Perhaps some good is to come of the tragedy of Rebecca Riley's death, made more open by the horrors visited upon Haleigh Poutre and sprung into the limelight. Perhaps the pendulum has swung far enough and now may be arrested as the topic exceeds the bounds of this case and reaches far and wide.
(CBS) Rebecca Riley's death shocked the Boston community. Did her parents deliberately give her overdoses of psychiatric drugs as prosecutors suggest? Or are her doctors to blame — as defense lawyers argue — for prescribing powerful medications when she was just 2 years old?
This case has reignited an emotional debate about mental illness in children. How young can children be diagnosed? And how aggressively should they be treated with anti-psychotic drugs?
“My worry is the same worry that any parents of kids like mine have — When is it too soon to medicate a child? Who knows?” says Susan Montanile.
Are Kids Given Antipsychotics Too Often?... Child's Death Reignites Debate Over How Aggressively Kids Should Be Treated With Psychiatric Drugs
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Mitt Romney has started to look good in recent times. However, looks like someone handed him a nice refreshing glass of Kool Aid and he gulped it down. Maybe, just maybe, someone will whisper the truth in his ear and galvanize his new found stands on pro-life. I am guessing he simply has not delved deeply into what pro-life means yet and is looking at the shallow takes from the MSM for clues.
TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.
"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.
Polls showed most voters, including most Republicans, opposed Congress and the Florida Legislature intervening in 2005 to bypass court rulings and force the profoundly brain-damaged Pinellas woman's feeding tube to be reinserted.
Romney's position puts him at odds with a portion of the Republican base he is courting aggressively and with former Gov. Jeb Bush, many of whose key advisers and Florida donors are backing the former Massachusetts governor.
Romney says government was wrong in Schiavo case
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