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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (36819)	2/3/2004 11:24:08 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

Interestingly, Frist proposed a bill to shield vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits. Thimersol, a stabilizer in vaccines has been linked to increased autism - from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 500....Oppose Senator Frist's Vaccine Bill S 2053 We have just received an urgent action alert from NVIC. Please forward this on to everybody. We need everybody to contact your two U.S. Senators immediately and ask them to contact the Senate Health committee urging the members to oppose Senator Frist's bill S 2053. It will be considered in committee as an amendment to Senator Hillary Clinton's vaccine appropriations bill on Wednesday July 31st. This bill would amend the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in a way that would completely shield a drug company from liability for vaccine injuries. The hurdles parents have had to jump over which currently shield manufacturers have been high enough There are many bad provisions to this bill, and they are outlined below, but the most problematic one will stop the ability of a vaccine injury victim to bring a lawsuit in civil court. Whether you have a vaccine injured child or not, you need to stand up for the right of maintaining your rights to sue in the court system. If you think vaccine injuries are bad now, what do you think they will be if there is no industry liability at all? The drug companies are scrambling and worried because of the lawsuits involving Thimerosal and autism. It makes you wonder what documents might be discovered in a civil case that would never be uncovered in the compensation program. Senator Frist and the drug companies are trying to blame the current vaccine shortages on pending Thimerosal lawsuits that haven't even gotten to court yet. They are conveniently ignoring the real reason there were shortages: the FDA has cited manufacturers for numerous violations! Senator Frist tells us in his press release (at the bottom of this note) that this bill will bring balance back to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. NOT TRUE!! The Burton-Waxman bill, HR 3741 is a much better bill than at addresses the existing problems in the compensation program, not problems outside the program such as pending lawsuits. curezone.com