO PROTECT VACCINE-INJURED CHILDREN’S RIGHTS!

Ø Pharmaceutical Liability Protection Language is now EVERYWHERE in

pending legislation on Capitol Hill, and it’s getting worse by the minute.

Ø We need to get on the phones today, tomorrow, and Thursday to fight the

most sweeping threat so far to our children’s rights.

Ø THIS IS WORSE THAN THE FRIST LEGISLATION. OUR CHILDREN WILL GET NOTHING.

Ø Our sources in Washington tell us that Pharma-protection language will

be inserted into as much legislation as possible between now and Thursday. There

are already ten different bills on Capitol Hill -- S3, S975, S1437, S1828,

S1873, S1880, HR650, HR3154, HR3970, HR4245 -- that contain provisions which

will let drug companies off the hook for injuries resulting from vaccines and

other products.

Ø Other appropriations bills are being considered for similar provisions.

If the provisions are attached to an appropriations bill WE CANNOT STOP IT!

HERE’S WHAT WE DO:

THE POWER OF PARENTS CALL-IN CAMPAIGN.

Ø Get on the phone ASAP!

Ø Our ONLY defense is to prevent anything from being attached!

Ø Tell the legislators listed below plus your own senator and

representative that they must not support any of the bills that take away your

child’s rights and that you demand that drug companies not be rewarded for their

disregard for safety.

Ø Remind them that their constituents are watching them very closely and

will remember who supports the children, and who supports Big Pharma. They

cannot have it both ways—they are either for our injured children, or they are

against them.

Time is of the essence and it ties up their phone lines.

The results are immediate.

If you have time for faxing, below is a sample letter you can change to fit

your situation, or just write your own brief note.

We need everyone possible to get involved—in-laws, neighbors, friends, and

anyone else you can think of. Send this action alert to everyone in your address

book. This is their best chance. WE MUST STOP THEM!

We will send out updates on the situation on Capitol Hill as we receive them.

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Dear Senator _________:

VOTE YES to helping vaccine-injured children and NO to pharmaceutical

companies.

I am aware of at least ten bills that already contain language that will

severely limit the rights of my injured child and understand that even more

bills are being targeted for similar provisions and will be slipped in like the

Homeland Security Provisions. If any one of these bills is allowed to pass, my

child’s right to have his day in court will forever vanish, all in the name of

corporate greed.

As a citizen, voter and parent of a vaccine-injured child, I am appalled at

the overwhelming amount of legislation currently on the table that will allow

complete immunity to the very industry that has caused tremendous pain to my

entire family.

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

pharmaceutical industry. Along with hundreds of thousands of voters across the

country, I realize that an industry already known for placing profit over safety

will no longer have any incentive whatsoever to be concerned about injuries from

their products should any of these various bills pass.

All of us parents of vaccine-injured children will be watching the actions of

our legislators very carefully regarding all the relevant bills. Either you

support the interests of injured children, or you support those of the drug

industry. Those in the latter category will be pointed out to the media as an

enemy of our injured children, and a protector and promoter of corporate greed.

I urge you to do all in your power to see that none of the bills that take

away my child’s rights are passed. I am also contacting the local and national

media today.

Sincerely,

_____________

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

Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman) Phone: Fax: (202)

224-9450

Senator Ted s (AK) Phone: Fax:

Senator Arlen Specter (PA) Phone: Fax:

Senator Pete Domenici (NM) Phone: Fax:

Senator Bond (MO) Phone: Fax:

Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: Fax:

Senator Shelby (AL) Phone: Fax:

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

Senator Kay Hutchison (TX) Phone: Fax:

Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: Fax:

Sen. Inouye (Ranking Member) (HI) Phone: Fax:

Senator C. Byrd (WV) Phone: Fax:

Senator Leahy (VT) Phone: Fax:

Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Phone: Fax:

Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) Phone: Fax:

Senator Durbin (IL) Phone: Fax:

Senator Harry Reid (NV) Phone: Fax:

Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) Phone: Fax:

Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD) Phone: Fax:

Sen. Kennedy (MA) Phone: Fax:

Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: Fax:

Sen. (ME) Phone: Fax:

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (MI) Phone: Fax:

Sen. Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Phone: Fax:

Sen. McCain (AZ) Phone: Fax:

Sen. Graham DC Phone: Fax:

Congressman Jerry (Chair, House Appropriations) Phone: Fax:

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November 15, 2005 Schafer Autism

Report Extra Edition Vol. 9 No. 181

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