April 23, 2003
AB 1424 - Mom's Right to Choose
Dear Friends,
Your faxes, phone calls, and emails are needed NOW to support AB 1424 by
California Assembly Member Dennis Mountjoy. This bill would make it illegal to
take a child from the parents and put the child into foster care if the only
charge is medical neglect because the parents refuse psychiatric drugs or
treatment for the child. Currently, the parents can be charged with "medical
neglect," and threatened with being investigated by Child Protective Services
and losing their child based on the school's accusation. This is enough to
scare many parents into putting their children on dangerous psychiatric drugs.
This situation was profiled recently on the Montel Williams Show, "A Mom's
Right to Choose."
Please write a letter in your own words and FAX it or email it to the members
of the Assembly Health Committee right away! The bill is going to be voted up
or down on Tuesday, April 29th. If you have company letterhead, put it on
that. If you live in the district of any of the members listed below, also
CALL their Sacramento office and voice your support. I would love a sample
copy of your letter, if you care to send me one at
cassandra@relaypoint.net.
Suggested topics are below. Please state clearly that you want a YES vote on
AB 1424 in your letter. If you or someone you know was harmed by psychiatric
drugs as a child, please write about that. Or, if you know of anyone
personally who has been threatened in order to coerce them to drug their
child, you could write about that.
1) I saw the Montel Williams show, and I am totally outraged that parents are
being forced to give their children dangerous and potentially deadly
psychiatric drugs.
2) I am shocked that parents are being charged with medical neglect for
refusing to give their children brain-damaging psychiatric drugs. This is
ridiculous!
3) California's foster care system is not a paradise, and children should
not be sent into the system based on a parent's choice not to put their child
on dangerous drugs.
4) Psychiatric diagnoses are subjective and have no physical tests that can
be done to prove that a child has any psychiatric "disorder." To threaten to
take a child away from a parent, or actually do so, based on a psychiatric
diagnosis violates parents rights and threatens the health of the children so
treated.
Love,
Cassandra
List to Contact:
Dennis Mountjoy, (author) fax 916-319-2159
Dario Frommer, Glendale
phone 916-319-2043; fax 916-319-2143
Assemblymember.Frommer@assembly.ca.gov
Robert Pacheco, Walnut
Phone 916-319-2060; fax 916-319-2160
Patricia Bates, Laguna Niguel
Phone 916-319-2073; fax 916-319-2173
Ed Chavez, La Puente
phone 916-319-2057; fax 916-319-2157
Assemblymember.Chavez@assembly.ca.gov
Judy Chu, Monterey Park
916-319-2049; fax 916-319-2149
Assemblymember.Chu@assembly.ca.gov
Rebecca Cohn, Saratoga and Cambell, etc.
Phone 916-319-2024; fax 916-319-2124
Assemblymember.Cohn@assembly.ca.gov
Jackie Goldberg, Hollywood area
Phone 916-319-2045; fax 916-319-2145
Assemblymember.Goldberg@assembly.ca.gov
Ray Haynes, Riverside
Phone 916-319-2066; fax 916-319-2166
Assemblymember.Haynes@assembly.ca.gov
Paul Koretz, West Hollywood
Phone 916-319-2042; fax 916-319-2142
Assemblymember.Koretz@assembly.ca.gov
Sally Lieber, Santa Clara
Phone 916-319-2022; fax 916-319-2122
Assemblymember.Lieber@assembly.ca.gov
KevinMcCarthy, Bakersfield
Phone 916-319-2032; fax 916-319-2132
Assemblymember.McCarthy@assembly.ca.gov
Cindy Montanez, San Fernando
Phone 916-319-2039; fax 916-319-2139
Assemblymember.Montanez@assembly.ca.gov
Alan Nakanishi, Lodi
Phone 916-319-2010; fax 916-319-2110
Assemblymember.Nakanishi@assembly.ca.gov
George Nakano, Torrance
Phone 916-319-2053; fax 916-319-2153
Gloria Negrete- McLeod, Chino
Phone 916-319-2061; fax 916-319-2161
Assemblymember.McLeod@assembly.ca.gov
Fabian Nunez, downtown LA area
Phone 916-319-2046; fax 916-319-2146
Assemblymember.Nunez@assembly.ca.gov
George Plescia, La Jolla
Phone 916-319-2075; fax 916-319-2175
Assemblymember.Plescia@assembly.ca.gov
Keith Richman, North Ventura County and Northridge area
Phone 916-319-2055; fax 916-319-2155
Assemblymember.Richman@assembly.ca.gov
Mark Ridley-Thomas, Jefferson Ave. area of L.A.
Phone 916-319-2048; fax 916-319-2148
Simon Salinas, Salinas area
Phone 916-319-2028; fax 916-319-2128
Assemblymember.Salinas@assembly.ca.gov
Lois Wolk. Davis
Phone 916-319-2008; fax 916-319-2108
Assemblymember.Wolk@assembly.ca.gov
Leland Yee, San Francisco
Phone 916-319-2012; fax 916-319-2112
Assemblymember.yee@assembly.ca.gov
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