Naptime Nostalgia

So, today in Washington D.C. Talk About Curing Autism had a rally at the Washington Monument to gather support and raise awareness about vaccines. Their campaign rally was entitled "Green Our Vaccines". And I would've given just about anything to have been there.

As many of you know Jenny McCarthy is TACA's spokesperson. I am just in awe of her and all the work she has done in behalf of this organization, and for Mom's and Dad's of children with Autism all over the world.

I know this is a really sensitive subject and people feel very strongly one way or another usually, but I wanted to get the information out to all my mom and mom-to-be readers so they could make an informed decision about vaccinations for themselves.

Green Our Vaccines are not anti-vaccines, they just think we need to take the toxins out, and reconfigure the schedule in which we give these to our children. Too Many, Too Soon is their slogan. Here is what their website says,

"Please join Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey for the most historical event of 2008, the Green Our Vaccines Rally. Jenny and Jim are working hard to eliminate all toxins from our children's vaccines and have our national health agencies reassess the mandatory vaccine schedule, as our children are receiving TOO MANY, TOO SOON. While Jenny and Jim support the vaccine program, like many, they feel vaccines are too toxic. This country has the ability to provide a safer vaccine supply and schedule to our children and they ask you to join them to demand this for our country's greatest asset, our children.

Demand Congress take action to Green Our Vaccine Supply while reassessing our current vaccine schedule. Ask Congress to reenact legislation that would eliminate mercury and other toxins from our children's vaccines, study the instance of Autism and other neurological disorders in vaccinated versus unvaccinated children, and to extend the statute of limitations to allow all children affected by vaccine induced Autism to file in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP)."

For more info, and to read up on the subject and make an informed decision please visit these reputable websites:

http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/

http://www.momsagainstmercury.org/

http://www.healautismnow.org/

http://www.generationrescue.com/

For those of you who don't think this is a big deal, it's bigger than anything else out there. One in 150 kids get diagnosed with Autism.

A new case of autism is diagnosed nearly every 20 minutes
There are 24,000 new cases diagnosed in the U.S. per year
The economic impact of autism is more than $90 billion and expected to more than double in the next decade.
Autism receives less than 5% of the research funding of many less prevalent childhood diseases.
There is no medical detection treatment, or cure for autism.

BETTER DIAGNOSIS? Some of suggested that autism is just being better diagnosed today versus ten years ago and that many cases of mental retardation are now being coded as autism. This would also assume that the experts diagnosing autism before did not know what they were doing.This is NOT TRUE. Autism is the only rising dramatically disorder while mental retardation, Down syndrome, and cystic fibrosis remain relatively the same. Autism is now more prevalent among California children than cerebral palsy.
GIRLS VS. BOYS: Autism often strikes boys more often than girls – roughly four times more common in boys. With statistics being 1 in every 150 children that makes it 1 in every 94 males.

This is an epidemic! Read up and educate yourself!