Note from Jan: Reminds me of the movie *Sicko* and the money donated to
the
election of Bush.
http://www.wholehealthcenters.com/blog/re****ts/mercury-injections-for-children-to-continue/
Mercury Injections for Children to Continue
Efforts on the political level to remove mercury from flu vaccinations for
children are apparently again going by the wayside. Even though the US
Senate and House of Representatives have passed a measure to remove this
substance from vaccines, President Bush says the Bill removing it will
receive his veto.
The flu vaccination continues to be manufactured with mercury and is
recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children despite warnings
dating back to 2001. At that time the Institute of Medicine recommended
against exposing these same sensitive groups to vaccines containing
Thimerosal.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, one in every six women
of
childbearing age in the United States already has blood levels of mercury
high enough to cause neurological damage to their unborn children due to
environmental factors alone.
The child protection group known as SafeMinds and members of the Autism
community are outraged by the President's announced intention to veto the
bill, calling his decision both "irresponsible and dangerous." (The
Coalition for SafeMinds is a nonprofit group working to investigate and
raise awareness of risks to infants and children from mercury injections.)
"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. Redwood is the parent
of a mercury-injected child. "It defies logic that a flu vaccine must be
disposed of as hazardous waste if it is not used, but somehow injecting
the
same mercury-containing vaccine into a baby is safe."
Source: The Coalition for SafeMinds Press Release July 2007
http://www.pmewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-19-2007/0004628856&EDATE=
