Over 9,000 individuals across the United States and around the world have signed this petition to stop The MOTHERS Act, a screening and treatment bill which will increase the number of pregnant and new mothers taking psychotropic drugs.

Organizations currently trying to stop The MOTHERS Act include:

ICFDA: International Coalition For Drug Awareness; The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights; ICSPP: International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology; NARPA: National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy; AHRP: The Alliance for Human Research Protection; COPES: Coalition Of Parents Enduring Suicide; The Elizabeth Torlakson Foundation; CHAADA: Children and Adults Against Drugging America; MADNAP: Mothers Against Drugging the Nursing And Pregnant; Consumer Wellness Center; Parents for a Label and Drug Free Education; Texans for a Safe Education; Whitaker Health Freedom Foundation; WoodyMatters; www.wildestcolts.com Supporters; www.adhdfraud.com Supporters; AbleChild; Green Body and Mind; LifeDynamics; Global Suckling Initiative; babywhys.org Supporters; The Wellness Institute

Please consider the following four points of contention with regard to this bill:

1) The MOTHERS Act will assuredly increase prescriptions for antidepressants for both postpartum and pregnant mothers. Based on the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Events Reporting System data, over the past four years the estimated number of antidepressant-caused infant deaths and injuries was as follows:

4,360 babies born with serious or life-threatening birth defects
4,160 babies born with potentially fatal heart defects or heart disease
2,900 spontaneous abortions
3,000 premature births

2) New Jersey’s 2006 Postpartum Depression law requires medical providers to screen women for mental disorders. Under the impetus of this new law, some New Jersey women were forcibly taken to hospitals in police cars from their homes or doctor’s offices for simply mentioning depressed feelings or calling the state’s PPD hotline (See full text of the Star-Ledger article at http://www.netpowwow.com/unite011109/ppdcriminals.htm).

3) The namesake of the bill is Melanie Blocker Stokes, a mother who jumped to her death from the 12th story of a Chicago hotel at 3 � months postpartum, following months of treatment including four hospitalizations, at least four different drug cocktails, and electroshock therapy. Only after she was treated with drugs documented by the FDA to cause suicidal ideation did she jump out of that window.

4) Numerous victims have spoken out against this bill, including many who currently have pending lawsuits against drug companies for deaths and birth defects. In addition, there are literally thousands of antidepressant birth defects and suicide lawsuits pending. States are suing drug manufacturers for illegal marketing of psychotropic drugs, and the State of Alaska is being sued for drugging children in state care. If the Federal Government sponsors another drugging program, it is simply asking for lawsuits to be filed, as more mothers are injured and more babies killed.

What could possibly justify the risks that The MOTHERS Act poses to unborn babies and their mothers? Please speak out and ask the 111th Congress not to be the group to pass this bill to increase infant deaths via fatal birth defects and unwanted, drug-induced spontaneous abortions. Considering the many lives of helpless unborn babies at stake, we must all UNITE to kill this legislation.

http://www.uniteforlife.org/

Please sign the Petition here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act

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Revealed: The EIGHT drugs Michael Jackson was taking EVERY DAY before his fatal heart attack

By Michael Seamark and David Gardner
Last updated at 9:03 PM on 27th June 2009

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Devastated: Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris and his mother Katherine arriving at his Beverly Hills home after he died

Michael Jackson was taking a devastating cocktail of drugs in the weeks before his sudden death, it has emerged.

The singer was said to be taking three powerful painkillers all at the same time, when more than could be potentially fatal, and was also consuming vast quantities of other pills every day.

It is claimed Jackson, 50, was injected with the powerful painkiller Demerol - a synthetic drug similar to morphine - moments before he collapsed and died from a massive heart attack.

Sources cited by The Sun claim the star was having three of these injections every day but was also taking two other painkillers Dilaudid and Vicodin.

On top of this potentially deadly combination, Jackson was also taking a host of other medications as he battled to get fit and healthy ahead of his comeback concerts in Britain next month.

They included the muscle relaxant Soma, sedative Xanax, anti-depressent Zoloft, Paxil for anxiety and the heartburn pill Prilosec, it is claimed.

Such a huge amount of drugs would have been dangerous for anyone but even more so for Jackson, who at 5ft11 weighed only nine stone and whose health had long been a concern. 

The new claims about the singer’s drug abuse came as his body was released back to his family early today as police were preparing to question one of the singer’s doctors.

The doctor, named as cardiologist Conrad Robert Murray, was said to have tried to revive Jackson, then disappeared for several hours.

Sources said the singer had been using the drug Demerol as he battled to be fit for his first London show next month. The heart specialist had been living at his rented house.

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Sad journey: The body of Michael Jackson is lifted from a helicopter and into a waiting coroner’s van

According to U.S. website TMZ, which broke the news of Jackson’s death, police are also looking to talk to Dr Tohme Tohme about an ‘alleged indirect connection’ between prescription drugs and the death.

Dr Tohme describes himself as Jackson’s longterm friend and manager. He told the website: ‘I don’t have anything to do with his (Jackson’s) medication or health’.

A three and a half hour post mortem was conducted yesterday. Coroners said there were no signs of foul play or trauma but more tests were needed and could take up to eight weeks to complete.

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Deadly cocktail: Jackson was allegedly taking painkillers Demerol, Vicodin, Dilaudid, anti-anxiety medications Xanax and Zoloft, muscle relaxant Soma, Prisolec for heartburn and the anti-depressant Paxil…”

Drugs.  Prescription drugs.  Street drugs.  ”Meds”.  Pharmaceuticals.  It is a legacy of death for those vunerable artists who fail to protect themselves from the drug dealers–whether they be sanctioned by the medical or psychiatric profession with a license to practice, or merely selling their wares on the streets or in the back alleys of life.  Those who with ill-intent would prey upon the giftedness and great spiritual wealth bestowed upon few who walk this planet–and who, with their drugs, ultimately destroy our beloved artists who bring beauty and culture and hope to the people of the world.  Artists who change our lives and our cultures forever with their creativity and vision and freedom of spirit, as is their birthright.

Farewell, Michael.  Just as we bade farewell with broken hearts to those greats who fell before you under the same onslaught of betrayal in the name of help…Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, et al. 

As poet James Kavanaugh wrote, “There are men too gentle to live among wolves”. 

Godspeed, Michael. 

 

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