Thanks all you Christian Obama Voters! Tax funded baby killing

Thanks all you Christian Obama Voters! Tax funded baby killing (Updated)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 • 4:43 pm

So now the United States Government, and that means us, funds baby murder. How does it feel, Obama voters, to know your votes have resulted in this holocaust? But hey, at least Obama has stopped the war, saved the economy, and rescued all the poor people...oh...wait...nevermind
(CNSNews.com) - If you want proof that President Obama's Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio).

Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state.

"The fact that the high-risk pool insurance program in Pennsylvania will use federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortions is unconscionable," Boehner said in a statement on Tuesday...more
Here's the release from National Right to Life Inc.
H.H.S. Approves Pennsylvania Plan
to Use Federal Funds to Subsidize Coverage of
Nearly All Abortions in New “High-Risk Pool” Program

WASHINGTON (July 13, 2010) – The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March — and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.

The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.

“The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million in federal tax funds, which we’ve discovered will pay for insurance plans that cover any legal abortion,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. “This is just the first proof of the phoniness of President Obama’s assurances that federal funds would not subsidize abortion — but it will not be the last.”

An earlier version of the health care legislation, passed by the House of Representatives in November 2009, contained a provision (the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) that would have prevented federal funds from subsidizing abortion or insurance coverage of abortion in any of the programs created by the bill, including the high-risk pool program. But President Obama opposed that pro-life provision, and it was not included in the bill later approved by both houses and signed into law. An executive order signed by the President on March 24, 2010 did not contain effective barriers to federal funding of abortion, and did not even mention the high-risk pool program.

“President Obama successfully opposed including language in the bill to prevent federal subsidies for abortions, and now the Administration is quietly advancing its abortion-expanding agenda through administrative decisions such as this, which they hope will escape broad public attention,” Johnson said.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has emphasized that the high-risk pool program is a federal program and that the states will not incur any cost. On May 11, 2010, in a letter to Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on implementation of the new law, DHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote that “states may choose whether and how they participate in the program, which is funded entirely by the federal government.”

Details of the high-risk pool plans for most states are not yet available. But on June 28, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario (a member of the appointed cabinet of Governor Edward Rendell, a Democrat) issued a press release announcing that the federal Department of Health and Human Services had approved his agency’s proposal for implementing the new program in Pennsylvania. “The state will receive $160 million to set up the program, which will provide coverage to as many as 5,600 people between now and 2014,” according to the release. “The plan’s benefit package will include preventive care, physician services, diagnostic testing, hospitalization, mental health services, prescription medications and much more, with subsidized premiums of $283 a month.”

Examination of the detailed Pennsylvania plan, reveals that the “much more” will include insurance coverage of any legal abortion.

The section on abortion (see page 14) asserts that “elective abortions are not covered.” However, that statement proves to be a red herring, because the operative language does not define “elective.” Rather, the proposal specifies that the coverage “includes only abortions and contraceptives that satisfy the requirements of” several specific statutes, the most pertinent of which is 18 Pa. C.S. § 3204, which says that an abortion is legal in Pennsylvania (consistent with Roe v. Wade) if a single physician believes that it is “necessary” based on “all factors (physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age) relevant to the well-being of the woman.” Indeed, the cited statute provides only a single circumstance in which an abortion prior to 24 weeks is NOT permitted under the Pennsylvania statute: “No abortion which is sought solely because of the sex of the unborn child shall be deemed a necessary abortion.”

As a result, “Under the Rendell-Sebelius plan, federal funds will subsidize coverage of abortion performed for any reason, except sex selection,” said NRLC’s Johnson. “The Pennsylvania proposal conspicuously lacks language that would prevent funding of abortions performed as a method of birth control or for any other reason, except sex selection — and the Obama Administration has now approved this.”

A group of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives who initially withheld support from the federal health care bill, because of concerns about pro-abortion effects, cited President Obama’s March 24 executive order in justifying their votes to pass the bill over objections from NRLC and other pro-life groups, which argued that the executive order did not contain effective barriers to federal subsidies for abortion. As USA Todayreported on March 25, “Both sides in the abortion debate came to a rare agreement on Wednesday: The executive order on abortion signed by President Obama, they said, was basically meaningless. ‘A transparent political fig leaf,’ according to the National Right to Life Committee’s Douglas Johnson. ‘A symbolic gesture,’ said Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.”
And here is the Pennsylvania plan (PDF)

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/26363

Foster care abuse and neglect up in Fulton and DeKalb

Foster care abuse and neglect up in Fulton and DeKalb


By Craig Schneider
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Foster children in Fulton and DeKalb counties are being abused and neglected at the highest rate in four years, according to a report released Thursday by federal monitors of these child welfare systems.


Grim stats for Fulton, DeKalb foster kids
The report on the last six months of 2009 also found that the caseloads of state child welfare workers in these state-run county systems "increased substantially" during that period, and that the agency fell short in providing medical and dental care to foster kids.

Federal appointed monitors James Dimas and Sarah Morrison revealed some of the worst performance by the state Division of Family and Children Services since the monitors began reviewing the system.

The pair were appointed by a federal judge to review the performance of the Fulton and DeKalb foster care systems after Georgia settled a lawsuit in 2005 that called for reforms. The lawsuit was filed by the advocacy group Children's Rights Inc.

"This is the worst yet," said Ira Lustbader, associate director of the group. "You've got a real safety problem."

The report found that 25 of the 2,142 children in those foster care systems were abused or neglected while in the care of the state.

"By definition, children in foster care have already experienced some form of maltreatment in the home from which they were removed," the report said. "It is unacceptable that any such child should again experience maltreatment in the foster care setting."

The rate of abuse and neglect, 1.17 percent, is more than three times higher than the national standard, Lustbader said. The target rate is that low because there is little tolerance for such mistreatment of children in the state's care. He also said the rate is considered a "tip of the iceberg" indicator that often points to more abuses that are not reported.

DFCS spokeswoman Dena Smith said: "Fixing a child welfare system is a long-distance run. There are going to be ebbs and flows."

The report pointed to some areas in which the DFCS continued to make progress, including placing children in foster care closer to their families, reducing overcrowding in foster homes and ensuring that foster homes are appropriately licensed.

The monitors noted that numerous abuse and neglect incidents occurred in group homes and institutions, many of which are publicly funded but operated by private firms. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had detailed the monitors' concerns regarding state oversight of these facilities in January.

An AJC investigation in April revealed numerous problems and inadequate oversight of Georgia's growing system of publicly funded but privately operated foster care facilities.

Normer Adams, executive director of the Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children, a lobbying group for private foster homes, said several of the instances do not fit the common definition of abuse or neglect in that they included foster children running away from a facility or minor issues with facilities. He also said the oversight has not been lax.

Lustbader complained that caseloads for at least a third of DFCS caseworkers are above the standard of 12 to 17 cases per worker, with some workers assigned 30 to 40 cases.

The report noted, "This is the state's poorest performance in this area to date."

http://www.ajc.com/news/foster-care-abuse-and-576712.html

A Letter from A mother... a survivor of Domestic Violence

Laura Edmondson July 22 at 8:46am
This week in DC there is a festival or Rally for Parental Alienation Awareness. I would really like to know how much you know about this issue, because it is very serious.
"They" complain that we spend too much tax money on welfare and prisons, drug rehab programs and the list goes on. The funny thing is that I am struggeling to understand is that when someone goes to counceling, drug rehab, stand on the welfare line or ends up in prison... hands down the root cause of the emotional issues that lead to this circumstance are a lack of relationship or dysfunctional relationship with both parents.
Please tell me how it makes sense that a parent that WANTS to be a part of thier childs life has to fight to have the RIGHT???? Then go to a lawyer to spend money to wait for months to see the judge. When they do see the judge, the predatory parent gets WARNED. If they don't listen, the process starts all over. Time and money that can never be replaced.
In the mean time the predatory parent, knowingly or unknowingly is manipulating the child to disrespect not only AUTHORITY, but a part of themselves. How many issues would be resolved for these individuals if they had the ASSUMPTION law, that inculded equal rights for both parents? Why should I have lose time with my children, spend money that I could be spending on my children on an attourney and then have a lifetime of challenges for my children when I want to be a participating parent? Shoudln't it be the other way around? When I go to get my kids, their placement parent has the right to say NO to the police, and has the right to press charges on me for harrassment and trespassing if I don't accept that answer. THIS IS GROSSLY UNJUST. Shouldn't the predatory parent be arrested for the long term damages they are implementing on my child.
The womens right movement has done some great things for women. The fathers rights movement has done some great things for fathers, but the womens rights movements put out some obsticles for the real success of the fathers. However, it isn't really about the Mothers or the Fathers rights. Don't these kids, have the right to know thier own blood, thier own heritage, to understand for themselves rather then what they are told that they are who they are? When a parent speaks poorly of the other parent, or acts as if the other parent shouldn't have the right to be a part of thier lives... not only is incredibly selfish, controlling and a form of domestic ABUSE (violence is something diffferent, but those laws are another topic) it is TELLING THIER CHILD THAT HALF OF THIER EXISTANCE was and is unnacceptable. That is the ultimate in emotional child abuse. PLEASE help our kids, help our FUTURE. Help OUR country, our ecomony, our prisons, our welfare system to refom and respond to this email!

Sincerely,
A mother... a survivor of Domestic Violence, and a woman living with domestic abuse knowing that her children are living with it as well... and there is nothing the law will do at this moment to help them. But this isn't about me... IT IS ABOUT ALL OF US.
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Drugging kids for parents' relief called abusive-Then CPS/DCYF Is also Guilty of Abuse in the Drugging of Our Children

Drugging kids for parents' relief called abusive
By Madison Park, CNN
July 22, 2010 1:10 a.m. EDT
And CPS/DCYF drug children every day. They are the ones guilty of child abuse. They have no clue on how to handle a child, so they drug them to keep them under control!

Stressed parents might medicate their children to help them sleep, calm down or endure long flights.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Research estimates about 160 cases in which drugs were maliciously used on children
Most common drugs given to children: Analgesics, stimulants/street drugs, sedatives,
(CNN) -- If the kids become too much to handle, slip 'em a little cold medicine. It's an often-repeated joke -- or advice -- that parents share on the playground or on Twitter and Facebook pages.
One mom, Jill Smokler, said she doesn't vilify parents who medicate their kids: "It's not the end of the world."
"It's certainly better than being pushed to edge, spanking a child or slamming doors or really losing it," she said.
But drugging children with over-the-counter or prescription medications can have unintended consequences, said the author of a research published Thursday, who likened the practice to child abuse.
The research, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found an average 160 annual cases in which pharmaceutical drugs were maliciously used on children.
"We believe the malicious use of pharmaceuticals may be an under-recognized form and/or component of child maltreatment," wrote the author, Dr. Shan Yin, a pediatrician.
Using information from the National Poison Data System, Yin found that children were most commonly receiving analgesics, stimulants/street drugs, sedatives, hypnotics, antipsychotics and cough or cold medications.
He found 1,439 cases from 2000 to 2008. Of those, 14 percent resulted in injuries, and 18 children died. More than half of the cases involved at least one sedating drug; 17 of the 18 deaths included sedatives. Yin said the poison data most likely underestimates the actual number of cases.
The circumstances around the 18 deaths were not clear, Yin said. He did not have access to case notes and legal findings. Four of them were ruled as homicides, three resulted in legal action against the mother, two were noted as highly suspicious and one included cocaine.
Why young children were given drugs such as antidepressants, stimulants and antipsychotics were also unclear. The motives, he said, could widely vary, such as overwhelmed parents looking for a break, amusement or punishment.
"Anytime you're giving a medication for any other purpose other than for what it's explicitly prescribed for, you run the risk of harming your child," Yin said.
This year, a Massachusetts woman was sentenced to life in prison after she was found guilty in the death of her 4-year-old daughter, whose blood had a lethal level of a hypertension drug used to sedate children with ADHD. Her husband, who was tried separately, was convicted of first-degree murder, according to CNN affiliate NECN. The prosecutors had argued the father had either given the pills or ordered his wife to do so to silence the child.
In a 2005 case, a Montana day care owner was convicted of killing a 1-year-old after giving a fatal dose of cough medicine to put the child to sleep.
In extreme cases such as these, the law determines whether the parent or caregivers' actions are criminal, said Dr. Lawrence Diller, who practices behavioral-developmental pediatrics in Walnut Creek, California.
But in more ordinary, everyday circumstances, the ethical boundaries are hazy.
"There are really ambiguous situations where the line is between helping the child legitimately -- those are the vast majority -- and situations that border on sedating the child that would be a form of abuse," Diller said.
Parents may slip their children some medication to relax and think they're not harming them. This happens to families when "they feel overwhelmed or desperate," he said.
Each case has different elements and motives, so it's hard to generalize whether deliberate medicating of a child is abuse, said James Hmurovich, the president and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America.
"If it's for medical a reason, that's one thing," Hmurovich said. "If moms are at wit's end and the stress is building up and they're tired, that's not a good use of over-the-counter medications."
Some parents use drugs to calm their children down in airplanes.
Smokler gave her daughter, who was then 1 1/2 years old, some Benadryl, expecting her to sleep through the two-hour flight.
Her plan backfired.
Benadryl, an antihistamine used to relieve irritated eyes, sneezing and a runny nose, had an energizing effect on her daughter. The toddler ran through the aisles, talked as loudly as she could, and jumped up and down on her chair.
"It was worst-case scenario," said Smokler, of Baltimore, Maryland. "This is what I get for trying to dope up my kid."
She never tried it again.
Smokler has discussed using Benadryl on kids with her friends and said it could be seen as a way to have "me time" to relax, read a book or have a quiet dinner.
"It's a selfish act doing that," said Smokler, who blogs at Scary Mommy, where she takes a frank look at motherhood. "Sometimes you just need it. It's better than screaming at a kid when all your buttons are being pushed. You need a break; it's a survival mechanism."
Cynthia Dermody, a health editor for a mom blog, The Stir, said in the typical, real-mom world, parents joke about giving children Benadryl but don't usually go through with it.
"I'll admit I've felt that inclination, too, when my kids were younger and weren't sleeping well. ... I would never give my own children a medication for a nonmedical use, but as a harried, stressed-out parent, I do understand the temptation."
Sometimes, parents need a break or want their kids to sleep a little longer or sleep at all, she added.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/22/drugged.children.parenting/?hpt=T2

Woman gets $219,000 in child case

Woman gets $219,000 in child case
Before a federal jury, Luzerne County had argued the local woman had not done required paperwork.
By Terrie Morgan-Besecker tmorgan@timesleader.com
Law & Order Reporter

SCRANTON – A federal jury on Wednesday awarded $219,000 to a woman who claimed Luzerne County Children and Youth Services improperly denied her foster care payments for caring for her sister’s children.


The panel rendered the verdict in favor of Odetta Todd after a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo.

Todd, of Wilkes-Barre, filed suit in 2004, alleging her right to due process was violated when the agency denied her financial assistance – known as kinship care – for taking care of her sister Tamu’s four children. Todd began caring for three of the children in 1998 and took custody of a fourth child in 2001.

During testimony Monday, Todd said she was struggling to provide for the children, who were taken away from their biological mother based on the mother’s drug use, and she sought help from Children and Youth. Instead, the agency thwarted her efforts to obtain the assistance.

Officials with Children and Youth maintained they acted properly because Todd failed to fill out required forms that would allow the agency to obtain information on convictions she had for welfare fraud and simple assault.

Todd acknowledged she did not fill out the forms, but said her decision was based on the fact she had previously signed releases for a state police criminal background check and child abuse registry.

Todd’s attorney, James Hayward of Wilkes-Barre, said evidence at trial showed Todd had, in fact, filled out the background checks. But a Children and Youth caseworker insisted she sign another, non-standard form that would give the worker permission to obtain “any and all” information about Todd from the county probation department.

“She refused to sign it because they were vaguely worded and overly broad,” Hayward said. “They contended because she did not sign these forms she abandoned her application. They never told her her rights or that she had a right to appeal.”

Hayward said the eight-member jury deliberated for about four hours before reaching its decision. He did not seek specific damages and said he has “no idea” how the jurors came up with the $219,000 award.

Hayward said Todd is pleased with the monetary award, but that was only part of her purpose in filing the suit.

“The amount isn’t so much the issue as it is that Odetta get vindication,” he said. “They can’t run roughshod over people. They have to follow the law.”

Attorney Paula Radick, who represented Children and Youth at trial, could not be reached for comment Wednesday evening. Attorney Jack Dean, who handled pre-trial matters in the case, said his firm will be filing post-trial motions seeking to have the verdict overturned and the case dismissed.

“Based on our initial review of the verdict, we feel we have a significant legal issue that is going to result in the case being thrown out,” Dean said.

Terrie Morgan-Besecker, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 570-829-7179.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Woman_gets__219_000_in_child_case_07-21-2010.html

Mother Of Slain Toddler Picks Up Child's Ashes First Trip To Colorado Marked By Court Appearance For Former Boyfriend

Mother Of Slain Toddler Picks Up Child's Ashes

First Trip To Colorado Marked By Court Appearance For Former Boyfriend

By Tyler Lopez, 7NEWS Reporter
POSTED: 10:05 am MDT July 22, 2010
UPDATED: 12:18 pm MDT July 22, 2010

STERLING, Colo. -- The mother of a slain toddler holds out hope that her daughter's tragic ending will be avenged.
"I do. I really do," said Kim McClain of her daughter's death. "Because if I didn't feel that, I would express it. But I really do feel in my heart they're going to get what they deserve."
The adults who were supposed to protect and nurture 3-year-old Alexis McClain are now accused in her killing her.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/24353185/detail.html

Why won't CPS relase information about foster child death?

Why won't CPS relase information about foster child death?

Last Update: 7/21 9:34 pm



Child Protective Services will not reveal whether it had received reports of previous abuse at the foster home where 3-year-old Serenity Garcia was found dead Sunday.

Her 4-year-old brother Isaiah was asleep in the bedroom. Police said both children were victims of long-term abuse, and the children's grandmother, Maria Garcia, said she reported suspicions of abuse to CPS workers, but they did nothing.

Police said the couple fled to Mexico with Carla's three biological children.

Elena Acosta, the assistant director for the Kern County Department of Human Services, which oversees CPS, said the department is not allowed to release any information to the public about any of its cases unless a death has been ruled to be as a direct result of abuse or neglect.

Serenity's death has been ruled a homicide, but CPS has not released anything about the case so far. Acosta said CPS has to follow the law, which strictly prohibits any information being released about foster kids.

"The law protects children that come into the child protective services system by protecting their confidentiality, and children in care, who are in foster care, have the right to privacy and the laws are set up for the protection of the children," she said.

Under a 2008 law, CPS is obligated to release information about inspections, reports of abuse and other details in foster child murders, but only if the involved law enforcement agencies give them permission. It’s unclear if that will happen in Serenity's case.

In the last two years there have been two other local foster child killed from neglect or abuse.

Serenity’s funeral will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at Greenlawn Cemetery in northeast Bakersfield.

The public is welcome to attend.

http://www.kget.com/news/local/story/Why-wont-CPS-relase-information-about-foster/NgM3LEuZTkS1vxzzw3Sy0w.cspx