CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?

[Tim May]

At 12:25 PM -0400 10/18/00, David Honig wrote:
>[forking the DNA discussion slightly]
>
>On giving blood samples to police: I believe the supremes are going to
>hear a case about a hospital taking blood samples after delivery
>of a baby, running drug checks, and turning her over to the police
>immediately for child abuse. 
>
>In a case within the last year,  some local woman had her baby taken
>immediately after birth because they drug tested her and found a sedative
>that her doctor had given her, but wasn't recorded so they figured
>it was recreational.  She should be suing their asses off
>but only wanted an apology in the broadcast I intercepted.
>Maybe her kid will sue in 18 years, one hopes.

Maybe it's just me, but "suing their asses off" would hardly 
suffice...there's a long, and getting longer every day, list of 
abuses for which the only remedy I can imagine would be a car bomb 
incinerating one or all of the offenders.


--Tim May
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