Lifetime, Cross to Lobby for Breast-Cancer Bill
Women’s Cable Network, Desperate Housewives Star Head to Capitol Hill to Back Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/23/2008 9:09:00 AM
Lifetime Television and Desperate Housewives' Marcia Cross will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday to lobby for the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007.
Lifetime, which actively advocates for a host of women's issues, said myLifetime.com has collected a whopping 20 million signatures backing the bill, which it said would prevent so-called drive-through mastectomies, when women are forced to leave the hospital after "physically and emotionally difficult breast-cancer surgeries."
The bill would allow doctors and their patients -- rather than insurance companies -- to decide whether the patient is better off staying in the hospital for up to 48 hours after the surgery.
According to Lifetime, the bill currently has 204 co-sponsors in the House and 18 in the Senate.
