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June 27, 2007

Parental Consent Act of 2007, H.R. 2387
Urge your member of Congress to sign on as a co-sponsor.

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The Parental Consent Act of 2007 (H.R. 2387) supports parents against government sponsored and pharmaceutical industry supported universal mental health screening programs.

H.R. 2387 states:

No Federal funds may be used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program.
Parental refusal to provide consent to mental health screening for his or her child shall not be used as the basis of a charge of child abuse, child neglect, medical neglect, or education neglect.

         This is very important legislation. It will protect children from invasive screening that is based on vague, subjective, and politically biased criteria that will result in labeling with dubious diagnoses. These diagnoses will follow people for the rest of their lives and will result in drugging with ineffective and potentially lethal medications. H.R. 2387 supports freedom of thought, as well as civil and parental rights.

         The Presidentís New Freedom Commission's has created controversy over its screening and drugging recommendations, including:

* The FDA held hearings on the use of antidepressants and children. The FDA issued its strongest black box warning after discovering that information on the lack of effectiveness and dangerous side effects of these medications was concealed from physicians and the public, sometimes for years. Yet organized psychiatry is trying to get those warnings removed, because they would rather conceal the dangers to children than give up the profits.

* The story of Aliah Gleason became public. Aliah, a 13 year old African-American girl, was forced into a state mental institution, denied contact with her family for over 5 months, physically restrained over 26 times, and treated with as many as 12 different psychotropic medications (some simultaneously) without her parents knowledge or consent, all as a result of a school mental health screening.

* Chelsea Rhodes was labeled with two different psychiatric disorders based on a computerized mental health screening called TeenScreen, given in her school without her parents knowledge or consent. Her parents, with the aid of the Rutherford Institute, are suing the school district and the mental health provider that did the screening.

* A preposterous study was released from Harvard and the National Institutes of Mental Health claiming that more than 50% of all Americans will be mentally ill during their lifetime. Even psychiatric experts such as Dr. Paul McHugh, the former chairman of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins found that idea very difficult to swallow. The debate is raging within the psychiatric profession over the boundaries between mental health and mental illness. "Pretty soon," said Dr. McHugh in a 2005 New York Times article, "we'll have a syndrome for short, fat Irish guys with a Boston accent, and I'll be mentally ill."

        A public backlash is brewing over these Orwellian programs. Please urge your member of Congress to become a co-sponsor of HR 2387.

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