Parental rights over their children are up for a vote

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[prj] Parental rights over their children are up for a vote

 

 

June 21, 2005

 

The American tradition of parents deciding what is best for their children

is

under attack. The pharmaceutical industry wants universal mental screening

for

every child in America, including preschool children. But universal

screening

alone is not what the pharmaceutical industry wants. The real payoff for the

drug companies is the drugging of children that will result - as we learned

tragically with Ritalin - even when parents refuse!

 

The drug companies want your children to be " screened. " The psychiatric

establishment wants to do the " screening. " And even a recent presidential

commission (New Freedom Commission on Mental Health) supports it all. These

powerful groups want your children " screened " -- whether or not you, as

parents, give permission.

 

Congressman Ron Paul, an OB/GYN physician for over 30 years, is desperately

trying to keep the drug companies, politicians and federal bureaucrats from

becoming parents to your children. Dr. Paul will introduce this week an

amendment to the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Act for FY 2006

that

will withhold funds from being used to implement or support any federal,

mental screening program.

 

In a letter to his congressional colleagues, Dr. Paul states: " As you know,

psychotropic drugs are increasingly prescribed for children who show nothing

more than children's typical rambunctious behavior. Many children have

suffered harmful effects from these drugs. Yet some parents have even been

charged with child abuse for refusing to drug their children. The federal

government should not promote national mental health screening programs that

will force the use of these psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin. "

 

Dr. Karen R. Effrem, a pediatrician and leading opponent of universal

screening with EdAction states: " Universal mental health screening and the

drugging of children, as recommended by the New Freedom Commission

[presidential commission], needs to be stopped so that many thousands if

not

millions of children will be saved from receiving stigmatizing diagnoses

that

would follow them for the rest of their lives. America's school children

should not be medicated by expensive, ineffective, and dangerous medications

based on vague and dubious diagnoses. "

 

Merging screening with the academic standards required by No Child Left

Behind, as is happening in Illinois, will lead to diagnosis for political

reasons. School mental health and violence prevention programs funded by

NCLB

and government counterterrorism operations are already using such criteria

as

" homophobia " and " defenders of the US Constitution against federal

government

and the UN " to label school children and US citizens as mentally unstable

and

violent. (EdAction.org)

 

Urge your U.S. representative to vote " YES " on the Paul amendment to stop

universal mental screening of children. If your U.S. representative does not

vote " yes " on the Paul amendment, he or she supports screening your children

without your permission -- just as the drug companies want.

 

The U.S. House will vote on the Paul amendment Thursday or Friday. Send your

email message today and call your U.S. representative too. Also, please

spread

the word.

 

Send an Email Message

http://capwiz.com/liberty/issues/alert/?alertid=7744451 & type=CO

 

Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121

 

Kent Snyder

The Liberty Committee

http://www.thelibertycommittee.org