One Example of Why We MUST Stop the MOTHERS Act

The MOTHERS Act – Trolling for Mental Patients at a Maternity Ward Near You

by Amy Philo

amy@uniteforlife.org, 214-705-0169, 817-793-8028

If you’ve never been “Teen Screened” in high school, quizzed by a college counselor about your potential perfectionism, mood swings, or alcohol use- or told you might go crazy if you don’t start taking drug x, consider yourself among the

Mandated Mental Screening for Pregnant Women, Babies & Toddlers

http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2008/07/mandated-mental-screening-for-pregnant.html

FYI and ACTION

Despite the serious economic crisis in the US, Congress is poised to pass a series of laws that would HUGELY expand the pharmaceutical-dominated mental health industry.

In the Senate, majority leader Harry Reid (D – NV) has slipped a controversial

The MOTHERS Act: Thalidomide Revisited? by Fred A. Baughman, Jr., MD & Amy Philo

http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/The-MOTHERS-Act-3A-Thalidomide-Revisited-3F-20203-1/

SAN DIEGO, May 23 /PRNewswire/ — The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch reported that on Mother’s Day, May 10, 1998, Sharon Alley stabbed her eight month old daughter, Brooke in the heart, killing her. Months before, Alley was prescribed Paxil, became psychotic, and threw then five-week-old Brooke to the floor, fracturing her skull.

Mothers Act Promotes Pregnancy as New Cottage Industry By Evelyn Pringle

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00107.htm

Women of childbearing years represent the most lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome when these drugs were used during pregnancy was