Justina Pelletier while under the care of the state of Massachusetts was confined in psychiatric facilities and treated for her alleged psychological condition. The Justina Pelletier medical experiment lasted sixteen months.... Justina was taken from her parents because Dr. Alice Newton, head of Boston Children’s Hospital child protection team persuaded the juvenile court system that their just-admitted patient was a victim of parental medical child abuse. With Judge Joseph Johnston’s permission, Dr. Newton sequestered Justina, initiated treatment for her claimed mental disorder and barred her former Tufts physicians from co-evaluating her newly-established diagnosis. News coverage of Justina Pelletier’s Boston Children’s Hospital medical mistreatment has ignited a legal challenge to the practice of using foster children in medical research. “Justina’s Law,” [H.R.4989] introduced June 26, 2014, would: prohibit Federal funding of any treatment or research in which a ward of the State is subjected to greater than minimal risk to the individual’s health with no or minimal prospect of direct benefit. cchrint.org/2014/07/25/justinas-law-protecting-foster-children-from-medical-child-abuse-justinaslaw/
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