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In reply to the discussion: We failed her. Big time. Boston Children’s was experimenting on Justina Pelletier, [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)I've followed this case a bit, too, but strictly from the aspect that the fanatically anti-science group, the Parental Rights Organization, has been rabidly exploiting the Pelletier family's situation ever since Boston Children's took steps to protect Justina from the extreme surgical procedures that her own parents had been inflicting on her; not "experimental" and not "psychiatric", but serious, physically risky, life-threatening medical operations.
Also, whenever I see that Michele Bachmann has introduced something to the House, such as the Bill you've mentioned, H.R.4989, whether she's managed to convince some unsuspecting representative of its veracity to drum up support or not, I recognize the woman as a person with an extreme anti-democratic agenda.
You can hype Bachmann and her ilk's intent and purposes all you want, but you'll get no support on it from me, regardless of how ever many poor little children they drudge up to use as pawns in their crusade.