NYS Rally for Vaccine Exemption bills-Albany,Tuesday, March 24,2009

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Dear Members of Coalition For Informed Choice and interested parties,

 

 

Our fellow member Lisa Rudley is organizing a protest rally in Albany:

 

Title of Rally: " Autism Epidemic Day "

 

Date & Time: Tuesday, March 24 at 11AM

 

Contact Person: Lisa Rudley at <lisarudley

Please RSVP her ASAP if you are attending the rally.

She is organizing buses and carpools. You can bring your children.

 

Agenda of Rally: Two issues:

1. Support of CFIC's exemption bills (see below in resource section)

2. Stop Special Education Budget Cuts

 

What to Bring With You? Any banners and signs that:

1. Advocates for genuine informed consent, or vaccination freedom of choice.

2. Addresses autism services and Special Ed budget cuts.

 

However, DO NOT create signs which demand " safer vaccines " or opposes

particular vaccine mandates.

They are open-ended, ill-defined negotiating demands that conflict with

" informed consent " or unrestricted exemptions.

We need to convey an unambiguous unity of purpose message.

 

 

 

Background Information:

 

First, we need to get the Philosophical, Religious and Medical Exemption

bills passed.

 

Senator Jeffrey Klein from the 34th District (Bronx), for example, just

introduced a bill to the Senate that requires insurers of cervical cancer

detection to make the Gardasil vaccination mandatory for girls 9 through 26

years

old (boys are next). There have been so many problems and illnesses with this

vaccination that it should have been recalled not made mandatory! If the

Gardasil becomes a mandatory vaccination, Assemblywomen Amy Paulin from

Scarsdale

wants this vaccination to be given WITHOUT a parent's consent and may

introduce that legislation once it is a mandatory shot.

 

What that means is NY State can legally vaccinate our children anywhere and

anytime without our consent starting at 9 years old for the Gardasil vaccine.

In addition, parents may be in jeopardy of losing their insurance coverage

for their daughters if they don't vaccinate them with the Gardasil

vaccination. (Lisa will be researching if insurance companies accept vaccine

exemptions.)

 

Second, we need to protect our children from the ravages of autism, now

prevalent among 1 in 150 children.

 

Among the people you may contact for information on autism issues is:

 

John Gilmore, President of the New York Metro Chapter, National Autism

Association

516-933-4050

jgilmore

 

Autism is not going away and we need to protect our children and young

adults and the children to come. We need to write, email, fax and most of all

VISIT our NY State legislators!!

 

PLEASE FORWARD THIS FLYER AND PRINT IT OUT AND DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE.

 

 

 

 

---------------- Political Action Resource Section - Keep this

handy ----------------

 

CFIC's main legislative agenda is at the state level.

The 2009 Legislative Session:

 

 

Philosophical Exemption Bill is A.4886

Religious Exemption Bill is A.883

Medical Exemption Bill is A.880

 

 

Philosophical Exemption Bill:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A04886

 

Religious Exemption Bill:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00883

 

Medical Exemption Bill:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00880

 

CFIC's Memorandum in Support for the Religious Exemption Bill:

www.cfic.us/legislation/religious/CFIC-ReligiousMemo.pdf

 

CFIC's Memorandum in Support for the Medical Exemption Bill:

www.cfic.us/legislation/medical/CFIC-MedicalMemo.pdf

 

 

 

STATE LEGISLATORS:

(You have one Assemblyman and one Senator):

 

Find out who your state or federal legislator is here:

http://nymap.elections.state.ny.us/nysboe/

 

NYS Assembly Website: Listing of Members & their Webpages:

http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

 

NYS Senate Website: Listing of Members & their Webpages:

http://www.senate.state.ny.us/senatehomepage.nsf/senators?OpenForm

 

Bill Status Search Page (NYS legislation):

http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi

 

Comprehensive government & commercial Info about your NYS County:

http://www.nysegov.com/map-NY.cfm

 

 

 

STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS:

(When you write to your local representative, cc these people as well)

 

Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver

silvers

 

Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari (D)

canestr

 

Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco ®

tediscj

 

Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (D) (our bill prime

sponsor)

gottfrr

 

 

 

FEDERAL LEGISLATORS:

(You have one Congressman and two Senators)

 

Congressional Email Directory:

http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

 

Contacting Congress:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

 

 

 

Useful Third Party Legislative Tools & Political Action Resource Websites:

(example: Search for any government official or legislator - federal, state

or local)

 

http://takeaction.lwv.org/lwv/dbq/officials/

http://www.hslda.org/toolbox

 

 

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Gary Krasner, Director

Coalition For Informed Choice

188-34 87th Drive, suite 4B

Holliswood, NY 11423

718-479-2939

CFIC

www.CFIC.us

 

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