Reply #23: Legislation to Protect Vaccine Manufacturers from Product Liability

[Monkie]

looks like they have this covered already
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=43618

"Legislation Introduced to Protect Vaccine Manufacturers from Product Liability Litigation; SafeMinds Urges Opposition to HR 650

2/28/2005 8:59:00 AM

To: National Desk

Contact: Phil Elwood, for SafeMinds, 202-628-7772 or [e-mail]

SafeMinds announced today its opposition of HR 650, inappropriately titled "The Vaccine Accessibility for Children and Seniors Act of 2005," which removes a legal remedy for those injured by vaccines. The title of Rep. Ric Keller's (FL-8) bill is deceptive in that it exclusively addresses product liability lawsuits against vaccine makers.

HR 650 addresses neither increased access to vaccines for children nor seniors; rather the legislation seeks to impose barriers to legal remedies for the vaccine-injured, including those injured from exposure to the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. SafeMinds is the nation's leading organization fighting to rid mercury from all medicines and promoting treatment research for those already injured.

"Each time legislation is introduced to protect the vaccine industry from product liability it is hidden behind a nice title or buried inside legislative minutia," stated Lyn Redwood, president of SafeMinds"