[PROVE] How do you know your child was injured by vaccines?

[Guest guest]

Dear PROVE Members,

From time to time we will send out information regarding opportunities to

educate the public or members of the media about vaccine reactions. The public

has a reasonable expectation that reporters will leave their personal beliefs on

the shelf when “reporting” on vaccine or other issues. When it comes to the

health and safety of our children, it is especially important that parents

sharing their experiences of their child being hurt by a vaccine are given the

same respect and consideration as those who stand to have their positions or

profits prosper from a vaccine policy decision.

Over the years, medical reporter Leigh Hopper, on staff of the Houston

Chronicle, has demonstrated a long and consistent history of leaving out the

negative but very real side effects and damages vaccines can cause in her

stories published by the Houston Chronicle. She has recently demonstrated

journalistic unprofessionalism and callous disregard for the suffering that

families have endured from vaccine reactions in her Medical BLOG sponsored by

the Houston Chronicle. She starts off by lashing out at the educational press

release on the very real unknowns and health concerns with the HPV vaccine put

out by the National Vaccine Information Center calling it a “a negative spin

campaign”

(http://blogs.chron.com/medblog/archives/2006/06/the_antivaccine.html#comments)

and then goes on to patronize the membership of NVIC as parents of vaccine

injured children by adding the parenthetical affront “(and HOW do they know the

vaccine caused the injury?)”

This is where all of our parents of vaccine injured kids come in – please take

the time to write in to the Chronicle in their letters section and of course on

the blog itself taking the care and effort that you always do to sincerely

educate people on what happened to your child and of course HOW you knew the

vaccine caused the injury. Having that knowledge could someday save their life

or the life of someone they love.

Based on her final comment stating “The anti-vaccinators are lucky to live in a

country where, thanks to herd immunity, their children have a good chance of

remaining safe from vaccine-preventable diseases”, it is unlikely that your

efforts will be met with any change of heart from Ms. Hopper, but your comments

will be posted and available when other parents read this and do internet

searches on these topics and they will know there is another side to the story.

To post to the blog itself, you can link to

http://blogs.chron.com/medblog/archives/2006/06/the_antivaccine.html#comments

or

http://blogs.chron.com/medblog/archives/2006/06/does_anyone_nee_1.html

To write a letter to the editor of the Houston Chronicle commenting on the blog,

you can write to the email address:

viewpoints@...

keeping within the guidelines required by the Chronicle where letters under 250

words and you include your contact information of name, address, and day and

evening phone numbers for verification purposes.

If you would like to reach a little further into the Chronicle’s staff to let

them know what you think, the editorial board members are all listed with their

names hyperlinked to their email addresses at the bottom of the left hand side

of this page:

http://www.chron.com/news/opinion/

In case all the comments don’t get posted, please copy and paste the text into

and email note and send it to us at:

letters@...

so we can sort and read what you took the time to say.

Thank you for all that you do – if it weren’t for some parents that took the

courage and time to speak up about their children’s vaccine injuries over 10

years ago, I don’t know where we would be today.

Sincerely,

Dawn

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Dawn

PROVE(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education)

prove@... (email)

http://vaccineinfo.net/ (web site)

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that affect the children and adults of Texas. Our mission is to prevent vaccine

injury and death and to promote and protect the right of every person to make

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