Comments on: Antidepressants Tied To Preterm Births: Study

By: Lisa Van Syckel

Lisa Van Syckel — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:18:27 +0000

Amy, Thanks for the clarification, I do manage at times, to mess up.

By: Evelyn Pringle

Evelyn Pringle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:10:42 +0000

The Mothers Act promoters claim fathers suffer from PPD and other “mood” disorders as well, and at a high rate.

That’s how ridiculous and all encompassing this particular disease mongering campaign has become.

They’ve been trying to pass this bill for more than 8 years.

Also, the notion that they will only be diagnosing people with PPD is the biggest con. This gang has a new field called “reproductive psychiatry” and they will be screening for a whole list of pregnancy related “mood and anxiety” disorders.

Go check out their websites if you don’t want to take my word for it.

And like Lisa said above, the screening starts during pregnancy.

If the Mothers Act does pass, good luck to the health care professionals tasked with informing women that the government will now force them to undergo screening for mental illness.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall watching this event with some of the women I know. In fact, I’d pay money to watch.

By: JaT

JaT — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:20:03 +0000

I’m a little puzzled as to why this is being called The Mothers Act. It has equally horrific consequences for fathers. First because of the intrusive nature of it all- and second because how is a man supposed to feel about his wife if she fails in the screening process? And what if the couple has an older child that does some weird thing (as kids sometimes do) that makes the investigator think- this woman should really not have another child unless she’s getting some kind of “help”.
Calling it The Mothers Act might have men thinking it will not affect them. I think that is a mistake.

By: Fred Baughman, MD

Fred Baughman, MD — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:55:06 +0000

Because no psychiatric condition/diagnosis is a demonstrable disease/abnormality, no psychiatric drug can ever be called (1) essential or (2) in the least justified in pregnancy or any woman who might become pregnant

By: Amy Philo

Amy Philo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:49:23 +0000

http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/ This is where the most up to date information on The MOTHERS Act and pregnancy / nursing information is published.

As a point of clarification, Senator Tom Coburn MD did not invoke cloture, he helped defeat cloture when Harry Reid invoked Cloture and tried to get The MOTHERS Act passed in an omnibus in July 2008 He is against The MOTHERS Act and is an OB/GYN.

Here is the story on that with full explanations of what happened.

http://tinyurl.com/yd7au8s

The most recent health care bill has the revised MOTHERS Act and the Mikulski screening amendment in it. I believe there are many other dangerous psych programs in it as well but The MOTHERS Act is one that will most certainly be bad for pregnant and new moms which represents one of the sickest pharmaceutical marketing schemes ever pushed in Congress in my opinion because of all the helpless babies who will suffer and die.

Here is some info on that:
http://tinyurl.com/y8ahfug
http://uniteforlife.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/year-end-new-year-in-review/

By: Evelyn Pringle

Evelyn Pringle — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:58:07 +0000

Another point never mentioned when these studies come out, which they do about every year or two, is the extra medical costs of caring for all the premature babies that do survive, even if they don’t have birth defects.

Neonatal intensive care does not come cheap. Of course the doctors and hospitals don’t mind.

Talk about depressing - the bills alone are probably enough to bring on a bout of PPD for both mom and dad.

Making sure the cycle of drug sales is endless

By: Lisa Van Syckel

Lisa Van Syckel — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:44:44 +0000

Helm MD, Postpartum depression screening is state mandated for all pregnant women, the sreening process starts in a woman’s first term of pregnancy, NJ is the only state that has this law in effect.

Mary Jo Codey along with Brooke Shield lobbyed for this mandate on the federal level. One of the Federal Senator’s, who happens to be an OB/GyN invoked clouture in the last Congress. A lot of information in regards to this is on the niteforlife.org’s wbsite. Its called the Melonie Stokes Act, the rest of us have given it the name of the Mother’s Act.

Evelyn Pringle, who has widely covered this can provide you with the money trail from Pharma to the special interest groups.

By: Lisa Van Syckel

Lisa Van Syckel — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:35:59 +0000

Justice, you can find the information on the Uniteforlife.org website.

By: Lisa Van Syckel

Lisa Van Syckel — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:34:04 +0000

JaT,.. No Kidding!! A few weeks later I had, had a meeting with the hospital’s president and nursing supervisor, the outcome was no more postpartum screening in the delivery room.

By: JaT

JaT — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:47:26 +0000

Lisa, no kidding?

That’s like take this drug or leave your baby here. Geez.