Thread: Watch out! Liberal State Steals Child from Parents!

Watch out! Liberal State Steals Child from Parents!

By Stephen Bowers / 20 February 2014

I just saw a story on Glenn Beck's Show about a young girl named Justina who has become hopelessly enmeshed in the Worker's Paradise II (aka; Massachusetts), or rather, the Children's Hospital's own little version of Nazism/communism/socialism/liberalism brought to life on this beautiful and blessed continent.

I understand that my shrinking number of liberal pals will object to my lumping those four groups together, but they are so alike in their general goals, if not their names, philosophies, uniforms and goosestepping, that it is a waste of time and ink to distinguish between them. Someone once said the only reason George Meany hated Communism was "because it infringed on his turf." They are all the same, ultimately, just Tyranny dressed up in a different dress.

Interestingly, and never commented on in big media, is the fact they all are rabid Evolutionists. It is the one basic idea they ALL have in common. Their goal is subjugation of their fellows, but their justification for doing so is invariably some twist on Darwin's brain child. I suppose shooting your fellow man in the head while having him stand beside a mass grave so he conveniently tumbles therein, is much easier if you believe he is an inferior being to yourself because he is a Jew, gypsy, Baptist, mentally incompetent (see Justice O.W. Holmes for a definition), homosexual or some other thing you find personally offensive. If the guy is lower on the imagined evolutionary scale, shooting him is no worse than shooting a rat at the City Dump (unless your dump is a "Gun Free Zone" now).

Some may also wonder if Islam should be included in the group with socialists, et al, Maybe. Some professor (?) at the University of Cairo (I think), recently said "Jews are evolved from pigs." (I'm not making this up.) And if this Administration's and John Kerry's overtures to Iran and threats against Israel are any indication, Obama and Kerry's embrace of Islam will soon close the circle with the other four groups of aforementioned tyrants. This may not be a fair analysis, because, as you've probably noticed, American liberals will embrace anything.

Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, the idiots running North Korea, et al, all mass murderers, each held to the tenants of Darwinism...as it suited their heinous plans. (Maybe not the 20 year old general running N. Korea. Not yet.)
You have to know Evolutionism/Darwinism is a fellow traveler with Nazism/communism/socialism/liberalism, or you won't understand what is happening to the little girl in Boston. Her story is too long for even a brief synopsis here. She has been hospitalized and separated from her parents because the apparatchiks in Boston child services and the hospital, working together, CAN permanently hospitalize her and separate her from her parents. So they have.

Tyranny stinks and it is everywhere. John Wilkes Booth was really screwed up, but his words uttered as he leaped from the Presidential Box in Ford's Theater (although misapplied that night) are timely today.

Look up Justina's story. It's unbelievable, which is a word you hear endlessly utilized to describe events in modern America. Something is wrong and we need to fix it.

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Parents fight for custody of Justina Pelletier after Mass. hospital locks her in psych ward

A number of forces are fighting over the care of Connecticut teen Justina Pelletier. Parents Lou and Linda Pelletier agree with doctors at Tufts Medical Center who claim Justina has mitochondrial disease. But Boston Children's Hospital diagnosed Justina with a mental illness and accused the Pelletiers of over-medicating their child. The state of Massachusetts has assumed custody of the teen while the battle rages on.

By Carol Kuruvilla / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 2:24 PM

A Miracle for Justina/via Facebook

Parents Lou and Linda Pelletier claim their daughter hasn’t been receiving proper education or treatment after she was placed under the custody of the state of Massachusetts.

One year after Justina Pelletier was locked into a psychiatric ward at Boston Children’s Hospital, doctors, lawyers, and family members are still struggling to answer the question—is this teenager really in pain?
Doctors at Tufts Medical Center diagnosed Justina Pelletier with mitochondrial disease, a genetic disorder that affects how cells produce energy and can wreak havoc on nearly all of the body’s life-sustaining systems. But on Feb. 10, 2013, another group of doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital decided that the 15-year-old’s disease was psychosomatic—which meant that Pelletier’s problems were caused by a mental illness and not by physical ailments. When her parents attempted to take Pelletier back for treatment at Tufts, Boston Children’s called in the cops.
The young girl was then thrown into a custody and medical battle that has been raging for more than a year. Justina is still under custody of the state of Massachusetts, but her parents haven't stopped fighting to get her back.
"We are David, not against Goliath, but against two Goliaths— Boston Children's Hospital and the State of Massachusetts," dad Lou Pelletier told ABCNews.com. "To me it's a hopeless cause and the only way to win is in the court of public opinion."
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Justina was placed in a state psychiatric ward for nearly a year. In January, she was transferred to a temporary residential program in Framingham while the court battles continue. The next hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 13. In the meantime, Judge Joseph Johnston has placed a gag order on all parties involved in the trials.
Justina’s parents have only been allowed supervised visits with their daughter, which only last for one hour every week. They say her condition deteriorated during her time at the psych ward.
A Miracle for Justina/via Facebook

Justina was was placed in state custody in a psychiatric ward at Boston Children's Hospital for nearly a year after the hospital diagnosed her with Somatoform Disorder.


"She is going off a cliff," Pelletier said of his daughter, who is now confined to a wheelchair. "She looks awful and is pale and her hair is falling out. Her gums are receding and she has no body strength."
Until her medical troubles started, Justina was a normal young girl. She loved figure skating and her family, who live in West Hartford, Conn. Justina’s older sister Jessica was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease by Dr. Mark Korson, chief of metabolism at Tufts. When Justina started feeling sick in 2010, her parents took her to Tufts for an evaluation. She eventually came under the care of Korson, who diagnosed her with the same disease as her sister, then treated her with a “vitamin cocktail” and a number of other prescription medicines.

Her condition seemed to be looking up until February 2013, when she came down with the flu. Korson recommended that the family take the girl to a colleague at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Justina was taken by ambulance to Boston Children’s, where a young emergency room doctor told the family that he “didn’t believe” in mitochondrial disease, ABC reports. A medical team at the hospital came up with a new treatment plan, which Lou Pelletier says was created without input from doctors from Tufts.
The new plan stated that Justina’s "medication regimen will be simplified with a gradual reduction of medications to a small set of essential, non-detrimental, modestly dosed medication with limited side effects."
The family refused to sign this new plan and attempted to check Justina out of Boston Children's on Feb. 14, 2013. The hospital responded by accusing the parents of child abuse for over-medicating their daughter and refusing to give her access to mental health therapy.
A Miracle for Justina/via Facebook

Last January, Justina was competing in ice-skating competitions. Just a year later, the teen is confined to a wheelchair.


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The state then assumed custody of the girl. The Pelletier’s say they are “frustrated” about the fact that they are no longer allowed to make medical decisions for their daughter.
“I have a right as a U.S. citizen to take my daughter to what doctor I want to, and it’s been taken away,” Linda Pelletier told Fox.
Boston Children’s Hospital released a statement defending their doctors’ actions.
“We are proud of their work and positive impact on the patient," the statement read. “[O]ur clinicians are particularly distressed that the inaccuracies surrounding this case have caused undo concern for the many children and their families with mitochondrial disorders in our care. Misleading reports suggesting that the hospital holds patients in its inpatient psychiatric unit do not recognize the role of DCF as the legal guardian or the challenges inherent in finding appropriate lower acuity facilities for certain patients.”
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But Justina’s parents say they were caught between the two methods of treating their daughter’s medical symptoms. And they insist that they never meant her harm.
A Miracle for Justina/via Facebook

Justina Pelletier is a 15-year-old from West Hartford, Conn.


"Every procedure she had done was not pushed by us, but by the medical community. Insurance never would have covered it if it were not medically necessary,” Lou said.
Advocates for Justina have started campaigns to help bring Justina home. Diane O’Leary, executive director of The Coalition for Diagnostic Rights, said that it is possible that Justina’s medical issues stem from a combination of physical and mental symptoms.
"Doctors are absurdly reckless when they exclude a medical investigation in favor of a vague somatoform diagnosis. It's always a guess," she said. "This is a battleground where doctors and patients are fighting for authority."
Despite the gag order, Lou Pelletier is continuing to speak up for his daughter. He says that his daughter has suffered greatly after doctors cut her off from the medicines she was taking with Korson. He also claims that she hasn’t been getting a good education.
And Justina has reportedly snuck notes to her family saying that she is constantly in pain.
"The system has failed," Lou said. "I am battling the medical world that thinks it knows everything."
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What We Found in a Boston Children’s Hospital Policy Manual About Research on ‘Wards of the State’

Feb. 20, 2014 9:59am Liz Klimas


“Children who are Wards of the state may be included in research that presents minimal risk…or greater than minimal risk with a prospect of direct benefit.”
That’s a line from Boston Children’s Hospital’s “Clinical Investigations Policy and Procedure Manual. It’s the same facility that took over the care of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier against her parents’ wishes last year and they continue to wonder why.
Justina Pelletier has been in the custody of the state since Feb. 14, 2013. (Image source: Facebook)

The parents of the teen from West Hartford, Conn., at the center of a custody, patient’s rights and medical diagnosis battle have questioned the motives as to why Boston Children’s Hospital countered the medical diagnosis and recommended treatment set by a Tufts Medical Center physician years earlier.
Justina was taken as a ward of the state by the Massachusetts Department of Children & Families on Feb. 14, 2013, and remains in the child services department’s custody still.
The hospital’s clinical investigations policy continues (emphasis added):

Children who are Wards of the state may be included in research that presents greater than minimal risk with no prospect of direct benefit (46.406 (50.53) or 46.407 ( 50.54) only if the [institutional review board] determines and documents that such research is
Related to their status as wards; or
Conducted in schools, camps, hospital, institutions, or similar settings in which the majority of children involved as participants are not wards.

In such cases, the patient is represented by at least one advocate, appointed by the institutional review board, who will act on their behalf and in the patient’s best interest.
Any time research would involve a ward of the state, the document says a proposal must be presented in detail to the institutional review board and be approved by DCF’s Research Proposal Review Committee.
Boston Children’s Hospital declined to comment about the case and about the policy to TheBlaze.
Dr. Richard Boles, a pediatrician in the Los Angeles area and the medical director of Courtagen Life Sciences, a biotechnology and DNA sequencing company specializing in metabolic disorders, told TheBlaze it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for Boston Children’s Hospital to conduct medical research.
“They’re a research facility,” he said.
Boles told TheBlaze that any research involves ethics committees and is “up front.” He said the system is so procedural now that if he wanted to survey his own patients for something as simple asking where they bought their vitamins, so he could advise his other patients accordingly, he would have to go through a whole protocol and a wealth of paperwork.
BCH’s clinical investigation policy echoes language in regulations set by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. According to HHS, for children to be involved in research, parental or guardian permission must be given. A “guardian,” is defined as the “individual who is authorized under applicable State or local law to consent on behalf of a child to general medical care,” which, in the case of Justina Pelletier, would be DCF.
Other institutions, like Johns Hopkins Medicine and Duke University Health System to name a couple, have similar guidelines for research involving children, including those who are under care of the state.

“Children who are Wards of the state may be included in research that presents minimal risk…”

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But an article published in the journal Pediatrics in 2008 argued that the protections for wards of the state in research might not go far enough.
“Current federal regulations mandate additional safeguards, beyond those that apply to all pediatric research, for some research with wards of the state. Although these additional requirements are attentive to the concerns research with wards of the state raises, we argue that they do not go far enough,” the authors wrote.
“Society is obligated to ensure the harms wards of the state have already experienced due to parental mistreatment or abandonment are not compounded by further harm from inappropriate clinical research enrollment,” they continued. “This means wards of the state must be appropriately protected from risk and from being unfairly selected to bear burdens in clinical research. To these ends, additional safeguards and modifications to existing guidelines are needed.”
On its website, BCH describes itself as “home to the world’s largest research enterprise based at a pediatric hospital” with “$225 million in annual funding, including more federal funding than any other pediatric facility.”
It is unknown if Justina Pelletier is involved in a research program. The teen was diagnosed in 2011 with mitochondrial disease, a disease where the mitochondria (the energy-producing organelle in cells) does not function properly leading to a variety of symptoms including pain, fatigue and gastrointestinal issues. While being treated for this disease, her parents, Linda and Lou, said she was doing well.
Justina Pelletier with her parents, Linda and Lou. (Image source: Facebook)

In February 2013, she came down with the flu, which for mitochondrial patients can be more severe, her older sister Jessica told TheBlaze, and was recommended by a Connecticut hospital to be transferred to Boston Children’s Hospital where she was supposed to see a gastrointestinal specialist. Instead, Lou Pelletier told TheBlaze Monday she was seen by a neurologist as she came through the hospital’s emergency room who said she didn’t have mitochondrial disease but somatoform disorder, a psychological disorder that said the symptoms she experienced originated in her head.
Boston doctors wanted to take a different approach with Justina’s treatment, something which Lou said they were initially on board with until they found out it meant taking her off her treatments for mitochondrial disease.
When they arrived at Boston Children’s on Feb. 14, 2013, to discharge Justina and take her to Tufts instead, they were accused of over-medicalizing their child, a form of abuse, and DCF took custody. Since then the Pelletiers have been in and out of court fighting to get Justina back and treated for mitochondrial disease. Without treatment for this disease for more than a year, Lou said his daughter is failing.
“If she’s not in the proper facility, she will die,” Lou told TheBlaze earlier this week.
“I am trying to save my daughter’s life,” he said, breaking a court-imposed gag order, something which DCF filed that he be held in contempt of court for doing.
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