Mastectomy Legislation

Hi everyone. I just received this e-mail from a friend and felt it was important enough to share with you. Please go to this website and sign this petition. My mother had breast cancer and I know what she had to go through. Thanks.


MASTECTOMY LEGISLATION

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> Important info for all women. Please forward this to everyone in your
> address book. This is a time when our voices and choices should be
> heard.
>
> This takes about 30 seconds 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 forced to go home hours after surgery 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 clicking on the web site below and
> help women with breast cancer get the care they need and deserve!!
> There is no cost or monetary pledge involved. You need not give more
> than your name and zip code number.
>
> http://www.lifetimetv.com/reallife/b...st_pledge.html
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>
> PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THANKS

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I signed it and told them exactly why it should be passed.

signed!

signed, and passed along to others

I signed it last year sometime but since I got married I signed it again. My mom also had breast cancer, which she did stay at the hospital for 48 hours which was good. But now it is very important for me to get a breast cancer cells test done. After watching my mom go through it I know I don't want to and will do what I can to pervent my self not have to go through it like my mother did. On my moms side of the family all mother and daughters get it so my chances are pretty high.

Katie

Am I able to sign this, I have not checked it out, being in NZ, this is also close to my heart right now, too as mum has just recovered from Breast Cancer after being diagnosed in April this year.