A Justina's Law is needed to protect other kids like Justina Pelletier

minot daily news ^ | Andrea Johnson

[Morgana]

Justina Pelletier finally went home today.

Justina is the 16-year-old Connecticut girl who has been held against her will by child welfare officials in Massachusetts for the past 16 months. Her story has resulted in a firestorm of controversy about the treatment of children with rare diseases and parental rights to make medical decisions for their children.

The best coverage of the story has probably been provided by The Boston Globe, which did a series of stories a few months ago that can be found here: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/15/justina/vnwzbbNdiodSD7WDTh6xZI/story.html A story about the girl's homecoming can be found here: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/17/judge-orders-custody-justina-pelletier-returned-parents/mDWtuGURNawSuObO0pDX4J/story.html As the Boston Globe reported, the saga began in February 2013 when Justina, then 14, became seriously ill. Justina had nearly lost the ability to walk and had lost her appetite. Her parents took her to Boston Children's Hospital on the advice of a doctor at Tufts who had been treating her for a rare ailment called mitochondrial disease, an illness that her older sister also has.

[Morgana]

Sounds like a plan to me.

[HiTech RedNeck]

As attractive as the idea sounds, if the judges of the place had only been honoring existing laws, Justina would never have been placed in this pickle!

I would concur with a heavy heart in this case, go ahead and slap on the new band-aid. But it isn’t going to be the ultimate cure for the Massachusetts Madness.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If it is a good idea and protects people from an overreaching government, the Rat controlled legislatures in the liberal states will never do it.

[Morgana]

Sad but true but consider the source. It’s Massachusetts after all. The place is a cesspool. It’s going into the ground that things ever came to this in the first place.

I shudder to think what would have happened to that girl had that law group not helped her family.

[acapesket]

I hope the Pelletier’s sue the crap out of MA and DCF. I hope Deval Patrick goes to jail and the entire communist state of MA falls apart. These people need to be in jail!!
The psychiatrists (aka loons looking for a reason they are loons) need to have their licenses revoked and then sent to jail.

Everyone involved in this horrible travesty needs to go to jail.

Assholechsetts… it will never happen. Most Corrupt state in the Union.

[nathanbedford]

(a post from another article which appears downstream)

“This case has opened our eyes to a much larger problem of government agencies overreaching across the nation. Parental rights are being violated!”

Absolutely right!

This is a very good case which to litigate because the morality as well as the law should be firmly on the side of the parents, a sort of a reverse of the hard cases make bad law Maxim, this says, good cases make good law.

It's well for us to step back and understand what gives the left the occasion to intrude into the family and disrupt the way it functions. We know the left is motivated by an unquenchable thirst for power and we know further that the left is motivated by an ineluctable compulsion to destroy the family unit as a building block of society so that the left can remake society apart from family values.

But the occasion for these intrusions is served up by our culture. What gives Michelle Obama the right to dictate childrens' menus in schools? The left will tell us that these kids go to school hungry, that the family is not properly providing for them, that single mother homes provide neither the nutrition nor the knowledge to keep kids healthy. In other words the family is failing so the state must step in to protect the children and the more the state steps in the more the family will fail.

If we have burgeoning bastardy rates in America, up to 70% in some ethnic groups, we are going to have inevitable social dislocation. If we have a flood of impoverished, uneducated, illiterate, illegal immigrants we can expect social disintegration to accelerate. Wherever the left can exploit a need which it itself creates with its own policies such as open immigration or the welfare state in general, it will do so to enlarge itself as well as to hold itself out as the rescuers of children.

[stanne]

This sweet child. So glad she gets to go home

[PGalt]

Posts BUMP!

(Kudos to Glenn Beck for giving this tremendous coverage)

GOOD NEWS BUMP!

[mojo114]

I agree that Massachusetts is responsible for their actions, but Connecticut legislature did nothing, ignored it completely, and this is where Justina is from.

[mojo114]

I agree that Massachusetts is responsible for their actions, but Connecticut legislature did nothing, ignored it completely, and this is where Justina is from.

[eyeamok]

We have a Law just for cases like this,
it’s called Felony Kidnapping, unfortunately we now live in the land of Moral Bankruptcy, especially at the “Law” Level.

[acapesket]

She was a virtual prisoner here, never, ever do business with Children’s, MGH, or any Harvard University affiliated hospital, they are the medical Gestapo.

[TigersEye]

We have laws to protect kids like Justina. What we need are some laws that punish civil servants who defy them. Capital punishment.

[GreatRoad]

I like to call it, Massatwoshits.

[George from New England]

Be careful what you plan for. If a suit is filed in Mass-hole and the govt up there wants to make Justina testify, she comes back across state lines, they can seize her then again. Now she will be 18 within 2 years so maybe that’ll come first.