Parents lose children for disagreeing with hospitals

This is how out of control Disaster Daniels is.

The state of Indiana has begun taking newborn infants away from their parents because they disagree with hospitals who call them drug addicts. I swear I am not making this up.

It happened recently in Indianapolis when a doctor told parents of a newborn that the baby would be receiving methadone. The parents were shocked, because they had heard that this powerful drug was for heroin addicts. They apparently felt as if the hospital was accusing them of being junkies right to their faces.

But they weren't drug addicts at all. The mother had been prescribed hydrocodone following a car crash, and that's what triggered the order for the baby to be screened.

The fact that the parents even protested at all caused the state to step in and take custody of their new daughter and place her in a foster home. They didn't get the child back until after a lengthy legal fight.

The parents did nothing wrong. All they did was ask for a second opinion after being insulted to their faces. Under the new policy, that alone is enough to trigger state action. But the baby turned out to be completely healthy.

What Indiana is doing now has so much potential to harm children and families that I think it's about control, and not about saving children at all. If you're going to help children, placing them in foster care because their parents don't like being insulted isn't the way to do it.

(Source: http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8349522)