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Monday, March 21, 2011

"Submit to the operation or lose your kid."

Found this via Pewsitter at both LifeSiteNews.com and www.dailymail.co.uk (where I copied it from);

Baby girl kept away from mother for five years after she refused to sign C-section consent form

A baby girl has been kept away from her mother for almost five years after she refused to sign a form consenting to a Caesarean section - even though she did not end up needing to have the operation. (the emphasis is mine)

The extraordinary case began after staff at a New Jersey hospital claimed that refusal to give permission for the procedure amounted to child abuse.

The agonising decision triggered a protracted legal battle which has led to the mother being separated from her child for five years.

The woman, known only as VM, launched an appeal after authorities took her baby away from her immediately after the birth in 2006 at St Barnabas Hospital in New Jersey.

The first appeal failed but she was given a ray of hope when a higher court ruled in her favour.

The case is now waiting to go back to the lower court which is yet to make a decision.

The hospital said that her refusal to give permission for the C-section amounted to child abuse and thus reported her to welfare authorities.

This was despite VM saying that she would agree to the operation if it became necessary and going on to deliver a healthy baby.

The courts agreed with welfare agencies in New Jersey that the baby, born on April 16 2006, should be kept in care and revoked parental rights.

VM was successful at an appeal hearing that reversed the lower court's decision saying that the mother was 'unwilling or unable to eliminate the harm facing the child' and that 'termination of parental rights will not do more harm than good.'

In its ruling the Superior Court in New Jersey said: 'JMG cannot be lost in this process. She is "the beating heart at the centre of this controversy" and she is entitled to the benefit of permanency with parents who hopefully will be in a position both physically and mentally to sustain her.

'Unfortunately that decision cannot yet be made. In the interim, she has been the beneficiary of a loving foster home but at the same time, she has a sustained relationship with loving parents.

'Termination (of parental rights) is among the most extraordinary remedies that can be exercised by a court. We must insist that the remedy be reserved for those instances where the state meets the extraordinary burden imposed by the law.

'That burden has not been met here.'

According to the original appeal hearing, when VM went into labour medical professionals at the hospital said she 'demonstrated combative and erratic behaviour including a refusal to consent to a Caesarean section.

'Despite the medical opinion that the foetus demonstrated signs of distress and that the procedure was necessary to avoid imminent danger to the foetus, the child was born by vaginal delivery without incident.'

At the appeal in 2009, the court gave the baby's father, BG, access to his daughter but ruled that she should remain in the care of the authorities.

The Superior Court made its decision in August last year and the family is now waiting to hear whether or not it can be reunited.


(End of story. My comments follow.)

How soon before this becomes standard practice? How soon before the threat of losing your child is used to coerce someone into having other medical procedures, such as aborting a baby because "Mom and Dad" already have too many children and can't provide an arbitrarily determined quality of life for their kids if there's another mouth to feed?

Do you think that might be farfetched? Just how farfetched would this story have seemed not too long ago?

We've gone from medical personnel providing needed services to them becoming our self-appointed lords and masters. This is happening WITHOUT universally government funded healthcare (althought the couple in question seem to have been on the dole). Just how will this "I know better than you" attitude and arrogance skyrocket once we have our healthcare system completely taken over by the Feds? Check the attitude at your local DMV for an idea of where it might end.

2 comments:

Most Rev. Gregori said...

As a society, we are becoming more demented by the day. Before you know it, if you even look at your children cross-eyed, that will be considered "child abuse". Can the liberal screw-ups to our society ever be corrected?

Subvet said...

MRG, sometimes I don't like to think of the most likely answer to that question.

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