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.

5/11/2007--Introduced.
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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Sponsor

• Sen. Robert Menéndez [D, NJ]
• and 11 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Christopher Dodd [D, CT]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Barack Obama
  • Sen. Bernard Sanders [I, VT]
  • Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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May 11, 2007

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• Introduced on May 11, 2007.
• May 11, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6022-6023)
• May 11, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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• Medicine
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• Communication in medicine
• Communications
• Conferences
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• Fathers
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Health education
• Health planning
• Home care services
• Maternal health services
• Medical care
• Medical research
• Medical screening
• Mental depression
• Mental health services
• Mothers
• Quality of care
• Science policy
• Women
• Women's health services
• Women's health

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September 23, 2008 26 new messages in 26 topics - digest

called the "Mothers Act." Critics say the bill, S.1375, is dangerous to mothers and newborns and a violation of informed consent, despite being promoted under the guise of ensuring that new mothers and their ...

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September 20, 2008 Keith Connects The Dots: Don’t Pass The MOTHERS ACT As Part of ...

through the appropriate committee, The MOTHERS Act (S. 1375) has never passed. through the HELP Committee and, to my knowledge, has not even been formally. discussed by its members. Please consider the following four points of ...

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September 03, 2008 Barack Obama endorses “Mother’s Act”

To that end, several of my colleagues have introduced S.1375, which calls for states to provide to women who have recently given birth education concerning postpartum depression, postpartum mood and anxiety ...

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