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Stop The Mom's Act: Tell Your Senators- No More Big Pharma!

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Please Help Us STOP THE MOM'S ACT Now!

Help us stop the Mom's Act by signing the attached petition and writing to your Senators that I have listed below.

What is the Mom's Act and why you should be concerned?
The Mom's Act language is in and of itself not that alarming to most people who do not read between the lines. You must know by now that there are few bills that get passed that do not have other motives or is just a step to another end. This bill seems innocent enough until you understand that it is the lack of language that raises concern.

The Mom's Act is just another of Big Pharma's bills to get new mothers and pregnant mothers hooked on drugs.This is a dangerous drug pushing bill. I have done a lot of research on Anti Depressants drugs and these are drugs that must be avoided. There are many natural ways to deal with baby blues, post partum depression and depression during pregnancy. There are serious side effects from anti depressants taking during pregnancy and cause SIDS, birth defects, spontaneous abortion and still births.

Bill S.1375 is currently in the Senate part of the legislative process
. It was introduced to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on March 11, 2008. This bill was authored by Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, Senators Bernard Sanders (VT), Sherrod Brown (OH), and Christopher Dodd (CT). It has already passed the House with just 3 no votes. This just goes to show how much power Big Pharma really has over the House and the Senate. They are on break right now and will be back on March 31st.

The bill is supposed to screen women during their pregnancies for depression and postpartum depression and treat them with anti depressants during and after pregnancy. This is yet another more government involved in your life bill. This is another step towards taking away your right to say no to what is put in your body.

What happens if you say that you do not want to have the drugs? Will your children be taken away from you because you are labeled as a danger to them for refusing to take government mandated drug treatments? All the research clearly shows that these are the very drugs that can cause side effects of violence, hysteria and hallucinations. This bill is being pushed through as though they really want to help new mothers to deal with post partum depression. This is not the case. Do not be fooled by this bill. There is a voluntary teenage bill that is a lot like this and it was passed. The teens who have volunteered for the screening; 90% of those teens were medicated!

This is yet another danger sign of nationalized health care. This will be just one of the areas of more government control over your life that will become enforced by states.



Here is the very vague language of the bill:


Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act or the MOTHERS Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to:

(1) states to provide to women who have recently given birth and their families, before such women leave their birthing centers, education concerning postpartum depression, postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, and postpartum psychosis and to screen new mothers for such postpartum conditions during their first year of postnatal checkup visits; and

(2) public or nonprofit private entities to provide for the delivery of essential services to individuals with such postpartum conditions and their families.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the heads of other federal agencies that administer federal health programs, to organize a series of national meetings that are designed to develop a research plan for postpartum depression and psychosis.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to expand and intensify research relating to postpartum conditions to carry out such plan.


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  1. Sign the petition at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act
  2. After you sign the petition, read and distribute the press release found at http://uniteforlife.org/MOTHERpress.htm
  3. Contact your senator(s) by fax and/or telephone at the following numbers:

Republicans

Sen. Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Tele: 202-224-3424
Fax: 202-228-0359

Sen. Judd Gregg (NH)
Tele: 202-224-3324
Fax: 202-224-4952

Sen. Lamar Alexander (TN)
Tele: 202-224-4944
Fax: 202-228-3398

Sen. Richard Burr (NC)
Tele: 202-224-3154
Fax: 202-228-2981

Sen. Johnny Isakson (GA)
Tele: 202-224-3643
Fax: 202-228-0724

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Tele: 202-224-6665
Fax: 202-224-5301

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Tele: 202-224-5251
Fax: 202-224-6331

Sen. Pat Roberts (KS)
Tele: 202-224-4774
Fax: 202-224-3514

Sen. Wayne Allard (CO)
Tele: 202-224-5941
Fax: 202-224-6471

Sen. Tom Coburn (OK)
Tele: 202-224-5754
Fax: 202-224-6008

Democrats

Edward Kennedy (MA)
Tele: 202-224-4543
Fax: 202-224-2417

Christopher Dodd (CT) - co-sponsor of the bill.
Tele: 202-224-2823
Fax: 202-224-1083

Tom Harkin (IA)
Tele: 202-224-3254
Fax: 202-224-9369

Barbara Mikulski (MD)
Tele: 202-224-4654
Fax: 202-224-8858

Jeff Bingaman (NM)
Tele: 202-224-5521
Fax: 202-224-2852

Patty Murray (WA)
Tele: 202-224-2621
Fax: 202-224-0238

Jack Reed (RI)
Tele: 202-224-4642
Fax: 202-224-4680

Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY)
Tele: 202-224-4451
Fax: 202-228-0282

Barack Obama (IL) - co-sponsor of the bill
Tele: 202-224-2854
Fax: 202-228-4260

Bernard Sanders (VT) - co-sponsor of the bill
Tele: 202-224-5141
Fax: 202-228-0776

Sherrod Brown (OH) - co-sponsor of the bill
Tele: 202-224-2315
Fax: 202-228-6321


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Comments (29)

Broker Nick
South Florida Real Estate & Development, Inc. - Coconut Creek, FL
Broker Nick Relocation Broker Service
Thanks Katerina, I will read it let you know what I think, as usual. God Bless
Mar 24, 2008 12:50 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Simon- The point is that Big Pharma is backing this bill. The language is very vague but we have to be naive to not know where they are going with this. They want all the states to do screenings of all pregnant women and mothers of newborns to check for signs of depression and if those signs are there to offer treatment. If you read in Krista's comment you will see that even without this bill, the doctors write in their files when you refuse drugs.I have a daughter with bi polar and not once was changing her diet ever even mentioned! And yet, her diet changes are what saved her life. The drugs made her suicidal. That is a side effect of these mind altering drugs. I have spoken at length with a drug rehab owner in Britain who says it is easier to get people addicted to Heroin to kick the habit than to get people off of legalized prescription drugs. 

The point is when you say no to their drugs, what will happen to the moms? Will the baby be taken away? Will they be treated like some whacko like my other daughter who refused to have her baby be vaccinated?

This is one more step towards nationalized drugging of our people and losing our constitutional rights and a nationalized medical program would be in the best interest of Big Pharma.  

Mar 24, 2008 01:33 PM
Kristi Holloway
Anchor South Real Estate - Denham Springs, LA
You'll always feel at home with Kristi!

Chuck,

I made it through OK and my baby is soooooo happy. I mean it, all the time! I was on an antidepressant about 5 years before I got pregnant for about 1 year. I quit cold turkey (no one told me I shouldn't) and I had short term memory loss and something like electrical shocks going through my body while sleeping. I also gained 30 pounds in 6 months because it made me hungry all the time...talk about depressing! I never have lost the weight but my memory is fine. Not only would I not take antidepressants while pregnant, I would not take anything for nausea either. I cared more for my baby than myself I guess. Also, although very controversial, I chose not to vaccinate her either. She has never had the first earache or really anything. Her only sickness has been a few bugs she caught at the gym nursery or Sunday school. I'm sure all the others were vaccinated.HMMM

Mar 24, 2008 02:12 PM
Gayle Balaban
The Best Spot Realty/Waterfront Real Estate/Ooltewah Real E - Chattanooga, TN
E. TN Waterfront Real Estate

I am against mosy governement mandates and this seems like a short hop to one that is unjust.

Mar 24, 2008 02:13 PM
Denise Shockey
RE/MAX Aerospace Realty - Cocoa Beach, FL
Cocoa Beach, Brevard County Florida Real Estate
Thanks for bringing attention to this, we have enough laws, and our freedom is slowing eroding, especially if we do nothing! 
Mar 24, 2008 02:15 PM
Simon Conway
Orlando Area Real Estate Services - Orlando, FL

I'm sure the Bill is much longer, but the language here talks not of pregnant women, but of women in the first year after birth. Postpartum is a serious issue and so many women out there will not recognize the symptoms and won't have insurance access to health care anyway. From that perspective I think this is a good thing. Women die from this - and often kill their babies.

If I really thought this was a forced prescription drug bill, I would be completely against it. I do however believe in vaccinating kids. We have wiped out illnesses that once killed hundreds of thousands. I also believe it is your right to place your child at risk to those illnesses if that is what you choose.

I don't have nearly enough information, but from what has been discussed here I think I would vote for this Bill if I was in a position to do so.

Mar 24, 2008 02:50 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Lenn- I so agree with you. I think that all prescription drug commercials should not be allowed to air. And I find it so cynical how they rattle off the side effects as if they mean nothing. Our whole country is so addicted to drugs and it is the legal drugs that are the problem. Every sentence in your comment is my sentiments exactly and you put it in words in a very powerful way. It sickens me to see the elderly with bottles and bottles of pills. I think the drugs they are putting children on is a disgrace. Let kids be kids. If we look to many of the very successful entrepreneurs; many of them have been diagnosed with adult ADD or bi polar. Hmmmm, I wonder if there is any correlation there. I know from watching and homeschooling my kids that some of them would have been labeled ADD but since only one of them was diagnosed, and when he was, I ran away from that school so fast, that is what made me homeschool to begin with. They told me if I did not put my firstborn son at the age of 5 on Ritilin that he would not be allowed to come back to school, I said ADIOS! 

Thanks SO much for your comments!  

Mar 24, 2008 03:11 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Chuck- I totally agree with you, This is just one way to gain control over large populations of people. It is even bigger than we can imagine. There is CODEX who is the European form of the FDA who is seeking to become the world's group that will say what we can take and what we can not take. Follow the money and you will see Big Pharma behind that group too. They invent these vaccines and then discover later how bad they are, like the link now to autism. 
Mar 24, 2008 03:14 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Bill- What I really think is unfair is when they are in the guise of something else, like no one can come out and just tell us the truth. 
Mar 24, 2008 03:15 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Bill- Thank you for the feature in the group! 
Mar 24, 2008 03:15 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Ron- The problem with legalizing pot is that the tobacco companies would add nicotine and who knows what else to poison it for you! 
Mar 24, 2008 03:17 PM
Deb Brooks
Brooks Prime Properties Wichita Falls Texas - Wichita Falls, TX

Well Kat, this shakes me up. This chokes me up and makes me feel sick. Just the idea that they could precedent such a bill that would endanger the human life for monetary gain is sickening. I read it and I could spot the loopholes. If I can then I know our courts can.

Thank you for the wake up call. Later in the rain~Deb

Mar 24, 2008 03:57 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Krista- Thank you so much for your comment! I am so happy that you were able to get through your depression without drugs. It is these very drugs that actually make the moms hurt their babies. And I am so glad that you did not take drugs when you were pregnant. I would not take anything over the counter. And we do not vaccinate our grandbaby. I did not know any better when my kids were growing up. But now I have stopped vaccinating my son who is 5 now. The new evidence coming out is so overwhelming but there is big money in vaccines. Thanks for adding your story. 
Mar 24, 2008 04:01 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Debra- Thanks for adding your comment. They have lots of bills like these in the guise of helping people and so many people fall prey to this. Soon our constitution will be hanging from a thread. 
Mar 24, 2008 04:03 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Missy- Thanks For Helping women everywhere to keep their agency over what gets put in their bodies. 
Mar 24, 2008 04:04 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!

Simon- Postpartum depression can be treated naturally and has been for centuries. I can bet you that the screening they are intending will not have any natural alternatives. And who do you think does the educating of the doctors about depression, where do they get their information? From the drug companies. My doctor has told me about all the benefits they tell him these drugs have but he did his own research and found out a much different story. Mrs Yates who killed all of her children was taking these drugs.The very drugs that they are prescribing to help with depression are also the very drugs that make them kill their babies and kill themselves. The side effects are very dangerous. They have already had 7 lawsuits filed against the drug company that said it was alright for women to take an antidepressant during pregnancy and their babies are now with serious complications. 

The problem is not in the language there, it is with what has been left out. The problem is in what happens when I as a mother am diagnosed with depression but choose to not take the drugs? IT is never about the letter, it is about how it is going to be interpreted and enforced.

Vaccinations: you grew up in England. In England it is illegal for the drug companies to put mercury in the vaccinations. Here in the U.S.; the drug companies are allowed to have mercury in the vaccinations.

There are too many vaccines that are all about the money and using scare tactics. Yes, when the water was filthy and people did not take baths or know about germs vacccines were a good thing, the intent was good.

IT no longer is necessary to take many of these vaccines. There is a link between autism and the mercury. The government just settled a case; one out over 4,900 more cases coming to court because of the direct link.

Babies are too young to handle SO many vaccines. I got chicken pox and I am fine. My kids all got chicken pox and they are fine. SO why do you need a vaccine for chicken pox? DO you know why they made a vaccine for it besides the money the drug companies would make from it? They made it because they calculated the days that parents missed from work and decided they could save time away from work with the vaccine. Now, that is not a reason for me to take a chance with a chicken pox vaccine.

I read the list of side effects and they are more serious than the disease itself in many vaccines. Did you know that flu shots have aluminum in them? Do you know that aluminum is linked to Alzheimers?That is why you should not use aluminum based underarm deodorants. 

They give new born babies hepatitis vaccines before they even leave the hospital. Well, I don't take street drugs and I don't have sex with anyone other than my husband so my babies are not at risk as blood transfer is the only way you get the hepatitis B. And my baby is not going to have sex or take drugs as babies either. 

Now they want to give all the girls an obscene amount of artificial estrogens in a vaccine that supposedly keeps them from getting  a virus during unprotected sex that may cause a certain cervical cancer. Well, the estrogens made in labs cause cervical cancer! This is an oxymoron! And the vaccine wears off before the age of 11 anyways! Hope they don't have sex at age 9!

I understand your thinking for I thought that way for many years but this is much more than what we see. I am not for any government controls over my health and my children's health. I will make those decisions for my family and I will fight for my right to put in my body what I choose to. I will always fight for my right to take natural supplements and vitamins that are all  natural and I will always be there to fight big pharma from making my natural supplements prescription only so that they can taint my vitamins like they do with Centra and One A Day. 

Thanks for adding to our conversation.  

Mar 24, 2008 04:32 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Gayle- Government just wants to be more involved all the time, and that is a scary thing.
Mar 24, 2008 04:33 PM
Katerina Gasset
The Gasset Group & Get It Done For Me Virtual Services - Provo, UT
Amplify Your Real Estate & Life Dreams!
Nicholas- Thanks. I try to comment on your blog, I guess it does not like me, I keep getting a password box that pops up. 
Mar 24, 2008 04:34 PM
Terry & Bonnie Westbrook
Westbrook Realty Broker-Owner - Grand Rapids, MI
Westbrook Realty - Grand Rapids Forest Hills MI Re
I am not surprised but I should be and it sure is nice to have someone looking over these issues. Thanks for the heads up.
Mar 25, 2008 01:44 AM
Barbara-Jo Roberts Berberi, MA, PSA, TRC - Greater Clearwater Florida Residential Real Estate Professional
Charles Rutenberg Realty - Clearwater, FL
Palm Harbor, Dunedin, Clearwater, Safety Harbor

Katerina - while a nationalized health care system is NOT a bad thing (I lived in Germany for 17 years, we had nationalized health care - both of my children were born there and each cost me about $5.!!!! My son was premature and in an incubator in the children's hospital for 3 weeks - for free - my tax dollars paid for everything!!!)

 I am NOT a fan of antidepressants. I was on them for a few years in my 50's and when I tried to get off of them I found out about all of the side effects that make it very difficult to get off them!!!! I would NEVER take them again for any reason!!!!

So YES to nationalized coverage for all and an enormous NO to antidepressants or having ANY medication mandated!!!

Mar 25, 2008 01:44 AM