Who Owns Your Child? / Executive Order 13397: Church as Government Agency

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WHO OWNS YOUR CHILD?

PART 1 of 2

 

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO

July 25, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

 

“How did we get to the place where doctors, judges and social workers have

more rights than parents over the healthcare decisions of a child?”

 

This case should send a deep chill through the heart of every parent.

After he had endured three months of ineffective treatments last year for

Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Abraham Cherrix rejected his doctor’s recommendation to go

through a second round of chemotherapy. He chose instead to seek out more

natural, nontoxic methods using alternative medicine. After doing his

research, he traveled with his father to Bio-Medical Center in Tijuana, Mexico.

His treatments included liquid herbal supplements and a sugar-free, organic diet

consisting mostly of fresh fruits and vegetables. When they returned home, they

spoke to Abraham’s oncologist, Dr. Rebecca Byrd, to keep her involved in his

care. Wanting no part of their choices, she promptly declared their decision

irrational, labeled it “medical neglect” and called the Accomack County

Department of Social Services. Within days, the county Social Services

personnel had been awarded partial custody of Abraham and, at

5:20pm on Friday, July 21, Judge Jesse E. Demps ruled that Abraham’s parents

were neglectful. They were ordered to take their child to the hospital on

Tuesday morning, July 25, and sign papers authorizing doctors to provide the

treatment that they – as medical professionals – deem necessary. If they refused

to do so, they could lose custody complete custody of their child, and quite

possibly, put their other four children at risk as well. This case caught

the attention of the national media because it strikes at the heart of every

parent who should be asking the following questions: “Who really has control

over my child?” “When is a child mature enough to participate in his own

healthcare decisions?” “How did we get to the place where doctors, judges and

social workers have more rights than parents over the healthcare decisions of a

child?” Becoming an adult In most cases, the age when a person

acquires all the rights and responsibilities of being an adult

is 18 years old. However, there are circumstances in which a child can be

considered a legal adult before the assigned age of majority. For example,

Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, New York and Utah allow marriage at age 16 with

parental consent. You can legally get married in Georgia, Mississippi, Michigan,

and North Carolina with parental consent if you are 15 years of age. Texas

permits 14 year olds to get married with parental consent, and New Hampshire

will even allow 13 year old females to marry with parental consent and court

permission.[1] In six states (Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, Oregon,

Vermont, and Washington) and Washington DC, a 16 year old has the right to get

an abortion without consent or notification of the parent. Thirty-four other

states have a mechanism in place to bypass the parental consent or notice

requirement.[2] A 16 year old can hold a full time job, travel outside the

country, drive a car, and have full responsibility for someone’s

children while baby sitting. A 16 year old can even be tried as an adult for

murder. But if you are 16, you have no right to say what type of treatment

is forced upon you by the medical system, even if your parents support your

right to refuse. Cherrix explained to the press, " This is my body that I'm

supposed to take care of. I should have the right to tell someone what I want to

do with this body. I studied. I did research. I came to this conclusion that the

chemotherapy was not the route I wanted to take. " [3] His maturity carried no

weight in the court of law and held no authority with the medical judge, his

doctor. The Cherrix case is one in a series of recent medical travesties

where judges, doctors and the State have forced medical treatments on children

against the concerns of their parents. In January, 2005, 13-year-old Katie

Wernecke was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. When Katie's parents, Michelle

and Edward Wernecke, refused radiation treatments for

their daughter, Texas Children Services intervened. Katie was placed in foster

care for four months and her mother was arrested on charges of interfering with

child custody.[4] Early this month (July, 2006), the parents of a 9-month

old boy, Riley Rogers, were advised that the child needed emergency surgery for

a kidney problem. The mother disagreed and smuggled her son out of the hospital.

Several days later, he was found and sent back to the hospital; the mother was

charged with second-degree kidnapping and sent to jail. As it turned out, the

surgery was not an “emergency” after all.[5] Americans are dying on the on

the other side of the world in a “fight for freedom.” And yet, the freedom to

choose vitamins, organic food and herbs over toxic, potentially deadly

treatments is considered a crime. The total number of deaths caused by

conventional medicine is more than 780,000 per year, making the medical system

the leading cause of death and injury in the U.S.[6]

Whose freedoms should we be fighting for? These stories should enrage

every parent. Who really “owns” your child? Who owns your body? Americans needs

to declare their freedom from grip of conventional medicine and its

authoritarian tactics. For part 2 click below.

 

 

Footnotes: 1. Wikipedia encyclopedia

2. Laws Requiring Parental Consent or Notification for Minors' Abortions

3. " Virginia teen fights for right to pick Hodgkin's treatment. " Martha T.

Moore, USA TODAY. July 11, 2006

4. " State-sponsored medical terrorism: Texas authorities arrest parents, kidnap

their teenage daughter, and force her through chemotherapy against her will " by

Alexis Black. Jan. 3, 2006.

5. " Baby undergoes surgery despite mom's worries. " by M. Alexander Otto. The

News Tribune. July 2nd, 2006.

6. " Death by Medicine, " by Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman,

MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WHO OWNS YOUR CHILD?

PART 2 of 2

 

 

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO

July 25, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

 

The concept of the State control of children came from antiquity when Plato

first suggested the mechanism for a state-provided public education. He

advocated removing children from their parents’ care and raising them as wards

of the State.

 

Parent Rights and the Foundation for Medical Neglect

When it comes to making decisions about their children, parents have few

rights, as demonstrated by the Abraham Cherrix case and others. The concept of

the State control of children came from antiquity when Plato first suggested the

mechanism for a state-provided public education. He advocated removing children

from their parents’ care and raising them as wards of the State. It is

interesting that in 1918, at the congress of the Communist Party education

workers in Russia it was asserted, " We must remove the children from the crude

influence of their families.”[1] The enforcement mechanism for “educational

neglect”[2] —such as truancy and in some cases, homeschooling[3] --belongs to

teachers and social workers. In medical decisions, physicians are charged with

forcing medical “standard of care” treatments on children of unwilling parents.

Doctors not only have the right to step in, they are mandated by state law to

report medical abuse and neglect to Children’s

Services. The decision is usually made when a physician feels the action—or

inaction—of a parent places the child in danger of death or disability. A common

occurrence is when a parent, who is a Jehovah’s Witness, refuses a blood

transfusion for their child on religious grounds. Wide support and

extensive court precedence exists backing a doctor’s decision to call Children’s

Services. The rationale for this authority is clearly described in a 1996 paper

that states, " Whether (the guardians) are sincere, sane, and in every other

capacity model parents, their insistence upon treatment that is scientifically

inferior to conventionally accepted treatment is abusive, even if their intent

is not. " [4] Because the State agrees with the premise that the “doctor

knows best,” parents are deemed “unfit” when they refuse a suggested

conventional medical treatment. Social workers have the power to seize the child

once notified by a physician that they have an obstreperous

patient on their hands. Police agencies have been known to enforce the decision

at gunpoint. The current system was set up to protect obviously abused and

neglected children. It would provide adequate protection if medical

professionals were amenable to common sense. In the case of Abraham Cherrix, the

parents respected and liked their conventional oncologist enough to inform her

of their decision, wanting to include her in Abraham’s ongoing care. The outcome

attests to the current mess our medical system is in. Unfortunately, common

sense isn’t very common these days and disagreeing with your doctor can lead to

removal of your child from your home. Modern medicine operates under the

pretense that it is “science based.” It claims that its therapies have been

developed through the research Gold Standard: the double-blind,

placebo-controlled, randomized, cross-over study. However, the majority of

medical therapies have never been subjected to this type of analysis.

Evidence-based medicine has only been underway since 1990. The list of standard

medical therapies that have proven to be worthless after they were scrutinized

is long. Tens of thousands of people have suffered through the use of “usual and

customary” therapies before they were proven to be useless.[5] The implication

that the alternative practices sought by the Cherrix family are “unproven and

dangerous” may very well be said about the conventional treatments being forced

on him by his oncologists. What you can do

Currently the American Association of Health Freedom (AAHF) is reaching out to

Congress to urgently have a medical hearing over this case. It has been done

before, with the Terri Schiavo case, and it can be done again. AAHF is the

politically active voice at the federal level, fighting to change laws that

restrict a patient’s choice and a practitioner’s ability to provide alternative

medical treatments. As the VP of the Board of Directors for AAHF, I strongly

encourage parents and doctors alike to support their work. Consumers can join

the lobbying efforts for as little as $20 per year; or larger, tax-deductible

donations can be made to the Health Freedom Foundation. Please contact AAHF at

800-230-2762 and www.healthfreedom.net for more information on how to get

involved.

 

 

Footnotes: 1. " The Free Market and Education, " by Ken Schoolland. The Future

of Freedom Foundation. January, 1996.

2. " King County Sexual Assault Resource Center.

3. A Brief Review of Educational Neglect & Compulsory Schooling: A Status

Report. " Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. National Home Education Research Institute. Jan.

28, 2006.

4. Rosen P. Religious freedom and forced transfusion of Jehovah's Witness

children. J Emer Med. 1996;14:241-243.

5. " Off-Label Use of Prescription Drugs should be Regulated by the FDA. " Harvard

Law Review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is respected as one of the country's most knowledgeable

and outspoken physicians regarding the impact of vaccines on health. Through her

education company, New Medical Awareness, LLC, she spreads her vision of

retaining freedom of choice in healthcare, including the freedom to refuse

vaccination. A portion of this article is an excerpt from her new book, FOWL!

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 13397 - CHURCH AS GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY

 

Nancy Levant

July 25, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

 

The separation of church and state - gone with the stroke of a pen. As of

March 7, 2006, our nation’s leader signed another Executive Order, which tied

the Department of Homeland Security to our leader’s “faith-based” churches.

Okay, all you non-profit churches out there – you now serve the federal

government’s primary spying agency.

 

The separation of church and state - gone with the stroke of a pen. As of

March 7, 2006, our nation’s leader signed another Executive Order, which tied

the Department of Homeland Security to our leader’s “faith-based” churches.

Okay, all you non-profit churches out there – you now serve the federal

government’s primary spying agency. That is now your primary function. You are

now and officially an organized den of thieves. I would feel sorry for the

pastors, ministers, priests, and rabbis except for the fact that I just can’t

and won’t. How stupid and positively corrupt can you possibly be to take money

in exchange for manipulating your flocks of idiot sheep to the national

slaughter? And will you also spy on your flocks and provide reports to your new

master? In exchange for money, have you agreed to pacify and organize your

flocks in the event of a national emergency? You certainly have, for you have

been ordered to do so. And have you been ordered to offer

your buildings, your resources, and your labor forces called congregations to

serve your newly declared administrator? I try to come up with words to

describe how I feel about this Executive Order and the churches that have

“partnered” themselves to this system. The words don’t come minus the fact that

the church has completely and irreversibly fallen to the lowest and darkest

common denominator, which is the total betrayal of the souls of the faithful. I

would pray for your forgiveness, but I don’t want to. Nor do I want to write

about this sickening topic. But, I appeal to Christian people to 1) ask your

church leaders if they are “faith-based” funded, and 2) to leave those churches

and start home-based churches with your friends and family members. Do not

support Executive Ordered, Department of Homeland Security churches with your

presence or your money. You are being manipulated and reported upon –

guaranteed. You are being told what to do when more

“crisis” hits the nation, and will hit the nation, as all is now planned down

to our “weather emergencies,” which are providing the training and relocation

exercises for the real crisis to come – the one that permanently collapses

Constitutional America. The church needs to regroup and gather in homes,

where faith is restored, private, and truth is real. Forget the church

leadership. They are padding their pockets and socially re-engineering your mind

with think tank religion and crisis management, and they’re getting paid to do

so – much like the public schools and mass media. Raise your churches in

your homes. All you need is a Bible – one will do. Save yourselves and your

souls and leave your new and improved church buildings, fancy organs,

fundraisers, and colorful windows behind. As in all Communist countries,

the church will survive underground, so to speak, and with genuine prayer. And

serve your Constitutional America. Don’t give up on freedom – even

as it dissolves before your eyes. Be courageous in truth and gather together in

truth.

 

Again and again, I strongly recommend that you contact A.C.E. – Americans for

Constitutional Enforcement – at contactus - and request their

Information Packet. Work to preserve your unalienable rights. There is no other

choice but to fall – much like the American church. And please remember that

faith-based churches are now governmental agencies – just like public schools,

mass media, and mass communications – nothing more and nothing less.

 

A.C.E. will help you, your family, and your neighbors to learn the truth about

today’s America. What you don’t know is allowing for the total destruction of

your rights and your individual freedom. What you don’t know is rapidly, rapidly

destroying your country. Your continued ignorance is why we are falling. Please

contact A.C.E. right now. May God bless the American people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nancy Levant is a life-long writer, a believer of God, country, Constitutional

and individual rights. She resides in rural Southwestern Ohio. She has worked

professionally with children since 1974 and is an ardent supporter of home

schooling.

 

Nancy Levant has done radio and television interviews, has been a guest

speaker in many venues including college campuses, schools, Indian reservations,

human service organizations, and has been the president of a youth sports

organization.

 

Ms. Levant just completed her new book " The Cultural Devastation of American

Women: The Strange and Frightening Decline of the American Female. " to be

released May 2006. Equally, she is a writer for freedom and land rights issues

and opposes the United Nation's Agenda 21 implementation in America.

E-Mail: nlevant

 

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