CATANIA, DON'T SHOOT OUR KIDS WITH HPV!

David Catania, D.C. At-Large City Councilman, wants the Districts young women, ages 10 to 13, to be injected with the new drug Gardisil in a move to fight HPV.

Councilman Catania chairs the DC City Council Health Committee and pushed this proposed legislation through the committee with little public input and with little regard to some very disconcerting facts about this drug and about the drug-maker, Merck.

Parents, physicians, teachers, lawyers, all sorts of people are speaking out against the largely untested experimental drug being marketed by Merck, the pharmaceutical company known for it's Vioxx scandal.

CLICK HERE for the Committee's Gardisil Paper.

Why OPT-OUT Equals MANDATORY In DC -- click here

More info about Bill B17-0030
"HPV VACCINATION AND REPORTING ACT OF 2007"

Important Dates - click here

We are hoping you will SPEAK OUT as well as we have little time left before the DC City Council turns our young women into guinea pigs! CONTACT THE CITY COUNCIL - CLICK HERE

• Check out how politicians around the nation are responding - click here
  
  
• Diane Harper is an independent researcher whose vaccine work is funded through Dartmouth in part by both Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline. She is an employee of Dartmouth, not the drug companies. She has led such HPV vaccination research for the past 25 years and is AGAINST the marketing of this drug to young women ... click here for her statements.
  
  
• Ultra Teen Choice says No Way to this experimental vaccination program - click here
  
  
• Maryland isn't rushing to vaccinate -- HPV 1049- Establishing a HPV Vaccine Subcommittee
  This bill establishes, under the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Services Cervical Cancer Committee, a subcommittee to study the recently developed HPV vaccine including whether it should be made mandatory, its cost, and how it may best be integrated into our healthcare system. This bill ensures that we think through the medical, social and economic aspects of the HPV vaccine. Click here for full text of bill.
  
  
• Statement of Dr. Jon Abramson, Chair of the Centers for Disease Control to the Committee -- click here
  
  
• Listen to what Dr. Banks had to say at our recent press conference on March 8 2007 in front of the DC City Council Building...

• Other doctors and parents are speaking out too. Click on the Rally Videos on the side navigation bar for more.
  
  

IMPORTANT DATES:

Thursday April 19, 9AM

What would you say to a drug that places thousands of DC girls at risk is costly and ineffective helps make a big pharmaceutical company richer will be voted on without adequate hearings and without representation on the Council for more than a fourth of District residents?

NO WAY!!!!

Help us PROTEST THE FINAL VOTE and join our press conference just before the final vote. The press conference will be.... Thursday, April 19th at 9:00 AM The Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue

Thursday, April 19, 10 AM

The DC City Council will read the legislation for the second time. At this time, councilmembers can make amendments to the bill before it's passed into LAW!! It is important we pack the room with people who are against this bill. More importantly we ask that you contact the Council before the reading so they can prepare amendments or to vote down this bill completely.

We are hoping you will SPEAK OUT as well as we have little time left before the DC City Council turns our young women into guinea pigs! CONTACT THE CITY COUNCIL - CLICK HERE

• Phil Mendelson At-Large 724-8064 pmendelson@dccouncil.us
• Jim Graham Ward 1 724-8181 jgraham@dccouncil.us
• Tommy Wells Ward 6 724-8072 twells@dccouncil.us
• Marion Barry Ward 8 724-8045 mbarry@dccouncil.us
• Kwame Brown At-Large 724-8174 kbrown@dccouncil.us
• Jack Evans Ward 2 724-8058 jevans@dccouncil.us
• Vincent Gray Chair 724-8068 vgray@dccouncil.us
• Harry Thomas, Jr. Ward 5 724-8028 hthomas@dccouncil.us
• Carol Schwartz At-Large 724-8105 cschwartz@dccouncil.us
• Mary Cheh Ward 3 724-8062 mcheh@dccouncil.us
• David Catania At-Large 724-7772 dcatania@dccouncil.us