Antidepressants Associated with Autism

Antidepressants associated with autism. — Environmental Health News

Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders
Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Judith K. Grether, PhD; Cathleen K. Yoshida, MS; Roxana Odouli, MSPH; Victoria Hendrick, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. Published online July 4, 2011. doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.73

Context The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has increased over recent years. Use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy also shows a secular increase in recent decades, prompting concerns that prenatal exposure may contribute to increased risk of ASD.

Objective To systematically evaluate whether prenatal exposure to antidepressant medications is associated with increased risk of ASD.

Design Population-based case-control study. Medical records were used to ascertain case children and control children and to derive prospectively recorded information on mothers' use of antidepressant medications, mental health history of mothers, and demographic and medical covariates.

Setting The Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California.

Participants A total of 298 case children with ASD (and their mothers) and 1507 randomly selected control children (and their mothers) drawn from the membership of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Northern California.

Main Outcome Measures ASDs.

Results Prenatal exposure to antidepressant medications was reported for 20 case children (6.7%) and 50 control children (3.3%). In adjusted logistic regression models, we found a 2-fold increased risk of ASD associated with treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors by the mother during the year before delivery (adjusted odds ratio, 2.2 [95% confidence interval, 1.2-4.3]), with the strongest effect associated with treatment during the first trimester (adjusted odds ratio, 3.8 [95% confidence interval, 1.8-7.8]). No increase in risk was found for mothers with a history of mental health treatment in the absence of prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Conclusion Although the number of children exposed prenatally to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in this population was low, results suggest that exposure, especially during the first trimester, may modestly increase the risk of ASD. The potential risk associated with exposure must be balanced with the risk to the mother or fetus of untreated mental health disorders. Further studies are needed to replicate and extend these findings.


Author Affiliations: Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland (Dr Croen and Mss Yoshida and Odouli), Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond (Dr Grether), and Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles (Dr Hendrick).

In Washington, No One Can Hear You Scream

No one has been more raw and transparent in telling the world what autism does to a mother, and a family, than LJ Goes. She lays herself out bare for the world to see.

Autism: Destroying America, One Family at a Time.
by Lisa Joyce Goes on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 8:29am

If there is such a thing, I have the near ideal situation for having a child with autism. When I explained Noah had the "a" word to my husband, Dave, on a sunny and snowy morning two days after Christmas, 2008, his words were, "We'll get through this. Now we know. What do we have to do to get him better?" Of course, neither one of us knew then what we were in for, but that was irrelevant to me. Right then and there I knew it wasn't just me fighting this fight. More importantly I knew I wasn't going to have to fight him. I knew were were a team. We immediately spread the word and our extended families not only jumped on board, they took up the cause as their own. Most of our friends who do not get it remain with us and do not judge. Those who do are no longer a part of our lives, their absence barely noticeable after the initial sting. Except for the excessive wealth required to reverse the iatrogenic effects of vaccine encephalopathy, mitochondrial disease and leaky gut that lay hidden like snipers under the deceptive catch-all term of autism, my life is rather well structured to deal with the reality of a chronically ill child.

Even so...

This weekend marked the ordination of my father-in-law as a deacon in the Joliet Diocese. This event is big doings for Catholics as literally hundreds of priests and deacons attend the ceremony to usher in the newcomers. Family members and friends are given tickets that represent various levels of importance and each seat in St. Raymond's Cathedral is considered a prized possession. A very big deal indeed, with a weekend full of events that followed. Say what you will about my kind--unarguably, we know how to party. All my brothers and sisters-in-law came in with their families from their various stations across the country for this special once in a lifetime occasion. One by one they trickled in. Rooms set up, bags unpacked, kiddos playing, cocktails in hand, we were all ready to share some much needed quality time together under one roof. Just like old times.

Except, things were different now. You can't use the door off the kitchen to go out for a smoke because Noah can hear that door open from any room in the house. It is a guaranteed 20 minute melt-down that usually requires a bath to re-focus. If you find the itouch on the floor you have to pick it up and charge it. At no time can we have a dead itouch. No, you can't go in the garage to the beverage fridge if Noah is within your sight. He will run to the car, open the door and expect to go somewhere--usually the park, school, or Starbuck's. A bath doesn't fix this one. Someone is getting coffee or going to the park--either way, it is an hour long commitment to stave off the mother of all tantrums. If you are going down to the basement you absolutely positively MUST bungee the gate to the stairs. Yes, even if you are just going down for just a sec. You MUST ALWAYS double lock the front door and top lock it. ALWAYS. Noah can't have chips, strawberries, a doughnut, just one m&m, or just one bite of pizza. No, that juice is not organic. I know it says it is, but that's a lie. A little bit of gluten is like a little bit of heroin and it is in everything. Yes it is. Even that lotion. The play-doh, too.

Our family did their very best in every way. No dismissive eye-rolls, just 100% compliance. My sisters-in-law developed a vigilance over Noah that warmed my heart. I overheard my husband's sister, Laura, randomly telling our guests to make sure they watch their food and watch him to make sure he doesn't get any. How I truly love these people. The problem is, a life with autism is such a departure from regular life it is impossible to memorize all the rules in such a short period of time. I found myself absent from conversations, obsessing over Noah's whereabouts and repeatedly ticking off his biomed schedule in my head. "Did I give him his morning dose of chelator?" What's this about my brother-in-law and sister-in-law moving? "Did he get the Tyrosine or did I forget?" My new brother-in-law is going to be deployed for active duty in September? When did this happen? "Why in God's name is his poop yellow again, I thought we were done with the clostridia?"

The big day arrived and our legions of childcare professionals showed up to assist so we could all be present for the ceremony. We watched from our coveted row as my father-in-law walked up the center aisle along side his beaming bride, ready to accept his sacred post in the Diaconate. Dave remarked on the way home how he had enjoyed the tradition of it all, how proud he was of his dad, what a great thing this was. I guess so. I wasn't there. I was plotting my next move, trying to remember all the points of entry at the reception site. All grandkids were invited to the reception. I changed out of my high heels, dressed the kids, packed Noah's special food and headed to the restaurant. Within minutes of arrival Dave and I were having the usual debate. "No, you stay." "No really, you stay, I got to stay last time..." I insisted I go because it's his family, his dad, and on a day like this it was important that he be there. My good friend Krisan offered to come with, but she stayed back to take care for our other two kids so I could go to the ceremony, so I declined her offer. Off I went, alone, with a stimming, inconsolable and sick 4 year old.

Bad decision.

Noah could not stop screaming and he wriggled out of his car seat. This development coupled with his new found talent for unlocking car doors and opening them when the car is in motion has lead me to experience perpetual anxiety while in the driver's seat. Eyes on the road, eyes on him. Eyes on the road, eyes on him. He began thrashing with a ferocious intensity that reached a crescendo of unmatched proportions. Normally, I would pull the car over and sit in silence until he could regulate himself, letting the car seat do it's job. Normally, I would calmly tell him everything was going to be okay and I loved him and I was going to get him home just as soon as I could. Normally, three things: his itouch, his bottle and a balloon, would have expedited his return to earth.

Nothing was working. So I snapped. Not in a good way. Not in a break-through, cathartic way. In a shameful, horrible, awful, disgusting way. I screamed at the windshield like a bloody banshee. Like an institutionalized, restrained schizophrenic, neurotic, delusional crazy person. Because that's what I felt like--like a trapped little rat in a life that was swallowing me whole--and I was powerless to do anything about it. Like someone was stabbing me with a meat cleaver and instead of killing me, each tear of my flesh made me louder, stronger and angrier. I did it over and over and over until I pulled into the garage, appalled at my own lack of self-control. I imagine for Noah it was something like a tween child catching a loyal and loving parent in the act of an affair. All at once realizing their hero is fallen, human and capable of repulsive things.

I scared the daylights out of him and elicited his first genuine spontaneous inquiry. In the form of a complete sentence, thank you very much.

"Why? Why er you screaming, mama?"

Normally, this is where the comic relief, Goes-style comes in. I could hear my husband, "Wow, you scream like you're burning from the inside out and he kicks out some serious language. That's the problem, we should have been yelling like this from the get go. All this ABA and therapy crap, putting us in the poor house. You need to lose it more often babe--you got him to talk--FOR FREE!" But Dave wasn't here to bring me back. He was at the party with the rest of our family. I was sitting with a screaming child in a steaming hot car in a filthy garage. Him there. Me here--with the smell from the poop bucket permeating the car. There is nothing quite so foul as the excrement of diseased bowels. I also just realized I left my daughter, Mads and son, Liam, without even saying goodbye. In fact, my last words to them were, "We are going to have such a great time celebrating CoCo (their word for grandpa) today!" I pictured Liam realizing I wasn't there and saying to Dave, "Where mama go, Dad?" and him responding as he has hundreds of times, "Mom is with Noah." I could see our smart little man reflecting on this. "Mom is always with Noah. Where is my mom? I want my own mom, not Noah's mom." I searched and searched for the humor but couldn't find it. My uncontrollable screams unleashed a flood of disappointment and despair. We sat in the car for several minutes, our chests heaving like two werewolves who'd just returned from the hunt. Something had just changed in me and I wanted to stay strapped down until I could figure it out. The idea of entering my empty house full of remnants of happy house guests seemed utterly despicable.

"I am crying because mommy has nothing left Noah. Nothing left. I am really, really...I guess...tired. I'm really tired."

He started yelling...not an autism yell...more of a singing shout, "Oh Jesus. Jeeeee-sus. Mama crying. You sad. Yooooou sad. Oh no, oh no, oh no, mama cry." The end sounded exactly like Cartman from Southpark singing Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto". "On a cold and gray Chicago mornin', another little baby boy was born--in the ghetto...and his mama cr-i-i-i-ed." Finally, a little comic relief.

The image of my beautiful daughter in the pristine silk dress I bought her for this special day, my screams, the tone of Noah's sing-song voice and the reflection of his tear stained face in my rear view mirror all meshed together in my head. A popular mantra among active participants in the autism culture, "keep calm and carry on," came to mind. At least I could still make good on the second part. Noah wasn't sure he could trust me after my banshee tirade. The sounds I made were positively primeval. Other worldly. Spooky. He clocked me a couple times and tore my necklace off. Moms, especially autism moms, should not act the way I did. No matter what. We are held to a standard of consistency and perfection that even the most anal type A over-achiever could only hope to attain. I messed up, big time.

I turned around to look at him in his seat. "Sorry buddy, bad day."

"Park! Park!" He shouted. Great. We know what we have to do to calm down. Progress. We spent the remainder of our afternoon at the park, where he pushed me on a swing for the first time. More progress. We returned home and were greeted by family members and friends with sad faces. God what I would give not to be pitied by the people I respect. This was not at all like old times, I thought.

When Dave returned I reported the events as they happened, as I always do. He usually makes light of everything--not in a dismissive way--in a way that brings order and calm. This is one of his great talents as a leader and a husband. What happened, happened, we are still here. We will move forward, like we always do. I was waiting for it. The hug, the "it's okay, we'll get through this." Not this time. This time he was withdrawn and angry. Almost like, he didn't want to hear it. Because he didn't. He was tired, too. Finally he said, "We are a family. We can't even be together one time...not one time...all of us." He nailed it. The reason for my screams. The reason for my rage. Not one time...together...as a family...all of us. Apparently at this time in our lives, this is simply too much to ask.

The kicker? The more research I do, the more doctors and nurses I meet and the more tests results we have coming back--all these efforts have confirmed for us that Noah's medical condition, the one written off as autism, was entirely avoidable. This did not have to be. Yet, it is.

Now please...please do something with this information. By that, I do not mean flood my facebook page with good wishes and inspiring stories of hope. Not that I don't appreciate your kindness--I truly do. I just need for you to understand the point of these incredibly personal posts so you can get to work on the problem. We are extremely fortunate. Noah is extremely fortunate. We have family, friends, a remarkable school system and paid professionals that help us care for him. Despite this level of care, this level of service, parenting a child with several iatrogenic chronic illnesses that are mistaken for autism is extraordinarily isolating. Consider this story without the loving husband. The supportive family. The good friends and child-care professionals. Just...imagine. This is what life is like for many parents of children with autism. No support, no care, no help, no respite, no relief. No spouse. NO FAITH. No one believes them. NO ONE BELIEVES THEM!!! Desperate parents clamoring to be heard, dying to hear their 16 year old speak for the first time. Desperate not to be the ONLY PERSON who is changing their 20 year old, 200 lbs., adult child's diapers, day in and day out. It seems reasonable that screams may be an everyday part of life rather than the exception under such circumstances. No kind sentiments or inspirational words can alleviate this sort of constant stress and perpetual suffering. Only real service and REAL JUSTICE can do that. How do we make that happen, you ask? Read Age of Autism and visit the Canary Party to find out.

LJ Goes is Managing Partner of The Misuta Project, a Contributing Editor to Age of Autism, and Executive Board Member of the Illinois Canary Party

"Do us all a favor, Autism Speaks. Shut up, shut down and go away."

... Dan Olmsted in his piece The Awful Truth about Autism Speaks.

Just wanted to second his motion.  Autism Speaks is total joke and is hurting children not yet born with their prostitution to the establishment. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and have not helped our children at all.

ASD, GI, Immune Abnormalities

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who exhibit chronic gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and marked fluctuation of behavioral symptoms exhibit distinct innate immune abnormalities and transcriptional profiles of peripheral blood (PB) monocytes 

Harumi Jyonouchia, Lee Genga, Deanna L. Streckb and Gokce A. Torunerb

Division of Allergy/Immunology and Infection Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), 185 South Orange Ave, Newark, NJ, United States

Institute of Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), 185 South Orange Ave, Newark, NJ, United States

Received 16 February 2011; revised 26 June 2011; accepted 6 July 2011. Available online 30 July 2011.

Abstract

Innate/adaptive immune responses and transcript profiles of peripheral blood monocytes were studied in ASD children who exhibit fluctuating behavioral symptoms following infection and other immune insults (ASD/Inf, N = 30). The ASD/Inf children with persistent gastrointestinal symptoms (ASD/Inf + GI, N = 19), revealed less production of proinflammatory and counter-regulatory cytokines with stimuli of innate immunity and marked changes in transcript profiles of monocytes as compared to ASD/no-Inf (N = 28) and normal (N = 26) controls. This included a 4–5 fold up-regulation of chemokines (CCL2 and CCL7), consistent with the production of more CCL2 by ASD/Inf + GI cells. These results indicate dysregulated innate immune defense in the ASD/Inf + GI children, rendering them more vulnerable to common microbial infection/dysbiosis and possibly subsequent behavioral changes.

Ancestry of Pink Disease (Infantile Acrodynia) a Risk Factor for Autism

Ancestry of pink disease (infantile acrodynia) identified as a risk factor for autism spectrum disorders.

J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2011 Sep 15;74(18):1185-94. Shandley K, Austin DW.

Swinburne Autism Bio-Research Initiative (SABRI), Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre , Swinburne University of Technology , Hawthorn , Victoria , Australia.

Abstract
Pink disease (infantile acrodynia) was especially prevalent in the first half of the 20th century. Primarily attributed to exposure to mercury (Hg) commonly found in teething powders, the condition was developed by approximately 1 in 500 exposed children. The differential risk factor was identified as an idiosyncratic sensitivity to Hg. Autismspectrum disorders (ASD) have also been postulated to be produced by Hg. Analogous to the pink disease experience, Hg exposure is widespread yet only a fraction of exposed children develop an ASD, suggesting sensitivity to Hg may also be present in children with an ASD. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that individuals with a known hypersensitivity to Hg (pink disease survivors) may be more likely to have descendants with an ASD. Five hundred and twenty-two participants who had previously been diagnosed with pink disease completed a survey on the health outcomes of their descendants. The prevalence rates of ASD and a variety of other clinical conditions diagnosed in childhood (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, epilepsy, Fragile X syndrome, and Down syndrome) were compared to well-established general population prevalence rates. The results showed the prevalence rate of ASD among the grandchildren of pink disease survivors (1 in 22) to be significantly higher than the comparable general population prevalence rate (1 in 160). The results support the hypothesis that Hg sensitivity may be a heritable/genetic risk factor for ASD.

Revisiting James Murdoch, Brian Deer, The Sunday Times, GlaxoSmithKline and the Attack on Andrew Wakefield

So I started writing a long piece on the James Murdoch/Sunday Times/GSK/Wakefield development, but Dan Olmsted and John Stone did it faster and better than I, so I will just point you there and add my .02.  Which is...

How long does this ridiculous charade have to go on?!

I mean how many of those who have quite obviously be put to task defending an indefensible vaccine program have to be revealed as... well... less than earnest, by main stream sources, before those earnest people in the medical profession, who really care about health outcomes and the public trust, throw up their hands and say... "Well... yes... this has become quite absurd.  Let's stop all the nonsense and sit down at the table with our critics and deal with the real problems."

Let's make a short list of the industry protectionist standard bearers at the various levels and their credibility... well let's call them "weaknesses."

Julie Gerberding:  Claims that she never bothered to read the Poling case, that vaccines can and cannot cause autism, that children with mitochondrial disorders can develop "autism like syndrome" from their vaccines, then upon leaving her post at CDC became the head of vaccines for Merck, who makes the MMR vaccine that damaged Hannah Poling.

Paul Offit: Reprimanded by Congress for his conflicts of interest, successfully sued by the head of Jenny McCarthy's charity for lying about him in a book, had the OC Register retract an article where he made false accusations against CBS News, makes stupid and irresponsible claims that a baby can safely receive 100,000 vaccines at once, gets caught misleading the public and failing to disclose conflicts of interest on a regular basis.

David Gorski: Forgot to mention that he was developing a cancer/autism drug for vaccine maker Sanofi for like five years or something while attacking vaccine safety activists and autism treatment advocates.

Paul Thorsen:  Middle aged club kid under indictment for conspiracy and fraud.

Brian Deer: Lied to families about his name to get them to agree to interviews, feels qualified to diagnose GI disorders on the street despite having no medical background, does not even know the basics of the vaccine causation arguments or who is on what side, routinely says things that are at best, embarrassing, at worst, suggest some ... issues.

Seth Mnookin:  An admitted criminal.

GlaxoSmithKline: Who has the time. Just google "Glaxo Fraud."

And now James Murdoch and the Sunday Times.

Lets take a step into the way back machine and revisit my little chart on the obnoxious level of conflict of interest in those who were... *ahem* protecting the British people's interest by examining the conflicts of interest of Dr. Wakefield and his co-authors in a paper that pointed out that 8 kids started having serious GI problems after MMR and also had developmental disabilities. I have faded out the later comers to the game to focus on the players who started all this bother:

Click to see it full sized

We have of course been pointing out Murdoch's little credibility problem with being placed on the board of GlaxoSmithKline after his Sunday Times began the whole Wakefield attack, but of course, we were just conspiracy theorists for pointing out that little conflict of interest. How dare we impugne the integrity of blah, blah, blah...

So now we learn that Murdoch the Younger is not above doing horrid, and bottom feeder like things to make a buck.  Possibly not even illegally obtaining the private medical information of the child of the leader of his country. If Mr. Brown's son's cystic fibrosis is not something to be handled sacredly, earnestly and above board, what's next, having reporters lie about who they are to autism parents to get info for a hit piece on their doctor?  Oh... never mind.

But no fear for Murdoch that GSK will turn on him... despite his failing morality, he still far exceeds the standards of respectability required to be a board member of GSK, who is standing behind their man for all he has done for their company:

James Murdoch to remain on GSK's board

* Drugmaker says Murdoch has made strong contribution

* Investigations need to run their course

* News Corp executive also sits on Sotheby's board

By Ben Hirschler

LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline , Britain's biggest drugmaker, said James Murdoch continued to serve as a non-executive director, and it would watch investigations into the phone-hacking scandal engulfing his family's newspaper business.

The 38-year-old heir apparent to his father Rupert Mordoch's News Corp joined GSK's board in 2009, since when he has made "a strong contribution", a GSK spokesman said on Friday.

In recent days, James Murdoch's reputation has taken a pummelling, with critics saying he was too slow to realise the enormity of the scandal at News International, the British newspaper unit he chairs.

GSK -- a group with plenty of experience of corporate controversy, ranging from rows over executive pay to safety alarms about some of its medicines -- will watch developments closely and is not rushing to any judgments.

"With regard to the activities that are alleged to have taken place at News International, we believe that the full facts must be established and the ongoing investigations be allowed to take place and come to a considered conclusion," the spokesman said.

James Murdoch was paid 98,000 pounds ($158,000) in shares for serving on GSK's board in 2010. He is member of both the drugmaker's corporate responsibility and remuneration committees.

He is also a non-executive director of U.S.-listed auction house Sotheby's .

The News International chairman said on Friday his company would take out adverts in rival British newspapers this weekend to apologise to the nation for wrongdoing at the News of the World, the Sunday paper at the centre of the scandal. ($1 = 0.620 pound) (Editing by Dan Lalor)

(Note that the story is published by Reuters, whose CEO is also on the board of Merck. That other MMR maker. Conspirators Corporate Synergists must stick together, you know)

He has made one hell of a contribution!  He made the salvation of MMR possible.  GSK can't very well abandon their hit man.  If he falls completely, then might more people wake up to the idea that what was done to Wakefield was a scapegoating?  Best to see if you can get away with keeping him on to assure your "corporate responsibility", and hope no one notices that you are trying to keep him propped up to keep your skeletons in the closet.

Can anyone name ONE person who has been out in front in the vaccine defense that actually has a good reputation, is an earnest person and is free of serious conflicts of interest?  I can't think of any at the moment.

So... when the next one pops up, I am going to start the clock running and see how long it takes for their questionable history to start to come to light.

It is just stupid at this point.

131 African Children Vaccinated at Gunpoint. Do Bill Gates and Paul Offit Approve?

The Malawi Voice is reporting that a group of families who took their children out of the country, to Mozambique, to avoid the free measles vaccine that was being distributed, were rounded up by police and vaccinated at gunpoint upon returning to the country.

The vaccine safety/choice community has been hearing reports of this happening in Africa for more than a year now, but this is the first official story that I have heard thus far and thus been able to report. In this case the District Health Officer himself, Dr. Matchaya, freely admitted to the newspaper that this was done.

"According to Dr. Medison Matchaya District Health Officer for Nsanje, medics went to vaccinate the children in Nsanje under police escort.

"We were alerted that some children who were hiding in Mozambique were back in the country and we asked police to escort the health officials in order to vaccinate them and we have managed to vaccinate about 131 children," said Matchaya.

This week, Bill Gates, working on another round of publicity for his "Year of the Vaccines" campaign (which just happens to fall on the year that he became an owner of a vaccine company, funny that) has declared at the GAVI meeting that the world needs to work toward "vaccine equity". He wants every child on the planet vaccinated. (Which in my book only matters when he is of course elected King of the World, which he hasn't been. Gates is not even a doctor, but just some guy who dropped out of college and made a bunch of cash on his buggy software via pushy business practices. I am more qualified to give medical advice than Gates is.)

"It's now that we are going to start to get the last two vaccines that rich kids take for granted, Pneumococcal and RotaVirus, and over these next five years, get them out to every child everywhere. That means for the first time ever, that we have equity in vaccines. That we don't take the poorest children who are actually the most susceptible to these diseases, and the benefit of giving them the vaccine is the highest, and yet in the past, they've been the ones who don't get it. And so, it really is, in the achievement of equity, this is a very important day. Now our foundation wants to do its part, so I am pleased to announce to you that we are pledging and additional billion dollars... (pause for lengthy applause)... Thank you... alright, thank you... It's not every day we give away a billion dollars, but for a cause like this it is exciting to be doing it. That will be over the next five years."

So will Bill "Not a Doctor" Gates' billion dollars go to making sure that the basic human right not to be injected with any substance against ones will is respected? Or will some of it go to guns to force people to take the vaccines that they don't want?

Will any of that billion to care for children who suffer vaccine injury? Wanna know the difference between my vaccine injured son a let's say, a child in a small African village who suffers a vaccine encephalopathy? In our house we have doors with locks on them to keep him safe inside, and school systems that are legally obligated to serve him. Take a moment and imagine what it would be like to try to keep your neurologically impaired child alive in rural Africa for a month or two. Just watched a short documentary about a new neurological illness befalling children in one African village. Parents have to tie their children to the side of their homes with a rope to prevent them from walking away and dying. That is how they live their entire lives.

I submitted the following media inquiry to the Gates Foundation. I have not waited for a response, as I understand that these questions have been sent in on several occasions and no one that I know of has ever received a response. I will amend this article if they do respond:

"Subject: Vaccination forced at gun point
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:50:43 -0400
From: Ginger Taylor
To: media@gatesfoundation.org

I am writing a piece and I am looking for comment from Bill Gates or the Gates Foundation on forced vaccination.

Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation have donated billions to new global vaccination campaigns over the next decade. Gates announced at GAVI a billion over the next five years to get Pneumococcal and Rotavirus vaccines "out to every child everywhere".

But, not every family wants these vaccines or believes that they are in their child's best interest, and of course, all vaccines carry risk of serious injury or even death to some people.

In light of this, do Bill Gates and The Gates Foundation believe that people should be coerced or forced into vaccinating against their will in violation if their human rights to decide what pharmaceuticals go into their bodies?

Further, for more than a year now, we in the vaccine safety/choice community have been hearing about people being vaccinated at gun point in Africa, but had not had any confirmation of these reports. Today an official in Malawi confirmed that he lead such an effort, and used police to force vaccinate children of families who did not want the measles vaccine.

131 Children Vaccinated at Gunpoint in Nsanje

Do Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation support or condemn this practice?

Additionally, in the US, vaccine injury (and deaths) are recognized by all involved in vaccination and our Department of Health and Human Services has a compensation program that was set up to provide financial compensation to those injured by vaccines so that their loved ones could care for them. Will the Gates Foundation be setting up a similar system to care for those who will be injured by their vaccine campaigns?


Ginger Taylor"

I am equally as interested in Paul Offit's thoughts on this, as it is a huge payday for him in future royalties. Bill Gates money is going to to buy his vaccine for every single person in the entire world. Offit advocates coerced vaccination, recommending that people be forced to take classes before being "allowed" to refuse a shot for themselves or their child. In the trailer for The Greater Good, Offit says, "Sadly, some people don't do what it best for their children unless it is mandated."



Note that he is not the only one advocating mandated vaccination. Gunpoint is one hell of a mandate. Does he believe that this level of coercion, threatening to kill someone if they don't vaccinate, is appropriate?

I sent the following to Dr. Offit. He has responded to my inquiries before, so there is a much better chance I will hear back from him. I will let you know if he responds.

Subject: Gun Point Vaccination in Africa
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:42:08 -0400
From: Ginger Taylor
To: offit@email.chop.edu

Dr. Offit,

You have spoken out in favor of vaccine mandates and compelling individuals to take an education course on vaccination before they would be allowed to turn down a vaccine for themselves or their children.

For more than a year now, we in the vaccine safety/choice community have been hearing about people being vaccinated at gun point in Africa, but had not had any confirmation of these reports. Today an official in Malawi confirmed that he lead such an effort, and used police to force vaccinate children of families who did not want the measles vaccine.

131 Children Vaccinated at Gunpoint in Nsanje

Do you support or condemn this practice?

Ginger Taylor

So the questions are... just how insane does this vaccine push have to get before the world stands up and says "NO!".  How far does this go... this Doctocracy?  How many shots?  How many other medical interventions?

This has officially become the plot of a bad movie. Egomaniac billionaire desperate to leave a legacy proving he is the most wonderful man in the world, destroys long term health of civilization, pits doctors against patients and citizens against governments (and NGOs who have become delusional that they are actually governments with power over people). Gates and GAVI seem to want all the rights to make people's health decisions for them, but I don't see them talking about taking any of the responsibilities for the outcomes of those decisions.

When I heard "vaccine equity" I immediately thought, "so now children in rural Africa and Asia will have the same access to immune dysfunction and brain damage that my son has?" Congratulations children of the world?  When rich, educated, established Americans (even medical professionals) can't get recognition and proper care for their vaccine injured children, what chance do you think poor single African mother has?  And we now know that if she tries to say no in the first place, there is a chance that a gun will be used to make her do what Bill Gates has decided is good for her child.

"Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force!" - Barbie, Toy Story 3

UPDATE:

Michael Belkin noted that Melinda Gates has already been praising Malawi for their vaccine program:

‘How is it that they do that? What I found was that the vision and dedication of the country’s top leadership has been absolutely instrumental in terms of making success in this area. So the country, one of the commitments that they’ve made is to build out this cadre of front line workers they call them in their country health surveillance assistants. So every month these 11,000 health surveillance assistants spend 3 weeks out in the villages, talking with the villagers providing basic vaccinations … They make sure the vaccinations happen, not only at the village level but all the way back through the system.’

Joan Campbell Has Gathered Vaccine Injury Stories

Last fall, Joan Campbell began asking parents:

"I am compiling a list of children who were adversely affected by any vaccine. Please if you could say in about 4-6 sentences what that vaccine was, how they reacted, how they are today and what city the vaccine was administered."

Joan had received more than 900 responses so far. She has posted them here:

http://www.followingvaccinations.com/

Thank you Joan for telling the story that health authorities are doing their damnedest to bury.

If you have not yet submitted your story, you can do so at admin@followingvaccinations.com

The Canary Party: Done with Bad Faith

I received an email today noting my recent absence from my blog, asking if I was OK. (The sentiment was much appreciated) I realized that I had neglected my obligations/opportunities here, so I am taking some time today to talk about The Canary Party. I have been too busy doing the Canary Party to write about the Canary Party, so apologies for taking so long to update my blog readers.

I have become the Executive Director of the newly formed Canary Party.

Wanna know how a trusting and naive young mother becomes a political activist? Read this blog from the beginning and watch the evolution.

If you dial back to the beginning in 2004, it was just supposed to be a little mommy blog to document a largely untested autism treatment so that I could keep a record of Chandler's progress, and so that parents considering the therapy could read about what was and was not working for us so they had a little more information to go on in their decision making process on what treatments to invest their time and money in to get the best outcomes for their little ones.

As Chandler begin to improve, I ran into something that I never expected. Bad Faith.

I assumed that when my son was diagnosed with autism, that the professionals around him had gotten in their respective businesses to help children like mine. Why get into a business where part or all of your job was supposed to be helping struggling children unless you really cared about helping struggling children? Right?

It only took about a month before I ran into my first bad faith encounter. With my pediatrician.

In my trip to autism book land, I got a copy of "Children With Starving Brains", thought... "wow... that is my child!" and started Chandler on the GFCF diet. With in 48 hours he was making eye contact, answering to his name and had the first normal bowel movements since his first dose of the Hep B vaccine as a newborn. (He had been constipated his whole life and my doctor taught me that that was normal.) I was VERY excited about this development, and called my pediatrician to tell him what had happened.

But my ped's reaction was odd. When I told him the story, he said something to the effect that he had had other autism families that had tried it, but they didn't really see any changes on it. That confused me a bit, because I didn't really see the point of those other families experiences, because this was already working for MY son. So I explained that... "OK... but it IS working for Chandler." I kept waiting for him to say, "That's great, come in and we can talk about what this means for him and where to go from here," but instead I got another blow off.

At that point, I honestly thought he just didn't hear me or wasn't paying attention because he was having a long day or something, so I repeated the story and got the same odd reaction. After that I just got off the phone.

It took two more encounters like that with him before I just decided that he didn't know what he was talking about and to find one of those DAN! doctors to deal with the autism stuff, and just use my ped for check ups and sick visits.

I didn't have the experience under my belt at the time to recognize the bad faith then, but I think back on all our conversations since then, and that man had to work his butt off to ignore all the things I have told him over the years. He never had any intention of dealing with what was happening, because, of course, all that was happening implicated him in causing my son's autism.

Bad faith.

As Chandler got better, and I got excited about sharing his progress on biomed, I found more and more bad faith players. I made the oh so naive mistake of thinking at a middle aged physician using an internet moniker to mock doctors he didn't like might actually have a good faith conversation on autism causation and treatment. I thought the American Academy of Pediatrics would want to know about treatments that make struggling kids healthier and would want to reform their practices and policies to prevent neurological damage to children. I thought that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would actually want to Prevent and Control Autism. This blog is a long history of all the people I took at their word when they said that they wanted to prevent autism and serve those who have it.

It took me a full year of making excuses for all these bad actors, of thinking... 'well if they only knew that______ then things would change quickly' and 'I am sure that they will want to sit down and look at all this amazing information any day now' and even 'If they would just talk to us face to face and see our kids videos, the will see we are not crazy people and the dialog can begin'... and then CDC et al ignoring David Kirby's book, that I finally started to think... 'oh... maybe they know all this and don't want to deal with it'.

By the end of 2005 it was pretty clear to me that they didn't want to face the problem, but then I thought, "well... as the public becomes aware, they will have to deal with it". Skip to 2008 where Jenny McCarthy and the Polings made the whole world aware of the problem, and yet STILL no good faith actions on the part of those responsible.... And then to 2010 on the "Wakefielding" of Andrew Wakefield, and then the Super Double Skapegoating of Wakefield again in 2011 just for good measure....

Well at this point if we don't declare these people working in Bad Faith, then we are just morons and we get what we deserve. That is all their track record shows, for much longer than the seven years that I have been documenting these issues.

And when we look around us, we are only one of the groups that is being treated like this. Families struggling with cancer, lupus, chronic lyme disease, chronic fatigue, diagnosed mental disorders, and dozens of other problems, they are getting jacked in one way or another by abuse and neglect from the medical establishment.

It is time to call a spade a spade and say outright that corruption in the medical establishment is rampant, that power and profit motives are being served at the expense of patients, and it is time for the corruption to be cleaned out and for the abusers to lose their jobs.

We have to separate the wheat from the chaff, remove those bad faith profiteers posing as health professionals and replace them with people of good faith, actual healers, who do their jobs.

We know who the bad faith actors are. We pretty much knew it after our first encounter with them, but pushed it off and waited for them to prove it 20 or 30 more times over before get around to asking that they be replaced.

But as we have learned that our good faith and reasonable "asks" are just ignored (and sometimes mocked).  It is now time to DEMAND the medical system change, or change it ourselves.

Thus is born The Canary Party.

Let's face it... we are pretty much one issue voters already. Time to mobilize all of us who are getting screwed by private medical industry and public health, fire the politicians who are keeping them funded and in power, and put in men who will clean house.

The definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting Paul Offit and Kathleen Sibelius to change.

So this month I move from my role of pissed off mom to professional activist and paid politico, as I become the Director of Operations for the infant Canary Party. (Or maybe the Director? Is Director of Operations to wordy? Who cares I guess... I will think of a better title later)

So a few changes in the way we will be taking this on.

First off... I am now all about breaking ties with people who act in bad faith. The liars, the stallers, the cover up ers, the admittedly biased, those in denial of their bias, the attackers, the mouth pieces, the proxies, the mockers, the useful idiots, the parrots, the industry protectionists, the PR firms, the bullshit artists, the purchased politicians, the blackmailed politicians, the lazy politicians and most of all, the people who can't take things seriously because they want to be 'cool' so people to like them.

For years I have been asking the question, "18% of the population has a developmental disability or delay, and that does not include allergies, asthma, diabetes and all the other childhood epidemics we are seeing... So how many healthy children are left?"

Two weeks ago we got our answer. Less than %46 of the children in our country are typical, healthy children.

Take the time to go read the abstract of that study. They looked at more than 91,000 children in all 50 states and found that most of them were sick, delayed or obese. And they didn't even look at all illnesses.  They just picked 20 common chronic health conditions, then added in obesity and developmental delay.  For example, cancer was not even considered in this study.

But what is doubly shocking is not just the number, but the lack of alarm by the researchers! The current health care system is failing our children abysmally, and their solution for these kids? MORE ACCESS TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM!!!

When half the cars coming out of a mechanic's shop are not working, on what planet do authorities say, "Well clearly you need to send your car back to that shop and pay them to fix it." ?????

In the real world they would be at least out of business and at most under investigation for fraud!

A baby born today has less than a 50/50 shot of being a normal, healthy child.  Sick is actually now 'normal' and healthy is the minority.  (Any one wonder what it means for a society when half the population is financially or other wise dependent on the other half?)  And it is only getting worse. The sky is actually falling and the medical establishment does not care or even seem to notice. Or is it just good business for them? Have they become that corrupt? How do we find out?

Well that starts with a congress that will actually give a damn about health outcomes over Pharma campaign donations. And that is what we can to do something about.

This is a patients rights movement and a movement for the right NOT to become a patient.

So take a stroll over to the Canary Party site, read our founding documents, and send it to all your friends. Autism friends, but more importantly, anyone struggling with a chronic health condition or who is concerned about plummeting human health. Sign up and start spreading the word.

We are currently organizing in 25 states, and hope to have active teams in all 50 states shortly.

And a note to all those concerned with all the usual bad faith players. A few people have sent me comments dropped around the internet by those usual suspects on what they think of CP (which is a little funny to me as CP has not actually done anything yet... but whatever) and I want to let people know that honestly... I could not care less about the opinions of those who have been acting in bad faith with our community for years. OF COURSE they are going to say nasty things about The Canary Party. We are a threat to the cottage industry of shouting "ANTI-VACCINE" when someone points out that HHS claims that vaccines can cause brain damage and even kill some children. I was reminded of the depth and wisdom of their thoughtful prose when someone sent me a link to that old doctor's article on us.  I quit reading when I got to the place where he noted his opinion that our web site was the color of "piss".

No one wants medical advice and treatment from people who display that level of anti-social behavior, and I am now less open to getting tied up on the ropes with these individuals that I was when I wrote this in 2009. Our party is about exposing corruption and abuse, so the corrupt and the abusive will be coming at us with teeth barred. To be frank... I just don't care any more.  Let the dogs bark.

However, if one of our critics makes solid point about somewhere we are off or something that we have done wrong, please let me know so that I can get it addressed properly.

A few more housekeeping notes. I probably won't be blogging here very much. At least for the rest of the year as we get geared up.

Those of you who know how much I love lengthy phone conversations and wordy emails, please don't be put off if our conversations and missives become rapid fire. If you email the main canary party email you will get me. I am racing to keep up with the pace of things, so please don't be offended if I seem short. I am just in a hurry a lot these days trying to organize a few thousand of my closest friends. ;)

If you have questions, please ask. We have hit the ground running and everything is still in process. I am trying to get information out as quickly as I can, but don't want to get carts before horses, so if you feel an information vacuum, shoot me off an email.

I will answer everything, but bad faith communications will, of course, go to the back of the line.

So my friends... time to get bold and get our medical system back on the tracks.  See you at The Canary Party.

Autism One's Free Livestream!

So excited! I will be in Chicago for Autism One in 48 hours!

Even more excited that Ed Arranga, in his passion to get healing information to families any way he can, has not only made the Autism One Conference free this year, he is streaming it live on the internet gratis! ON SIX CHANNELS!

You can find the schedule here.

And the Ustream feed is here .

And just in case you wanna watch right now (when the conference starts) I will embed channel 3 here:


Free video chat by Ustream
Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV

The info straight from AO:

FREE Live Video Streaming

AutismOne/Generation Rescue Conference Goes Worldwide! Live Video Streaming of all Conference Presentations is confirmed!

With years in the making and lots of hard work we have confirmed that we are going to be able to offer live video streams of the conference presentations.

After each lecture we will be selling the presentation DVDs and Digital Downloads in the AutismOne.org/shop. You may want to visit the schedule page here >> we will be uploading FREE downloadable handouts of the presentation materials and have links to each Digital Download as they become available.

For those at the conference this will be a great way to see the presentations you loved again and to experience the ones you couldn't attend. With over 150 different sessions over 5 days no one can see them all at the conference.

For those of you who couldn't make the conference we will be sorry to miss you but are happy you can experience some of the conference at home.

Tune into the AutismOne Channel

'AutismLive' on Ustream

The link to Ustream will be posted to the AutismOne.org home page all days of the conference.

Join the conversation! Ustream provides the ability to chat with others watching the presentations. You need to be a Ustream member to join the chat. Now would be a good time to become a Ustream member and ensure your voice is part of the dynamic community conversation.

Please help us spread the word about this amazing effort that allows us to bring the AutsimOne / Generation Rescue Conference 2011 to all the families in need world-wide!

We couldn't have offered this free conference and live stream without the help of all our great sponsors especially our title sponsor OxyHealth. A heartfelt thanks goes out to them!

Please Note: Live streaming 150 presentations on 6 channels is a huge undertaking and there may be some technical difficulties but we will do our best!

83 Canaries in the Vaccine/Autism Coal Mine

... at least.

Remember when Julie Gerberding said the Hannah Poling case was "rare"?

Remember when Julie Gerberding said that what happened to Hannah should not be generalized to "normal" children?

Remember when Julie Gerberding said she had "looked and looked" and could not find a link between vaccines and autism?

Julie Gerberding was lying her ass off. I want her under oath before Congress and then under oath in front of a jury.

Today we learn that Hannah Poling is only rare in that her parents had the biggest balls among the autism families in vaccine court, some of whom had been warned not to talk about their settlements in case HHS might turn off financial support to their children, and Hannah's mom and dad talked first. Otherwise she is just another face in a crowd that probably includes hundreds of children with autism paid by the sham that they dare to call a "Vaccine Court".

Of the vaccine induced brain damage cases that the program compensated that EBCALA found, 40% of them were associated with autism. If this percentage holds out for the entire 1300+ brain damage rulings in the program, that is more than 500 children with vaccine regressions that have "Autism" or "Autism-like symptoms" or "Autism-like Syndrome" or "Features of Autism" or "ASD ish" or "Spectrum Derivativeness" or "Insert Bull Shit Make Up Phrase To Obscure Wide Spread Vaccine Damage Here", that our government recognized while lying to our faces to trick us into handing over our children to a vaccine program they KNEW was causing this damage.

They KNEW this before Chandler was born in 2002!

AND THEY KNEW THIS FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES!

THEY DID NOTHING!

THEY COULD HAVE PREVENTED ALL OF THIS!!

I am in a blind rage today.

Fox did a great segment on this yesterday:



Press Conference in an hour:


Live Broadcasting by Ustream

Someone just sent me a shot of the cameras watching the conference:

Ready to fight? Get me your contact information.

The Next Chapter in the Vaccine Autism Story Begins Tomorrow

In 2008 Johns Hopkins Neurologist Jon Poling went public with the news that his daughter Hannah, who regressed into autism following her 18 month vaccines, was paid by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

CDC, in a public statement, claimed that the Hannah Poling case was "rare" and should not be generalized to "normal" children. Days after the Poling's announcement, the Hiatt family also went public with their VICP ruling that their autistic daughter Madison was also a vaccine injury victim. Then the Banks family went public. Finally, CBS News reported finding 7 more vaccine/autism cases that dated back to 1991, the very beginning of the autism epidemic.

So the autism community wanted to know... just how many cases of autism have been paid by the program that was established in 1986, how "rare" is this, and what did the government know about vaccine injury and autism causation that they were not telling the public and the medical community. After being questioned by a journalist, the department of HHS that oversees the VICP issued the following statement on whether this was an admission that the government was now paying children for vaccine induced autism. The "official response" from HRSA:

"From: Bowman, David (HRSA) [mailto:DBowman@hrsa.gov]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:22 PM
To: 'dkirby@nyc.rr.com'
Subject: HRSA Statement

David,

In response to your most recent inquiry, HRSA has the following
statement:

The government has never compensated, nor has it ever been ordered to
compensate, any case based on a determination that autism was actually
caused by vaccines. We have compensated cases in which children
exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy
may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms
including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.

Some children who have been compensated for vaccine injuries may have
shown signs of autism before the decision to compensate, or may
ultimately end up with autism or autistic symptoms, but we do not track
cases on this basis.

Regards,

David Bowman
Office of Communications
Health Resources and Services Administration
301-443-3376"

This admission of a link to autism, and the disturbing revelation that the government was not even planning on counting how many autism cases it had paid from the vaccine injury fund, made it clear that HHS's claims of concern for the rise in autism rates and concern for vaccine safety were less than sincere, and that it was time for an investigation into the VICP to find out how many of the cases of vaccine induced encephalopathy (brain damage) resulted in "autistic behavior, autistic symptoms or autism" as Bowman had referenced.

Tomorrow the results of this two year investigation will be revealed and we will get a better look into what the government knows about vaccine/autism causation and how long they have known it.


Live Broadcasting by Ustream

Please tune in to the press conference tomorrow (streaming live on the internet at USTREAM), Tuesday, May 10 at Noon Eastern to the announcement take place on the steps of the US Supreme Court, that ruled only two months ago that vaccine injury cases would never be heard in a court of law, but must go through the corrupt Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

The EBCALA Press Release:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ELIZABETH BIRT CENTER FOR AUTISM LAW AND ADVOCACY (EBCALA)

CONTACT NICOLE WILLIAMS
(301) 625-7772
OR
DANIELLE ORSINO
(480) 200-4411

Investigators and Families of Vaccine-Injured Children to Unveil Report Detailing Clear Vaccine-Autism Link Based on Government’s Own Data

Report Demands Immediate Congressional Action

Directors of the Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy (EBCALA), parents and vaccine-injured children will hold a press conference on the steps of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (717 Madison Place, NW in Washington, DC) on Tuesday, May 10 at 12:00 PM to unveil an investigation linking vaccine injury to autism. For over 20 years, the federal government has publicly denied a vaccine-autism link, while at the same time its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has been awarding damages for vaccine injury to children with brain damage, seizures and autism. This investigation, based on public, verifiable government data, breaks new ground in the controversial vaccine-autism debate.

The investigation found that a substantial number of children compensated for vaccine injury also have autism. The government has asserted that it “does not track” autism among the vaccine-injured. Based on this preliminary investigation, the evidence suggests that autism is at least three times more prevalent among vaccine-injured children than among children in the general population.

The federal government has called autism a “national health emergency,” conservatively affecting 1 in 110 children and costing the country billions of dollars each year.

Because almost all children in the United States are required by law to receive between 30-45 vaccines in order to attend public school, it is crucial that the VICP decide cases with justice and transparency.

EBCALA and the families of the vaccine-injured call on Congress to investigate the VICP, the only forum in which parents may bring claims of vaccine injury on behalf of their children.

WHERE: United States Court of Claims
717 Madison Place, NW
Washington, DC

WHEN: Tuesday, May 10
12:00 PM noon


--
Thank you,
EBCALA Host Committee

Ariana Goldboldo Goes Home to Her Family

DETROIT (WWJ) – After a standoff with police at her home in which the State Department of Human Services removed the child from the home, Maryanne Godboldo is slated to be reunited with her 13-year-old daughter Ariana on Friday.

On May 4th, Judge Lynne Pierce of Wayne County Juvenile Court ordered that the Godboldo/Hakim family and the Michigan Department of Human Services cooperate to take care of all outstanding matters before the court to secure the release of Ariana Godboldo by 11:00 am May 6 or face contempt charges by 1:30 pm Friday.

According to a release, Judge Pierce stated that the Michigan Department of Human Services should stop “stonewalling,” and facilitate the release of Ariana to the home of her aunt, Penny Godboldo, by Friday.

In the last 24 hours, the State Attorney General’s office filed a motion for a re-hearing on all matters before Judge Pierce; and before the State Court of Appeals in order to delay Ariana’s release.

“We fully expect to pick up Ariana today per Judge Pierce’s order,” Roger Fahrina, attorney for Ariana’s father Mubarak Hakim, said in a release.

Ariana has been held under state care at The Hawthorn Center in Northville.

Stay tuned to WWJ Newsradio 950 and CBSDetroit.com for the latest.

An Update On Maryanne Godboldo And Medical Tyranny
05.05.11 09:01 PM

A Wayne County (Mich.) Family Court judge has ruled that a Detroit teenager stolen from her mother by armed thugs of the Detroit medical police must be turned over to the custody of her aunt this afternoon.

We told you April 20 in The Medical Police State about Maryanne Godboldo, who took her 13-year-old daughter, Ariana, to the Detroit Children’s Center last year after the girl began experiencing behavioral problems following a series of State-mandated immunizations.

The doctor at the DCC prescribed a treatment plan for Ariana that included a psychotropic drug. But the “treatment” only worsened Ariana’s condition, so Maryanne did what any rational person would do: She sought a second opinion.

The second doctor recommended removing Ariana from the drug and prescribed a holistic plan to help Ariana, who also has a physical disability. Maryanne agreed with the new treatment.

But medical goons from the DCC and tyrants from Detroit Child Protective Services did not and gave Maryanne two choices: Put her daughter back on the “treatment” plan first prescribed — a treatment plan that she sought voluntarily and, therefore, should be able to stop — or give up her daughter. Maryanne chose none of the above.

So on March 24, the DCC and CPS fascists, aided by a Detroit Police SWAT team, crashed into Maryanne’s home, took Ariana into custody of the State and incarcerated Maryanne for resisting the armed intrusion.

Ariana has been detained ever since. And to make the case even more bizarre, a doctor treating Ariana while she was in custody decided she didn’t need the psychotropic drug after all. And if the whole ordeal wasn’t enough trauma for the State to inflict on one of its citizens, Ariana was apparently assaulted while in State custody, as Maryanne’s attorney claims Ariana has contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

The DCC and CPS are trying to fight the judge’s order to turn Ariana over to her aunt (notice that she still will be separated from her mother), according to the Detroit Free Press. But the judge said she would have none of it.

Let’s hope rationality finally reigns in this case and Ariana can be returned quickly to her mother, who apparently is one of the few people who truly has the girl’s best interests at heart.

http://www.personalliberty.com/conse...dical-tyranny/