A new bill aims to protect children from being used in medical experiments
[Shocking] Kids being taken for tax-funded medical testing
Yesterday I told you the story of Justina Pelletier, a Connecticut teen who was taken from her parents and held hostage for 16 months by the state of Massachusetts.
Justina was being treated by two doctors at Tufts for a painful and debilitating genetic condition.
But once she entered Boston Children’s Hospital, a doctor there decided she was mentally ill and needed treatment for that instead.
And, as I told you, children in all 50 states are being taken away from their loving parents and grandparents by officials using the same trick.
But why?
Why are all these children being “seized” and taken into custody like they’re merchandise?
Because they are.
These captive children represent the most valuable “commodity” there is to Big Pharma and unscrupulous researchers.
A human being — one with no rights — to do drug research on.
In Justina’s case, she was “confirmed” to have a mental condition by a Children’s Hospital doctor who was doing “research” on something called somatoform disorder. That’s when someone has all the pain and symptoms of a disease, but it’s all in their head.
The doctor was “coincidently” receiving funds from the National Institute of Health to study that condition when Justina fell into his grasp.
And he wasted no time in snaring her for “research” purposes.
Now, you may think there’s some law protecting innocent children from being taken advantage of like this.
But it’s just the opposite. It’s all perfectly legal.
A legal way to turn these kids into nothing more than guinea pigs. Precious little children totally at the mercy of so-called “experts” who make up an “institutional review board.”
Current U.S. laws allow these review boards to approve research on these kids. And that’s true even if that research gives no “direct” benefit to the child being experimented on!
And we’re not talking about one big review board, either.
There are over 3,000 of these boards around the country. And they’re making these decisions every day for foster children and even kids who are just temporary wards of the state.
Certainly, if we were just talking about one child in jeopardy, it would be one too many.
But when you see how many kids are in danger you may need to take a deep breath. As of 2011, the Department of HHS states that over 400,000 children are in state custody.
That’s more than 400,000 children available for “trafficking” in medical research.
Most of the children who are used for these experiments will be invisible victims. We’ll never learn what horrific nightmares they may be put through.
Justina, for example, was described as a “normal teenager” before her ordeal. She’s now confined to a wheelchair.
But because of Justina’s suffering, there may be some changes coming.
This year Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann introduced a bill, one being called “Justina’s Law,” that would prohibit any federal funds to be used for “medical experimentation” on wards of the state.
Bachmann was joined by Reps. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Tom Marino (R-Pa.) and Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), making it a real bipartisan effort to stop this horror.
Because where the lives of innocent children are concerned, there is no “left” or “right.”
As Rep. Bass said, “This bill will make it clear that children are blessings, not guinea pigs.”
And that’s something we can all say “amen” to.
Sources:
“Why a bill against medical experimentation on minors is necessary” Wendy McElroy, The Hill, thehill.com
