So recently we have been confronted with a new act about to be passed through our congressional parties, in which if passed will allow the government to force mothers to be and new mothers to take anti depressant medications throughout pregnancy as well as during to prevent "PPD". This new act will allow a doctor to make the call if you look or feel slightly depressed. Well, first off, lets look at the fact your a new mom or mom to be. Your anxious, excited, terrified, and exhausted. Not to mention your hormones are raging and your body is going through so many changes you do not know if you are coming or going. The government also want to give new parent a quiz. That's right, a quiz to see if your "fit" to be a parent. This would be all well and good if every person on Earth had the same views and opinions. If we were all produced from pods and mindlessly wondering Earth under one controlled brain. If we wondered around making statement like "Any trained body emerges above a wonder." As if anyone even knows what that means! LOL. I have many issues with this: for starters, our welfare system has no control. Woman can get assistance and have children on top of children. If you are unable and unwilling to take care of yourself enough to get a job and stand on your own two feet what could possibly make you think you have a right to raise a child under the system? Rather than drug every pregnant mom in America, lets start with this- your a young woman on welfare dependent on the system. Fine. You should have to get an IUD, which is a safe legal method of birth control. It lasts for 5 years and can be removed at any time you want to get off the system and take care of yourself. If you see a doctor outside of the provider who accepts your state insurance, and you pay cash to a non provider to have IUD removed, and you end up pregnant and living on system, we should have right to remove you from the system and flag you so that you can never depend on tax dollars to buy your food or heat your home or cloth your back. The harsh reality is that the people who do not know what it is like to have to earn your keep do not know what it is like to suffer. Just because your boyfriend who got you pregnant still comes over once a week for a walk in your "park" and then sits on your sofa eating your welfare funded snacks while watching the cable TV tax payers bought you and scratching his privates does not mean he is fit to watch your child while you run off to the mall with your friends. Odds are, and this is harsh but true, at some point you will come home to police on your door step. Your child is either dead, abused, or missing because you found it convenient to leave him/her with a low live form that is not a parent but what you call your "baby's dadda".
On a whole separate note, anti depressants are linked to high rates of premature births, low weight infants, birth defects, as well as infant death. We would not feed our babies anti depressants after birth so why force them on mothers who may not need them but just happen to have a "bad day". I find it grossly irritating that we are willing to pass a law inviting drugs into the community as a needed benefit. I find it more disturbing however that by forcing them on a mother you are now forcing an unborn child to take drugs as well. If that infant of anti depressant dies at birth which member of congress will raise a hand to take responsibility? I can not imagine that one person would willfully stand up and take responsibility for the death of a child that could have be prevented had more thought gone into this bill before actively agreeing to pass it into law. And even if one does come forth and admit to being part of the reason the child is now dead, does this make it OK? Is it socially accepted if its a law maker who killed an unborn child? The members on congress who are male, should they be able to give an honest opinion on the matter being that they have not going through the emotional traumas attributed to child bearing and motherhood? Are these the same members that preach anti abortion rights that now thing a drug that could potentially kill or cause brain damage to a child is OK? So many questions so little answers. I leave this now to your own minds to wonder the possibilities of what this new Mother Act could bring to the future of all family households. How many children will become property of the state, who will pay for they, what kind of kids will they grow up to be, who will find this new act, what are the drugs going to do or be in 15-20 years? I strongly advice all parents or parents to be to research this on their own, not to just read my words, but discover for yourselves where your opinion and vote will stand on the matter when the time comes and if you believe to be against this act please sign your local petition act against allowing this to pass congress.
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I think you are grossly misinformed.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1375
it would probably help to read the actual bill instead of writing a bunch of propaganda based ON propaganda
I read the bill and i see nothing wrong with providing educational materials. it says nothing about forcing pregnant woman to take anti depressants. In fact while I was pregnant with my youngest, my doctor refused to treat my bi polar disorder and when after my sons birth, when i stated i thought I had PPD she laughed at me and told me I didnt because it was too soon. I gained a second opinion and was treated properly. Luckily for me, I have access to the internet and was able to educate myself before things got too bad. There are other people out there who are not as fortunate as some of us :) So I think it is a good idea to provide EDUCATION ( which this bill clearly states it is doing ) to new mothers. One thing about our country is we are so far ass backwards on helping our citizens, we are blinded by our own selfishness and never take the time to realize that we are more concerned about ourselves. Our country is still a baby and I think we need to learn a LOT of lessons from OTHER countries.
ReplyDeleteThats what shes trying to say meg Is that For those who need the medication they should get It but not to make It a mandatory thing.. And Im going to be starting a blog soon that does just that. Gives parents a place to go to ask questions there doctors would normally laugh at and to give them courage to keep asking and asking there doctors to take them seriously. Shes not saying that If you have a known medical condition you shouldnt have the drugs you need, but taking anti-depressants while pregnant even In low doses can be very harmful to the baby. This Is where our damn Health care needs to step up and provide Mothers to be and even Fathers to be who have a history of mental Illness or and Diagnosed with a form of mental Illness with closer monitoring and a place they can call or go to that can help them through the really hard parts of a pregnancy until they are able to return to there normal medication regiment.
ReplyDeleteThe act says nothing about it being mandatory though, but she states it is, where would this misinformation come from?
ReplyDeleteI was refused treatment for my bi-polar disorder during my pregnancy because the medication I was supposed to be taking was in fact harmful to unborn children. I agree with the doctor for that choice, but she could have researched a safer option for me, no government act is going to force a doctor to prescribe me ANYTHING he/she doesn't deem fit for that time, Including this act. As far as PPD which this act IS about, it's about government funding for the EDUCATION of PPD. That is to be provided to pregnant woman and that resources be adopted in order to aid a woman and her family in seeking help without jumping through hoops. I was denied assistance for my PPD because under medical guidelines, it WAS too soon for me to be establishing those symptoms ( 1 week Post Partum ) when according to medical guidelines it takes nearly 4 weeks to manifest. She neglected to take into account, that as a BiPolar sufferer, that I might have NOT fallen into medical guidelines. I searched out another doctor, whom had been treating me since I was a baby and he agreed with me that the best course of action was to treat me for PPD even though I was outside the guidelines. Now... if anything, it is UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL to educate themselves and to make their doctors listen to them. This act is only mandating that doctors provide more information on PPD so as to avoid future setbacks for a new mother or her family.
Has nothing to do with welfare, has nothing to do with forcing medications.
The first part of the bill says it all: "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." I think the bill has very good points but I also think that the doctors should be held more accountable for not taking every claim seriously.
ReplyDeleteI find this blog post offensive from beginning to end. Offensive in its ignorance, and reeking of racism without coming out and directly saying it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know where to begin to comment since everyone in this country has the right to refuse medical treatment, but it's hardly worth commenting on because that's not what the bill says anyway. And if it DID, your idea of mandating that single welfare mothers get an IUD is equally disgusting. I'm not sure how you went from the Mother Act to the welfare mom rant and rave...it sounds like you have a personal axe to grind. As someone who is a single mom who became recently unemployed, I AM applying for benefits and I have NEVER received public assistance in the 22 years I have been paying into the system. How dare you suggest that women like me should put an IUD in our bodies. That is none of your business.
You also might want to spell check and add some paragraph breaks to your posts if you want to become a serious writer.