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EAT A BAGEL, lose your baby! ?Jameson Hospital, where Isabella Rodriguez was born on April 27, has ?

By Glenn Reynolds

EAT A BAGEL, lose your baby! “Jameson Hospital, where Isabella Rodriguez was born on April 27, has a policy of testing expectant mothers’ urine for illegal drugs and reporting positive results to LCCYS, even without any additional evidence that the baby is in danger of neglect or abuse. LCCYS, in turn, has a policy of seizing such babies from their homes based on nothing more than the test result. Unfortunately for Isabella’s parents, Elizabeth Mort and Alex Rodriguez, Jameson sets the cutoff level for its opiate test so low that it can be triggered by poppy seeds, which is why two caseworkers and two Neshannock Township police officers visited their home the day after baby and mother returned from the hospital. LCCYS seized the three-day-old girl and put her in foster care for five days before conceding it had made a mistake.”

I am entirely serious when I say that all the officials involved should be tarred and feathered. Can we get some legislation authorizing this, and maybe paying a bounty? A big bounty? I mean, haven’t these people ever watched Seinfeld?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).