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- Vaccine Safety Awareness
- Send a Card to President-elect Obama
- Health Coverage for All Children Campaign
- Market to Parents—Not Children!
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Vaccine Safety Awareness
Making the decision to vaccinate or not requires a lot of consideration. To ensure that both you and your physician are fully aware of the risks involved and the additives in the particular vaccine that will be administered, consider requesting that your physician complete this Physician's Warranty of Vaccine Safety before you make the final decision.
To find out more about vaccine safety, please visit www.safeminds.org.
Physician's Warranty of Vaccine Safety
I (Physician's name, degree)_________________________, _____ am a physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of ________________ . My State license number is _______________, and my DEA number is _______________. My medical specialty is ______________________ . I have a thorough understanding of the risks and benefits of all the medications that I prescribe for or administer to my patients. In the case of (Patient's name) ___________________________ , age _________________ , whom I have examined, I find that certain risk factors exist that justify the recommended vaccinations. The following is a list of said risk factors and the vaccinations that will protect against them:
Risk Factor Vaccination:
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I am aware that vaccines typically contain many of the following fillers:
- Aluminum hydroxide
- Aluminum phosphate
- Ammonium sulfate
- Amphotericin B
- Animal tissues: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf (bovine) serum
- Betapropiolactone
- Fetal bovine serum
- Formaldehyde
- Formalin
- Gelatin
- Glycerol
- Human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)
- Hydrolized gelatin
- Mercury thimerosol
- Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
- Neomycin
- Neomycin sulfate
- Phenol red indicator
- Phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
- Potassium diphosphate
- Potassium monophosphate
- Polymyxin B
- Polysorbate 20
- Polysorbate 80
- Porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
- Residual MRC5 proteins
- Sorbitol
- Sucrose
- Tri(n)butylphosphate
- VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells, and washed sheep red blood
I hereby give my assurance that the vaccines I employ in my practice do not contain SV40 or any other live viruses. (Alternately, I hereby give my assurance that said SV40 or other viruses pose no substantive risk to my patient.)
I hereby warrant that the vaccines I am recommending for the care of (Patient's name) _______________ _______________________ do not contain any cells from aborted human babies (also known as fetuses).
In order to protect my patient's well-being, I have taken the following steps to guarantee that the vaccines I will use will contain no damaging contaminants.
Steps taken:
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I have personally investigated the reports made to the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) and state that it is my professional opinion that the vaccines I am recommending are safe for administration to a child under five-years-old.
The bases for my opinion are itemized on Exhibit A, attached hereto, "Physician's Bases for Professional Opinion of Vaccine Safety". (Please itemize each recommended vaccine separately along with the bases for arriving at the conclusion that the vaccine is safe for administration to a child under five-years-old.)
The professional journal articles I have relied upon in the issuance of this Physician's Warranty of Vaccine Safety are itemized on Exhibit B, attached hereto, "Scientific Articles in Support of Physician's Warranty of Vaccine Safety". The professional journal articles that I have read which contain opinions adverse to my opinion are itemized on Exhibit C, attached hereto, "Scientific Articles Contrary to Physician's Opinion of Vaccine Safety". The reasons for my determining that the articles in Exhibit C were invalid are delineated in Attachment D, attached hereto, "Physician's Reasons for Determining the Invalidity of Adverse Scientific Opinions".
Hepatitis B:
I understand that 60 percent of patients who are vaccinated for Hepatitis B will lose detectable antibodies to Hepatitis B within 12 years. I understand that in 1996 only 54 cases of Hepatitis B were reported to the CDC in the 0-1 year age group. I understand that in the VAERS, there were 1,080 total reports of adverse reactions from Hepatitis B vaccine in 1996 in the 0-1 year age group, with 47 deaths reported. I understand that 50 percent of patients who contract Hepatitis B develop no symptoms after exposure. I understand that 30 percent will develop only flu-like symptoms and will have lifetime immunity.
I understand that 20 percent will develop the symptoms of the disease, but that 95 percent will fully recover and have lifetime immunity. I understand that 5 percent of the patients who are exposed to Hepatitis B will become chronic carriers of the disease. I understand that 75 percent of the chronic carriers will live with an asymptomatic infection and that only 25 percent of the chronic carriers will develop chronic liver disease or liver cancer, 10-30 years after the acute infection. The following studies have been performed to demonstrate the safety of the Hepatitis B vaccine in children under five-years-old.
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In addition to the recommended vaccinations as protections against the above cited risk factors, I have recommended other non-vaccine measures to protect the health of my patient and have enumerated said non-vaccine measures on Exhibit D, attached hereto, "Non-vaccine Measures to Protect Against Risk Factors".
I am issuing this Physician's Warranty of Vaccine Safety in my professional capacity as the attending physician to (Patient's name) ________________________________. Regardless of the legal entity under which I normally practice medicine, I am issuing this statement in both my business and individual capacities and hereby waive any statutory, Common Law, Constitutional, UCC, international treaty, and any other legal immunities from liability lawsuits in the instant case. I issue this document of my own free will after consultation with competent legal counsel whose name is _____________________________, an attorney admitted to the Bar in the State of _________________.
__________________________________ (Name of Attending Physician)
__________________________________ L.S. (Signature of Attending Physician)
Signed on this _______ day of ______________ A.D. ________
Witness: _______________________________ Date: _____________________
Notary Public: ___________________________ Date: _____________________
Send a Card to President-elect Obama
MomsRising.org actively supported mothers' needs throughout the presidential campaign. Now that the race is over, they are shifting their focus to the future and President-elect Obama.
To continue to make sure your voices are heard in Washington, sign their giant card for Obama that reads: We look forward to working with you to enact more family-friendly policies! They will deliver this huge card with thousands of signatures and display it outside of the White House.
To read the letter in its entirety, please visit MomsRising.org's action page here: salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1768/signUp.jsp?key=3837
Health Coverage for All Children Campaign
The Children's Defense Fund has launched the Your Truth Aloud! video project so you can tell your elected officials why you believe all children need health coverage now. In this pivotal election year we need to send a clear message to all elected officials that we cannot continue to ignore the nearly nine million uninsured children in the United States.To find out more, including how to submit your video or how to become a project organizer, visit www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_election2008_videoproject#videosubmission.
Market to Parents—Not Children!
By Josh Golin
As families struggle to cope with the growing economic crisis, they won't be getting any relief from the toy companies that bombard children with ads during the holiday season. Even though experts predict parents will spend less on toys and gifts this year, marketers are still planning their usual holiday ad blitz to kids.
It's never fair for corporations to bypass parents and market directly to children. But with parents everywhere worried about making ends meet, it's especially cruel to bombard children with ads for expensive toys and electronics. That's why we're launching a campaign to urge major toy companies and retailers to market to parents—not children—this holiday season.
Tell Toy Marketers: Target Parents, Not Kids, With Holiday Ads.
Even in better economic times, holiday gift-buying can be a considerable strain on family budgets, with many parents carrying credit card debt for months or even into the next holiday season. Given the strains of this economic downturn, it's imperative that companies refrain from exacerbating family stress by flooding children with ads for holiday gifts that their parents may not be able to afford.
We understand that manufacturers need to create awareness of their products. But they can do so by advertising directly to parents instead of using the advertising to enlist children as lobbyists for their holiday gifts. Since parents will be making the difficult purchasing decisions this holiday season, they should be the targets of any commercial appeals. A barrage of holiday marketing aimed at children too young to understand the economic crisis will create unrealistic expectations and make parenting in these uncertain times even more difficult.
Today, CCFC sent a letter to the CEOs of 24 toy manufacturers and retailers calling for a moratorium on holiday advertising targeted at children. Now they need to hear from you. Please take a moment to tell marketers to leave kids alone this holiday season by visiting salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/621/t/6914/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26139.
And please, share this message with family and friends.
Please visit the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood's website at:
www.commercialfreechildhood.org
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