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AMENDMENTS NEEDED ON H.R. 5710-Homeland Security Act - 11/14/02

WE NEED YOUR HELP CONTACTING YOUR 2 US SENATORS TODAY!

FORWARD TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

Wednesday we put out an emergency alert to contact US Representatives to oppose the Homeland Security Bill.  Unfortunately it was passed in the House later that evening only hours after it had been posted for the first time.  Many Congressional members in both chambers were furious today when they finally got to read the fine print of the new version of the bill and found that provisions had been inserted that had not been discussed in the six months of debate on the antiterrorism department, or that had been cut in the Senate bill.

One new insertion that was never debated or considered in a hearing (Title III section 304) gives the authority to the Secretary of HHS to call for universal - absent of informed consent - smallpox vaccination and other broad categorizations of smallpox interventions with no personal, religious or medical exemptions.  In addition, there are no guarantees for humane quarantine laws.  Another highly controversial last minute insertion which has nothing to do with Homeland Security would let drug giant Eli Lily off the hook for thimerosal based vaccine induced injuries and deaths.

The U.S. Senate adjourned initial deliberations on HR 5710, Homeland Security Act, yesterday.  It is our belief that a vote may be held today.  Due to a variety of reasons, it now appears that amending HR 5710 in the Senate is possible, but everybody must help getting the message to the US Senate.. 

Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education (PROVE - www.vaccineinfo.net) and The Connecticut Vaccine Information Alliance (CTVIA - www.ctvia.org) have formulated proposed amendments to HR 5710 to address the vaccination concerns.  

The first proposed amendment inserts informed consent and exemption provisions relating to vaccination and medical treatment during a public health emergency.  This amendment also addresses humane quarantine.  The second proposed amendment strikes vaccine language that does not pertain to the Homeland Security Act.  This language was of serious concern to parents of thimerosal vaccine injured children.  For more information on the proposed deleted language see the November 14, 2002 Washington Post article entitled, "Homeland Bill Rider Aids Drug Makers" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56918-2002Nov14.html 

PROVE and CTVIA are asking for your help in communicating these proposed amendments to your 2 U.S. Senators.  Link to http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm to look up phone numbers and email contact information.   

Please phone and email your 2 U.S. Senators requesting that they sponsor these language changes.  If your Senator has questions or feedback regarding the proposed amendments please contact PROVE or CTVIA.

IF YOUR SENATORS REFUSE TO SPONSOR OR SUPPORT THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE CHANGES THEN TELL YOUR SENATORS TO VOTE NO ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY BILL.

The proposed PROVE and CTVIA amendments are as follows:

H.R. 5710-Homeland Security Act

Proposed Amendment 1:

SEC. 304.  CONDUCT OF CERTAIN PUBLIC HEALTH-RELATED ACTIVITIES.

Insert:

(d) EXEMPTIONS FOR COUNTERMEASURES FOR CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, NUCLEAR AND OTHER EMERGING TERRORIST THREATS.

1.      No citizen shall be forced to be vaccinated or receive medical treatments contrary to their own physician's or other health care provider's individual professional judgment. 

2.      No citizen shall be forced to be vaccinated or receive medical treatment contrary to their personal religious beliefs or practices. 

3.      No citizen shall be forced to be vaccinated or receive medical treatments that violate the judgment of the person's conscience. 

4.      Health care personnel shall not be forced to carry out orders contrary to the health care provider's conscientious beliefs.

5.      A vaccine or medical treatment shall not be administered to any adult or child without the voluntary informed consent of the adult, the custodial parent or legal guardian of the minor child or ward, or the conservator of the individual to be vaccinated or medically treated.

(e) QUARANTINE OR ISOLATION IN RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, NUCLEAR AND OTHER EMERGING TERRORIST THREATS.

When a public health emergency has been declared relating to a communicable disease;

 

1.      Citizens identified as being infected with the declared disease may be subjected to humane quarantine in order to prevent the spreading of disease.

2.      Citizens identified as being exposed to the declared disease who claim a medical, religious, or conscientious exemption to vaccination or medical treatment may be subjected to humane quarantine for the duration of the incubation period of the disease in order to prevent the spreading of disease.  Such citizens shall not be involuntarily quarantined with those who are infected or contagious. 

3.      Citizens claiming a medical, religious, or conscientious exemption who have not been identified as being exposed shall not be involuntarily quarantined.

4.      Individuals or family members who regularly live together or where one person regularly provides essential support for another shall be permitted to stay together in either quarantine or isolation.

5.      Custodial parents, legal guardians, or conservators of minor children, wards, or conservatees who may be quarantined or isolated shall be allowed to remain with their minor children, wards, or conservatees in quarantine or isolation.

6.      Quarantine and isolation must be by the least restrictive means necessary to prevent the spread of a communicable disease to others and may include, but are not limited to, confinement to private homes.

Proposed Amendment 2:

Strike SEC. 1714. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF MANUFACTURER.

Strike SEC. 1715. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF VACCINE-RELATED INJURY OR DEATH.

Strike SEC. 1716. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF VACCINE.

Strike SEC. 1717. EFFECTIVE DATE.

More information will be forthcoming as we obtain it.

PROVE & CTVIA Position on HR 5710: OPPOSE unless AMENDED

 
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