IT’S not surprising that the newspaper that promotes sodomy and abortion views motherhood as a form of mental illness. A two-part series (here and here) in The New York Times looks at maternal mental illness and suggests that more women seek professional treatment and that the government screen new or pregnant mothers for “depression.” In New Jersey, screening of mothers for post partum mental illness is already mandatory.

According to Pam Belluck, motherhood is amenable to scientific and political control.

Scientists say new findings contradict the longstanding view that symptoms begin only within a few weeks after childbirth. In fact, depression often begins during pregnancy, researchers say, and can develop any time in the first year after a baby is born.

The second part of the series focuses on Cindy Wachenheim, a 44-year-old lawyer who jumped to her death in Harlem with her baby (who survived) strapped to her chest. Wachenheim was unable to cope with motherhood, which is not at all surprising given her background, her age and the lack of community for mothers. Unsurprisingly, the series does not dwell on the cultural or spiritual factors at work. That new mothers are highly susceptible to demonic suggestion is not something a Times writer could possibly understand. The ever-expanding pharmaceutical and psychotherapeutic industries have a lot to gain from medicalizing motherhood and they control the debate.

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Terry Morris writes:

All you say is true. Just last week our daughter-in-law was advised by a nurse’s assistant that “what you are telling me raises a red flag with DHS.” Besides the fact that it would only raise a flag with DHS if the assistant informed the DHS (which I would have been quick to point out had she said this to me or my wife), what our daughter-in-law was telling her is that she won’t necessarily comply with every single mandate her doctor has (universally) applied. Nothing unreasonable about forewarning that you might not make an appointment or two toward the end of the pregnancy, but apparently this creates deep concern within the modern maternity care profession.

A woman can, don’t ya know, hitch a free ride on the “Sooner Care” bus to get to a scheduled appointment, and if her husband has an issue with Sooner Care per se, then this must mean he is a misogynist tyrant whose influence the State, in all its profound wisdom and virtue, must supersede. Our son and daughter-in-law are (in response) seeking better options.

Laura writes:

With Obamacare and the nationalized health system it will eventually bring about, pregnant women and new mothers will be under new forms of surveillance, all in the supposed interest of protecting the child.

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