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Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:52:30 -0900

Sandy Mintz

FW: Angry Parents

" ParentsofKidsAdultswithAutism (AT) groups (DOT) msn. com "

 

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" Autism_and_Vaccinations (AT) (DOT) Com "

, immunizations ,

Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children

 

 

 

From Lori via Jo:

 

Please everyone, distribute far and wide and make sure you copy Ellen

Blackburn at EPA on this blackburn.elizabeth

 

For media contacts you can go to

http://www.fair.org/media-contact-list.html

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

For Immediate Release:

 

February 24, 2003

 

 

Angry Parents and Advocacy Groups Demand that the EPA Release the Original

Children's Health Report Delayed Nine Months by White House.

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NEW YORK TIMES SAY REPORT GIVES NEW INFORMATION ON

HOW MERCURY CAUSES NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN.

 

Washington, DC - Sources say the not-yet-released Children's Health Report

conducted by the EPA is actually a revised second draft. Parents, already

upset by the report's nine-month delay from the White House, are now fuming

over the apparent watered-down version set to hit the public this afternoon.

 

Last Friday, an article in the Wall Street Journal stated the EPA report

warns that emissions of mercury by coal-fired power plants and other sources

poses an increasing health danger to children. In a similar article, the New

York Times said that the EPA report, the federal government's second

comprehensive assessment on children's health that weighs environmental and

biological factors, was delayed nine months at the request of the White

House.

 

The EPA report is said to be a " benchmark for the government to deal with

the hazards of mercury, which scientists have linked to developmental I.Q.

deficits and motor skill dysfunction, and which is suspected to play a role

in attention deficit disorder and autism. " Sources say it was the mercury

portion of the report that caused the most dispute and subsequent delay, and

that the OMB, headed up by former Eli Lilly executive Mitch Daniels, and the

OSTP made " numerous changes " to the already-edited second draft of the

report.

 

Last October, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) urged the Bush Administration to

release the EPA report. A press release from Senator Boxer's office states,

" OMB requested the document from EPA in June even though it contains no

policy, regulatory, or spending recommendations, and it has yet to be

released. " In her letters to OMB Director Mitch Daniels and EPA

Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, Senator Boxer said, " I question

whether it is appropriate for a scientific document on children's health to

be singled out by OMB for review by non-scientists. If the review results in

major changes to the scientific findings, it will set a dangerous precedent

that will have a chilling effect on legitimate scientific inquiries and

policy analyses not just at EPA, but across all federal agencies. "

 

Senator Boxer asked the report be released publicly by November 15 which

never happened. It is believed that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had the

same request last month.

 

Parents of children who developed neurological problems after receiving the

vaccine preservative ethyl mercury Thimerosal feel this is just another

shameless tactic by the White House to suppress evidence linking

mercury-containing vaccines to autism. Just this month congress repealed a

provision quietly slipped into the Homeland Security Bill that granted legal

protection to vaccine-makers from Thimerosal litigation. Lori McIlwain,

mother of a child with autism, says, " Senator Frist, Mitch Daniels and the

Bush Administration are going to do whatever it takes to make this problem

go away---even if it means children will go another nine months without

relief from the effects of mercury. "

 

Parents are demanding the original report be released immediately.

 

To learn more about the evidence supporting a connection between mercury and

autism, visit www.momsonamissionforautism.org, www.safeminds.org,

www.altcorp.com, and www.autismautoimmunityproject.org.

 

For more information contact:

 

Lori McIlwain

 

lmcilwain

 

919-468-6455

 

Sandy Mintz

http://www.vaccinationnews.com

http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm

 

" Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. " - Wendell Phillips (1811-1884),

paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

 

http://www.909shot.com

http://www.redflagsweekly.com

 

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