I don't know a lot about depression, but I am not sure that giving antidepressants to pregnant women is a good idea.

I would go through PPD all over again before I would agree to take that kind of medication, especially while pregnant.

GAH! How terrifying! There are a million other pieces of legislation I could dream up that would have a better social impact than this. This can't possibly pass!

is it a good idea to take cough syrup before you get a cold? why is it a good idea to take antidepressants before you get depressed? would it also be a good idea to get a heart transplant before i get heart failure?

This is insanity. If this passes then Congress needs to collectively take a drug test to see what the hell they're on.

I am so confused. All medical data I have ever heard/read insists that pregnant mothers should DISCONTINUE all use of antidepressants/SSRIs for the full length of their pregnancy. In fact, there has been a good deal of debate among those of us taking "crazy meds" on a daily basis about whether or not we should take them while pregant.
I really don't think Doctors will allow their pregnant patients to go along with this new theory.

"It's an example of the latest insanity from Big Pharma, whose drugs are already killing over 100,000 Americans each year while inciting violence and suicides in teens."

I think I might have to call shenanigans here. The website is obviously bias. SSRIs do not cause violence and suicide. In some cases there has been violent or suicidal behavior, but there is a lot of evidence that other underlying issues are at work; which is why all drug-therapy is encouraged to be taken with psychotherapy.

They can't possibly force drugs into women that don't want them. The FDA doesn't approve drugs on a whim, but they're looking to expand the research. Congress will decide if it's too much of a health risk to conduct research on still pregnant women.

I agree.

"Every single shooting massacre we've seen in the last ten years has been carried out by a person taking SSRI antidepressant drugs. The mainstream media pays no attention to this link, and the FDA ignores the reports in order to keep these drugs on the market."

Whatever point they were trying to make, as valid as it may be, is completely undermined by these kinds of unsupported blanket statements.

Government mind control drugs? Take the tin foil hats off chaps.

good point. it was this following bit that i found questionable, as well:

edit: beaten by a minute. :P

It's a whole different ball game when you're approving drugs for use in pregnant women, though, and I'm really not confidant that they'll know the long term repercussions from all this before approving it.
They approved & recommended Thalidomide for pregnant women to control morning sickness, after all. I realize that was the 50s & 60s, but I think there is still a LOT we don't know about how these kinds of drugs will affect a fetus. It just seems like a very bad idea, to me.

Holy s**t don't let Tom Cruise get wind of this one....

I was put on Paxil during my divorce. I blindly accepted it and did not research it. It was living HELL to get off of.

Now, I am sick as hell from Levaquin, an antibiotic of which I never knew I should have researched either. I took it for 10 days for a sinus infection last month and had no idea how TOXIC that antibiotic is.

Fluorquinolones

I hate drug companies!

If I could not take my anti-depressants, I would not live long enough to give birth. With careful pre-natal screening, this can be done. I would take the risk, as the alternative would be either die or have an abortion if I was to get preggers. Or not tell my doctors and stock up on my meds while I could...

The biggest problem in this is not that most SSRIs are teratogenic, but that they hadn't been around long enough to see what would happen to the 3rd generation.

Apparently now we can see that the babies had by people whose mothers took SSRI's when pregnant are ok.