Congress Set to Pass Law Eliminating Liability For Vaccine Injuries

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine Information
Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug
Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP
Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream
and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip
Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or
licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever
federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the
HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the
full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation "creates a true
partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and
academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of Death" in bringing
a new vaccine or drug to market.

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"BARDA will operate
in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs
and vaccines labeled as 'countermeasures' will become public.
Nicknamed 'Bioshield Two,' the legislation is being pushed rapidly through
Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard by their elected
representatives. Co-sponsored by Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
(R-TN), Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Mike
Enzi (R-WY), and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R-NH), the
legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal safeguards applied to
vaccines as well as take away the right of children and adults harmed by
vaccines and drugs to present their case in front of a jury in a civil court
of law."

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