Fancast got a chance to visit the Chelsea Lately show's 100th episode taping today, featuring celebrity guest Jenny McCarthy, who called for the resignation of the director of the Center for Disease Control, Julie Gerberding, for what she says is her inability to make vaccinations safe for kids even in the face of evidence that autism may be related to certain vaccinations (as many of her fans know, her son, Evan, was diagnosed with autism). On tonight's Chelsea Lately episode, she will issue a call to action to Chelsea's audience by asking them to telephone the direct line to the White House (202.456.1414) and demand for Ms. Gerbeding's resignation. An open letter to the autism community after the jump.
Watch Jenny's call to action tonight at 11:30pm on E! and watch the latest Chelsea Lately clips at Fancast.
By Jenny McCarthy
I’m asking all parents and autism groups to join me in demanding Julie Gerberding’s immediate resignation as Director of the CDC.On Monday, March 10th, beginning at 9:00am Eastern Daylight Time, let’s all start calling the White House and ask President Bush & Laura Bush to demand Julie Gerberding’s resignation for incompetence during the autism epidemic. The White House switchboard can be reached at:202-456-1414
Also, on the same day, please call your local Congressperson and Senators from your state and ask them to call for her resignation, too.
Julie Gerberding has led the CDC for 6 years during a time when the autism epidemic has only gotten worse. Despite tens of thousands of children who declined just like Hannah Poling, Ms. Gerberding stood before cameras yesterday defiant, cold, and defensive. Where is her humanity in the face of such tragedy? Why couldn’t she have said, “We at CDC want to make sure what happened to Hannah doesn’t happen to any other children, we want to make vaccines safe”? Rather than listen to the heartbreaking stories of so many parents, you can be sure that Ms. Gerberding is spending her time right now trying to get the Spin Machine up and running to minimize, confuse, and deceive the American public.
The autism epidemic won’t end until we fix the vaccine schedule by reducing total vaccines, separating shots, waiting until our kids are older to begin shots, greening our vaccines, and screening for at-risk kids. Ms Gerberding has stood by and watched self-interested parties more than triple our vaccine schedule and I’m certain her inactivity to help our kids will continue.The chances of Ms. Gerberding taking the radical steps to reform the CDC and reform our vaccine schedule to make it kid-safe are zero! We need a new CDC Director who is an open-minded reformer and who recognizes that we are experiencing an epidemic of autism, which Ms. Gerberding has never publicly admitted.
Please, parents and national autism organizations, let’s all help make our voices heard on Monday.
Thank you,
Jenny McCarthy
