ADA gag rule under attack in every region of USA

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" Charles Brown " <brownchas

Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:56:23 -0400

 

ADA gag rule under attack in every region of USA

 

Dear friends,

The ADA’s efforts to protect Mercury fillings by shackling dentists are

collapsing. Dental boards are backing off and are not bringing any more

cases to stifle dentist’s Free Speech, while we are on the offensive --

attacking the ADA’s notorious Gag Rule in every region of the nation.

 

The Gag Rule is a pillar of the ADA’s agenda to block consumers from

learning that the major component of amalgam is Mercury. The Gag Rule

instructs dentists to abandon their allegiance to patient health care -- to

remain silent or face disciplinary action.

 

MIDWEST

This Friday, June 4, the Minnesota Dental Board will have a public hearing

on a petition from Consumers for Dental Choice, one joined by IAOMT and

local consumers Mary Puff and Nancy Hokkanen. With DAMS Executive Director

Leo Cashman coordinating the effort, we are presenting speakers from

dentistry (Dr. Jim Carlson), nursing (Eugenia McGrath), and consumer

activists like Kip Sullivan and Bob Asher.

 

The petition seeks the end of the gag rule – which has already been

condemned by the state Attorney General – and the start of the process to

write a fact sheet, as Maine and California have done. The state’s

largest-circulation newspaper, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, is covering

this event. (Article attached: note the headline referring to Mercury

Fillings!)

 

This follows the coverage on WCCO Channel 4 TV in Minneapolis - St Paul

last Wednesday on dental mercury. The Channel 4 news team traveled to

Lexington, Kentucky, to interview chemistry professor Boyd Haley, who has

written extensively on mercury and its toxicological effects. Haley did a

mercury vapor demonstration after brushing a child’s amalgam-filled teeth 15

times with a toothbrush. The mercury vapor level was so high that it pegged

the meter. All of this was captured by the TV cameras.

 

WEST

In our high-stakes case of before the California Supreme Court, Shawn

Khorrami and his associate Matt Bailey are completing the final round of

briefs. The case, Kids Against Pollution v. California Dental Association,

may decide whether organized dentistry is allowed to maintain this “rule of

conduct” to stop dentists from talking to the public or their patients about

mercury’s toxicity. Shawn will argue the case before the High Court later

this year, assisted by our team of Matt plus Editor Mike McClory and Supreme

Court specialist attorney Daniel Smith.

 

Spearheaded by Anita Vazquez Tibau, our effort gathered an amazing 27

friends-of-the-court, covering seven briefs, in support of our cause. They

included faith-based groups (L. A. Council of Churches, Calif. Churches

Impact, Regeneration Project of the Episcopal Church), children’s advocacy

(Our Children’s Earth), health care and dentistry (Calif. Nurses Assoc.,

Council of Black Nurses, Physicians for Social Responsibility, IAOMT,

H.D.A.), environment (WaterKeepers, Clean Water Action, Mercury Policy

Project, Center for Environmental Health), alternative health groups (Frank

Cuny’s Calif. Citizens for Health Freedom, National Foundation for

Alternative Medicine), Native American groups (Native Voices Foundation,

White Thunder Medicine School), the state trial lawyers (Consumer Attorneys

of California), and two state lawmakers (Karen Johnson, R-Ariz., and John

Rogers, D-Ala.).

 

NORTHEAST

The Connecticut chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union took up Dr.

Mark Breiner’s case, after the dental board tried to stop Mark from writing

editorials against Mercury Fillings in the local newspaper! The case is in

federal court, so its impact could go far beyond Connecticut. The First

Amendment expert with the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, Professor

Martin Margulies, says it’s hard to imagine a clearer case on the right of

free speech. (Attached: Article from Hartford Courant, the state’s largest

newspaper)

 

SOUTH

In a brazen attempt to stop patients from learning about Mercury fillings,

the Alabama dental board sued Huntsville dentist Dr. Ada Frazier simply for

advertising that she is a mercury-free dentist. After her lawyer, Bubba

Grimsley, mounted a vigorous defense, the dental board put the case on hold.

Meanwhile, federal and state African-American lawmakers have raised concerns

about this effort to single out Dr. Frazier and deprive her of her

Constitutional right to advertise what kind of dentistry she does.

 

The Mercury Fillings issue is also getting substantial debate in Alabama.

Attached: article in Birmingham News, once again, the state’s largest

newspaper. The story went nationwide, such as to Ohio’s major newspaper,

the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

 

We believe the case against Dr. Frazier will be the last any dental board,

acting as proxy for the ADA, will attempt. As we are showing in Alabama and

Connecticut, now it’s the dental board – not the mercury-free dentist – who

is losing ground!

 

Charlie Brown

May 31, 2004

GOOD news!!

Thanks to Charles Brown for sending the story below!

 

 

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