In response to the Autism Speaks/Pennsylvania Autism Insurance Bill fiasco - the following email was sent from PA Speaker O’Brien.

AN OPEN LETTER TO AUTISM SPEAKS FROM SPEAKER O’BRIEN
July 12, 2008

Mr. Robert C. Wright
Co-Founder, Autism Speaks
2 Park Avenue
11th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Dear Bob:

We have a collective mission to create a world in which persons with autism have every opportunity to participate fully in society, to live meaningful and independent lives, to receive the respect they deserve and to have the supports necessary for them to reach the innate potential we know them to have. It’s never been an easy mission, and it doesn’t often permit us the luxury of a pause in the action to reflect on success.
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