[PROVE] Attend Press Conference in Dallas Fort Worth Opposing HPV Mandate

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Dear Friends in the Dallas/Fort Worth area,

If you can donate a little bit of your time this Sunday at 1:00 p.m, to help the

cause of stopping Governor ’s intrusive executive order to force HPV

vaccines on our 6th grade daughters, your support is needed. Our friends at the

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (www.aapsonline.org) are holding

a Press Conference and will be releasing a coalition statement on Gov. ’s

Executive Order RP 65 regarding the HPV vaccine. We need folks there in

attendance to watch and to show support for this event. Please try and help by

attending – we need to show strong support for those brave doctors who stand for

the rights of parents and against this vaccine being shoved down our throats

with a mandate. If you can attend, please R.S.V.P. directly to Serkes.

Also please pass this on to friends in the area that are opposed to this vaccine

being forced on them. More information on the controversey surrounding this

vaccine and its mandated use is posted on our web site at www.vaccineinfo.net,

www.nvic.org, and www.overturnrp65.com. A draft version of AAPS’s coalition

letter is posted below.

Thank you!

Dawn , PROVE

www.vaccineinfo.net

AAPS

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

1601 N. Tucson Blvd. Suite 9

Tucson, AZ 85716-3450

Phone:

Date: Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007

Time: 1 pm

Locations: Hilton Garden Inn

DFW South

2001 Valley View Lane, Irving, TX

Contact: Serkes Association of American Physicians &

Surgeons

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NATIONAL MEDICAL GROUPS AND OTHERS TO ISSUE POSITION STATEMENT ON TEXAS HPV

VACCINE

The Association of American Physicians (AAPS) and the American College of

Environmental Medicine will release a coalition statement on Gov. ’s

Executive Order RP 65 regarding the HPV vaccine.

Numerous national groups among the other 3 dozen signatories to the statement

are: PROVE, Texas Eagle Forum, Congressman Ron , former Congressman Bob

Barr, the National Vaccine Information Center, Citizens Against Government

Waste, Frontiers of Freedom, the U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation, and numerous

Texas physicians.

Speakers include Jane M. Orient, MD, Executive Director of AAPS and

Serkes,

Policy Director of AAPS, as well as local parents and children.

DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT

“HANDS OFF OUR KIDS COALITION” LETTER

TO TEXAS GOVERNOR

RE: HPV VACCINE MANDATE

This will be released at a news conference in Dallas on February 11 to be held

by the

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Electronic file posted at www.AAPSonline.org

February 11, 2007

The Honorable Rick DRAFT

DRAFT

Austin, TX

Dear Gov. :

The undersigned organizations are writing to ask you to reconsider your position

mandating the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted

disease, for schoolgirls as young as 10 years old.

Your action has prompted a broad, non-partisan coalition of advocacy groups to

come together under the umbrella of the “Hands Off Our Kids Coalition.” This ad

hoc coalition includes medical, taxpayer, privacy, civil liberties, health

freedom, and good government groups from both sides of the aisles. While each

group has various reasons for concern, our objectives can be summarized as

follows:

This vaccine mandate violates parental rights, informed consent & privacy;

The efficacy and safety of this specific vaccine are unproven;

It is an unjustified expansion of the taxpayers’ burden;

Constitutes an unwarranted overreaching of executive power, and

Violates sunshine-in-government.

1. PARENTAL RIGHTS & INFORMED CONSENT

According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons statement of

Patients’ Freedoms adopted in 1990,

”Patients have the freedom ... to refuse medical treatment even if it is

recommended by their physician and to be informed about their medical condition,

the risks and benefits of treatment, and appropriate alternatives.”

That means that parents, with the advice of their doctors, should make decisions

about their children’s medical care -- not government bureaucrats, whether

school board members, or public health administrators. It is obscene to threaten

to seize a child or take other coercive actions just because his parents refuse

medical treatment that is unnecessary and perhaps even dangerous to that

particular child.

You state that this action does not interfere with parental rights, but

preserves them by allowing parents to “opt out” of the mandate. Why should

parents have to ask the state’s permission to make this decision? And why

should that decision then become a matter of public record?

2. HPV EFFICACY & SAFETY VACCINE IS UNPROVEN

There is no clear agreement in the medical community that this newly approved

vaccine can deliver on the promises of its manufacturer. While shown effective

in preventing genital warts in adults, clinical trials were conducted on fewer

than 2,000 of the target population of girls aged 9 to 15 years old. The

studies were far too short to demonstrate that the vaccine prevents the HPV

transforming into cancer.

The adverse effects of this vaccine must be considered. According to the

National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the federal Vaccine Adverse Effect

Reporting System (VAERS) is now receiving reports of loss of consciousness,

seizures, and neurological disorders such as loss of vision, slurred speech,

numbness and tingling following administration of the vaccine in the few months

since its approval last June.

3. OVERREACHING EXECUTIVE POWERS

Senator Jane , chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee,

recently stated: " Executive orders should be used in extreme circumstances,

during times of emergency and when the Legislature is not in session.”

As Sen. also pointed out, this was not an emergency, and the legislative

had pending bills to examine the HPV vaccine that would have produced public

input and cost estimates. There is no public health crisis regarding HPV – in

fact, the rates have been consistently declining. It would seem that you have

shut the public and the legislature out of the process for reasons that are

difficult to justify.

4. UNJUSTIFIED COST BURDEN

The HPV vaccine is one of the most expensive ever to come to market, and is

backed by a multi-million dollar direct-to-consumer advertising campaign. The

NVIC’s survey of practices showed private practice fees ranging from $525 to

$930 per child. According to Sen. , the minimum taxpayer cost will be more

than $300 million through the Texas Medicaid program alone.

5. SUNSHINE-IN-GOVERNMENT

We agree with Sen. ’s concern about the process that has been invoked with

this policy. At its best, the vaccine approval and policy process is rife with

conflicts-of-interest, as demonstrated during several Congressional hearings,

and a Congressional report that concluded that the pharmaceutical industry has

indeed exerted undue influence on mandatory vaccine legislation toward its own

financial interests. Given the huge amounts of money at stake for this vaccine,

there are many unanswered questions about any undue influence.

Therefore, we urge that you take the following action:

Immediately rescind Executive Order RP65;

Work with legislators to pass legislation that would return the authority to

enact vaccine policy to the elected representatives, rather than unelected heads

of agencies such as public health departments, and to educate parents about

exemptions available;

Allocate no taxpayer funds towards this specific vaccine;

If you choose to go forward with your Executive Order, you and all parties

involved voluntarily make full disclosure of financial interests, meetings, and

negotiations that took place leading up to issuance of the Order.

CONCLUSION

Vaccines can and do save lives, and it is our hope that this will not be

misconstrued as a blanket indictment of immunizations.

But this episode has demonstrated that we must take a much more deliberative

approach in crafting vaccine policy without sacrificing the rights and liberties

of individuals and families, and that the State of Texas should consider

carefully any new vaccine mandates.

The “Hands Off Our Kids” coalition members urge you to take these steps

immediately to restore parental rights, children’s civil liberties, and

confidence in the legislative process.

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Dawn

PROVE(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education)

prove@... (email)

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

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