Justina Pelletier is Home With Her Family !

         This is an update concerning the teen girl who was taken from her parents and became the lawful property of a Boston Children's Hospital for a year !


 http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2014/06/graham_massachusetts_did_justina_pelletiers_family_wrong


http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/18/when-politics-and-protection-collide-the-case-justina-pelletier/AIEm0BmUXsDWT4PJADBcLI/story.html



These are my prior posts on this matter:


http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2013/11/have-you-heard-about-pelletier-case.html

http://rationalpreparedness.blogspot.com/2014/02/update-on-pelletier-case.html


        No one can quantify or even assess the damage done to this young girl by being separated from her parents and sisters for a year, on the say so of a few physicians who did not know the child and the situation, and upheld by a court who saw the ideas of a physician as always more valid than parents !     My concern, in addition to the injustice that Justina Pelletier and her family endured, which will have longlasting effects on particularly Justina, who was not being treated for mitochondrial disorder during her internment with the children's hospital, is that parents who have a child with either an orphan condition, or a chronic illness may be reluctant to seek help for a child, fearing that their child could be impounded to ensure that the treatment the hospital thinks is best is done for the child, while isolating the child from their family.

       It's also interesting that this story has been missing from mainstream media reports.