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Way To Go Ron! No To HR 20!

Submitted by GalacticWacko on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:16
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This bill will attempt to cram more anti-depressent drugs into the veins of mother and infant alike. What is also creepy is how this bill has moved with stealth through the process.

H.R. 20, The Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act

Senator Harry Reid has added a highly controversial bill called The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act to section D of this bill. This bill has not been discussed, marked up, or passed out of the appropriate Senate committee and has been held up in the HELP committee for the past 6 months. Due to the highly dangerous nature of this bill alone, the omnibus package should be voted down. The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act would make groups who push drugs on pregnant women eligible to receive huge grants. The result of this legislation will be that more mothers will die just as Melanie Stokes did, by drug-induced suicide. More mothers will join the ranks of Andrea Yates when they commit murder of their own children due to involuntary intoxication on psychotropic drugs. There is absolutely no safeguard for informed consent in the bill. In addition, as more mothers are placed on antidepressants and other drugs, the number of babies dying from spontaneous abortions, still births, preterm birth complications, heart disease and PPHN will go up.
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_20.html

Here is the role call votes (RP voted NAY)
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2009-164

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"rules suspended" because it is not "controversial"

Submitted by paul4won on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:35.

BS!!
They are trying to sneak this under the radar. Many will say "there is nothing bad in the bill" but those would be people who have not learned to read government-ese. What is NOT there is more important than what is there. There is NO guideline or restriction on the study. That leaves it open to the broadest interpretation that will produce a profit.

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RP voted NAY because he

Submitted by Jeffersonative on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:23.

RP voted NAY because he votes NAY to all unconstitutional legislation (most legislation). Please quote the harmful text from the bill, since I haven't seen anything that makes this bill as highly dangerous as some of the posts on here are claiming. Specifically, where it says the state can take your kid if you don't pass their examination.

the state can take your kid already, nothing to do with this

Submitted by paul4won on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:38.

except that the new mom who is diagnosed as depressed will now have the state come take her child from her, because THAT is good for the mother - uh, no, because that is good for the child - oops, no um.... that is good for the pharmaceutical industry that just got a couple of "lifers" on ssri meds. There we go, as long as it is good for someone!

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I gotta get back to work

Submitted by GalacticWacko on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:31.

Can someone else please help me with that request? Otherwise, I will find it after work. Peace

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