Hillary Clinton once said that it takes a village to raise a child. At the time it seemed like she might have meant that all of us are responsible for the children around us. Given Mrs. Clinton’s ideas regarding socialism, it is more likely that she meant that the responsibility for raising children rests with the collective culture and not parents. If the medical case of 15-year-old Justinia Pelletier is an example of Mrs. Clinton’s ideology, then this ideology may be more sinister than any of us could have imagined and parental rights hang in the balance. Recently, Lou Pelletier made the news when he violated a gag order not to speak about his battle with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) for the custody of his daughter, Justinia. As a result of the media pressure that Mr. Pelletier managed to raise, on Friday the DCF decided to transfer Justina’s medical care back to Tufts Medical Center, which had previously been treating her with much success. It is said that those that don’t learn their lessons from history are doomed to repeat it. In Nazi Germany, parents surrendered their children to the state’s education system and youth camps. Shortly this led to their surrendering all their rights as parents to the state – including the affection of their children. It was a long year for the Pelletier family who lost custody of Justina on the advice of the Boston Children’s Hospital, where she had gone to seek treatment for an unrelated condition. The Boston Children’s Hospital called in the DCF charging the Pelletiers with child abuse. They did this in spite of a plethora of supporting documentation regarding Justina’s previous diagnosis by outstanding physicians knowledgeable about the rare Mitochondrial disease, from which she was suffering. The irony of the matter is that it is the Boston Children’s Hospital that was guilty of child abuse, as this young girl’s physical condition depleted quickly and we can only guess about the harm done to her emotionally and psychologically.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:36:24 +0000
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