Big Pharma Profit Enhancement and Population Control Bill
A bill recently introduced in the US Senate, the “Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005” (S. 1873) aims to shortcut the testing procedures for new vaccines and drugs in case of a pandemic and to protect vaccine-makers from legal liability in case the drug causes adverse reactions.
The US National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has called the bill, which passed out of the US Senate HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness the 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 jury-heard court case if they are harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by the government to take whenever Federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
The bill allows for the establishment of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) as the single point of authority within the government for R & D into drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks such as the flu. BARDA would operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, ensuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as “countermeasures” will become public.
Nicknamed the “Bioshield Two,” the legislation is being pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard by their elected representatives.
The legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal safeguards applied to vaccines as well as remove the right of children and adults harmed by vaccines and drugs to present their cases in front of a jury in a civil court of law.
(Source: NVIC press release, October 19, 2005, http://www.nvic.org)
The US National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has called the bill, which passed out of the US Senate HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness the 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 jury-heard court case if they are harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by the government to take whenever Federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
The bill allows for the establishment of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) as the single point of authority within the government for R & D into drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks such as the flu. BARDA would operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, ensuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as “countermeasures” will become public.
Nicknamed the “Bioshield Two,” the legislation is being pushed rapidly through Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard by their elected representatives.
The legislation will eliminate both regulatory and legal safeguards applied to vaccines as well as remove the right of children and adults harmed by vaccines and drugs to present their cases in front of a jury in a civil court of law.
(Source: NVIC press release, October 19, 2005, http://www.nvic.org)
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