Parental Rights Under Attack: Newborn Seized by Authorities

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Air Date: March 29, 2012

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Michael Farris

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Michael Farris is Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He is the Chairman and Chancellor of Patrick Henry College, and President of ParentalRights.org. Since founding HSLDA in 1983, Michael Farris has used his extensive experience in both politics and appellate litigation to defend parental rights and help grow the organization to over 80,000 member families. He has written over a dozen books. Education Week has named him as one of the “Top 100 Faces in Education of the 20th Century”.

Michael tells the story of Scott and Jodi Ferris from Pennsylvania. Jodi was pregnant and went into labor early and therefore was not able to have her baby delivered by her midwife. Instead she went by ambulance to the hospital and ended up giving birth in the hospital parking lot.

It’s at this point that things took an ominous turn. Once born, one doctor said the baby was fine yet another doctor who was critical of the couple’s desire to have the birth via midwife said the baby was very ill. Eventually a social worker became involved in the situation, consented to a vaccine for the child, seized the child, and Jodi was kicked out of the hospital.

Find out how this case is proceeding, why a legal firm that defends home schoolers has become involved, and what you can do if you find yourself in a similar situation.

More Information:

Home School Legal Defense Association (H.S.L.D.A.)
www.hslda.org

www.parentalrights.org

www.constitutionreclaimed.com

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