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Mothers Act: Pregnancy as Mental Illness
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Byron Richards
Wellness Resources
March 14, 2008
Immediate Consumer Action is Needed to Stop Mothers Act.
The Mothers Act is pending legislation that will indoctrinate hundreds of thousands of mothers into taking dangerous psych drugs. It is a great example of how the Big Pharma lobby controls Congress to the detriment of health, as well as needlessly and dramatically inflating the costs of our health care system for everyone. Like any piece of legislation it purports to address a troubling issue – in this case the mood distress of mothers following birth known as postpartum depression. It is true that 10% – 15% of women need some assistance in dealing with this topic – but the majority of them sure don’t need it from Big Pharma. That is the Big Lie.
The Mothers Act (S. 1375: Mom’s Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act) has the net affect of reclassifying the natural process of pregnancy and birth as a mental disorder that requires the use of unproven and extremely dangerous psychotropic medications (which can also easily harm the child). Urgent consumer action (see below) is needed to stop this atrocity, as the Senate could now vote any day.
It is my understanding that the process of birth, the intimate bonding of mother and child, and the placing of significant responsibility on the father is all part of a healthy culture and the backbone of the fabric that makes strong families and consequently our great nation. I fail to see why we need laws that force health care professionals to emphasize the idea that the process is some type of mental illness affecting 80% of all women – what a bogus pile of crap.
The Mothers Act proposes sweeping and dramatic changes in the delivery of pregnancy care by all health professionals. It demands that health professionals indoctrinate pregnant women into mental health treatment options for mild depression-like symptoms experienced during or following pregnancy, including moderate symptoms they call “baby blues” which they say affects 80% of pregnant women. In other words, this is a massive federate health mandate to get the majority of pregnant and nursing mothers on psych drugs – a new target market for Big Pharma.
The bill was obviously written by the Big Pharma lobby and its passage into law would be considered laughable except that it is actually happening. The bill seeks to require taxpayer-funded grants to treat postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, as defined in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. For those of you who don’t know, this is the manual of vaguely defined mental health issues used by Big Pharma to allow the sale of their expensive psych drugs and get payment from Medicare and Medicaid at taxpayer expense. While some people certainly need help, this system racks up billions in fraudulent sales per year – including the sale of dangerous antipsychotic medications to our children. The Big Pharma lobby last year spent tens of millions to ensure the government would continue to cover vulnerable children so they could capitalize on this blatant scam.
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As far as the Mothers Act goers, how can taxpayers be expected to pay for drug treatments when the problem that isn’t even understood? As the bill freely acknowledges “The causes of postpartum depression are complex and unknown.” In a mysterious leap of faith the bill says that this condition requires medication to treat it even though such medication has never been proven clinically effective and carries serious side effect risks for the mother and baby, including cardiovascular birth defects.
The bill goes on to set up a system of taxpayer-funded grants to pay for the treatments. It even commits you the taxpayer to funding “clinical research for the development and evaluation of new treatments for postpartum conditions, including new biological agents.” This means taxpayers will now foot the bill of Big Pharma drug development including the most dangerous new category of totally unproven pie-in-the-sky biological drugs that cost hundreds of billions of dollars to develop and can irreparably injure within minutes!
Yes, and once you have paid a fortune to develop these biological gene-altering agents then you will pay the drug companies price so that they can be freely dispensed to hundreds of thousands of pregnant and nursing mothers. Taxpayers will be on the hook for tens of billions of wasted dollars.
Immediate Consumer Action is Needed
The Mothers Act has already passed the House (H.R. 20, the Melanie Blocker Stokes Postpartum Depression, Research and Care Act). Word has it that it is being snuck out of the HELP committee on Thursday or Friday of this week and may be rammed through the Senate without any debate before the Easter break.
Rather unbelievably up to this point is that the cause of defeating this legislation has fallen onto the shoulders of one young mother, Amy Philo. When she struggled with postpartum stress she was placed on the very same psych drugs advocated for use in the Mothers Act legislation. She began having violent thoughts towards her child and suicidal thinking. Her not very bright doctor had her double and then triple her dose, nearly killing her. She is lucky to be alive today and wants to warn other mothers of the dangers inherent in the Mothers Act. Click here if you would like to view her YouTube story.
Immediate consumer action is needed to stop the Big Pharma-crafted Mothers Act. Here are the two action steps you can take right now to help make a difference:
1) Go to my CapWiz page and with two clicks of a mouse send an opposition letter to your Senators.
2) Sign this petition, which is being used to pressure Senators on the HELP committee.
As natural health care professionals my wife Mary and I have helped many women with pregnancy and postpartum health issues. We have plenty of experience in natural options that work and four grown children of our own. To read more about natural solutions I have used for years click here. To read more about Mary’s tips on successful pregnancy, her view on the Mothers Act, and to post your own comments on the issue, click here.
THE MOTHERS ACT MUST BE STOPPED – YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED.
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March 14th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Well isnt that just great.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:42 am
please yes. what kind of mess is this the person who wants this funded must have had a mother who hated them
March 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
well it says nothing in the bill of forcing mothers to take medications, it moslty describes educating mothers after giving birth, about post partum, what it is and what to look out for, and screening the moms to see if they are suffering. I studied the dsm in class and according to the professor just because you have a bad day or 2 doesn’t mean you get put on meds. but i tell you i have seen some moms who do completely freak out and become absolutely worthless, not wanting to hold the baby and etc— that girl was nuts before she had the baby and she was definitely worse afterwards–she would’ve benefited from such a thing cause her poor hubby had no idea what was wrong other than maybe he married and bred with the wrong girl
March 14th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
‘I’ did that before,but ‘I’ never married her. Marrying is one thing but having a baby nowadays?Hmmm. Big Sister says “use contraceptives!”
March 14th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
THIS ACT WILL BE GOOD FOR MORE ” LACE’S ” KILLING THEMSELF WHO NEEDS THIS ACT?
A MONSTERS ALWAYS MONRTRES ON THIS CAOUNTRY ARE GOING TOO FAR
STOP THE MONSTER AND THE CRIMINAL’S NOW
March 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
news flash, all humans who eat food are mentally ill, except the doctors
March 14th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Message to the Pharms: You take take your meds and shove ‘em, you qwacks!
Pregnancy and birth is a natural occurence that’s been happening for THOUSANDS of years, not a mental disorder.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Dammit….. They are poisoning everything….
March 14th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I know this will sound crazy but I believe anybody who is not a Bible believing Christian is not of a sound mind, because in the book of II Timothy, chapter 1, verse 7, the Bible says to the Bible believing Christian, that, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” Therefore a sound mind only comes from God. Now, realize not everyone that calls themselves a Christian, really is a Christian. A true Bible believing Christian will have a sound mind even if the world is caving in around them.
Anyone can become a Bible believing Christian by turning from their sinful life, and believing that Jesus Christ is God, and he took your sins on the cross, and took your punishment in Hell for your sins, and arose from the dead on the third day to take his blood into Heaven, and used it to wash away your sins in the Judgement Books, and he is coming back to put down the Governments of this world and reign as King.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Those monsterous criminals now target even pregnant women and so their unborns inside as well already
alone by confronting them with this new laws coming up. I guess it’s not the last we see from them! They want to expose their growing evilness and that way they show how fearfull they are inside, their hearts rottened, their souls lost, so they want the innocent to pay.
HANDS OFF YOU DEVILS!!!
The good news: these criminals, called rulers, will loose ’solidarity’ amongst themselves and loose control.
If so such laws come through, forcing pregnant to take drugs:
time for REAL MASSIVE actions – no way we let pregnants alone with this!
March 14th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
yet another “condition” being “diagnosed” to push potentially seriously harmful psychoactives onto the people, ad in this case, mothers and their unborn babies.
I’m sure everything theyre trying to describe, for most people, could be “treated” or “cured” by the expectant mother having a toke or two of POT and relaxing. I cant say “studies have shown” because I cannot readily cite the sources for verification, but the information as I understand it, is that THC does not cross the placenta to negatively affect the baby’s development. I have known several DOZENS of women who have smoked a little pot through their terms, all of them gave birth to healthy children.
but here comes “big-pharma” with their corporate dollar bought doctors and lobbyists to buy new laws mandating potentially dangerous snake oil preparations to shove down peoples throats as they label them as some type of mental case…. gee thanks?
March 14th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
GIVE ME LIBERY OR GIVE ME DEATH! This bill is VOID says The Constitution!!!!!!!!!! – For those who havent read it READ IT and know your RIGHTS! For Those of you who have taken an oath to uphold and keep The constitution of the united states and haven’t … I PETITION YOU! WE THE PEOPLE HOLD THE POWER! AND I SAY YOUR FIRED!!!!!
March 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Sees Things. Soon, 911 truthers and other “conspiracy nuts”, will be diagnosed with a strange newly identified and classified “condition”, and will be taken SOMEWHERE for “treatment”. LOL
March 14th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Even the limited common sense of the most below average IQ John or Jane Doe would naturally deduce that foreign man made chemicals are NOT good for pregnant women.
Especially visciously harmful phsychotropic drugs such as Luvox, Prozac, and many others.
What has been proven good for pregnant women, is organic and healthy foods, fruits, grains, vegetables, milk, protiens, vitamins, regular healthy sleep, a low stress happy and loving enviornment, occaisional classical music, and reading intelligent books.
Legislation such as S1375, is yet further proof of a vast, organized, ill begotten conspiracy.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Sees Things-Quote: but the information as I understand it,is that THC does not cross the placenta to negatively affect the baby’s development. How does ‘but the information as I understand it’ stand as being fact? Could be fact today fiction tomorrow depending on who is giving you the info.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Big Pharma only equals early death
My girls haven’t taken drugs since their first breath
I was raised taking herbs and eating well
Birthed my girls at my home, that was hell
Yes, I encountered the baby blues
But positive thinking got me through
When you feel you have nothing else to lose
You look in those eyes and you see your own baby blues
We don’t need pharmaceutical drugs shoved into new moms
They need only to be with their love bombs
March 15th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I am a hardened Anti-Psychiatry campaigner and will be posting a copy of this article on some Yahoo groups such as criticalpsychiatry. But I am not a US citizen so will have to forward this information to my US counter-parts.
I will be putting some of this article on my beginner’s Anti-Psychiatry group on the Infowars social networking site too.
Medicalisation is as much a part of the assault on liberty as the bogus war on terror.
March 15th, 2008 at 8:38 am
#15 randy, I clearly stated that I’m unable to cite sources for the information, you’re perfectly entitled to agree or disagree offhandedly, or look deeper into it for yourself whether or not it may be fact or fiction. I did not attempt to present it as verifiable fact. among other studies I have read is a finding that someone who is intoxicated by alcohol, will typically be a safer driver if they have smoked a little pot, driving slower, not uninhibited as would be alcohol by itself. this isn’t saying I endorse driving under the influence of an intoxicant, or mixed intoxicants. understand?
March 15th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Gabriel A. King –
Sadly, you’re probably right about that.
But my guess is, they’ll just label us all as “terrorists”.
It’ll be much easier for them.
What’s really sad about this bill, is that it’s sponsored by the
spineless, cowardly democrats! Even Chris Dodd is a co-sponsor!!
Put a fork in it, this country is done.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Well I’m going to show this to everyone. This will open a lot of people’s eyes. What a bunch of dumb f---s.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:42 am
An interesting chemical warfare battle…
They couldn’t stop women from giving birth, so they’ll stop them from raising children with a sane mind.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 am
NOTE how those pushing to stop this Act do not QUOTE the proposal they INTERPRET it for you! Because if you READ it you might see it promotes EDUCATION (520K c) 1) and RESEARCH about this illness. YES it does not EXCLUDE medical intervention but it DOES promote SOCIAL SUPPORT. And yes, Sec. 520 c) 1) C) “SCREENING AND REFERRAL” states “State..shall ensure that new mothers…within the first year after the birth of their child , are offered screenings…” NOTE THE WORD “offered”.
Those who oppose this are opposing INFORMATION and PATIENT CHOICE. Do you want to keep the STATUS QUO? You are all complaining about just that. But this bill, endorsed by MIDWIVES, the INTENATIONAL organization that promotes POSTPARTUM SUPPORT, is what you want to DEFEAT?? Educate yourselves. If it seems incredulous that such organizations would push FORCING meds on women — then maybe it IS NOT TRUE!!