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September June




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 6:51 pm
I came across this article on a natural living website. They obviously twisted some facts to further their agenda. It didn't help their cause at all, it just made their story more unbelievable.


Here's the article:
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Another shocking case of tyrannical, overzealous social workers and hospital staff has unfolded in Pennsylvania, where a mom who just gave birth in an ambulance to a healthy baby girl was threatened by a government social worker and accused of not allowing her child to receive "medical treatment." (A claim which is factually false.) In reality, the new mom, exhausting from giving birth in an ambulance, was merely asking questions and trying to determine how her newborn daughter was being treated by hospital staff.

A social worker named Angelica Lopez-Heagy continued to threaten the mom, who persisted in asking polite questions to try to determine what she was being accused of. In response, the social worker demanded, "Since you're not going to cooperate, I'll just go and call the police and we can take custody of the baby."

The social worker then demanded that the mom and dad sign a "safety plan" that would contractually bind them to whatever medical procedures the hospital tries to push on all newborns, including multiple vaccines. The term "safety plan" is really just a linguistic mind trick for the agenda of damaging newborns with vaccines so that they become repeat customers of the medical industry. Vaccines, as NaturalNews readers well know, routinely cause kidney damage, neurological damage and gastrointestinal damage, all of which produce huge long-term profits for hospitals, doctors and drug companies.

When the mom said she wanted her attorney to look over the document before she signed it, the nanny state social worker invoked her previous threat and called the police. The police then took custody (kidnapped) the daughter while hospital workers claimed the newborn was suffering from "illness or injury." (Completely fabricated to justify their kidnapping.) Then they forcibly vaccinated the baby without her mother's consent! This was all "approved" by the social worker, Lopez-Heagy.

Note that even though the hospital stole her baby away, if the baby ends up being vaccine damaged, the entire burden of long-term health care costs for that damage will fall squarely on the mother! In fact, the mom might even be accused of "child abuse" if the vaccine damage side effects in any way resemble physical abuse (which often happens, as vaccines can cause bruising, swelling and brain damage).

Hospital workers then proceeded to kidnap her daughter and kick the mom out of the hospital, taking "possession" of the newborn child and forcing the mom and husband to sleep in the Wal-Mart parking lot, only allowing her to re-enter the hospital every three hours to breastfeed (and I'm shocked they even allow breastfeeding. Isn't that illegal RAW milk?).

This is how parents are treated in America today: Like criminal dogs whose only function is to give birth to a new "litter" of victims for the state.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035.....bnW4I


Here is a more believable version of the same story:
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Parent’s Newborn Held Hostage by Hospital and Government Bureaucracy

Mar 30th, 2012 | By Tim George | Category: Today's Off The Grid News | Print This Article

HERSHEY, PA – Scott and Jodi Ferris recently discovered parents can have little control over what happens to their newborn child in a government-run hospital. When Jodi went into early labor, her midwife wisely recommended the couple get an ambulance and head for the nearest hospital. What followed could hardly make any parent of a newborn feel safe.

The child was born in the ambulance in the parking lot of the Hershey Medical Center. Hospital personnel moved quickly to care for both baby and mom. But as the mother began to ask the reasonable questions of any concerned parent, she was instead met with a total lack of response.

What followed was a display of inexcusable bureaucratic arrogance. First, the mother was given an injection of oxytocin without asking permission or checking to see if she was allergic to the drug. In spite of Jodi’s constant questioning, hospital staff resisted answering questions about her newborn child.

A physician finally came to pronounce the baby healthy only to have a different doctor come a few minutes later to say “baby Ferris” was very sick and would have to stay in the hospital for a few days. It was at this point it became obvious the real problem was the physician’s disdain for midwives as he retorted, “Too many people think they know what they’re doing.”

The parents were then told by a hospital staffer the baby would have to remain in the hospital for up to 72 hours for observation by requirement of Pennsylvania law. When the parents asked what law required such a stay, they were told risk management would have to address that. In fact, there is no such law in Pennsylvania.

After another several hours, a risk management staffer told the parents the required stay would only be 24 hours. It was also admitted the only risk being managed was any possible liability to the hospital.

The next afternoon, government social worker Angelica Lopez-Heagy appeared to announce she was there to conduct an investigation. When Jodi Ferris announced she was uncomfortable answering questions without knowing the nature of the allegations, the social worker threatened to call the police and take custody of the baby.

A vague reference was given to Jodi’s unwillingness to consent to the baby’s vitamin K shot. Jodi reports no one ever asked her or her husband about such a shot and that she overheard hospital staffers saying that they had already given Annie such a shot.

Just after husband Scott left the hospital to check on their other children, a hospital staffer appeared demanding permission to give the baby a shot for Hepatitis B. Jodi said that she would agree only if they tested her or Annie to see if either of them were positive. She was then told it was too late in the day to administer such a test but the baby needed the shot immediately.

The social worker pressed Jodi for a decision. Jodi asked if they could wait until her husband returned. Once again, a threat of police custody was made. If Jodi would not answer her question immediately, the police would be called. A new demand was added that Jodi and her husband agree to a safety plan for their home. She and Scott would have to agree to sign the plan for the investigation to be concluded.

When the mother refused to sign the document without her husband or a lawyer present, police were called to escort her from grounds of the hospital. She would be allowed to return every three hours to nurse the baby. As a result, Scott and Jodi spent the night in the car in a Wal-Mart parking lot so she could be close enough to return to nurse their baby.

Thankfully, a judicial officer immediately returned custody of the baby to the parents the next morning, but not before bureaucrats had made their life a living hell and held the threat of losing their child over them for almost 48 hours. Unless some drastic change has taken place that the American people know nothing about, it is not a crime for parents to ask questions about the well-being of their children, it’s not a crime to ensure that a procedure is needed before embarking on it, and it’s certainly not a crime to be a protective mother.

The erosion of parental rights is happening each and every day. It doesn’t take a village to raise a child. It takes loving, concerned, involved parents to raise a child.
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Dandelion1




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 6:57 pm
Neither one reads like objective professional journalism.
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September June




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 7:00 pm
I agree, but the second version sounds more believable.
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Dandelion1




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 7:26 pm
September June wrote:
I agree, but the second version sounds more believable.


Very true.
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ElTam




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 8:27 pm
They both sound horrifying.
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gp2.0




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 10:24 pm
Why wasn't this story reported by any reputable news agency? If it is all true then it is crazy enough to make headlines in more than just a couple of obscure websites.

IOW, I think both of these are exaggerated.
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DrMom




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 11:24 pm
They both sound like editorials to me. The first is just written in a more hyperbolic style.

I found the facts of the case far more disturbing that the writing style of either article.
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bamamama




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 11:31 pm
Here's at least a more mainstream news source: http://www.pennlive.com/midsta......html
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HindaRochel




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Apr 19 2012, 11:36 pm
Home School Legal Defense is taking up their case.

It was also on Channel 21 news.

Not everything gets picked up by the AP.
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bamamama




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Apr 20 2012, 8:00 am
HindaRochel wrote:
Home School Legal Defense is taking up their case.

It was also on Channel 21 news.

Not everything gets picked up by the AP.


Now there's a transparent organization without an agenda Wink

Why would they get involved in this case? Are the families homeschoolers? And, if so, what has that to do with this case?
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HindaRochel




 
 
    
 

Post Sat, Apr 21 2012, 10:48 am
bamamama wrote:
HindaRochel wrote:
Home School Legal Defense is taking up their case.

It was also on Channel 21 news.

Not everything gets picked up by the AP.


Now there's a transparent organization without an agenda Wink

Why would they get involved in this case? Are the families homeschoolers? And, if so, what has that to do with this case?


They are homeschoolers I believe, which is why they got involved. And yes, HSLD does have an agenda; protecting the rights of homeschoolers. Not sure what is troubling you about that. They aren't going to defend something they know is fraudulent.
Channel 21 also aired a report about the situation.

My comment was in response to gryps asking why there was nothing about it in mainstream media.


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chocolate chips




 
 
    
 

Post Sat, Apr 21 2012, 7:29 pm
*jaw on the floor*

The first one is way too unbelievable to be the slightest bit true.

I can believe the second one more but I still cannot believe that this is what is happening in the hospitals? I mean who in their right mind makes a 24hour pp mother sleep in a parking lot over night? Gosh too many things are just OFF for this to be 100% true.
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