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The Buying and Selling of Babies- Where are the Laws?

by Diane Dimond on June 17, 2013

  [caption id="attachment_6513" align="alignleft" width="150"] Don't Slam Surrogacy - Slam the Lack of Laws[/caption] It is not some science fiction movie plot. It is real. Human beings are being manufactured and sold – right here in America. Even more shocking is the fact that decades after the first commercial U.S. sperm bank was opened (1971), after the world’s first test tube baby was born (1978), and after the first U.S. court case regarding surrogacy played out (1986), this country still has no uniform law regulating how surrogate babies are created in a lab and brought into the world. Let’s be clear at the outset. No one wants to deny a childless couple the [caption id="attachment_6514" align="alignright" width="120"] Infertile Couples Have the Right to Parent[/caption] right to have, raise and love a child. I cannot imagine the pain of an infertile couple longing to have a family. But at this late stage in the commercial surrogacy game there ought to be an agreed upon set of rules, regulations and laws on how it works - and what should be done when things don’t go as planned. There are lots of cases on record of surrogacy arrangements that have gone terribly wrong. In 1986, I was assigned to cover a New Jersey custody case which resulted in America’s first court ruling on the validity of surrogacy. The so-called “Baby M” case was fascinating! A married mother of two named Mary Beth Whitehead answered a newspaper ad and agreed to be the surrogate mother for two New Jersey doctors, William, a biochemist, and Elizabeth Stern. Elizabeth, a pediatrician, suffered from Multiple Sclerosis and worried about the health effects of pregnancy. [caption id="attachment_6515" align="alignleft" width="120"] Whitehead, Mother of 'Baby M' in Mid-80's[/caption] Whitehead signed a contract and agreed to have the Stern’s baby for $10,000. A doctor inseminated Whitehead’s egg with William’s sperm and she became what is now called a “traditional surrogate”—one who has a biological connection to the baby. After the birth Whitehead could not bear to give up the child, named Melissa by the Sterns, and she and her family fled to Florida. Police found them and returned the baby to the Sterns. The stage was set for the precedent setting court case. During the trial Whitehead was vilified. Mental health experts labeled her as suffering from “narcissistic personality disorder” and called into question her stability. Her attorney referred to Whitehead as an “exploited” woman. Ultimately, a Superior Court Judge ruled the surrogate contract was valid and in the “best interests of the child,” the baby should live with the Sterns. Whitehead was stripped of her parental rights and shut out of her daughter’s life. [caption id="attachment_6517" align="alignright" width="120"] Are Surrogate Contracts "Against Public Policy"?[/caption] To underscore the legal vacuum surrounding surrogacy at the time, just ten months later the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that contracts to buy and sell babies went “against public policy” and should not be allowed. Whitehead’s parental rights were reestablished and she won visitation rights to the little girl nicknamed Sassy. This legal limbo continues to exist today – nationwide – and at a time when the surrogacy market is “exploding” according to a report from the Council of Responsible Genetics. Many states have no surrogacy laws on the books. Some appear to permit such arrangements - New Mexico, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia and Washington State, for example, allow uncompensated surrogacy. But many other states hold that any contract for a baby born for money is simply unenforceable. Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Texas are the most surrogate-friendly states – as long as the buyers are a married couple. To add to the confusion, surrogacy is no longer just about a willing woman being inseminated with the sperm of a known potential father. Advances in science have opened up all sorts of possible combinations – and potential for trouble. [caption id="attachment_6521" align="alignleft" width="150"] A Sister Gave Them Twin Babies - Then a Lawsuit[/caption] Surrogates today can be the traditional kind, like Whitehead, or a “gestational surrogate mother” who agrees to carry the fertilized egg and sperm of two other people. She acts only as the host womb and has no genetic relation to the baby. You might think that this type of surrogate could cause no trouble after the birth. Well, consider the case known by the initials, A.G.R. v. D.R.H & S.H. Again, it played out in New Jersey and came to court 20 years after the Baby M case. Two men – a legally married gay couple – decided to start a family. Lab technicians created an embryo for them using an anonymous donor ovum and the sperm from one of the husbands. The embryo was then implanted in the sister of the other husband. (You following this?) In 2006 the sister gave birth to twin girls and turned them over to the couple as stipulated in their surrogate contract. A year later the sister was in court fighting for her parental rights – even though she had no biological connection to the babies! Having no law to guide them the New Jersey courts again disagreed with each other. At first, the sister was recognized as the girls’ legal mother. The trio continued fighting over the twins until December 2011 when a Superior Court decision awarded full custody to the husband who had donated the sperm. [caption id="attachment_6522" align="alignright" width="120"] Couples Deserve a Child - A Child Deserves a Happy Start[/caption] Thank goodness the anonymous donor of the egg that split and created the twins never came forward to also claim paternity! You see how convoluted things can become when we mess with Mother Nature? It is far past time for states to pass laws that create a clear cut, irrevocable path for participants in surrogate arrangements to follow. Failure to do that is an open invitation to more and very painful legal battles. It can also create lifelong scars for the child everyone professes to love. home  

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Time to Re-Think Laws on Teen Sex

by Diane Dimond on June 3, 2013

  [caption id="attachment_6449" align="alignleft" width="150"] Can Laws Really Regulate Teen Sex?[/caption] If an adult has sexual relations with a 14 year old that’s bad, right?  Okay, well what if that “adult” has just turned 18 years old and has a younger teen as a love interest? Would their actions be as serious a crime as, say, a 40 year old with a young teen?  The law says yes. The law calls it statutory rape when anyone who has reached adulthood has sex with a person under the age of 16. (In a few states it is age 15) It doesn’t matter if it is an older person is male or female or if the younger person is a girl or boy. It is illegal and often punishable by a hefty prison sentence.  The case that brings this issue to the forefront is playing out now in Sebastian, Florida. A person who just turned 18 engaged in a sexual relationship with a 14 year old that has been described as looking and acting much older than she really is. When the parents of the 14 year old found out they called the cops.  [caption id="attachment_6450" align="alignright" width="150"] Teens Are Sexually Attracted - Period[/caption] Surely this kind of attraction is happening in high schools across the country - a senior becomes attracted to someone in a lower grade and, well, both parties think they are in true love! It is normal teenage behavior to experiment with sex. It's one of those age-old rights of passage.  Nationwide attention has been focused on the Florida case, however, because the 18 year old is also female. And a pretty, petite female at that - a young woman who has been an honor-roll student, a cheerleader and active in school athletics. In other words, 18 year old Kaitlyn Hunt looks more like the pom-pom girl who dates the quarterback than someone who would have a same-sex affair. But she did. She has publicly admitted that she and the 14 year old girl twice engaged in sexual activity. Kaitlyn’s mom declares her daughter acted out of love for the younger teen.  [caption id="attachment_6455" align="alignleft" width="150"] Kaitlyn Hunt Just Turned 18[/caption] The parents of the 14 year old fail to see the Romeo-and-Juliet aspect of the situation and Kaitlyn faces two counts of lewd and lascivious battery of a minor which carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison and a requirement that upon conviction she register as a sex offender. Kaitlyn was also expelled from the high school where both girls attended classes and the sexual activity took place. Kaitlyn’s future looks bleak.  "I'm scared of losing the rest of my life, not being able to go to college, and be around kids, and my sisters and my family," Kaitlyn told reporters recently.  She has every reason to feel that way. Colleges are unlikely to accept a student on the sex registry or one who has a felony conviction. Those listed on registry cannot be in a place where children are present, like a school, a private home or a place of employment where children might come in the door.  The prosecutor offered Kaitlyn a plea deal. If she agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of child abuse he would allow her to forego registering as a sex offender. The State Attorney said he would recommend to the judge that Kaitlyn be sentenced to two years of house arrest followed by one year of probation.  [caption id="attachment_6456" align="alignright" width="150"] For Kaitlyn - From Cheerleader to Convict?[/caption] Kaitlyn turned it down that plea. And whether her reason is because she truly thinks she didn't do anything wrong or she thinks public opinion (including support from gay rights groups) will sway the prosecutor or the other girl's family to drop the charges - the harsh reality is under the law she is guilty.  I hope the Hunt family truly understands what's at stake by refusing the plea deal. It is unlikely the prosecutor’s office will walk away from this high profile case because the law is so crystal clear. If Kaitlyn is found guilty at trial she faces the real possibility of years in prison. Trust me on this - prison is not a place you want your beautiful, blonde, apple-cheeked daughter to be.  What is it about the age of 18 that magically turns us into full-fledged adults with all the rights and burdens that the status implies? Nothing, really. The law had to draw a line somewhere and age 18 was chosen.  [caption id="attachment_6458" align="alignleft" width="120"] Turning 18 Changes Everything in the Eyes of the Law[/caption] In Georgia a few years ago, a 17 year old honor student named Genarlow Wilson was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he and his 15 year old girlfriend were videotaped at a New Year's Eve party engaging in what former President Bill Clinton has declared is an act that doesn't really constitute sex. An appeals court ultimately declared Genarlow’s sentence was "cruel and unusual" and he was released - but not before spending more than two years in prison. This is what our laws have wrought.  It really is time to give some serious thought to changing the laws on sexual contact between teenagers. I know the laws are designed to protect younger children from older kids who might be more aggressive in pressing forward with a sexual relationship. But when we try to legislate something as hard-to-control as the sexual urges of teenagers shouldn't there be some wiggle room? Say, consideration of extenuating circumstances like their scholastic achievements or their past contributions to the community? Do we really want to imprison a church-going, straight A student bound for college because he or she acted on a normal urge?  Mental health experts will certainly say it is not healthy to declare a young person's first sexual urges as "criminal" or somehow taboo - whether they are opposite sex or same sex attractions. The heart wants what the heart wants and no law can extinguish human desire. home  

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Hey, Steubenville: Where Was Everyone?

by Diane Dimond on March 25, 2013

[caption id="attachment_6163" align="alignleft" width="150"] Guilty: Trent Mays,17, (L) and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16[/caption]             “There are crimes very similar to this that occur every Friday night and every Saturday night in communities across this country….” Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine  Many of us watched with interest the rape case that recently played out in Steubenville, Ohio. The two defendants, Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, were star members of the local high school’s football team and many in the community felt they had been maliciously targeted for prosecution because of their popularity. However, the evidence was overwhelming and both teens were convicted of sexually assaulting a female classmate. There was a video, still pictures and dozens of contemporaneous text and Twitter messages flying back and forth discussing details of the assault. The victim, a 16 year old girl, was so drunk (or perhaps drugged) that she was unconscious during much of the prolonged assault. Included in the torrent of more than 3 thousand tawdry messages read aloud to the court were those from eye-witnesses and classmates joking about the “dead-looking” victim and saying, “some people deserve” to be urinated upon. [caption id="attachment_6164" align="alignright" width="150"] An Example of Ugly Tweets[/caption] One text sent the day after the attack from defendant Trent Mays begged a friend to delete the video of the incident that had been posted on You-Tube and added, “Coach Sac knows about it. Seriously, delete it!” During the trial it was learned that football Coach Reno Saccoccia knew about the sexual assault and refused to suspend the defendants or other players who had knowledge of the incident until the season was nearly over. As I watched the case unfold – and read the un-varnished blog by former Steubenville resident Alexandra Goddard who had immediately captured the offending texts, video and pictures before they were deleted -- I couldn't stop thinking:  Where was everyone else as this crime was happening? As this young girl was being humiliated and brutalized, stripped of her clothing and carried around like a rag doll, what were her classmates doing?  Why didn't anyone step in to say, “Stop!”  Didn't other girls at the event feel her shame and move to help cover up her nakedness?  Where was the homeowner of the house where the party was being held?  What had the parents of these teenagers taught their children about coming to the aid of a fellow human being in trouble? [caption id="attachment_6166" align="alignleft" width="150"] Victim Carried By Defendants From Home to Home[/caption] None of my questions were part of the court proceedings, of course, but as Mike DeWine the Attorney General of Ohio said upon the conviction, “I'll guarantee that there are crimes very similar to this that occur every Friday night and every Saturday night in communities across this country where you have people, particularly young people, who are drinking too much and a girl is taken advantage of, and a girl is raped."  DeWine is right.  It is surely happening in your community and mine too. Yet DeWine believes that justice may not have been completely served in the Steubenville case.  His investigators interviewed 56 witnesses – from teenagers who attended the party to assistant football coaches and the high school principal – yet there were still 16 people with knowledge of the crime who have refused to talk.  So, DeWine will convene a Grand Jury next month to determine whether other people should also be charged in this case. Leave it alone, you say? The conviction of Mays and Richmond is enough?  I don’t think so. [caption id="attachment_6167" align="alignright" width="150"] Mass Protests Outside Jefferson County Court[/caption] Consider that even after the guilty verdicts some in that football crazed town were still not convinced the pair had done anything wrong and they turned their wrath on the victim.  After the guilty verdicts were announced two teenage girls were taken into custody for allegedly using Twitter and Facebook posts to threaten her with a “beating” and “homicide.” They now face felony counts of witness tampering among other charges.  After the girls arrest A.G. DeWine announced, “Let me be clear.  Threatening a teenage rape victim will not be tolerated. If anyone makes a threat … we will take it seriously, we will find you and we will arrest you.” Blogger Goddard reports she and her family continued to be harassed and maligned. She also had to fight back a defamation lawsuit filed against her and two dozen people who left comments on the case at her web site.  “Perhaps most ridiculously,” she wrote, “I was accused of ‘complicating’ the case because I posted the screen captures of content that these kids willingly posted themselves.”  Clearly, not all of Steubenville has learned the obvious lesson of this case. [caption id="attachment_6168" align="alignleft" width="120"] Blogger Alexandra Goddard[/caption] In the meantime, the victim’s mother told CNN, “We hope that from this something good can arise … (to) possibly change the mentality of a youth or help a parent to have more of an awareness (as) to where their children are and what they are doing. The adults need to take responsibility and guide these children." Yep. This is one of those teachable moments, the perfect time for folks to sit down with their kids and have a serious talk about the issues this case raised.  Drinking and drugs, athlete adoration, teen age sex and doing unto others as we would need them to do for us if we were in trouble.  It is also a good time for parents to re-examine where the circle of accountability begins and ends when one of our children is so publicly victimized. home  

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The Papal Conclave: Time for the Church to Clean Up Its Act

by Diane Dimond on March 4, 2013

[caption id="attachment_6095" align="alignleft" width="120"] Pope Benedict XVI Says Good-Bye[/caption] It is no secret. The Catholic Church is in crisis with many of its priests charged with un-Godly crimes. There seems to be no end to the reports of sex abuse of children, sex scandals within the ranks of the clergy and the blatant cover-up by church elders who should have been protecting the flock of faithful and not their ne’er-do-well colleagues. I don’t pretend to know why Pope Benedict XVI became the first to resign in almost 600 years. But, I’m going to bet it had something to do with the constant drumbeat of scandal that marked his 8 year reign. Before he became Pope he was Joseph Ratzinger, a German Cardinal. You may not know, however, that he had long been in charge of the Vatican office to which all reports about sexually misbehaving priests were directed. In other words, for years every single complaint about sexual abuse by a priest crossed the desk of Cardinal Ratzinger. [caption id="attachment_6097" align="alignright" width="120"] Will The Next Pope Deal With Priest Predators?[/caption] It would have been next to impossible for Ratzinger not to have noticed the trend. He surely must have wondered and prayed about the best path to take. Was Ratzinger the one who counseled silence among the ranks or did he just go along with it? And then, after all those years of monitoring the growing tsunami of sexual abuse complaints Cardinal Ratzinger became the Pope. Certainly during his years in that seat of power he had the authority to enact meaningful change. He did not. Agreed, he was just one man within the vast Vatican framework. But he was at the top. He was the man within the organization who was in a position to know about every accusation and what action (if any) had been taken to learn the truth about allegations of sexual abuse. The information about priests with multiple complaints against them was at Ratzinger’s fingertips. [caption id="attachment_6102" align="alignleft" width="150"] It Has Been Simmering For Years[/caption] He could easily have looked up information about all those priests who had been transferred from parish to parish – and the children who claimed they too had been abused. Ratzinger’s office kept track of priests who had been sent away for “rehabilitation” to treatment centers in New Mexico, Missouri and Maryland to name just three. I had a sort of complicated religious upbringing. My mother was from a devoutly Methodist household and my father called himself agnostic. I went to Sunday school as a child and later my step-Grandmother began to take me to her Catholic church. I was mesmerized by the cathedrals, the pageantry and the seemingly devoted priests who the congregation called “Father.” I sent my only child to Catholic elementary and high school and to this day I feel she got a great education. I think that there are many good and dedicated men in the priesthood. [caption id="attachment_6103" align="alignright" width="150"] Conclave Held Inside Vatican Gates[/caption] Today, as plans are underway for the Vatican’s Conclave where the Pope’s successor will be chosen I wonder what he is thinking. Does he look back and wonder about the wisdom of keeping the secrets of predatory priests all these years? Does he worry about the fate of victimized children? Does he wonder if the wiser path might have been to stand firm against sin, call in the police and let prosecutors do their jobs? Certainly, the church’s reputation would have emerged stronger had offending priests been treated like other criminals. As the world’s Cardinals converge on Rome I imagine many of them are looking for a sign from God about the right thing to do, the right ballot to cast. Who should they vote to be the next Vicar of Christ? Who among them has the strength and moral character to do what must be done? Do they want a caretaker or a leader? [caption id="attachment_6105" align="alignleft" width="150"] What Will The Discussion Be Before The Vote?[/caption] Before they vote I hope they first realize that if something definitive isn't done to respond to the sex scandals – something grand and meaningful -- the very future of the institution is in grave danger. The sheer breadth of the disgrace engulfing parishes across the United States, the British Isles, Latin America, Africa and other countries is so immense as to be completely debilitating if not addressed. Who am I to offer suggestions? But I hope they begin the conclave with a discussion of this most obvious problem. Each Cardinal should carefully weigh what their colleagues say about how to deal with the scandal. I hope they don’t vote for a candidate because “it is time” for a Latino, Black or American Pope. They should vote for the best, most forward thinking man for the job – and they should vote like their organization’s future depends on it. Because it does. [caption id="attachment_6106" align="alignright" width="122"] Not A Natural Way of Life?[/caption] They also, clearly, need to discuss the elephant in the room: Celibacy. Requiring that any human being abstain from all sexual activity is an unnatural prerequisite to my mind. I’m not saying that being celibate – or struggling to remain celibate – causes pedophilia. But I think it is safe to say it can cause sexual confusion and frustration. Further, I think there have been some men who have gravitated to the priesthood because they feared their sexual desire for children and thought the church could help them keep it in check. And, the most obvious point about the celibacy requirement: it automatically excludes all men who have loving and healthy relationships with women. Isn’t a man who knows the true love of another person the perfect candidate to minister to and counsel others? It seems so self-defeating for a church to exclude faithful men at a time when they are reported to be so desperate for new priestly recruits. Lift the celibacy rule and I bet the church would see a flood of devoted religious men step forward to spread the gospel. As the conclave gets underway I hope the Cardinals understand it is time for moral, compassionate and truly healing leadership at the Vatican. There is no better time than now for the church to clean up its act. home

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Families Deserve to Know When Loved Ones’ Organs Are Kept

by Diane Dimond on February 19, 2013

[caption id="attachment_6043" align="alignleft" width="150"] "The Great Brain Robbery"[/caption] The worldwide headlines say it all.  From the United Kingdom: “Pathologist ‘Stockpiled Children’s Organs.’” In Canada, the headline: “Ontario Service Has 4,000 Autopsy Organs, Unmatched to Families.” From Las Vegas, this shocker: “Misplaced. Thrown away. Stolen. Sold? Nobody Knows What Happened to Richard Boorman’s Missing Organs.” And from New York: “Parents Shocked to Learn Examiner Kept Son’s Brain.”  The cleverest headline for this macabre topic: “The Great Brain Robbery.”  It is the last thing grieving next-of-kin should have to worry about. But if burying an intact body is important to a family’s religious, moral or ethical beliefs, they should ask the funeral home to make sure their loved one has all of his or her organs in place.  [caption id="attachment_6044" align="alignright" width="150"] Study Should Be Done on Donated Organs[/caption] Now, I understand that student doctors and pathologists need to study, hold and dissect human organs to become good physicians. But I always thought they were donated organs. That’s why I checked the donor box on the back of my driver’s license, right? But that’s not always the case. Sometimes medical examiners hold back organs of the dead and their families have no idea.  If pressed for an answer, a pathologist would most likely justify the action by explaining it is for the advancement of science. What about the rights of the dead?  In New York, it has been revealed that the medical examiner’s office had kept the brains of more than 9,200 people in the past eight years. From that finding came two particular stories I won’t ever forget.  [caption id="attachment_6045" align="alignleft" width="150"] Classmates Saw Shipley's Brain in Jar[/caption] First, was the case of Jesse Shipley, who died in a horrible car accident at age 17. Two months after his funeral, Jesse’s Staten Island classmates happened to be on a field trip to the local morgue. There, on a shelf in a glass jar, floated a human brain with the label “JESSE SHIPLEY.” That is how Jesse’s parents came to realize they had buried their son without his brain: Tearful classmates told them.  The Shipley case changed the rules in the Empire State. Henceforth, medical examiners were required to fully inform next of kin if any organs were held back for examination. Families can then choose to postpone the funeral until all tests are complete and the organs are returned or proceed with burial or cremation.  The second case involved a woman named Cindy Bradshaw. Her attorney, Daniel Flanzig, told me her sorrowful story. Last May, Bradshaw buried her stillborn son, who had died from an abnormality in the umbilical cord and placenta. Just hours after little Gianni’s funeral, the medical examiner’s office called to inform her (under the Shipley regulation) that they still had the baby’s brain. Too little effort, too late.  [caption id="attachment_6046" align="alignright" width="144"] Pflanzig: Kept Baby's Brain for the "Purpose of Research"[/caption] “Why did they keep the brain?” Flanzig asked. “They already knew the cause of death. Our research shows the baby’s brain was retained for the purpose of research.”  Indeed, there is an abundant supply of adult brains available for autopsy, but a newborn’s brain is a rare commodity for pathologists to study.  Different states have different procedures for medical examiners to follow, and not all require the upfront honesty that New York has tried to instill. Aggrieved families can sue in civil court, claiming their common-law right of sepulcher has been violated (the right to find “solace and comfort in the ritual of burial,” as one judge explained), but none of these missing organ cases is considered to be a crime. Only the black-market sale of organs rises to the level of a felony criminal case.  There are those who might think: “Well, the person is dead. What does it matter?” Please, don’t tell that to Mary Jane and Dan McCann of Fairfax County, Va. I spoke to an agonized Mary Jane last week and wrote about their sad case last year. For four years now, they have tirelessly fought the Baltimore medical examiner’s finding that their 16-year-old daughter, Annie, committed suicide by drinking Bactine. (The honor roll student carried a small bottle of Bactine to cleanse her newly pierced ears.)  [caption id="attachment_6047" align="alignleft" width="150"] Mary and Annie McCann[/caption] The makers of the antiseptic as well as other prominent medical examiners pooh-pooh the idea that Bactine could cause death. In reviewing Annie’s autopsy seven months after her burial, her devoutly Catholic parents were shocked to find her brain and heart had not been interred with her.  As the McCanns put it, “The state has no right to abort our effort at a Christian burial by carelessly losing our Annie’s brain and heart — her very essence.”   To make matters worse, they still can’t find out if Annie was raped. The Baltimore police say they must get that information from the medical examiner’s office. The ME then refers them back to the police. Catch-22, Baltimore style.  This may not be an important issue in your life — not yet, anyway — but for countless Americans like the Shipleys, Bradshaws and McCanns, it has left a gaping wound in their soul.  [caption id="attachment_6050" align="alignright" width="150"] Medical Profession Should Police Itself[/caption] I think it is time for a uniformed set of standards that require each state and every medical professional that deals with the dead to be responsible for restoring a deceased patient to his or her pre-autopsy condition. If an organ must be held for further examination — a brain, for example, must harden in a formaldehyde solution for several weeks before it can be biopsied — then full notification to the family must be made.  Withholding organs without permission may not constitute a crime, but in my book it’s a crime against nature. home

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Mandatory Drug Tests – For Kids?

by Diane Dimond on February 11, 2013

[caption id="attachment_6019" align="alignleft" width="120"] Can Underage Drinking and Drugging Be Stopped?[/caption]   There’s a community wide conversation going on in Kansas City, Missouri that should also be taking place around the country. It has to do with high school kid’s use of drugs and alcohol. The discussion revolves around the question: How can adults adequately convince a teen-ager that drinking too soon or using narcotics can, literally, cost them their lives?  At Rockhurst High School in Kansas City the Jesuit leadership has answered that question with, “You can’t.” You can’t fully convince or trust teens not to drink or experiment with drugs. So, later this year at the all-male Rockhurst High they will begin to randomly drug test the student body by taking 60 hairs from the head of each teen. This will be repeated every 90 days. One of the Rockhurst faculty members, someone with a background in barbering, will collect the sample hairs and send them out for testing. Lab techs will look for traces of marijuana, cocaine and other illegal drugs as well as alcohol consumption. [caption id="attachment_6020" align="alignright" width="150"] Hairs Trap Secrets of Drugs and Alcohol Abuse[/caption] Human hairs are sort of like tree rings, storing the residue from drugs and booze in the shaft of each strand. As the hair grows out the pattern remains on the hair shaft and lab techs can detect not only what substances a person has used, but how much of it and approximately when it was ingested. The longer the hair the more information they can glean.  As shocking as it sounds – making it mandatory for a minor to give up part of themselves for scrutiny even though they may have done nothing wrong – this plan is not illegal because Rockhurst is a private school. When parents decide to enroll their sons at Rockhurst they agree to abide by the six page drug and alcohol policy of the 100 year old Catholic school.  Public schools could never get away with plucking student’s head hairs and sending them out to labs for random testing because that would be classified as an “unreasonable search and seizure” under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  [caption id="attachment_6021" align="alignleft" width="150"] Rockhurst High Requires 60 Hairs Per Student[/caption] Even the local ACLU legal director in Missouri can’t come up with a challenge to the Rockhurst plan although Doug Bonney did tell the Kansas City Star he thought the idea was, “A colossal waste of money.” By the way, the cost of each $50 test will be borne by fees collected from parents for student activities.  Gee, I remember when student fees went to pay for things like sock hops and field trips.  As you can imagine there has been both applause and jeers for this get-tough drug testing idea. On local Missouri web sites reporting the story reader comments offered a wide range of opinions.   Someone calling themselves Frank Frankly wrote: “It's a private school, they can do what they want. If you don't want your child to be subjected to it then put them in public school.”   Mike Jensen agreed. “It's not about infringement because there is a choice involved. The school is trying to ensure that its students receive a quality education and stay clean.”    [caption id="attachment_6023" align="alignright" width="150"] Britney Spears Allegedly Shaved to Avoid Drug Test[/caption] But an e-mailer with the handle Dagmstr sees something more ominous afoot. “They start with the schools then what's the next step? Adults - maybe through the DMV (or) the social security program or Obamacare?”    And, reader Metamax warned about the future threat to Rockhurst students who break the rules. “The parents had better give this a second thought as this "can" come back and bite their kids later for college and jobs. False positives can be a one way ticket to the court system and charges. Government abuse of rights starts just like this.”  I bothered to read the whole six page policy and it is not about calling in the cops or making a negative permanent record for the substance using student. The school says information gathered under the program will stay within and never be disseminated to colleges or potential employers.  [caption id="attachment_6027" align="alignleft" width="135"] Rockhurst High's Goal: A Healthy Lifestyle[/caption] Rockhurst’s plan is a three strikes policy and positive test results are followed by a quiet confrontation between guidance counselor, parents and the offending teen. No disciplinary action is taken immediately but the student must follow the school psychologist’s rehab recommendations. Only after the third strike will a student be dismissed permanently.  You know, when I first heard about this idea of randomly taking hairs from school kids for drug testing I was aghast. I thought about my own daughter and what I would have done if her Catholic school had suddenly demanded access to her bodily samples. Back then I surely would have balked. 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by Diane Dimond on February 4, 2013

[caption id="attachment_6005" align="alignleft" width="150"] Going "Postal" in America since 1983[/caption]   It has been a long time since the first postal worker went postal back in 1983. Since then America has endured countless other mass shootings. But, the tragedy at Newtown, Connecticut was supposed to change everything. We collectively declared that the horror of innocent children being gunned down in cold blood was a game changer. A troubled son shooting his mother to death in her bed and then rampaging through an elementary school was our national wake-up call. Finally, we told each other, it was time for America to do something about its gun problem! It would have been a glorious homage to the Newtown victims. Sorry to say, however, those 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School died needlessly. So did victim number one, Nancy Lanza, the mother of the shooter. [caption id="attachment_6006" align="alignright" width="150"] It Was Supposed to be a Game Changer[/caption] Since that awful day in Connecticut last December 14 special interest groups have drawn lines in the sand, politicians have made declarations, the Vice President held some meetings where some of the same old suggestions popped up. We have argued about Second Amendment rights, semi-automatic rifles, the number of bullets in magazine clips, background checks, gun show sales and how the NRA must be to blame for the whole rotten mess.  In reality, it is the ubiquitous handgun that does most of the killing in this country but few are talking about that. And it is not the vast majority of gun owners who dutifully follow the law and register their guns (and maybe belongs to the NRA) that are the problem. 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About a dozen of them were children.  In Texas, there were 110 gun deaths. Florida was close behind with 90. The city of Chicago has become a virtual killing field with at least 53 recent gun deaths despite having one of the country’s most restrictive set of gun laws. Illinois’ statewide gun death total since Newtown is 77. Missouri counted nearly 51 people and New York had 42 killed by guns. In New Mexico, the list reflected another mass shooting by a troubled son who gunned down both his parents and three siblings. That brought the death toll in the Land of Enchantment to at least 15 since the elementary school shooting in Connecticut that was supposed to change everything.  [caption id="attachment_6010" align="alignright" width="150"] At least 1480 Filled Coffins Since Newtown[/caption] Think of it: More than 1480 bullet-ridden bodies stacked up at morgues across the country. 1480 funerals, countless thousands of family members forced to join the ranks of grief. At this pace 2013’s tally will soon surpass the number of people who died in the terrorists acts of September 11th. We will count more dead Americans right here at home this year than all the U.S. military members who lost their lives in the war in Iraq or Afghanistan.  How many more will die before we can agree on concrete solutions?  As we dither and do nothing, North Carolina has seen 58 gun-related deaths since Newtown. Georgia reported 55 dead. Louisiana had 53, Colorado 33, Michigan 46, Oklahoma 37, Indiana 37, Arizona 29, Washington State 22 …. The sorrowful list goes on and on and continues to grow at a steady gallop. Perhaps we should take a cue from Australia where plenty of people still have guns. In 1996, after a massacre in which 35 people died swift action was taken. The most dangerous rifles and shotguns were outlawed and the government launched a buy-back program of those banned firearms. Over the next decade gun related homicides fell by 59 percent and the suicide rate fell by 65 percent. A coincidence? Maybe.  [caption id="attachment_6011" align="alignleft" width="150"] Rationing Bullets the Answer?[/caption] I don’t hear much talk about cutting off the criminal’s favorite ammunition source – the internet – or more closely regulating the sale of bullets so that only the most demonstrably responsible gun owners could buy them. With 311 million guns in America maybe a limit on the number of new guns that could be imported or manufactured here would be in order. And, my personal favorite: Let’s pass an iron clad national law that any criminal using a gun in the commission of a crime gets an automatic extra 10 years tacked onto their sentence. No questions, no leniency. 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Pregnancy in America Not So Jolly Good

by Diane Dimond on December 10, 2012

[caption id="attachment_5852" align="alignleft" width="150"] Preggers Kate - Wicked Bad Morning Sickness[/caption] Well, well, well. Kate Middleton, a.k.a. the Duchess of Cambridge, is expecting a baby! Her husband, Prince William is reported to be ecstatic. The people of Great Britain are utterly delighted that the Royal Family will be soon have a new heir. And they are sending up a collective prayer that the expectant mother will soon get over a bad case of hyperemesis gravidarum (a sort of extra wicked morning sickness) which caused Kate to be hospitalized. Isn't it sweet that a whole country is in such a jolly good mood since the baby news was announced! It seems the royal pregnancy is being celebrated all over the world. Let’s compare and contrast. The pampered Duchess won’t have to worry about health insurance, hospital costs or missing a paycheck during her pregnancy. Nope, she will be giving birth to the third in line for the royal throne so all the nuisance of medical paperwork and bills will be automatically taken care of by the British government. [caption id="attachment_5853" align="alignright" width="150"] Many Work Until Right Up to Due Date[/caption] Here in America things are very different for pregnant women. We don’t mollycoddle them much and it is not unusual to see an expectant mother continue to work until close to their due date – mostly for economic reasons. A law passed in 1993 (The Family and Medical Leave Act) protects the job of a new parent if they want to take un-paid leave after a birth or adoption. And, there is The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 that requires employers to treat pregnant mothers the same as they would any other employee with a temporary limitation. For example, if an employer grants lighter duty for a person with a temporary bad back or for someone who just returned to work after hernia surgery then it must also be granted to a pregnant woman.But guess what? There is little enforcement of the law. Employers fire pregnant women anyway by coming up with all sorts of dubious reasons. [caption id="attachment_5855" align="alignleft" width="150"] Yes We Can - And We Do - Even While Pregnant[/caption] It’s a shame because women currently make up about half the U.S. workforce and for an increasing number of families Mom is the primary bread winner. She’s also, of course, the one who delivers future new taxpayers to the nation. Among the horror stories: Victoria Seredny worked as the activity director in a nursing home. When her doctor ordered that she not lift heavy objects following a miscarriage scare – something she was required to do just a few minutes a day - her boss refused to allow other workers to help her, even the ones who volunteered their assistance. Victoria was fired for failure to perform her duties. Heather Wiseman’s pregnancy caused her to have recurring bladder infections and her doctor told her to be sure to stay hydrated all day. She began to carry a water bottle with her when she went to her job on the sales floor at Walmart. Her boss informed her that only cashiers were allowed to have water bottles and when she continued to show up with her doctor-ordered bottle she was fired for insubordination. [caption id="attachment_5857" align="alignright" width="120"] Fed Ex Sued For Pregnancy Discrimination[/caption] Peggy Young worked for United Parcel Services and, on occasion, her delivery duties required that she lift packages as heavy at 70 pounds. When she became pregnant she asked for a lighter assignment. UPS denied the request even though the company had accommodated other employees who had been injured in a car accident or lost their driver’s license due to a drunk driving conviction! These three women all sued their employers and lost. Appeals are underway. Enter now what seems to be a long over-due proposal law called The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. It was introduced in Congress earlier this year. It sounds good on paper but its language makes me cringe a bit. The proposal requires that employers offer pregnant employees the same kind of accommodation that disabled citizens get under the Americans With Disabilities Act unless, “The accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business.” Well, excuse me. As a formerly pregnant woman I didn't consider myself disabled. Fat, maybe, and like a sponge that had absorbed too much fluid – but certainly not disabled! [caption id="attachment_5858" align="alignleft" width="105"] Hello? Where's the Enforcement?[/caption] Why doesn't congress just enforce (or add amendments with some teeth) to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act? Or better yet, why doesn't the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Department of Justice step up and invoke Title VII, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination? So many times we have laws in place that, if properly enforced, could fix a myriad of problems. Instead, some politician decides to write up a whole new law which, of course, takes forever to pass in our paralyzed-by-partisanship Congress. Does anyone really think that both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, consumed with fiscal cliffs and other major economic issues, will prioritize passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act? Yeah, me neither. Discrimination against pregnant mothers could end tomorrow if there was a concerted, unified effort to do so. 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Presidential Debates Ignore Issue That Affects Millions – Crime

by Diane Dimond on October 29, 2012

[caption id="attachment_5741" align="alignleft" width="150"] Crime Rates Are Down But Hardly Low[/caption]   Imagine a country where citizens collectively own more than 300 million guns. It is a place where more than 14,700 thousand people were murdered in 2010. And in this country, nearly 85-thousand people were forcibly raped during that same year. More than 6 million people are in prison or on criminal supervision. In addition, people who live in this nation endure hundreds of thousands of burglaries, robberies, aggravated assaults and thefts of their vehicles every year. Sounds like a pretty uncivilized country doesn’t it? Well, this is America, folks. [caption id="attachment_5742" align="alignright" width="150"] Neither Romney nor Obama Care to Talk Crime[/caption] These chilling statistics are our statistics. Yet, after four presidential and vice presidential debates there was barely a word said about crime and justice. Oh, there was one gun question from a woman at the Hempstead, N.Y, Town Hall debate between President Obama and Governor Romney but neither man really answered undecided voter Nina Gonzalez. “President Obama, during the Democratic National Convention in 2008, you stated you wanted to keep AK-47s out of the hands of criminals,” Gonzalez asked. “What has your administration done or plan to do to limit the availability of assault weapons?” There was blah-blah from both candidates but no substantive answers. There have been no debate questions about topics parents worry about every day their children walk out the door: Drugs, gang violence, teen suicides or pregnancy, or schools and recreational activities haunted by pedophiles. Nothing was said about the scourge of mortgage or credit card fraud, identity theft, elder abuse or cyber-stalking. [caption id="attachment_5743" align="alignleft" width="126"] No Crime Questions to Veeps Either[/caption] Now, to be fair the candidates can’t answer what they aren’t asked. While no moderator bothered to ask about crime and justice issues let’s be honest - the topics haven’t been the focus of any of the candidate’s stump speeches either. They just haven’t been a priority, yet both campaigns say they want to attract women voters. How can they fail to see that these issues go to every mother’s heart and soul - how to keep their loved ones from harm? To be sure the economy, jobs, health care and international relations are important but those subjects have already been discussed ad nauseam. If you don’t know what the candidates think about them you simply aren’t paying attention. And, yes, crime rates in America are down from previous years but does anyone believe we live in a safe and secure country? If you do, please re-read the statistics at the top of this column. [caption id="attachment_5746" align="alignright" width="150"] Policy Wonk Questions Instead of Quality of Life Questions[/caption] Sometimes I wonder about the tunnel vision of journalists who cover national politics. Did they all grow up in pristine neighborhoods where there was no crime? Has their status covering presidential candidates blinded them from seeing what regular folks have to grapple with? Why do they mostly lob policy-wonk questions? Can’t just one of them ask a presidential candidate, for example, to analyze the wisdom of spending tens of billions of dollars a year on overcrowded prisons? Might our tax dollars be better spent? We don’t know what the candidates think because no one asks. There were no follow up questions about guns after Ms. Gonzalez asked about AK-47’s. No one bothered to ask Mr. Obama about the current astronomical jump in the murder rate in his adopted home town of Chicago where there have been more than 400 murders so far this year. There were no questions to the candidates about what might be done to help this bloody American battleground or whether either man has a relief plan for cities gripped by such violence. None of the debates delivered any satisfying answers about our country’s lousy immigration policy either. During the second debate they briefly tossed mud on each other’s past statements about the topic but neither Obama nor Romney outlined a concrete plan for what we should do with the estimated 12 million people who are in this country illegally, draining our resources and adding to our crime rate. [caption id="attachment_5747" align="alignleft" width="120"] A Continuing Problem With No Plan[/caption] No moderator asked about relief for border states like California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas which have seen illegals overcrowd their schools and hospital emergency rooms, put a strain on social welfare programs and the judicial system. We already have enough crime in this country so offenses committed by any one group of people add to the total. A recent congressional report concluded that of the 36,000 illegals picked up and then released (between 2006 and 2011) a number went on to commit, “murder, sex crimes, kidnapping, domestic abuse, lynching, stalking and torture,” as well as thousands of DUI’s and drug violations. Oh, yeah. One more point. No candidate has talked about what he might do to quell the raging civil war in Mexico where drug-fueled violence has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocents and spills over onto U.S. soil. How about a serious plan to curb America’s appetite for the drugs that spark all this death and account for so many of our current prisoners? [caption id="attachment_5749" align="alignright" width="90"] No Matter What Your Issue - Vote![/caption] This column is not an endorsement of either presidential candidate. 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