BUSH REDUCING CHILDREN'S IQ THROUGH MERCURY EXPOSURE

Bush "reducing children's IQ through mercury exposure"

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Advocacy groups today accused US President George W. Bush of trying to reduce children's IQ through mercury-induced neurological disorders such as autism, attention deficit disorder, language delay and learning difficulties in children by deciding to veto a bill that would have banned mercury in infant vaccines.

President Bush is calling for an amendment that would remove the children's safety provision from the FY 2008 HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill.

According to the President, measures to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, are "objectionable provisions".

Autism advocacy group SafeMinds is spearheading a campaign against President Bush's actions, claiming that under his watch, mercury has been and will continue to be knowingly injected into the millions of children.

According to activists and some medical professionals, the controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal has been linked by thousands of parents as being the cause of their children's mercury poisoning and autism.

Professor Philippe Grandjean, from Harvard University and the University of Southern Denmark, considered the foremost scientific authority on the development of children's brains, claimed that human society is losing its intelligence as IQ points in the population are being chemically destroyed through low level mercury exposure.

Groups claimed that President Bush promised to remove mercury from infant vaccines during his 2004 campaign by saying: "I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide variety of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely included or excluded."

They accuse the President of reneging on his promise after being elected and now going as far to actively oppose any measures that would remove Thimerosal from vaccines.

SafeMinds point out that according to the EPA, one in every six women of childbearing age already has blood levels of mercury high enough to cause neurological damage to their unborn children due to environmental exposures alone.

"Injecting even more mercury into the bodies of pregnant women, infants and children when it is not a necessary component of vaccines is just bad medicine," said Lyn Redwood, president of SafeMinds and parent of a mercury-injured child. "It defies logic that a flu vaccine must be disposed of as a hazardous waste if it is not used, but somehow injecting the same mercury-containing vaccine into a baby is safe."