S.1375 - Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act

A bill to ensure that new mothers and their families are educated about postpartum depression, screened for symptoms, and provided with essential services, and to increase research at the National Institutes of Health on postpartum depression. view all titles (3)

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  • Short: Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act as introduced.
  • Official: A bill to ensure that new mothers and their families are educated about postpartum depression, screened for symptoms, and provided with essential services, and to increase research at the National Institutes of Health on postpartum depression. as introduced.
  • Short: MOTHERS Act as introduced.

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  • Anonymous 03/26/2008 5:27pm
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    How long are the Social Security payments for post partum psychosis? This is permanent disability.

  • Anonymous 05/08/2008 3:15pm
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    Sorry you deleted a comment recommended by a psychiatrists. I guess people just can’t handle the truth………

    Anyway, why don’t we just clone? We clone human organs now and soon we can do the whole human. We have gotten over our religious cloning problem and, now, can’t handle the answers.

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    Anonymous 01/11/2009 12:20am

    While I don’t approve of censorship, I will point out that saying psychiatrists promote the truth is akin to saying that the earth is flat. Puh-leeze!!

  • amyphilo 05/17/2008 5:27pm

    The MOTHERS Act is a very dangerous piece of legislation. I have collected nearly 7,800 Signatures against this dangerous bill. The bill recommends psychiatric drugs to new moms and encompasses pregnant women in the definition of those who can have “post-partum” depression. The FDA warns against exposing the unborn to psychiatric drugs. There is a black box warning on all antidepressants for suicide, and antidepressants also cause homicidal ideation. Please investigate and tell everyone you know to call the Senate in opposition. This already passed the house. Antidepressants do not even work.

  • amyphilo 05/17/2008 5:27pm

    The MOTHERS Act is a very dangerous piece of legislation. I have collected nearly 7,800 Signatures against this dangerous bill. The bill recommends psychiatric drugs to new moms and encompasses pregnant women in the definition of those who can have “post-partum” depression. The FDA warns against exposing the unborn to psychiatric drugs. There is a black box warning on all antidepressants for suicide, and antidepressants also cause homicidal ideation. Please investigate and tell everyone you know to call the Senate in opposition. This already passed the house. Antidepressants do not even work.
    www.uniteforlife.org
    Our petition is available online at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act

  • Anonymous 09/17/2008 6:13am

    Yes! This bill is very dangerous. I only wish people truly understood that psychiatric drugs are dangerous. They are given to us not really by doctors, but by pharmaceutical companies. They are in bed with the politicians and the FDA. They all scratch each other’s back, so to say. And now they are giving doctors kickbacks, as well. These guys don’t do what’s best for us. They do what is best for their pocket books. It is proven that the research results for these drugs are most often not true. They are swayed by the pharmaceutical companies that are giving grants for that very same research. The Mother’s Act is backed by same groups of people. They are trying to get many different disorders known and are trying to make it mandatory to get psychological tests done so that they sell more psychiatric drugs. BE WARNED! BE EDUCATED! DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT EVERYONE TELLS YOU, EVEN DOCTORS!

  • Anonymous 01/11/2009 12:15am

    Isn’t it just like big pharma, its psychiatric pimps and Congressional enablers to try turning pregnancy and motherhood into a disease? Hasn’t it occurred to anyone that bettering the quality of womens’ lives overall might work even better, without the inevitable epidemic of birth defects and suicidal/homicidal thoughts that result from antidepressant use?

    Shame on both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for co-sponsoring this trash!

  • myopencongress 01/29/2009 10:09am

    Please see UniteForLife.org. This bill is very dangerous. Excerpt from Unite For Life:
    The MOTHERS Act – Trolling for Mental Patients in a Maternity Ward Near

    Certain Congressmen who normally spend time pushing legislation are on a mission to “save” birthing mothers of America from “mental illness.” The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act exploits a mother who was “treated” with almost everything the mental health industry can offer, from drug cocktails to electroshock. These “treatments” worked so well for Melanie that she jumped from a 12th story Chicago hotel room window.

    The bill seeks to screen all pregnant and new mothers in America for being “at risk” of mental disorders, and funnel them into “preventive treatment.” What the sponsors won’t talk about are the thousands of babies dying each year from spontaneous abortions and birth defects caused by antidepressant exposure. Nor do they publicize a provision in the text to conduct research on post-abortive women.

    The bill died last session, despite Harry Reid’s attempt to pass it in a failed $10 billion omnibus spending bill. This session, we may not be as lucky. One cosponsor of the bill from the 110th Congress is now President. Another is Secretary of State. And Majority Leader Harry Reid now enjoys a much larger majority in his voting caucus, which could help him overcome any potential filibuster in the Senate.

    Implementing a nationwide “mental illness” scaremongering campaign seems logical to those who haven’t yet learned to locate the FDA website for black box suicide warnings. Or to those who think that electrocution is wrong if used for capital punishment, but electrocuting the brain of a mental patient is ok.

    To many people this bill flies in the face of not only reason, but morality. For it ensures that more families will suffer the same horrors ours have. Things we can never forget: Being suicidal and homicidal after only three days on Zoloft. For Julie, having a baby with a rare heart defect who nearly died at birth. For Mathy, Kim W. and Jim, losing a child or husband to antidepressant-induced suicide. For Kim C. twin daughters murdered by their father under the influence of Prozac. And for Enne, not knowing whether her son Dirul Lewis is alive or dead, even though his psychiatrist does.

    This path paved in death and destruction is a road America must not travel.


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