(CLICK
HERE TO GET THE MARCH 3 PRESS RELEASE.)
Your help is needed now more than ever!
I am writing you today asking you to join me and the other people who have
signed the petition against The MOTHERS Act. This Act, if passed, will implement
"education," "screening," and "treatment" programs for depression and psychosis
funded by taxpayers. The plan is to screen every expectant and new mother in the
USA for psychiatric disorders as defined by a scale created by psychiatrists and
get any woman at risk for or who shows warning signs of depression or psychosis
into psychiatric treatment. Far from benefiting mothers or society, this
legislation will only increase prescriptions with drugs such as
"antidepressants" and anticonvulsants which carry black box warnings for
doubling the risk of suicide, and have effects such as inducing homicide, mania,
and psychosis (the risk of psychosis while taking an antidepressant is increased
tenfold according to the package label, compared to the risk of developing
psychotic symptoms following childbirth in general - 1/100 versus 1/1000). These
drugs also cause spontaneous abortion, neonatal death, SIDS, and
life-threatening birth defects such as heart defects and often fatal lung
disorders in newborns. Antidepressant drugs are well known for causing
discontinuation syndrome making it nearly impossible for many people to safely
withdraw from the "medications." Women who take these drugs following the birth
of a child may become pregnant again without being able to get off the drugs,
putting their unborn babies in serious danger.
To date we have received signatures from such amazing child advocates as Marilyn
Milos of NOCIRC and Dr. Deborah Takikawa of What Babies Want. Our petition has
also been endorsed and circulated on the Hathor the Cowgoddess Website (http://www.thecowgoddess.com/2008/02/13/help-stop-the-mothers-act/).
There are also many other celebrities who have signed our petition. The
organizations already backing this petition consist of thousands of members,
including survivors of the drugs or family members of those lost because of
these drugs as well as prominent psychiatrists and psychologists, researchers
and advocates. Signing the petition is absolutely essential and very easy to do.
I ask that you immediately go to this url to sign your name either individually
or as a representative of your organization (please write in the comments if you
are endorsing it for your organization).
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act
You can sign anonymously if desired.
Then, I ask that you take additional steps to help us stop this nightmare
from being passed. Call or fax the 21 Senators on the HELP Committee and demand
that this bill not pass. (See the contact information at
http://www.uniteforlife.org/mothersactupdate.htm#contact) Ask them to
instead pass a ban on future similar acts which promote FDA-confirmed DANGEROUS
drugs to pregnant and new mothers or women of childbearing age. It is highly
shocking that these drugs were ever approved considering that the FDA knew the
drugs were ineffective treatments for depression. What is more shocking,
however, is that our government would consider attempting to get even more women
on these drugs, especially during a time in their lives when these women and
their children are incredibly vulnerable. What kind of person would encourage a
government program to target these vulnerable women?
This effort is not about denying any woman the right to make her own choice
of treatment should she feel the need to take a drug. This is about protecting
our rights as human beings, protecting our children's lives, protecting
motherhood itself, and safeguarding our future.
After you sign the petition, please contact
amy@uniteforlife.org immediately to
add your name or organization to a list of those who oppose the MOTHERS
Act and any bill like it. We will fax this list to all 21 Senators on the HELP
Committee as soon as possible. This is extremely urgent because the HELP
Committee considers this bill on Wednesday, March 5. From there it could go to
the Senate floor for nearly final passage quite quickly. It has already
been passed overwhelmingly by the House and all that will be required will be
for the House to approve any changes to wording from the Senate, and for
President Bush to sign the bill. Postpartum Support International is already
prepared to expedite the implementation of their proposed legislation, with
coordinators in many states ready to ensure compliance.
Thank you for your support and assistance. I look forward to hearing from you
about your organization's opposition to the MOTHERS Act.
(See these URLs for more information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQW23XCmOCw My video on the coercion of
doctors and psychiatry, and homicidal and suicidal urges that Zoloft caused me
after the birth of my first child. - "One Example of Why We MUST Stop the
MOTHERS Act"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4B8I_8wz6I - NBC News report on this bill
and our petition
http://uniteforlife.org/flyermom.htm Flyer with facts about the MOTHERS Act
http://www.uniteforlife.org/MOTHERpress.htm Official Press Release
Explaining in Detail The Dangers of the Bill)
Amy Philo
Founder, www.uniteforlife.org
Zoloft Survivor
Mother of two boys and home birth veteran
214-705-0169
817-793-8028
|
