OMG! I cannot believe what I came across today! S.1375 'The Mothers Act' is a new bill to screen all pregnant women for depression and to medicate them, now that is frightening.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to be medicated! I know postpartum depression can be a serious thing, but there are other ways to deal with this issue that popping a 'magic pill'! Ugh, before we know it, life in america will be like that movie EQUILIBRIUM, we're already too much like that movie BRAIN CANDY by the Kids in the Hall. (you can check out clips of these movies at youtube.com or read about them on imdb. )
There's always another way! We can go to support groups, get a therapist, take herbal treatments such as St. John's Wort--all of these are safer than pharmaceutical drugs and they keep your money out of those pharm companies pockets!
Here are a few links:
A YouTube video by a woman who has experienced depression drugs
An article: Branding Pregnancy as Mental Illness
S.1375 'The Mothers Act'
Sign the petition to stop the Mothers Act
On Postpartum Depression:
March of Dimes
Mother to Mother, Postpartum Depression Network
Postpartum Support International (this is a good one)
Cael Pics-click on a photo and see my photo albums
Alaska Trip 2007
Blog Archive
Alex and Katie
1 comments:
The Mother's Act is just another way for the patriarchal fanatics in this country to gain back control over women. I heard on an NPR news report a while ago that the CDC had classified all women capable of having children as "pre-pregnant", which in essence reduces the value of women to a function of the body. Rather than considering women as having inherent value (like Kant says is how to consider all human beings) she is judged by how she can be used. The worst thing is that these malicious designs are disguised as having the intent to help women, and their unborn children. From here we can easily see how they can progress to abortion rights. It stems from the belief that a woman's body is no longer her own once she is pregnant, and the failure to perceive her as an intrisically valuable person with rights and the ability to have a self-determined life. To me the whole thing is just unbelievable, a throwback to the dark ages. But you know they are taking everyone's rights away from them these days, so it is really not that surprising--just infuriating!
ttfn--julie
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