[PROVE] ALERT Stop Vaccine Makers from NO LIABILITY

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[From NVIC.org]

NVIC EMERGENCY ALERT: PROTECT YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS

Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) confirmed this morning that lawmakers are trying to

sneak language into an unnamed appropriations bill in the Senate or House to ban

citizens from going to civil court to sue drug companies if they are injured by

pandemic flu or biodefense vaccines or vaccines used to control a " natural

disease " outbreak.

www.modbee.com/24hour/politics/story/2905094p-11567706c.html

NVIC sent out a press release last night warning that this behind-the-scenes

action was about to take place WITHOUT PUBLIC DEBATE as a result of growing

public outrage over S. 1873 sponsored by Senator Burr (R-NC) and a

similar bill in the House (HR.3970). See the press release below.

NVIC also sent a letter to Senator Burr's staff outlining NVIC's objections

to S. 1873 and the unprecedented power grab by federal health officials and drug

companies since September 11, 2001. www.nvic.org

CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSPERSON

Senate: www.senate.gov

House: www.house.gov

Let them know how you feel about Congress taking away your civil right to

exercise the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees every

citizen a day in court in front of a jury of their peers.

IMMEDIATELY CALL AND FAX AS MANY OF THE FOLLOWING SENATORS AS YOU CAN!

Ask them to VOTE AGAINST any language that is attached to any appropriation

or other bill that takes away YOUR right to go to court if you or your child are

injured by vaccines used whenever the Secretary of Health and Human Services

declares a " potential or actual " public health emergency or at any other time.

THE MESSAGE IS:

DON'T BAIL OUT BIG PHARMA AND TAKE AWAY MY CIVIL RIGHTS

Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee) Phone:

Fax:

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 (CA) Chair, House Appropriations Committee) Phone:

Fax:

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for immediate release

November 15, 2005 5:00 PM

CONGRESS SET TO BAIL OUT BIG PHARMA IN SECRET

Washington, D.C. - A behind-the-scenes plan is reportedly taking shape in

Congress to attach language to an unspecified conference report giving drug

companies blanket immunity from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths.

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a watchdog consumer advocacy

group critical of provisions in " The Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug

Development Act of 2005 " (S. 1873) sponsored by Senator Burr

(R-NC) and a similar bill in the House (H.R. 3970), calls the reported plan " an

end-run by Pharma's friends in Congress to take away the civil rights of the

American people. "

In the past few weeks, public criticism about the proposed bail-out of drug

companies has been mounting as Americans are being told that a pandemic bird flu

is coming and drug companies are asking Congress to bar citizen access to the

civil justice system when they are harmed by vaccines. Because the bird flu

virus has not mutated into a form that is transmissable from human to human,

questions have been raised as to whether irrational fear about bird flu is being

generated in an attempt to stampede Congress into passing liability protections

the pharmaceutical industry has been seeking for 40 years.

Pointing out that there are twice as many drug companies marketing vaccines in

the U.S. today as there were in 1982 when NVIC was founded, NVIC President

Barbara Loe Fisher said, " It is a big lie that drug companies have been driven

out of business by lawsuits in the past two decades. The National Childhood

Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 protected drug companies and doctors from almost all

lawsuits. There are only a handful of vaccine injury lawsuits pending in civil

courts but Pharma is on the brink of conning Congress into destroying Americans'

Seventh Amendment Constitutional right to seek redress in a civil court in front

of a jury of their peers.

Apparently drug companies only want profits and not accountability when

Americans die or are injured by experimental and poorly tested biodefense and

pandemic flu vaccines they can be forced to take whenever the Secretary of

Health and Human Services declares a public health emergency and state officials

follow suit. "

In a November 15th letter to Senator Burr's staff director, U.S. Senate

Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, NVIC President

Barbara Loe Fisher describes S. 1873 as " arguably unconstitutional " because it

(1) lacks transparency into the research, development, licensure and

post-licensure surveillance of vaccines and drugs used in public health

emergencies; (2) lacks accountability for either manufacturers of these products

or government health officials who mandate their use without informed consent;

and (3) lacks justice for those who will inevitably die or suffer chronic

illnesses after being compelled to take these products.

The proposed law will also create a new agency within the Department of Health

and Human Services that will secretly develop experimental drugs and vaccines to

be used by civilian and military populations whenever the Secretary declares " a

potential or actual " public health emergency. The agency may deny Freedom of

Information Act requests by citizens and is not subject to review of its actions

by the judicial branch of government.

In 1982, there were four drug companies marketing vaccines in the U.S.:

Wyeth, Lederle, Merck and Connaught. Today there are eight: Wyeth, Merck, Sanofi

Pasteur, GlaxoKline, MedImmune, Chiron, Bioport, and VaxGen.

There are ten vaccine injury lawsuits currently pending in U.S. civil courts,

with the majority involving a highly reactive whole cell version of DPT vaccine

no longer distributed in the U.S.

For more information and a complete text of Barbara Loe Fisher's 11 page letter

to Senator Burr's subcommittee staff, go to www.nvic.org.

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