URGENT: SENATOR HARRY REID IS ONCE AGAIN TRYING TO PASS A PACKAGE OF
BILLS INCLUDING THE MOTHERS ACT.

Information: Several weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
packaged a number of bills together and tried to get the bills passed as
one package (The "Coburn" Omnibus Bill). While the package of bills
included some legislation that was positive, it also included The
MOTHERS Act. As a mother who was prescribed antidepressants days after
giving birth (because my three-day-old son required emergency medical
treatment for a life-threatening choking incident and I was very upset
by the incident, medical professionals, including my OBGYN, chose to
consider my worry about my newborn Postpartum Anxiety -- instead of a
normal reaction of any new motherconcerned about her son), and who was
subsequently forced to continue these drugs while involuntarily held in
a psychiatric ward, I understand the implications of this screening and
"treatment" legislation better than any of its advocates. On the drugs I
became suicidal and had thoughts of extreme violence I had never before
experienced in my life.

Please take a moment to do the following to protect mothers who will not
be as fortunate as I was in realizing it was the drugs making me
psychotic. You can see a video of my son below with the facts about
antidepressants.

Sincerely

Amy Philo

Founder, UNITE http://www.uniteforlife.org

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Please take a moment to:

1) Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUiszFyIby4

2) Print off the message below or click here to print a PDF of the
letter.

3) Sign your name and address to the letter.

4) Look up your Senators' fax numbers by clicking here.

5) FAX YOUR SENATORS IMMEDIATELY.

DON’T LET THE 110th CONGRESS BE RESPONSIBLE FOR INCREASING
ANTIDEPRESSANT-RELATED BIRTH DEFECTS AND INFANT DEATHS. DO NOT PASS THE
MOTHERS ACT AS PART OF AN OMNIBUS PACAKGE.

The MOTHERS Act is a highly controversial bill, considering the growing
public awareness that antidepressants have serious and even deadly side
effects. This bill, if passed, will assuredly increase the number of
pregnant women andnew mothers being put on antidepressant drugs. There
are already too many pregnant women being put on antidepressants
evidenced by the FDA’s adverse reaction reports (MedWatch) listed below.
This bill will assuredly increase the number of pregnant women and new
mothers being prescribed antidepressants documented by the U.S. FDA to
cause suicidal ideation, mania, worsening depression and birth defects.
FDA’s MedWatch System (Adverse Drug Reactions) Already Has Overwhelming
Evidence of Spontaneous Abortions, Premature Babies and Birth Defects
from SSRI Antidepressants:

Doctors, other health care providers, pharmacists, lawyers and consumers
filed the following adverse drug reaction reportswith the FDA’s MedWatch
system during 2004-2007 concerning pregnant women taking antidepressants
(the most common and recommended treatment for women diagnosed with
postpartum depression). In all the reports below, antidepressants were
cited as the primary suspected drug to have caused the adverse reaction
in pregnant women:
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145 spontaneous abortions
150 premature babies
208 babies born with heart disease
218 babies born with defects

The FDA states that only 1-10%% of side effects are even reported to
their MedWatch database. Using a median range of 5%% being reported, the
actual number of pregnant women experiencing adverse reactions to
antidepressant drugs is estimated as follows:

2,900 spontaneous abortions
3,000 premature births
4,160 babies born with heart disease
4,360 babies born with birth defects

The “Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care
Act,” also known as “The MOTHERS Act” was named after Melanie Stokes, a
new mother who was subjected to a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and
electroshock after being diagnosed with post-partum depression. It was
only after she had been administered drugs documented by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) to cause suicidal ideation that she
committed suicide. There is too much controversy over antidepressants to
pass any legislation that could increase the administration of these
drugs to pregnant women and new mothers. Do not allow the pharmaceutical
interests to put new mothers and their unborn children at risk. Do not
pass the MOTHERS Act.

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