Comments on: Demand MS Reunite Mother & Baby Daughter!

By: Links of Great Interest 6/26/09 | the Hathor Legacy

Links of Great Interest 6/26/09 | the Hathor Legacy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:24:21 +0000

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By: These things aren’t the same but they wash over my mind together « Chicks Dig Me

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:14:06 +0000

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By: Aaminah

Aaminah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:25:36 +0000

Katie, just an fyi… co-sleeping, tho i personally fully support it, is now considered “endangerment” according to U.S. standards. i say this, unfortunately, because i work in medical and social service arenas. i absolutely think it’s appalling that co-sleeping has been miscaracterized this way, but it has, under the guise of the risks of “rolling over” on a baby, of “smothering” and even of SIDS (which makes no sense since SIDS is practically unheard of in cultures outside the U.S. where co-sleeping is the norm). Readers should also know that although this may vary from state to state and therefore not be relevent in Mississippi, many medical facilities do recommend/require that a mother have formula on hand even if she plans to nurse, “just in case”. It’s quite ridiculous the pressures that can be put on mothers to do things the “American way”. i have personally known of refugee mothers with Protective Services cases for “neglect” on the basis that they refused ultrasounds, which are for anyone else optional, or for wanting to give birth at home.

I am disgusted that so-called poverty is being used as a reason to remove a new born baby from her mother’s care, and even more so because poverty is clearly not even the circumstances anyway. this is too reminiscent of how Native American babies were stolen for decades, and it disgusts me that it would continue to happen. it does not, however, surprise me. And don’t even get me started on the lack of a qualified interpreter…

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:32:07 +0000

Estrobutch,
I pulled talking points from MIRA’s bulleted stars. I said 3 times that I didn’t think that “…” was abuse or neglect or a reason to take away someone’s baby from their care. In some cases, I elaborated why. (For example, I mentioned “cosleeping” and “breastfeeding” when I mentioned “not buying a crib or formula. And I said that I thought there were plenty of precedents of women not speaking the language in a land foreign to them, yet getting their children urgent care when they needed it, and that therefore, a parent not speaking English didn’t endanger the child too much for that parent to be allowed to raise the child they desperately want to raise.)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:58:11 +0000

I called to get more information and it seems the best we can do when dealing with public service is put public pressure on them. Keep the pressure, keep circulating this barbaric story. Write letters, spread the word and stay with it.

By: geopunk

geopunk — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:24:57 +0000

This is absolutely appalling. Spreading the story around for sure.

By: Call for action: Reunite Mother and Child « Questioning Transphobia

Call for action: Reunite Mother and Child « Questioning Transphobia — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:28:02 +0000

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By: Estrobutch

Estrobutch — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:22:55 +0000

I’ll call tomorrow but any talking points besides the obvious wtf stop stealing babies!!?

By: elle

elle — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:07:59 +0000

Going to post and tweet now!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:44:48 +0000

Spreading far and wide.

I feel, literally, sick to my stomach.

I am thinking of how this can happen to a mother and, as a mother to be, am enraged and disgusted.

It’s barbaric. Simply barbaric.