Parent Sponsored Anti-Mercury Ads Appear in the NY Times, Elsewhere.

        
        • Autism Symptoms Identical to Those of Mercury Poisoning, According to New Ad from Parents of Autistic Children

        • Autism Parents Campaign Against W

        • New Yorkers Action Alert  – "We Won Another Round!"


Autism Symptoms Identical to Those of Mercury Poisoning, According to New Ad from Parents of Autistic Children  

      New York Times Ad Part of Larger Campaign to Show Other Parents
      that Autism is Reversible by Removing Mercury from Children’s Bodies  

      On Wednesday June 8, Generation Rescue, a nonprofit organization of parents of autistic children, will run a full-page advertisement in the New York Times showing the identical symptoms of autism and childhood mercury poisoning. This is the second full-page advertisement in a national newspaper from the organization in the past three weeks.

        The print ads, as well as Internet advertising, are part of a campaign to help other parents learn the truth about the connections between autism and mercury poisoning. Generation Rescue parents are successfully treating their children biomedically and removing mercury from their bodies through a safe and proven detoxification treatment known as chelation therapy.

       “Every day, another 50 kids are diagnosed with autism,” said J.B. Handley, fath

er of an autistic child and a founding parent of Generation Rescue. “Too often the parents receiving this life-changing news are not aware of the real, medical treatments available to reverse autistic symptoms. The parents, and media, are also not aware of the growing number of physicians, researchers, elected officials and other leaders who have mounting evidence to lead this fight."

        The advertisement includes quotes from numerous leaders who recognize mercury as the potential cause for autism, including key Republicans and Democrats in Congress. A central message in the ad is a how the symptoms of autism and those of mercury poisoning in children are identical, confirming the mounting evidence that the similarities are more than just coincidence. Those symptoms include loss of speech, social withdrawal, reduced eye contact, repetitive behaviors, temper tantrums, hand flapping and toe walking, sleep disturbances and seizures.

        “The symptoms of early infant mercury poisoning and autism are virtually the same,” said Dr. Boyd Haley, chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. “Furthermore, research indicates that autistic children genetically have a harder time excreting mercury from their bodies. This is why chelation has become such a powerful key for unlocking and undoing the disorders associated with autism."

       Chelation (KEY-lay-shun) has been used for decades to detoxify people of dangerous levels of heavy metals, due to industrial accidents or other causes.  According to the CDC, 60,000 Americans underwent some form of chelation last year, and the therapy is currently under clinical trial with heart disease patients. In autism treatments, chelating “agents” may be administered orally or transdermally (through the skin). Once in the bloodstream, the chelating agent binds to heavy metals and removes them from the body.

        “When we realized that our son’s autism was nothing more than mercury  poisoning, the next step for treatment was clear,” said Handley, one of the organization’s founding parents and father of a son diagnosed with autism. “With  the removal of mercury, Jamie’s autistic symptoms melt away.

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Autism Parents Campaign Against W 

      By Paul H.B. Shin for the New York Daily News
www.nydailynews.com/06-07-2005/news/story/316541p-270817c.html

       A coalition of parents with autistic children is launching a stinging lobbying campaign against President Bush today, accusing him of reneging on a campaign-trail promise to ban mercury from vaccines.

       The group, Unlocking Autism, will deliver letters to the White House and Capitol Hill, urging Bush and lawmakers to prohibit use of Thimerosal, a vaccine preservative that contains mercury.
       Whether mercury actually causes autism is still disputed among scientists but advocates note autism has been rising dramatically in the past 20 years.

       "Regardless of whether it causes autism, mercury is toxic and it shouldn't be put into children's bodies," said Shelley Hendrix-Reynolds, 36, whose son, Liam, 9, is autistic. "There's a safer alternative."

       In September 2004, advocates asked Bush to state his position on Thimerosal. Bush responded, "I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines" for children, and pledged to increase funding for autism research.

       But when Hendrix-Reynolds met with officials from the White House and the U.S. Health and Human Services in May, her group got the cold shoulder, she said. "I think if somebody says they're going to do something, they should do it," she said.

       Thimerosal is being phased out in certain vaccines, but it is still used in some flu shots and other medicines. The campaign being launched today includes a series of posters accusing Bush of flip-flopping on the issue.

       The group's move comes as New York Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg (D-Nassau) is to introduce legislation to ban sale of products that contain Thimerosal. He said there's wide, bipartisan support in Albany.

       For more information, go to www.unlockingautism.org and www.nvic.org.
See sample ad, second below.

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New Yorkers Action Alert  – "We Won Another Round!"

       An A-Champ announcement from John Gilmore.

       Assemblymember Harvey Weisenberg's bill A 5543 which would limit thimerosal in vaccines for kids under three and pregnant women, passed the NY Assembly health committee with the support of committee Chairman Richard Gottfried! The bill will have to go to the Codes committee, however, we were sponsored by the Codes Committee Chair Joseph Lentol so I think things should go well there. I also believe we will do well on the Assembly floor.

      Now we need to focus on the Senate health committee, where committee Chair Kemp Hannon is not inclined to support our bill.

      Here's what you can do:  

      Call your NY State senator and ask them in a polite and respectful way to work to pass S 2707, State Senator Dean Skelos's bill to limit mercury in vaccines.

      And contact Senator Hannon and ask him in a polite and respectful way to support the bill and send it to the floor where I believe the Senate as a whole will support it.

      Here's Senator Hannon's contact info: