New Faith-based movement seeks to eradicate mercury-filled vaccines

New Faith-based movement seeks to eradicate mercury-filled vaccines


With flu season already upon us, and childhood vaccines a fact of
life, every parent has to deal with the inevitable fear their kids
experience when they see that dreaded needle.


One thing many parents may not know, though, is that those shots
– so much a part of childhood – potentially could contain Thimerosal, a
mercury-based preservative regularly used in vaccines. And while the
American Medical Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
contend that the amounts of mercury found in many vaccines are
inconsequential, eight decades of scientific studies and extensive
peer-reviewed scientific and medical papers have all concluded that
mercury in the form of Thimerosal poses a significant health risk,
especially to pregnant women and children.


Pharmaceutical manufacturers even acknowledge that exposure in
utero or in childhood can lead to mild-to-severe mental retardation
and/or autism in mercury-sensitive children.[1] Astoundingly,
the material safety data sheets for Thimerosal list not just
mild-to-severe mental retardation, but also miscarriage and abortion as
potential outcomes to in utero exposure. Despite such grave warnings –
and the fact that safer, less toxic alternatives are readily available
and economical – Thimerosal continues to be used as a preservative in
vaccines, including the routinely administered flu shot.


I personally can attest to the devastation Thimerosal, and the
flawed public health policy that condones it, can cause. Like so many
others, I was injected with Thimerosal without knowing it when I was 28
weeks pregnant with my second son, Wesley. This prenatal exposure,
coupled with further exposure to mercury from numerous, routine
Thimerosal-containing vaccines after his birth, disabled my son, who
ultimately was diagnosed with both autism and mercury poisoning. We
estimate lifetime care for Wesley will cost more than $20 million.


This is but one of the many unspoken costs of not switching away
from Thimerosal in vaccines and other drugs. In the United States,
statistics show that in my son’s generation, vaccines typically
contained more than 100 times the maximum safety exposure limit for
mercury.[2] As
a result, more than one in six children in the U.S. today is affected
by a behavioral or developmental disorder. More than 25% will have at
least one lifetime chronic medical condition. A survey by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention issued in May of this year indicates
that one out of every 88 children in the U.S. has autism[3], up from a historic rate of 1 in 10,000.


Fortunately, there is hope. Four years ago, I began a movement
in my United Methodist denomination, with 11.5-million-member, to
address this issue. The United Methodist Church responded by passing
the first global resolution on "Protecting Children from
Mercury-containing Drugs," which advocates for a ban of mercury in
medicine on moral and ethical grounds. This faith-based movement is now
spearheaded by the United Methodist Women (UMW), which historically has
advocated in the areas of education and health, both in the U.S. and
around the world.


Spurred on by the United Methodist’s historic resolution, other
organizations have advocated relentlessly for a ban on Thimerosal’s use.
Earlier this year, the Health Freedom Congress, comprised of 40 health
freedom organizations, which speak for tens of millions of Americans
involved in the Health Freedom Movement, also passed a resolution to
support removal of Thimerosal from all drugs. And overseas, Chile became
the first developing country to prohibit the use of
Thimerosal-preserved vaccines.


While many nations are now expressing their desire for
mercury-free vaccines, the fight is far from over. Until the U.S. takes
action to safeguard its own children from the ravages of mercury in
vaccines, not to mention protecting children around the globe, we must
continue to pressure the powers-that-be. The Coalition for Mercury-free
Drugs (CoMeD), of which I am president, is now leading the effort to
ban mercury from drugs, and especially Thimerosal from vaccines, before
the United Nations. Ironically, among the nations of the world, it is
my own that would protect the mercury in the vaccines, rather than the
children to whom this toxin is being administered, most often without
the opportunity of informed consent.


Until mercury is banned, parents can protect their own children –
and themselves – from Thimerosal by asking one simple question before
being vaccinated: “Does that vaccine contain any Thimerosal?” If it
does, just say no. Your doctor should have Thimerosal-free vaccines in
stock or be able to order them. If s/ he doesn’t, find another doctor.


Believe me, from someone who watches her now 16-year-old-son
struggle every day to form a word and to tie his shoes, the short-term
convenience of accepting that mercury-containing vaccine here and now,
is not worth the lifetime of heartache and disability that potentially
could result from a shot containing Thimerosal.


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