URGENT: Contact US Senate NOW!
Demand Removal of Vaccine Sections from HR 34 (21st Century Cures Act):
1)
FDA Fast Tracking of ALL New Vaccines (3091 and 3092)
2)
Unconscionable
Pharma and Vaccine Administrator Liability Shield for Fetal Vaccine
Injury or Death Caused by Vaccines Given in Pregnancy (3093)
Send Emails and Faxes This Weekend. Call ALL DAY Monday before vote at 5:30 pm EST
Dear NVIC Advocacy Members,
Just when you thought you could start to prepare for your holiday season, a
lame duck Congress
is
about to “Scrooge” the public over vaccines and give a huge holiday
bonus to drug companies. Your action is urgently needed to email and fax
your two US Senators over the weekend and call them on Monday to demand
the removal of three sections (3091, 3092 and
3093) from a “Christmas Tree Bill”
called The 21st Century Cures Act, HR 34
that was just passed by the US House of Representatives. A video of the discussion and vote on this bill is available on
CSPAN US House Legislative Business
(scroll to 1:42:20).
The 21st Century Cures Act legislation was originally passed in the house last year on July 10, 2015 as HR
6. NVIC issued a press
release on July 22, 2015 and Barbara Loe Fisher, NVIC Co-founder and President, released a referenced
commentary in opposition to this proposed legislation in which she said,
“The 21st
Century Cures Act is a drug company stockholder’s dream and a
consumer’s worst nightmare,” said Barbara Loe Fisher, NVIC Co-founder
and President. “Making experimental drugs quickly available
for the sick and dying, who voluntarily choose to use them, is one
thing but Congress should not be greasing the skids to license
experimental vaccines that government will recommend and legally require
healthy children and adults to use. It is a prescription
for disaster.”
After passing
the house in 2015, the legislation stalled. Many of the provisions of HR
6 were broken up into several smaller bills, but over the Thanksgiving
holiday, the legislation was quickly reassembled into
a new version including some sections from HR 6 and adding some new
sections, amending them all onto bill
HR 34. HR 34 was
originally a bill that only addressed “Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research”, but was passed by the US House of Representatives
on November 30th as an 824 page monstrosity!
ACTION NEEDED:
1)
Over this weekend on Saturday December 3rd and December 4th,
FAX AND EMAIL your two US Senators demanding that they remove sections 3091, 3092, and 3093 from HR 34, the 21st Century Cures Act. See sample letter below.
2)
On Monday December 5th,
CALL your two US Senators and ask to speak to the person who is in charge of HR 34, The 21st
Century Cures Act. Tell him/her that it is critical all 3 sections,
3091, 3092, and 3093, are removed because they fast track the approval
of all vaccines
and shield drug companies and vaccine administrators from liability for
fetal injuries and deaths caused by vaccines marketed for and given to
pregnant woman. Tell them that if this bill passes without these sections removed, you will be demanding that
your state legislators REMOVE ALL VACCINE MANDATES from state law.
3)
To find your US Senators and their contact information, register/login to the
NVIC Advocacy Portal,
Click on the “National” tab on
the top of your home page. Your two U.S. Senators are listed on the
right hand side. Click on their names for direct links to all of their
contact information. You can also find US Senate contact information
here.
4)
Please FORWARD this email to your contacts asking them to help this weekend and Monday. This alert is also posted on the
National
Vaccine Information Center Facebook page and can be shared on social media.
SAMPLE FAX AND EMAIL
December 3, 2016
The Honorable FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
STREET ADDRESS
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Senator LASTNAME,
As a constituent of yours, I am writing to you for your assistance.
On Monday, December 5th, you will be asked to vote on HR 34, the 21st Century Cures Act. Please amend HR 34 to REMOVE Sections 3091, 3092, and 3093 from this bill prior to
voting
because they shield drug companies and vaccine administrators from
liability for fetal injuries and deaths caused by vaccines marketed for
and given to pregnant woman and they rush the regulatory
approval process by fast tracking all new vaccines.
Please remove the following sections from HR 34:
SEC. 3091. PREDICTABLE REVIEW TIMELINES OF VACCINES BY THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES -
Page 302 and 303
SEC. 3092. REVIEW OF PROCESSES AND CONSISTENCY OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES RECOMMENDATIONS -
Page 303-305
These sections fast track and incentivize vaccines outside of the normal regulatory review and licensing process.
Fast tracking all vaccines is a terrible idea because:
·
Vaccines are given to healthy people who are not desperate for a disease treatment and the side effects
can injure and kill them.
(Here Comes the 21st Century Cures Act: Say Goodbye
to Vaccine Safety Science)
·
Pharma has no liability for injuries or deaths caused by any vaccine. (End
Pharma Liability Shield Endangering Public Health and Human Rights)
·
Many people in America currently do not have the option to decline a vaccine required for school or work. (Blackmail
and the Medical Vaccine Exemption)
·
Skepticism of vaccine safety is already at an all-time high,
and rushing the approval process will just create more distrust.
SEC. 3093. ENCOURAGING VACCINE INNOVATION, VACCINES RECOMMENDED FOR USE IN PREGNANT WOMEN -
Page 305 – 309
This section, which appeared originally in
S.2742,
includes a provision
on pages 307- 309 that forces unborn babies injured or killed after
maternal vaccination out of the courts and into the Federal Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
Established by Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 300aa–11)
in 1986, the VICP shields vaccine manufactures and vaccine
administrators from most civil product liability. The U.S. Supreme Court
declared vaccines to be “unavoidably unsafe” in 2011
and removed all product liability from
FDA licensed vaccines.
Sec. 3093 (c)
(3) adds ‘‘A covered vaccine administered to a pregnant woman shall
constitute more than one administration, one to the mother and one to
each child (as such term is defined in subsection (f)(2)) who
was in utero at the time such woman was administered the vaccine.’’
It is
unconscionable to absolve the manufacturer and vaccine administrator
from liability for injuries and deaths when the vaccine is marketed to
and administered to pregnant women and yet it is not tested by
the vaccine manufacturer or approved as safe for use by the government
by a “child in utero.”
Removing drug company and vaccine administrator liability for unborn babies should be removed from this bill because:
·
Vaccines
aren’t adequately tested and approved as safe for use in pregnant women
with respect to their unborn babies. In fact they are classified as
Pregnancy Category B and C
biologicals
because it is not
known whether the vaccines are genotoxic and can cause fetal harm or
death. There are no sufficient studies looking at the health and the
viability of a pregnant vaccinated woman’s baby before or after birth
and comparing that information to women who do not
get vaccinated while pregnant. Vaccine induced brain and body
inflammation and chromosomal changes are not evaluated. See
FDA Prepares to Fast Track New Vaccines
Targeting Pregnant Women.
·
The
government run Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is already a
miserable failure and should be repealed, not expanded to include
unborn babies. See
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) Renews Call for End to Product
Liability Shield for Vaccine Manufacturers.
·
Pregnant women are already being pushed to get Tdap and Flu Vaccines during pregnancy even though safety hasn’t been proven for the
mother or baby. See Vaccine During Pregnancy:
Is It Safe?
With no threat of liability, there will be no end to the new vaccines
that Pharma will target on pregnant women. Legislators should not be
fooled into thinking that the task force in Section
2041 (see page 93-99) will provide
any protection for unborn babies.
If sections 3091, 3092, and 3093 are not removed, VOTE NO on HR 34.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME
YOUR STREET ADDRESS
YOUR CITY, STATE, ZIP
YOUR EMAIL
YOUR PHONE
ADDITIONAL CONCERNS:
These are just a
few sections of this bill that should be removed. The bill is 824 pages
long and there is not enough time to analyze other sections that could
be problematic like NIH Innovation Projects to support
the development of cancer vaccines in Section 1001 (Page 14);
accelerating the development and innovation of medical countermeasures including vaccines in Sections 3084 (Pages
280-281)
and Section 3085; and section 4002 on interoperability of electronic
health records that could include immunization tracking systems and
registries (Pages
327 – 362).
If you have legislative, staff or lobbyist connections in Washington,
please contact them asking for their assistance with this.
Sincerely,
NVIC Advocacy Team
National Vaccine Information
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