Please do this on behalf of all the women you love

[Dirt Master]

Has CANCER touched you or someone you know? If it has please sign this petition!
Please read it all the way through.


Mastectomy Hospital Bill in Congress
>
> A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to remove
> cancerous breast cells/tissue. If you know anyone who has had a
> mastectomy, you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain
> afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an
> outpatient procedure. Let's give women the chance to recover properly
> in the hospital for 2 days after surgery.
>
> Mastectomy Bill in Congress
>
> It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important... please
> take the time and do it really quick!
>
> Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation for
> all women.
>
> Please send this to everyone in your address book. If there
> was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one
> of those times. If you're receiving this, it's because I think you
> will take the 30 seconds to go to vote on this issue and send it on to
> others you know who will do the same.
>
> There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act
> which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour
> hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about
> eliminating the "drive-through mastectomy" where women are forc ed to
> go home just a few hours after surgery y, against the wishes of their
> doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes
> still attached.
>
> Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page with a
> petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House
> signed on.
>
> PLEASE!! Sign the petition by cli cki ng on the web site
> below. You need not give more than your name and zip code number.
>
> www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html
>
> This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your
> friends and family, and on behalf of all women, THANKS.

[Dirt Master]

I signed on behalf of my friends mother who had breast cancer and my mother who had uteran cancer.

[mjsweetie]

I signed on behalf of my mother, a 2 year breast cancer survivor. We were lucky, got it in time, and no mastectomy.

[Dirt Master]

This was posted on 4m:

A much more effective way is to phone, write, e-mail or fax your representative in Congress. See this:

www.snopes.com/politics/medical/mastectomy.asp

Here's a "Letter of Support" from the AMA. A good place to start if you are not good at writing letters:

web.archive.org/web/20010806040622/http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/article/4051-4813.html