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3,300 Pounds? Now, THAT'S a Pregnancy Weight Gain

Good friend Linda Moreland Weinmaster of Lawrence, Kan., is very concerned about the amount of mercury that is in the flu shots being given to everyone and his or her dog (really!) these days.

It’s almost laughable how the government is warning pregnant women and young children not to eat tuna because of the risk of ingesting mercury. Why? Because you could eat two ounces of tuna five days a week – 270 servings per year – before you’d approach the amount of mercury that may be in just one flu shot – which the government also is recommending that everybody get.

It’s a great, big, whoopin’ “uff da,” if you ask me.

Mrs. Weinmaster is nationally active in the effort to expose the link between mercury in childhood vaccinations and the explosion in the neurological disorder known as autism, as well as many other newly-emerging, mysterious, so-called “learning disabilities.” Her son Adam has autism.

Well, Linda figured out that for you to handle the 25 micrograms of mercury that may be contained in your flu shot, you really would need to weigh 550 pounds. So much for my Atkins diet.

That same mercury was common in childhood vaccinations given in the 1990s, Mrs. Weinmaster said, although the amount has been reduced more recently. A decade ago, the typical baby given three shots in one day at the two-month checkup most likely got 62.5 micrograms of mercury. In order to withstand that amount of poison, the baby would have to weigh 1,375 pounds.

Now, THAT’S a big baby. Ooh, think of the diapers. Quadruple uff da!

Mrs. Weinmaster traces some of her son’s mercury poisoning to the Rho Gam shot she received while pregnant, a common tactic to prevent problems associated with Rh incompatibility. She’s convinced it made things much, much worse for her son. She computed that to have absorbed the mercury in that one shot with no ill effects to her unborn son, she would have had to weigh 3,300 pounds that day.

Makes my ankles swell just to think about it.

For more on this important topic, see www.safeminds.org

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Prayer request: Father, give victories to activists such as Linda Weinmaster and to Missouri State Rep. Roy Holand of Springfield, who has proposed House Bill 852 that would outlaw mercury in all vaccines in that state beginning next year. Let the truth of what they are saying spread across the land and protect all of us, especially children, from disastrous consequences like autism. (2 John 2:2)