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In reply to the discussion: We failed her. Big time. Boston Children’s was experimenting on Justina Pelletier, [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)I don't cite RW sources. There are plenty of non-RW sources for this story. You have no basis to declare the family a RW source; they merely sought as much media exposure for their cause as was possible.
Your MO is: you don't like the RW but anything you don't like must be RW. Your every argument presents the RW as this mythical power that can make non-RW media bend to its will, it can defund agencies in states where it is a super-minority, it can hoodwink doctors and judges, it can fake videos and make a family go through months of hell just to do -- something.
Occam's razor says that the doctors at BC screwed up. They leapt to a conclusion in an astoundingly short period of time in the name of a diagnosis that should have taken extensive interviews and tests to discern. When it became apparent their patient was worsening they were slow to do what was in the best interest of their patient. Eventually their behavior became so appalling, and the proof of their incompetence so glaring, a judge returned Justina to her parents without hesitation or condition.
If it weren't for the fact the father, at great personal risk, defied the gag order to bring attention to this travesty Justina could be still held by those incompetents.
NOTHING in this case shows the parents to be negligent, abusive or acting to their daughter's harm. NOTHING justifies tearing the family apart. There is no case. In the balance between the family and the state the scales tip to the family. The state doesn't get to say, "Well, the video has been hosted on The Blaze, so we get to trump family rights."
The Law you pretend to champion speaks to due process, probable cause, evidence and benefit of the doubt in favor of the citizen over the state. Yet, you throw all of that away in the name of cheap political vendettas because they had the audacity to plead their case to whomever would amplify their cry for help.