Thread: Ron Paul, Introducing the Parental Consent Act

Speech of Ron Paul, Introducing the Parental Consent Act
Saturday, May 02, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
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(NaturalNews) Rep. Ron Paul has introduced the Parental Consent Act to protect families from mandatory "mental health screening" -- a thinly-veiled attempt by Big Pharma to drug expectant mothers and new moms with dangerous psychiatric drugs.

Here's the full text of the speech given by Ron Paul in the House of Representatives, April 30, 2009:

Madam Speaker, I rise to introduce the Parental Consent Act. This bill forbids Federal funds from being used for any universal or mandatory mental-health screening of students without the express, written, voluntary, informed consent of their parents or legal guardians. This bill protects the fundamental right of parents to direct and control the upbringing and education of their children.

The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has recommended that the federal and state governments work toward the implementation of a comprehensive system of mental-health screening for all Americans. The commission recommends that universal or mandatory mental-health screening first be implemented in public schools as a prelude to expanding it to the general public. However, neither the commission's report nor any related mental-health screening proposal requires parental consent before a child is subjected to mental-health screening. Federally-funded universal or mandatory mental-health screening in schools without parental consent could lead to labeling more children as "ADD" or "hyperactive" and thus force more children to take psychotropic drugs, such as Ritalin, against their parents' wishes.

Already, too many children are suffering from being prescribed psychotropic drugs for nothing more than children's typical rambunctious behavior. According to Medco Health Solutions, more than 2.2 million children are receiving more than one psychotropic drug at one time. In fact, according to Medico Trends, in 2003, total spending on psychiatric drugs for children exceeded spending on antibiotics or asthma medication.

Many children have suffered harmful side effects from using psychotropic drugs. Some of the possible side effects include mania, violence, dependence, and weight gain. Yet, parents are already being threatened with child abuse charges if they resist efforts to drug their children. Imagine how much easier it will be to drug children against their parents' wishes if a federally-funded mental-health screener makes the recommendation.

Universal or mandatory mental-health screening could also provide a justification for stigmatizing children from families that support traditional values. Even the authors of mental-health diagnosis manuals admit that mental-health diagnoses are subjective and based on social constructions. Therefore, it is all too easy for a psychiatrist to label a person's disagreement with the psychiatrist's political beliefs a mental disorder. For example, a federally-funded school violence prevention program lists "intolerance" as a mental problem that may lead to school violence. Because "intolerance" is often a code word for believing in traditional values, children who share their parents' values could be labeled as having mental problems and a risk of causing violence. If the mandatory mental-health screening program applies to adults, everyone who believes in traditional values could have his or her beliefs stigmatized as a sign of a mental disorder. Taxpayer dollars should not support programs that may label those who adhere to traditional values as having a "mental disorder."

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GO RON PAUL!

Outstanding. I'm so opposed to government meddling in medical care. It's our last vestibule of privacy.

Thanks for posting this agrneydgrl.

Oh what they will not do... over twenty year ago I had a teacher practicing doctor wanting my son on drugs to make him passive in her class. Stupid women thought I would fall for that one. Oh I could go on and on with that school system. But all Public School System think they are the bosses, now...

Parents and grandparents stand up for your rights.

This bill forbids Federal funds from being used for any universal or mandatory mental-health screening of students without the express, written, voluntary, informed consent of their parents or legal guardians.

With my last son his Kindergarten teacher with a Master's in Special Education was a screamer, I learned to late . So we know what she tried to do. And in Kindergarten he never wanted to go to school. I finally demanded that she be excluded from my son's life entirely. In the third grade I did finally take my child out of Public School until this year. My son is making A's with a few B's in Middle School. And he reads and even reads the news, we discuss everything in life. Even ALIPAC is of interest to him.

With my child above they want to check his IQ. I finally told them that I knew they had their ways to checking his IQ. But that I would never allow it. I resist to this day b/c I heard a teacher say to a student once - I know your IQ and you can do the work I give you.

And remember I just got through fighting the school trying to put the children into uniforms. We won!

I wish all parents and Americans were in the fight to keep our United States.