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 ACTION
ALERT! Send a letter to your
Senator.
http://www.wellnessresources.com/health_freedom.php
URGENT! Sign the petition
here (we are sending
the signatures so far to Senator Kennedy):
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act
Your voice counts!
Stand up and speak out!
PREVENTABLE INFANT
DEATHS CAUSED BY PAXIL:
ACTUAL MEDWATCH REPORTS
The idea of The MOTHERS Act proponents accepting or publicizing any
abortion rights group's endorsement seems ridiculous in light of
numerous spontaneous abortions caused by the drugs.
April 24, 2008
The FDA MedWatch System catches between 1-10% of actual adverse events
linked to prescription drugs in the US. Those cases actually reported
and recorded give us an idea of what is really going on with these
drugs, and there are certainly FAR MORE reports of harm in the MedWatch
database than we were led to believe could occur from the initial
clinical trial "reports," or the estimation of the margin of safety or
risk-benefit ratios that many pro-drug advocates have expressed.
Antidepressant drugs double the risk of miscarriage or spontaneous
abortion and stillbirth, and quintuple the risk of preterm birth. With
SSRIs there is a six-fold increased risk of PPHN which is potentially
fatal (for those exposed babies who actually survive the pregnancy and
birth). With Paxil the risk of heart defects is much higher than with
other SSRIs. Even though drug labels often provide evidence of
significant harm and neonatal death, stillbirth, and spontaneous
abortions in animal studies, many doctors claim that the results found
in lab settings cannot be extrapolated or expected in humans. The excuse
that all drugs have side effects and not all drugs work for everyone has
been used to justify turning patients into guinea pigs while doctors
cross their fingers and hope for the best. But there are few situations
MORE inappropriate for experimentation than the one we are faced with
defending against, and that is a vulnerable pregnant woman or new mother
being put on drugs.
Unfortunately women are so frightened of becoming mothers these days
thanks to the frequent cases of child-murder or maternal suicide (which
are usually caused by antidepressants), that they will easily trust
doctors who tell them they've seen this before and that they feel it is
safest if the patient takes an antidepressant to avoid becoming too
dangerous to her child. That would be fine if the drugs actually
prevented suicide or homicide instead of causing them, or if they did
not risk killing the unborn or newborn baby upon exposure.
CDC data suggests that around 28,000
babies under the age of 1 die each year in the US from various causes.
Between 2004 and 2007 there were 65 reported spontaneous abortions
listed in the MedWatch database as reactions caused by Paxil alone. The
actual number of babies who died from spontaneous abortion because of
Paxil in the US for those years is probably somewhere between 650 and
6,500.
MedWatch reports list at least 110 total infant deaths from Paxil alone*
(not including reports of "abortion induced" or reports where it seems
that the baby actually died but the word death was not included on the
report - see below). This means that our country lost an estimated
1,100-11,000 babies due to Paxil exposure during pregnancy or the
neonatal period for those few years.
http://www.psychdrugdangers.com/MothersAct.html
These deaths were preventable. These lost babies deserved to live and
their mothers deserved to carry them to term safely.
At least half of all pregnant women on SSRIs are never warned of any of
the risks of these drugs for their unborn babies. Instead of trying to
legalize a mandatory "screening," "treatment" and "prevention" of
perinatal mood disorders effort like the notorious MOTHERS Act, what our
country and our leaders should instead be doing is getting these deadly
psychiatric drugs (let's start with all SSRIs and atypical
antipsychotics) OFF the market. Women are not being offered informed
consent now, and they certainly aren't being offered informed consent
under the proposed MOTHERS Act.
All of the babies and mothers who have died because of psychiatric drugs
would NOT want their deaths ignored, and in some cases twisted and used
as false examples of the "dangers of depression."
It doesn't make much sense to me why
anyone pushing for The MOTHERS Act would welcome the endorsement of an
abortion rights group, considering all of the infant deaths caused by
these drugs. ESPECIALLY not when you know that The MOTHERS Act proposes
doing more research on ethnic and racial minorities.
Just so you know which abortion rights groups are sponsoring the bill,
here is the reference:
"Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, and
NARAL, Pro-Choice America" (from Congressman Rush's October 16 press
release - the day after The House passed the bill).
The MOTHERS Act is also endorsed by a number of corrupt, financially
conflicted, and ill-informed organizations and drug advocates who
all-too-often carelessly recommend drugs without warning women that they
pose so many serious risks. Some of the groups sponsoring the
legislation have clear PhRMA ties while others simply benefit in other
ways when women are funneled into the "mental health" system.
Antidepressants are far from the only types of dangerous medications
given to pregnant women, and many doctors continue to ignore all known
risks of SSRIs like Paxil as though any reports or studies on the risks
are "unconfirmed" - putting countless lives at risk while making
arrogant and dangerous treatment decisions.
The ACOG reports that one third of all pregnant women in the US take
psychiatric drugs. The number of babies dying unnecessarily from
spontaneous (unwanted) abortion is astronomically high.
Using the Edinburgh Depression Scale has been shown to triple the
average number of women tagged with PPD diagnoses. Some doctors and drug
advocates even promote PROPHYLACTIC treatment with drugs, i.e. drugs
given to supposedly "PREVENT" depression from occurring! It is also
reported that doctors believe FAR MORE FREQUENTLY that antidepressants
are safe and effective than mothers do. Thus, it would seem that a
mandatory bill for screening and treatment would be a welcomed change
for any doctors who are tired of "noncompliance." When will our
WOMEN wake up and STAND UP for themselves? The white coat does not
indicate omniscience for whoever is wearing it!
With all this "prophylactic" drugging, I wonder, should we redefine PPD
as Post-Partum Drugging instead of Post-Partum Depression? The number of
pregnant women already taking drugs before they give birth is higher
than the estimated percentage of women who get PPD in the first place! I
suppose that means that PhRMA would like to drug women for any and every
reason possible so that way more than one third of childbearing-aged
women are on drugs. Never mind what happens to us or our children!
How could the market possibly grow any larger? Surely one third of
pregnant women is more than PhRMA should ever hope for! It makes no
sense that there would be a need for more greed and that anyone would be
willing to put up with any more deaths.
PhRMA must be running scared because of all the negative press on
antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs. I suppose it's possible
that the Black Box suicide labels, the studies proving that
antidepressants don't work, all of the advocacy from our allies, FDA
corruption investigations, and criticism over direct to consumer
advertising would lead PhRMA to seek government mandates and get a free
ticket to a stable or growing market, especially one that has the
potential to create so much more "depression" by bringing about deaths
that will cause grieving families to resort to drugs... and damage the
bodies of any babies who do survive so severely that PhRMA will be able
to have a customer for life (whether for heart problems or because of
drug addiction that began in the womb).
It's time for the guilty parties to fess up... because we are not fooled
into thinking that depression causes spontaneous abortion or
transposition of the great arteries, or into thinking that a woman who
committed suicide after being given four consecutive triple-drug
cocktails along with electroshock would have fared worse with NO
treatment (or more preferably, SAFE treatments) than she did with
multiple, toxic, suicide-black-box-labeled drugs and
electrically-induced seizures.
Please stand up for yourself and our future mothers and families and
unborn babies. Demand our right to say NO to dangerous medications, now,
before the government takes that away from us more than they already
have!!!
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* From Sam at
psychdrugdangers.com who has taken the FDA data and put it into a
readable table for analysis (the FDA does not provide a readable
version nor do they seem to be paying attention to the records in
their database):
"Also note that
there are several records where it looks like the baby died at birth
or within a few days of being born (e.g., Cases 6358054, 6413898,
6413900, 6414433) that are not included in the "Deaths" tally
because "Death" is not listed as an adverse reaction. My program
that generates the html pages doesn't have the ability to check for
Date of Death matching Date of Event if "Death" is not in the
Reactions list. I think the omission of a "death" adverse reaction
is due to the fact that these reports appear to be written about the
mother who was taking the drug, not the infant (you also see a
number of "abortion spontaneous" that don't list a Date of Death, I
think because the mother didn't die)."
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