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Just in -- McCain Supports Parental Vaccination Choice

McCain Supports Parental Vaccination Choice and Prioritizes Vaccine Safety. Obama Silent Despite Repeated Overtures from Parents

Contact: Rebecca Estepp, 858-829-6454, MilMom2000@gmail.com; Claudine Liss 310-970-2485, dineliss@aol.com

POWAY, Calif., October 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rebecca Estepp is a military spouse and the mother of two boys, including a vaccine-injured child with autism. Her husband, a Marine, has served three war-time deployments in the past five years. "You would think the war would be the most important issue to me, but it's not. The war will be over at some point but the effects of vaccine damage will last for generations." Estepp cites the neurotoxins injected into American babies and expresses deep concern about the injury and damage they may be causing, saying "It weighs heavily on my heart."

For these reasons, Estepp made and sent a two-minute video entitled "Vaccine Safety Requests For Our Next Commander-in-Chief" to the two Presidential candidates in May 2008. She made a plea for our next President to issue two Executive Orders within the first one hundred days of entering office; the first, removal all mercury from all vaccines by January 1, 2010, the second, a moratorium on the addition of new vaccines to the recommended list for children until the current vaccine schedule can be proven safe. Says Estepp, "Children deserve to be protected from diseases that can harm or kill them but we need to be sure that in our efforts to prevent disease, we haven't created lifelong chronic illness and disabilities."

On October 20th, Estepp received a detailed response from Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy advisor to the McCain campaign. Vaccine safety is officially on the McCain agenda. If elected, McCain said he "will work with all agencies to take all necessary steps in an expedient manner to ensure safe vaccines for every American family." And, significantly, McCain also endorsed parental vaccination choice. In response to the new vaccine moratorium request, McCain offered: "The key to health care reform is to restore control to the patients themselves." The full text is provided in the October 23rd post on Age of Autism (AoA) www.ageofautism.com.

In contrast, Team Obama has declined to officially clarify its position. Estepp is disappointed: "When asked about vaccine safety, he wrote a general autism position statement and didn't even mention the word vaccine." A copy of his letter to Rebecca Estepp is provided in the same AoA post. The words "vaccine safety" are not found in any Obama campaign materials or speeches.

Taking matters into her own hands, New Jersey parent Claudine Liss attended an Obama fundraiser with the express intention of getting an answer. Liss explains, "I shook his hand and would not let go until he answered my question. He looked right at me and said, 'I am not for selective vaccination. I believe it will bring back deadly diseases, like polio.'" Liss and many others are declining to vaccinate their children using the CDC-recommended schedule. New Jersey parents are furious about the first-ever mandated flu shot required for day care and preschool. Seven hundred people rallied in Trenton last week in support of vaccination choice. The freedom of choice issue resonates deeply and has made national news, with coverage on Fox News TV, ABC World News Tonight and an Associated Press article that was picked up by dozens of papers across the country.

Estepp extends a final plea to Senator Obama to clarify his position: "This is a party-neutral issue and many of our parents are waiting to make up their minds. Senator McCain says parents have the final say in how they vaccinate their children. Senator Obama appears to disagree. I sincerely hope that Senator Obama misspoke that night in New Jersey and he lets us know before November 4th."