The Drugging of Our Children

This is a story about how antidepressants and other SSRI’s have seriously harmed children across America. It has caused suicide, murder, depletion of nutrients, hallucinations, and so much more. What an important video for our times.

The Drugging of Our Children

 

Dear Michael Moore

I saw Family Preservation’s entry and I’m not giving up on you, Michael Moore, without an email.

(revised)

Dear Michael Moore,

I’ve been a great admirer of your work from the time I watched Roger & Me, all the way to Sicko. You have done great work in exposing the ills of corporations, the loss of ma and pop shops, the gruesome horrors of the Bush Administration, the current medical insurance institution, and so much more.

I know that you are an intelligent person, and we can’t all know everything there is to know… because there are so many things out there, and so much propaganda.

Your recent comments supporting Madonna and her adoption sound to me as though you do not understand the great depths of the entitlement that privileged people feel to save others. Nor do you appear to understand the billions of dollars that are made by adoption lawyers and agencies to steal them from mothers who are medicated in the hospital, in maternity homes, off their porches, out of their wombs, or who interrogate them until they sign papers giving up their rights, or who will terminate their rights without them signing anything.

See CRIN website regarding the letters from the human rights of Malawi to Madonna

The history of adoption and how it became corrupted (to literally give agencies the power to steal children off of the doorsteps of the poor) can be seen in the book, “The Baby Thief, the untold story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted adoption” written by Barbara Raymond, (as well as many other sources*) an adoptive mother. This isn’t just about stealing babies, its also about how agencies are tied to lawyers and judges and politicians, making illegal acts untouchable by justice seeking persons. Georgia Tann exploited babies, many of whom died, by stealing and putting them in her orphanage, and selling them to people. She also took pictures of them and placed them as ads in newspapers with some pretty atrocious catch lines that would make any person who was adopted puke. It also shows some of the very corrupt practices that greedy politicians use to control their city, from allowing crime by punishing them with fines, to shunning people who challenged them, sometimes with death, all of which had no justice.

But make no mistake, these are crimes not done just in the past… but all of which are still done today. Many mothers and fathers have challenged the adoption system begging, pleading to be reunited with their children, fighting for years and years to get them back, and continue to fail.

Rachel Sullivan, Allison Quets (allisonquets.com), Janette, Angele & John, Meg,

Karl Hindle (who is from the UK, but the mother moved to Florida and their child is placed, also has some medical connections) http://emilyrosehindle.blogspot.com/

Craig and Ibbaanika Bond
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/content/investigative/story.aspx?content_id=ef45e63e-7fbd-462d-8554-30aa793a80cf

Stephanie Bennett
http://sendevelynhome.com/default.aspx

Adrian Zane’s parents:
http://www.fightforadrian.com/page5.html

the mother of Amber James http://heatherrainbow.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/amber-james-update/

Cody and Ashley
http://www.babyselling.com/

These are just people that I know and have contact with. Many are still fighting. There has never been an investigation. Because it goes up, all the way to the top…. George and Laura Bush are on the Board of Directors of the most profitable adoption agency in the country, the Gladney Center, in Texas. The former Michigan adoption agency director now in charge of the health care of Iraqi citizens…. be prepared to see Iraqi orphans and infants on the US adoption market.

Put in by the Bush Admin:
See Democracy Now article:

Jim Haveman does not have a medical degree. He was a social worker, and he was the former Director of Community Health in the State of Michigan. Prior to his stint in government, he had a little bit of international experience, but it was largely in the context of being a director for International Aid, a faith-based relief organization that promotes Christianity in the developing world in conjunction with development assistance. And prior to that, he headed up a large adoption agency in the State of Michigan that urges pregnant women not to have abortions.

Please, please please… do some research. Contact some of these people. And at the very least, understand that we criticize Madonna, because she has violated Malawiian law, and that that child is now losing his parents, his country, his language, his culture, all because he was poor. Maybe Madonna even had good intentions, but the act was wrong, nonetheless. We should be supporting poor families, not punishing them for being poor and/or vulnerable.

In Peace,
Heather

http://www.amazon.com/Stork-Market-Americas-Multi-Billion-Unregulated/dp/1427608954
http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=10705&flag=news
Babies ‘removed to meet targets’
By Brian Wheeler
http://womenshealthnews.blogspot.com/2007/01/pregnant-teens-escape-so-does.html
http://caica.org/New_Hope_Maternity_Home_teens_escape_1-20-07.htm

 

Regina McKnight — Victory at Long Last

Regina McKnight — Victory at Long Last

Today, we were thrilled to learn that after 8 long years, the South Carolina Supreme Court has finally reversed the 20-Year Homicide Conviction of Regina McKnight. The unanimous decision recognizes that research linking cocaine to stillbirths is based on “outdated” and inaccurate medical information. NAPW has been working on behalf of Ms. McKnight for nearly 10 years.

Specifically the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that Regina McKnight did not have a fair trial when she was convicted in 2001 for homicide by child abuse. Through this conviction she became the first woman in South Carolina to be convicted of homicide by child abuse as a result of suffering an unintentional stillbirth.

McKnight was arrested in 1999, several months after she experienced a stillbirth at Conway Hospital. McKnight’s conviction was based on the jury’s acceptance of the scientifically unsupported claim that her cocaine use caused the stillbirth. McKnight had no prior arrest history and even prosecutors agreed that she had no intention of harming the fetus or losing the pregnancy. Nevertheless, upon conviction she was given a twenty-year sentence, suspended to twelve years in prison with no chance for parole. She was projected to be released in 2010.

The medical community has strongly opposed McKnight’s prosecution and conviction. From the beginning, leading South Carolina and national medical, public health, and child welfare organizations and experts have opposed the prosecution and conviction. These organizations—represented by us– the National Advocates for Pregnant Women and the Drug Policy Alliance, with South Carolina counsel Susan Dunn included the South Carolina Medical Association, the South Carolina Nurses Association, the South Carolina Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, and the South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families argued in an amicus (friend of the court) brief argued that women do not lose their rights to a fair trial upon becoming pregnant and challenged the state’s evidence that cocaine use or anything else that McKnight did or did not do caused the stillbirth.

In 2002 NAPW with numerous allies challenged the constitutionality of using homicide statutes to prosecute women who experience stillbirths. On appeal, a bare majority of the State Supreme Court upheld the conviction and the new interpretation of the state’s homicide law. The Court held that a pregnant woman who unintentionally heightens the risk of a stillbirth could be found guilty of “extreme indifference to human life” homicide. Under this decision a conviction for homicide is permitted on any evidence that a pregnant woman engaged in activity “public[ly] know[n]” to be “potentially fatal” to a fetus. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the decision.

Today’s ruling focused on the question of whether Ms. McKnight received a fair trial and concluded that Ms. McKnight’s counsel was “ineffective in her preparation of McKnight’s defense through expert testimony and cross-examination.” The decision also indicated that the medical and scientific basis for her prosecution and that of other women in the state is based on outdated and inaccurate medical information.

“Significantly, the opinion acknowledges that current research simply does not support the assumption that prenatal exposure to cocaine results in harm to the fetus, and the opinion makes clear that it is certainly ‘no more harmful to a fetus than nicotine use, poor nutrition, lack of prenatal care, or other conditions commonly associated with the urban poor.’” said Susan K. Dunn, South Carolina co-counsel for amicus. “This decision puts Solicitors [prosecutors] across the state on notice that they must actually prove that an illegal drug has risked or caused harm—not simply rely on prejudice and medical misinformation.”

This ruling addressed a petition filed on behalf of McKnight seeking a judicial review to determine whether the person is imprisoned lawfully or should be released from custody. The petition must show that the court ordered the imprisonment based on a legal or factual error. In McKnight, the factual error was accepting a causal link between McKnight’s cocaine use and her stillbirth. The Court held that the legal errors were not calling medical expert as witnesses who could refute that link, failing to investigate the medical evidence the state’s witnesses relied on and that was based on outdated scientific studies, and failing to challenge the court’s confusing and contradictory explanations to the jury of what “intent” Ms. McKnight had to have.

“Ms. McKnight is one of more than 500 women in South Carolina who experience stillbirths each year, and in many of those cases, medicine just can’t determine the cause,” said Brandi Parrish, coordinator of the South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families and NAPW local ally. “It is a tragedy that Ms. McKnight has been in prison for nearly eight years for a crime she did not commit. Families in South Carolina are not helped by treating stillbirths as crimes and wasting hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to imprison innocent mothers.”

The medical and public health groups also raised concerns about the consequences of South Carolina’s policy of arresting pregnant women who experience drug problems. In their brief, they cited the fact that threatening pregnant women with jail time deters them from seeking prenatal care and other vital services, as has been the case in South Carolina since the Whitner ruling in 1997 that originally permitted prosecution of pregnant women under state child endangerment charges.

Ms. McKnight is represented on the petition by C. Rauch Wise of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina Foundation, Inc., and Matthew Hersh and Julie Carpenter of the law firm Jenner & Block for the DKT Liberty Project.

Posted by wen on May 12, 2008 03:14 PM

 

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Mother’s Stories Project

Origins-USA.org announces it’s
Mothers’ Stories Project

Origins-USA launched the Mothers’ Stories Project to gather stories of mothers who lost children to adoption. If you are a mother who lost a child to adoption or had her parental rights terminated, we invite you to SHARE YOUR STORY! The stories will be posted on the Origins-USA website, and may be disseminated in a book, video, and/or other format. The project will help other mothers know they are not alone and help the public to understand how the loss of a child affects women and why we need alternatives to adoption. We will also use it to build our database of mothers from around the country who are willing to be contacted by journalists and share their stories in the media. Mothers living outside the United States are also encouraged to share their stories!

SHARE YOUR STORY IN YOUR OWN WORDS!

* To share your story, please complete the form that can be accessed from the Origins-USA HOMEPAGE “Mothers’ Stories” LINK.

* You will be given the opportunity to review and approve or disapprove any edits to your story.

* Please feel free to forward this announcement to all list and groups fr mothers who have lost children to adoption.

* If you have any questions, contact us at info@origins-usa.org

 

Allison Quets

My friend Allison is a great wonderful brave and very strong woman. She has been going up against the Shorsteins & Co. for almost three years now.

This is Her Story and you can sign her petition, to hold the guilty parties accountable for their fraudulent conduct and to ask for an investigation to return her babies to her.

I have known and worked with Allison for a couple of years now, and she has been through hell and fire to get her children back. She is a very capable woman, a professional woman, and had unforseeable complications during her pregnancy and shorty after which left her vulnerable to the wolves of Shorstein and Co.

Please support her in whatever way you can.

 

My other life

So… I’ve noticed the trend on people’s blog whereas people who read them think that what we write in our adoption world is all that we are. And I think about the perceptions that are made about what I have written. Which I can of course only guess at.

I wanted to let you all know some good news in my life for which I am very excited about. I work part time as a counselor which I love. And, I finally secured a job in which I’ve been trying to get for over a year. It is working with foster youth.

My long term goal is to work with foster young adults after they come out of the institutions. Maybe ages 18-25. I know that there are few supports available to them, with having lost their families, and relied on paid professionals to care for them. I want to create a co-op house with other foster ya’s and non foster ya’s so that there will be a diverse group who can support each other and learn from each other. I’d fashion it after L’arche which has greatly affected me.

 

Searches… fighting adoption in Utah from California

Someone searched for this, and so, I researched it myself. Perhaps this was the story you were looking for?

Babyselling

UTAH ADOPTION STOMPS ON FATHER’S RIGHTS

Cody and Ashley conceived a child together in the fall of 2005. When Ashley told him of her pregnancy Cody made it very clear he wanted her to keep the child. (Cody was under the impression Ashley was contemplating abortion.)

Cody said he would take care of her financially and provide her with a place to live if her family kicked her out due to her pregnancy. Ashley had told him her family was going to “disown” her. Cody stressed at the time he was intent on raising the child.

 

Some old Florida DCF articles:

There has been a lot of good activist efforts in Florida, shining light on the evil activities of government child stealers in the Sunshine State! I’m happy to tell you there’s at least two good mailing lists for victims of DCF:
http://www.fightcps.com/oldsite/states/florida.htm

Florida DCF settles $1.3 million dollar lawsuit involving disabled teen repeatedly raped and impregnated by foster father
http://dcfabuse.com/
(and more)

ABUSIVE FLORIDA DCF SUED FOR $501 MILLION
http://www.whale.to/m/sbs10.html

 

Craig Lenz and Ibbaanika Bond’s fight for their son

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Last Update: 5/10 3:47 pm
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A metro man is in the middle of a bitter battle to raise his son.

An NBC Action News Investigation reveals that his fight could have a huge impact on other fathers and adoptions.

At the center of the battle is a child unaware that his biological father has been fighting the system to keep him from being adopted by someone else.

Like a proud dad, Craig Lentz shows off his son’s room to NBC Action News Investigator Keith King.

“We’re just keeping everything for him until he comes home,” Lentz said.

Since shortly after birth, Lentz has not been able to be part of his son’s life. “When he has parents that love him and want him, it’s ridiculous that a third party can come and take him away,” Lentz said.

Like many contested adoptions, the details are confusing, the legal battle is expensive and the feelings are bitter.

Lentz was there when his son was born in Dec. 2004. He and girlfriend Ibbaanika lived in different cities.

Lentz says the plan was for him to eventually reunite with Ibbaanika and his son in Kansas City.

But by February, just two months after his son’s birth, the young, unwed mother, too afraid to tell her family, made the painful decision to cut her parental rights. She agreed to give the baby up for adoption, against Lentz’ wishes.

“I had second thoughts on my own. He never agreed with it at all, from the very beginning, he was always against it,” Ibbaanika said

Lentz’ name was not on the birth certificate. He wanted proof, and a DNA test eventually showed he was the father. But that proof came too late and the adoption wheels were already in motion.

“I thought what I had done was a mistake. I was sorry. I never meant for things to be that way,” Ibbaanika said.

Court documents show Lentz filed a motion to intervene, and stop the adoption. But the Jackson County Family Court ruled that Lentz had not complied with the state’s requirements and therefore his consent was not necessary. The court then signed off on the adoption.

In Missouri, unmarried fathers have to place their name on the child’s birth certificate or go to court to establish their paternity. And they have to do it fast.

According to a little known state law, fathers have only 15 DAYS to do it, or risk losing their child.

“I was surprised. I thought that was not enough time,” State Rep. Leonard Hughes said.

Rep. Hughes, of Kansas City, says the 15 day rule affects unmarried dads all across the state. “And what’s best for that child is giving the time so everyone can go through thorough tests and thorough processes so everything is accounted for,” Rep. Hughes said.

Lentz appealed the family court’s decision all the way up to the Missouri Supreme Court.

His case brought an unexpected response. The court ruled unanimously that despite the 15 day rule, putative fathers can still challenge the adoption or termination of their rights in a timely manner.

It was a huge victory for Lentz but a short lived celebration. “And the Supreme Court said I did everything in a timely manner like I was supposed to do,” Lentz said.

The case went back to the Jackson County family court where a judge allowed supervised visits between Lentz and his son during the lengthy legal battles.

But last December, despite the Missouri Supreme Court’s ruling, the Jackson County Family Court still allowed another family to adopt the child, arguing that Lentz did not act fast enough.

“If I didn’t pay child support, I would be forced to go to the state penitentiary. Now I want to take responsibility for this child and they are telling me that I can’t,” Lentz said.

Now, Rep. Hughes wants to change the law. Instead of 15 days, he wants dads to have up to 60 days to claim their paternity.

That won’t help Craig Lentz. His battle to gain custody of his son continues in court. “We love him and we did everything we could to bring him home,” Lentz said.

When asked why he is speaking out now, Lentz said “This is what’s right for my child.”

The legal battle is not over. Lentz’ attorney is appealing the case back to the Missouri Supreme Court to appeal the lower court’s decision to let the adoption go through.

The family court judge told NBC Action News she cannot speak about the issue sinc the case is on appeal.

The child is now 3-years-old and living with the adoptive family.