Fw: Request for action . . .

[Guest guest]

From: " Rogene (by way of ilena rose) " <saxony01@...>

Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 9:16 AM

Subject: Request for action . . .

> Ladies . . .and gentlemen!

>

> I'm sure you saw the Trade Secrets-Bill Moyers Report on PBS last week.

It's

> apparent that we are not the only victims of greed! If you didn't see the

> show you can go to www.pbs.org and search the archives under " T " for Trade

> Secrets-Bill Moyers. There is a bulletin board there where you can see

that

> implants women and their families are not the only victims of greed. The

> show will air again April 20th.

>

> The following is a copy of the letter I sent and the message I received

from

> them. The implant issue is too large to put on ONE page so we are

requesting

> that women write to the programming office requesting a investigative

report

> on the implant issue dearest to them.

>

> Would you write to them about your issue and point them in the direction

of

> supporting documentation? This could be personal medical documentation,

> studies, legal cases, websites, abstracts, news articles, misleading

> programming . . . whatever you think tells the story of how implants were

> promoted or the resulting injury and coverup. I think this is our best

> chance to get the public's attention at this time.

>

> Please pass this on to other women who you believe would be willing to

> participate!

>

> Rogene

> ==============================

>

> Thank you for your programming offer. Please mail a one page proposal to

the

> address below. Kindly include an address and phone where we can contact

you.

> Again, thank you for your interest in Thirteen.

>

> WNET

> Attn Tamara

> 450 West 33rd Street

> New York, NY 10001

>

> Thanks for writing,

> Njeri Pollitt, Member and Viewer Relations Thirteen/WNET 212-560-2888

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Rogene [mailto:saxony01@...]

> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:37 AM

> programming@...

> Cc: Pam Dowd; ilena rose; Myrl Jeffcoat

> Subject: Trade Secrets

>

> I, along with women to whom I've CC'd this note, have been activists in

the

> breast implant disaster for years.

>

> Please ask Mr. Moyers to follow up with a program on how women have been

> duped into thinking breast implants are safe. I will be happy to point him

> in the direction of a great deal of information. We have thousands of

> scanned documents from 1992 and before, plus OCRd files from many of those

> documents. There is a depository where at least a million documents are

> available for research. The information clearly shows that the

manufacturers

> knew of the problems and conspired to hide them from the public. There are

> also documents that show that they planned a public relations campaign to

> deceive the public. The companies bought the research to keep implants on

> the market and to avoid taking responsibility for ruined lives.

>

> Thousands of women get breast implants every year. The results can be

> devastating on them, and on children born to them after implants. It's

> clearly a high risk procedure that is not safe.

>

> One website, www.implantinfo.com is an example of how women are encouraged

> to get implants . . . this website is supported by plastic surgeons,

staffed

> by people who pose as friends there to support women who are considering

> implants. Any cautionary or negative statements about breast implants are

> quickly removed from their Discussion boards.

>

> There is a move underway to get silicone gel implants approved . . .

> meanwhile saline implants are just as dangerous and the boards which

> reviewed them for the FDA are staffed, in part, by plastic surgeons.

>

> Rogene Schorer

> 817 265-2819

>

>