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  • Connecticut Smashes Spending Cap as $5.8 Million Fuels Drugging of Babies Under Medicaid

    Connecticut Smashes Spending Cap as $5.8 Million Fuels Drugging of Babies Under Medicaid

    BREAKING: Connecticut has shattered its own constitution by breaching the spending cap for the first time in nearly two decades—an unprecedented move that raises alarms about government accountability. The Democratic majority forced through the cap override, while Republican Chairman Ben Proto’s failure to field candidates for many open seats has left the state facing a crisis of taxation without representation. Beneath this fiscal crisis lies a disturbing reality, Connecticut’s Medicaid program spends $5.8 million a year on psychiatric drugs for children—including hundreds of babies and toddlers. Nearly 400 kids under age four, and even some infants, are prescribed powerful medications like Prozac, often with little oversight. Even the industry, fraught with human rights abuses and coercive practices, cannot justify these actions. As Dr. Andres Martin, a child psychiatrist at Yale, put it: “I can’t make any sense of why a 1-year-old would be on Prozac.”  Foster children are especially at risk, being four times more likely to be medicated.

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  • FBI Under Fire: Explosive Questions Surround Trump Assassination Attempt Investigation

    FBI Under Fire: Explosive Questions Surround Trump Assassination Attempt Investigation

    BREAKING Fox New Host Maria Bartiromo had the opportunity during her Sunday show to inquire of the new FBI Director Kash Patel and his Deputy Dan Bongino whether there was some update of the FBI’s investigation into the shooting at Butler, PA. To say their response was less than enthusiastic is putting it lightly. Patel advised that the investigation into the Butler assassination attempt on President Trump is ongoing and that he and Bongino have reviewed evidence and have been briefed by officials on the attack. Whoop-de-do! How bout you share that information with the American people? When exactly does the Director of the FBI figure the American people will get to review the evidence in the case? When will the American people get to review the physical evidence, like the autopsy of the alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the DNA and fingerprint data and the complete ballistics reports on Crooks alleged weapon and the weapons of the Secret Service and Pennsylvania State police?  That Bongino went off on some weird tangent about how some Americans believe that there is some kind of international connection is completely irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what people think. Just complete the investigation and provide the evidence to support the FBI’s findings.

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  • Mass Shooter Parents at the Mercy of Selective Prosecution

    Mass Shooter Parents at the Mercy of Selective Prosecution

    May 18 2025   Another parent of a school shooter was hauled into court and charged with murderous violence caused by his 15-year-old daughter, Natalie Rupnow. The question that nobody seems to want to ask is why school shooter cases are becoming selective prosecution, especially in light of law enforcement’s refusal to consider the shooter’s “treatment” and psychiatric medications. Jeffrey Rupnow is charged with giving a dangerous weapon to a person under 18 causing death. Rupnow’s daughter, Natalie, killed a student and teacher at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in December of 2024 before taking her own life. Natalie was the child of divorce, was not handling the separation well, began cutting herself and threatening to kill herself. Natalie was subsequently enrolled in therapy in July of 2022. In an effort do an activity together just months prior to the shooting, Jeffrey Rupnow and his daughter joined a gun club with Natalie posting she “loved every second of it.”  Apparently because of Natalie’s positive interest in shooting, Jeffrey provided his daughter with the combination to his gun safe where Natalie’s firearms were kept. While law enforcement in Madison seemed filled with delight at bringing these charges against Rupnow, one can only wonder if anyone is curious about what role Natalie’s “therapy” may have played. For instance, who was Natalie’s therapist and why hasn’t the public heard about Natalie’s “treatment” plan? Had Natalie been prescribed prescription psychiatric drugs? And, if so, what were they? Had Natalie been on a cocktail of drugs and for how long? Did the teenager experience any adverse effects from the drugs?

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  • DailyMail Must Apologize and Provide Correction for Dangerous ADHD Misinformation Article

    DailyMail Must Apologize and Provide Correction for Dangerous ADHD Misinformation Article

    May 13, 2025 On May 5th an article that ran on the Daily.mail.co.uk website for nearly a week and was so filled with misinformation about the alleged psychiatric disorder ADHD that AbleChild is calling out the writer and asking the publishers to print an apology and a correction. The article written by Cassidy Morrison (Senior Health Reporter) titled “I learned the horrifying risks of ‘miracle’ ADHD drugs and stopped taking them…but it was too late,” provides information about the alleged ADHD disorder and its alleged treatment. The problem, though, is that Morrison is just wrong on both counts. Too often the press gets away with writing information about mental health diagnosing and drugs that simply is not based in science. Enough is enough. The misinformation must stop. Morrison’s article focuses on a woman who reportedly did not have the alleged ADHD disorder but took ADHD drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, and Vyvanse and later regretted taking the drugs as the subject of the article believed the drugs caused her heart damage.  Fine. But the problem isn’t with the subject of the article. The problem is with author Morrison’s explanations of ADHD and its alleged drug “treatments.”

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  • Homeschoolers Hammer Connecticut with FOIA Requests, Expose Pattern of State Corruption from Sandy Hook to Waterbury

    Homeschoolers Hammer Connecticut with FOIA Requests, Expose Pattern of State Corruption from Sandy Hook to Waterbury

    May 11, 2025

    Connecticut’s homeschool community is once again making national headlines as leading groups, represented by attorney Deborah Stevenson, have filed a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with state agencies demanding specific information about the tragic case in Waterbury of the young man held captive for years. This action is in response to a long-standing pattern: whenever a high-profile tragedy exposes failures by state agencies responsible for child welfare, blame is assigned anywhere but where it belongs – and homeschoolers take the brunt of the blame game and are forced to seek transparency through FOIA requests-only to repeatedly be met with resistance and stonewalling.

    In the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook tragedy, Connecticut homeschoolers, alongside the national advocacy group AbleChild, filed FOIA requests for shooter Adam Lanza’s school and Department of Children and Families (DCF) records. Despite Connecticut statutes allowing for the release of such records in the public interest, every agency refused to provide even a single document at the time of the incident and continues to withhold those documents today.

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    The Beginning

    Founded in 2001 by parents who had their own personal experiences with label and drug coercion by the education system, Ablechild has a personal commitment to inform, support, and unite others faced with all aspects involving labeling and drugging children. Ablechild has a full understanding of what a parent/caregiver goes through when dealing with school systems recommending, and many times pressuring a parent for mental health evaluations. We recognize that schools will many times force-feed mental health approaches on parents, while steering clear of science-based education resources and solutions.

    We Need You

    AbleChild is nothing without our supporters. Our organization is non-profit and we rely on support from our community to keep our services alive. Join us our on our journey to inform the world by donating financially, sharing our information, or following us on social media. Thanks to everyone who makes this possible!

    Informed Consent

    Knowing that informed consent is a must and a critical component in making an educated decision, Ablechild and many of its individual members have worked diligently since 2001 to provide the public with extensive information at Federal, State, and Local Governmental hearings, at educational conferences, events, Governmental meetings, and throughout national and local media circuits. We have directly advocated and worked on creating laws that would strengthen “Informed Consent” and guarantee a person’s “Right to Refuse” psychological testing and services via the education system.

    Many members of this organization have advocated directly for state and federal legislation outlawing school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for children within schools across the nation. We can proudly say that our organization and the united efforts of its members were instrumental in the lobbying and passing of the Federal law entitled “Prohibition on Mandatory Medication Act”. This law is now part of the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) and stands as the first of its kind, outlawing forced child drugging on a federal level.