Go to Can You Believe This?
- Add a comment
- Go to NIH Used Foster Children to Test AIDS Drugs!
If you went with the unwanted/unplanned kids thing...
you'd be throwing about 1/3 of the children in this world into this category. The large portion of them stay with their families, but it doesn't make them anymore wanted or planned. So, it's not a great barometer here.
----
To the other comments, from the reading I did, what is so disturbing is that these kids were singled out because they didn't have advocates. Johns Hopkins (I'm from Maryland) did its own study about its own actions and said it was just plain wrong. Some of the places supplied advocates for the kids, but Illinois officials said they aren't finding many if any. Still other states say no advocates were given, but, so what.
Thanks, guys, I'm getting great comments. I know everyone has a reason for being here: to journal, to get published, or to make the dribbles of Monopoly money that will be coming eventually. I did it to float ideas for my regular writing. Everyone is adding great thoughts for me to explore, and I so appreciate that. It is working beyond what I would have expected. I'm meeting great people with great ideas to share.
Kim
posted by
terpgirl30
on May 5, 2005 at 10:03 AM
| link to this | reply
At last, a great use for unwanted kids ...
these tests are necessary and shouldn't be performed on good kids, should they?
posted by
fwmystic
on May 5, 2005 at 9:14 AM
| link to this | reply
Terpgirl,
This is more than a little disturbing: children in foster care whose lives are anything but sunshine and roses are being subjected to drugs without their knowledge and consent, (although, it's debatable whether a minor under the age of reason can give informed consent.) I wonder if the moralistic contraception-avoidant pharmacists would have a problem with giving children untested AIDS drugs?
The side effects of these drugs include vomiting, rashes and "a high incidence of death"? Just when my hippie-induced paranoia of the government is lulled into a state of complacency, we get more stories like this.
posted by
Blanche.
on May 4, 2005 at 8:13 PM
| link to this | reply
HEllo
Wow that's pretty disturbing. I understand that at some point in time a AIDS drug will be new and somebody has to be the proverbial lab rat. I mean somebody has to be the first right. But it should not be a kid, no way. I hope those guys get punished rather harshly for that. WHat bothers me isn't just that kids were used, it's what kids they chose to use. THey knew they could get away with this sort of thing using foster kids. SLip a few bucks to the foster parents and they will turn their heads. AFter all foster parents are getting paid in the first place, so some of them may be more likely to compromise their morality with a few bucks. Great feedback on my post. You hit the nail on the head, when people says this blogger and that blogger it's a ploy, top writers do it all the time. IF they deliver what is promised then I have no problem with it. I delivered what was advertised and that was part of the point I was trying to make as well. AS far as the writers I won't read some click tricks I will condone but at some point I have to draw a line and I draw the line with those three writers. Today I am going to flip things around and write about 3 writers I recommend reading. BE well. MArc
posted by
mandinka
on May 4, 2005 at 2:32 PM
| link to this | reply