Contact Congress about Melanie Stokes Act
Postpartum Support International (PSI) is making a major push to get people to contact their congressmen regarding the Melanie Stokes Act. If you're a regular reader of Postpartum Progress, you've heard this from me before and hopefully have already done it, but if not, NOW'S THE TIME.
This from Susan Dowd who heads up PSI:
Yesterday, January 4, 2007, Congressman Bobby Rush reintroduced the Melanie Stokes Act to the 110th Congress as H.R. 20. It is crucial that we generate additional momentum for passage of this bill by placing calls to our local Congressmen encouraging their support of the legislation.Please, without delay, determine your local Congressman by clicking on the link below and immediately placing a call to their office, strongly requesting their support for passage of H.R. 20. We have a window of opportunity to finally enact protections for all women which will include assessment, treatment and education about perinatal mood disorders. Your call could elicit the deciding vote.
Heidi Koss-Nobel of PSI Washington makes an important point:
It only takes 10-20 messages from constituents for a legislator to consider a topic "significant" by their constituents.
So if you've been putting it off because you think your call really won't matter, you're wrong. You and 10 or so of your closest friends and family could make an enormous difference.
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