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To All VacLib Members & Autism Action Advocates, TEXAS: THIS IS A RED ALERT, THIS BILL IS PROPOSING HEALTH CARE COVERAGE FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS. THIS IS THE LEGISLATION WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. THE BILL WAS JUST PROPOSED BY LUCIO IN THE STATE SENATE. IT HAS NOT BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE, WE MUST FIGHT AND PUSH TO HAVE THIS PASSED THROUGH COMMITTEE AND THEN SENATE AND HOUSE FOR THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN. MAKE NO MISTAKE, THE POWERFUL INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND OTHERS WILL TRY TO TABLE THIS BILL IN COMMITTEE, OR KILL IT ON THE FLOOR. WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. REMEMBER, THE STATE LEGISLATURE ONLY CONVENES EVERY TWO YEARS. OUR CHILDREN CAN NOT WAIT FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS FOR THIS TO HAPPEN, WE MUST MAKE THIS BILL PASS! PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE IN THE AUTISM COMMUNITY, THE BILL IS ATTACHED. WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN, BUT WE MUST DEMAND IT!!! Regards, Michael A. Chernoff and family, for Alexander Texas bill draft: AutismInsurance_SB419.pdf Image Source: http://www.thejabberwock.org/blog/merck.png Thanks for this great image The article below is archived due to its informational content. The good news is:
Texas Govenor Rick Perry's Executive Order Mandating HPV Vaccine Carries No Force of Law! 15Feb07 It's Dead on arrival - ahrp.blogspot.com Dear Friends - Watch for this in other states! If you would like to help the families of Texas by expressing your concern to our Texas Governor Rick Perry about the implications of his actions on the rest of the United States of America, you can contact him at his Citizen's Assistance and Opinion Hotline: (512) 463-1782, Office of the Governor Fax: (512) 463-1849, Mailing Address: Office of the Governor, P.O. Box 12428, Austin, Texas 78711-2428, or by online submission at http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact/#contactinfo - thank you! Here is the alert that went out in Texas if you could please forward it to any contacts in Texas. Dear PROVE Members, Even though the states of Michigan, Maryland, and Indiana have killed, pulled down, or gutted proposed legislation to mandate the controversial new vaccine called Gardasil made by Merck for the sexually transmitted virus HPV, our Texas governor Rick Perry did the unthinkable by bypassing the entire Texas legislature from the process and issuing an intrusive executive order forcing all of our 11 and 12 year old little girls to be vaccinated against this sexually transmitted virus in order to attend the 6th grade! IMMEDIATE responses to your Texas state senator and representative expressing your opposition is needed! There are several brave legislators that are working hard at trying to reverse this, but in order for other legislators to be receptive and sign onto and support these efforts, they need to know that the people who voted to put them into office are outraged by the governor's actions. Please make your voice heard NOW! The governor is hiding behind the claim that parents can opt out of this mandate, but he is not telling parents the truth that in many cases, the exemption isn't worth the piece of paper it is printed on: private and parochial schools don't have to accept the exemption, physicians do not have to accept the exemption and many throw families out of their practices for not receiving all state mandated vaccines, and some insurance companies are discriminating against families whose kids have not received all the vaccines on the state's required list. Additionally, the exemption process is a bureaucratic nightmare requiring written requests to the State Health Department in Austin forcing the disclosure of your children's full names, birthdates, and mailing address. Sometimes these forms take weeks to be mailed out by the health department disrupting school attendance and the forms must be notarized and repeatedly submitted every 2 years. If you don't know who represents you, you can link to http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/ and enter your address. Click on the links provided for your Texas State Senator and Texas State Representative to obtain their phone, fax, and email. Forward this alert to your friends and family and ask them to help flood the legislature with messages that this is a totally unacceptable abuse of power and demanding that something be done by the legislature to reverse this and prevent it from happening again. Thank you! Sincerely, Dawn Richardson Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education (PROVE) www.vaccineinfo.net Here are a handful of talking points to consider: 1) Governor Perry's Executive Order, that MANDATES the HPV vaccine for 6th grade girls, circumvents the legislative process by usurping the authority of our elected representatives to debate and decide bills already filed in the Texas legislature. 2) This MANDATE usurps the rights of the parents of Texas to make medical decisions for their minor children by requiring this vaccine. It is the parents who have to live with the consequences if their child is injured by the HPV vaccine, not the governor or the state of Texas. Texas vaccine exemptions don't apply in many cases so parents aren't really free to say no to this shot if it is mandated. 3) This MANDATE forces our little girls to be "experiments" for the new HPV vaccine that has only been on the market since June of 2006 - less than one year! It is made by Merck - the same drug makers as Vioxx! There are already 82 reports of serious adverse events filed with the FDA following the administration of this vaccine. *** Oppose Governor Perry's Executive Order Mandating HPV Vaccine for 6th Grade Girls: What Do We Really Know About the HPV Vaccine? QUESTIONABLE NECESSITY AND EFFECTIVENESS The American Cancer Society says that even though infection with the sexually transmitted virus HPV is an important risk factor for cervical cancer, most women with HPV infection do not get cervical cancer. Doctors believe other factors must come into play for this cancer to develop. Some of these factors are smoking, HIV infection, Chlamydia infection, diet, long-term use of birth control pills, multiple pregnancies, low income, mothers who took hormonal drug DES, and family history. [1] These are not typical risk factors affecting junior high girls. According to the National Institutes of Health National Cancer institute, in more than 90% of the cases, HPV infections are harmless and go away without treatment. [2] Also, according to the CDC, most cervical cancer can be prevented and cervical cancer is very rare in women who get regular PAP tests.[3] Cervical Cancer is not a major killer in the state of Texas thanks to PAP screenings: in 2000, there were 371 deaths from cervical cancer, in 2001 there were 352 and in 2002 there were 329. [4] The CDC says there are more than 100 strains or types of HPV and over 30 strains are sexually transmitted. [5] Yet the vaccine under consideration for mandate covers only 4 strains. [6] About 30% of cervical cancers can't be prevented by the vaccine, so women will still need regular cervical cancer screenings. [7]. The only current vaccine manufacturer for the HPV vaccine, Merck, admits on their package insert that the duration of immunity from the vaccine is unknown. [8] In clinical trials, the vaccine's effectiveness was only followed for 4 years.[9] Yet we do know from the CDC that the incubation period for the HPV virus is about 20 years [10] and the median age of women diagnosed with cervical cancer is 48 [11]. Therefore, no claims to proof of cervical cancer prevention by vaccinating preteen girls should be made. QUESTIONABLE SAFETY The HPV vaccine Gardasil was approved by the FDA on June 8, 2006 after 6 months of review.[12] It has been on the market for less than 1 year. The chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on infectious diseases was quoted in the Washington Post in response to a proposed mandate in Washington D.C. saying that he thought it was premature to recommend making the vaccine mandatory. "I think it's too early," said Joseph A. Bocchini,."This is a new vaccine. It would be wise to wait until we have additional information about the safety of the vaccine." [13] Dr. Martin Meyers, director of the National Network for Immunization Information, was quoted in the Baltimore Sun in response to a proposed bill in Maryland to mandate HPV vaccines for 6th grade girls, "A lot of us are worried it's a little early to be pushing a mandated HPV vaccine." He also said "It's not the vaccine community pushing for this." The article spotlighted HPV vaccine manufacturer Merck's aggressive role in pushing for a mandate where across the U.S., HPV vaccine mandates could mean $4 billion dollars in sales for Merck [14] who is currently plagued by lawsuits for withholding critical safety information to doctors and patients about their popular painkiller drug Vioxx.[15] The FDA's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System has already received 82 reports of serious adverse events following HPV vaccination with Gardasil since its approval last June. [16] More questions remain. Disclaimers printed on the manufacturer's package inset state that the vaccine has not been tested for it's own ability to cause cancer [17] and the effect on a woman's reproductive capacity is unknown. [18] Additionally, the vaccine is genetically engineered yet the manufacturer admits it has not tested the vaccine for genotoxicity[17] (testing to see if the vaccine is toxic to our own human DNA). Each dose of the vaccine contains 225 mcg of aluminum [6] which means girls receiving all 3 HPV doses will be directly injected with 675 mcg of aluminum. QUESTIONABLE COST The retail cost of the vaccine is $120 per dose, or $360 for the full series of 3 shots. [7] According to one of the authors of the bills filed, Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, there are 162,000 6th grade girls[19] which translates to forcing Texas families paying over $58 million dollars not including the doctor visits for a vaccine not proven to prevent cervical cancer. This is a high price to force families to pay especially for families skeptical of the necessity, efficacy, or safety of the vaccine. Merck is absolved from liability for the injuries and deaths caused by the HPV vaccine through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 [20] leaving families to deal with the emotional and monetary costs of the harm caused by the vaccine to their daughters on their own. The vaccine is available to anyone who wants it, so it does not need to be mandated. Federal health programs such as Vaccines for Children cover the HPV vaccine to children and teens under 19 years of age, who are either uninsured, Medicaid-eligible, American Indian, or Alaska Native. The VFC Program also allows children and teens to get VFC vaccines through Federally Qualified Health Centers or Rural Health Centers, if their private health insurance does not cover the vaccine [7], so insurance mandates which raise the cost of insurance for everyone who does not want or need the vaccine are not necessary. [1] The American Cancer Society, What Causes Cancer of the Cervix. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content [2] The National Institutes for Health, National Cancer Institute. http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/cervical-cancer-vaccine1102 [3] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/CervicalCancerScreeningPrevention8-3-2005.ppt#267 ,10,Most cervical cancer can be prevented [4] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention United States Cancer Statistics. http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/ [5] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Genital HPV Infection - CDC Fact Sheet. http://www.cdc.gov/STD/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm [6] Gardasil package Insert. 2006. Page 1. http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/hpvmer060806LB.pdf [7] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HPV Vaccine Questions and Answers. http://www.cdc.gov/STD/HPV/STDFact-HPV-vaccine.htm [8] Gardasil package Insert. 2006. Page 5, paragraph 6. http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/hpvmer060806LB.pdf [9] Gardasil package Insert. 2006. Page 2, paragraph 2. http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/hpvmer060806LB.pdf [10] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Immunization Program, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Minutes of the October 26-27, 2005 ACIP meeting, p. 57. http://www.cdc.gov/nip/acip/minutes/acip-min-oct05.pdf [11] National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Cancer Stat Fact Sheets http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/cervix.html [12] FDA News, Press Release. http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01385.html [13] The Washington Post, "D.C. Bill Would Mandate Vaccine" by Nikita Stewart and Rob Stein. January 10, 2007, p. A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ [14] The Baltimore Sun, "Drug Firm Pushes Vaccine Mandate, Merck Lobbies Md. On HPV Preventive. by Laura Smitherman, January 29, 2007. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.md.cervical29jan29,0,166914.s tory [15] The Star-Ledger, "Attorneys Lay Out Cases to Open Double Vioxx Trial", by Susan Todd, January 23, 2007. http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base < http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/ [16] http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?PAGENO=1 < http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php [17] Gardasil package Insert. 2006, Page 8, paragraph 17. http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/hpvmer060806LB.pdf [18] Gardasil package Insert. 2006, Page 9, paragraph 1. http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/hpvmer060806LB.pdf [19] Houston Chronicle, Vaccine Proposal Likely to Stir Debate, by Todd Ackerman. Jan. 10, 2007. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4459579.html. [20] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/ *** http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ Texas Gov. Orders Anti-Cancer Vaccine By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON Associated Press Writer February 3, 2007, 6:26 AM EST AUSTIN, Texas -- Some conservatives and parents' rights groups worry that requiring girls to get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer would condone premarital sex and interfere with the way they raise their children. By using an executive order that bypassed the Legislature, Republican Gov. Rick Perry -- himself a conservative -- on Friday avoided such opposition, making Texas the first state to mandate that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the virus. Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade will have to receive Gardasil, Merck & Co.'s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV. Perry also directed state health authorities to make the vaccine available free to girls 9 to 18 who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover vaccines. In addition, he ordered that Medicaid offer Gardasil to women ages 19 to 21. Perry, a conservative Christian who opposes abortion and stem-cell research using embryonic cells, counts on the religious right for his political base. But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different from the one that protects children against polio. "The HPV vaccine provides us with an incredible opportunity to effectively target and prevent cervical cancer," he said. Opponents say Perry should have let the Legislature decide whether to impose a mandate. "He's circumventing the will of the people," said Dawn Richardson, president of Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education, a citizens group that fought for the right to opt out of other vaccine requirements. "There are bills filed. There's no emergency except in the boardrooms of Merck, where this is failing to gain the support that they had expected." Texas allows parents to opt out of inoculations by filing an affidavit objecting to the vaccine on religious or philosophical reasons. Conservative groups say such provisions still interfere with parents' rights to make medical decisions for their children. The executive order is effective until Perry or a successor changes it, and the Legislature has no authority to repeal it, said Perry spokeswoman Krista Moody. Moody said the Texas Constitution permits the governor, as head of the executive branch, to order other members of the executive branch to adopt rules like this one. The federal government approved Gardasil in June, and a government advisory panel has recommended that all girls get the shots at 11 and 12, before they are likely to be sexually active. Merck could generate billions in sales if Gardasil -- at $360 for the three-shot regimen -- were made mandatory across the country. Most insurance companies now cover the vaccine, which has been shown to have no serious side effects. The New Jersey-based drug company is bankrolling efforts to pass state laws across the country mandating Gardasil for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country. Perry has ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company's three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry's former chief of staff. His current chief of staff's mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government. The governor also received $6,000 from Merck's political action committee during his re-election campaign. A top official from Merck's vaccine division sits on Women in Government's business council, and many of the bills around the country have been introduced by members of Women in Government. Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Susan Crosby, the group's president, also declined to specify how much the drug company gave. *** Other Helpful Articles and Links: Indiana Legislature Guts HPV Vaccine Mandate Bill removing Mandate http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6017750&nav=9Tai Maryland Legislature Pulls Down HPV Vaccine Mandate http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8N0GBQ80.htm Michigan Legislature Defeats HPV Vaccine Mandate http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/122706/opi_2006122722.shtml The American College of Pediatricians Oppose HPV Vaccine as a Mandate http://www.acpeds.org/?CONTEXT=art http://www.acpeds.org/?CONTEXT=art&cat=10006& Governor Perry's Executive Order http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/exorders/rp65 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dawn Richardson PROVE(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education) http://vaccineinfo.net/ (web site) ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROVE provides information on vaccines, and immunization policies and practices that affect the children and adults of Texas. 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