Branding Pregnancy as Mental Illness: Immediate Consumer Action Needed to Stop M

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Branding Pregnancy as Mental Illness: Immediate Consumer Action Needed to

Stop Mothers Act

_http://www.naturalnews.com/022853.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/022853.html)

 

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_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/Big_Pharma.html) . That is

the Big Lie.

 

The Mothers Act (S. 1375: Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education,

Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act)

_http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1375_

(http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1375) has the net

affect of reclassifying the natural process

of pregnancy and birth as a _mental disorder_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/mental_disorder.html)

_http://www.naturalnews.com/mental_disorder.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/mental_disorder.html) that requires the use of

unproven and extremely dangerous psychotropic _medications_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/medications.html) (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_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/health_care.html)

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_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/pregnancy.html) care by all health

professionals. It demands that health professionals indoctrinate _pregnant

women_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/pregnant_women.html) 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_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/mental_health.html) 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.

 

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_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/depression.html) are complex and unknown. " In a

mysterious leap of faith

the bill says that this condition requires _medication_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/medication.html) 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_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/legislation.html) 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. Link to her

You Tube post: _