Bush Set To Veto HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill Due To Provision To Rem

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Bush Set To Veto HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill Due To Provision To

Remove Mercury From Infant Vaccines

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/77363.php

21 Jul 2007 - 0:00 PDT

 

 

According to the Congressional Quarterly, the White House stated on Tuesday t

hat President Bush would veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill

because of the cost and " objectionable provisions " such as a measure to ban the

use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based

preservative.

 

Autism advocacy groups are outraged because President Bush stated in a

questionnaire during his 2004 campaign: " I support the removal of Thimerosal

from

vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as

President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide

variety

of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of

autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories

about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely

included or excluded. "

 

But since 2005, President Bush has steadfastly refused to issue an Executive

Order banning high amounts of mercury in vaccines that would protect children

and pregnant women despite repeated requests from the autism community that he

uphold his campaign promise. Under his current administration, mercury has

been and will continue to be knowingly injected into the youngest of American

citizens. The controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal has been

linked by thousands of parents as being the cause of their children's mercury

poisoning and autism.

 

The flu vaccine which continues to be manufactured with mercury is

recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children despite the fact that

the

Institute of Medicine in 2001 recommended against the policy of exposing these

same

sensitive groups to thimerosal containing vaccines. According to the EPA, one

in every six women of childbearing age already has blood levels of mercury

high enough to cause neurological damage to their unborn children due to

environmental exposures alone. " Injecting even more mercury into the bodies of

pregnant women, infants and children when it is not a necessary component of

vaccines is just bad medicine, " said Lyn Redwood, president of SafeMinds and

parent

of a mercury-injured child. " It defies logic that a flu vaccine must be

disposed of as a hazardous waste if it is not used, but somehow injecting the

same

mercury-containing vaccine into a baby is safe. "

 

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