Contact: Joe Ullrich
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 For Immediate Release

May 18,2004
Canada's Vaunted Health Care System
Goes on Trial in Supreme Court of Canada
Autistic Children sue for their constitutional rights in our highest court!
About The Guest
 In three separate legal cases, the British Columbia Superior Courts reviewed all the research and listened to arguments pertaining to the value of medical treatment for British Columbia's autistic children. In all three cases, their judgments deemed behavioral autism treatment to be "medically necessary." Court orders were issued directing the provincial government to provide the necessary treatment. The government responded by rejecting the multiple court rulings outright!

The legal maneuver is solely intended to deny Canada's autistic children their constitutional rights to the treatment they so desperately need and their families cannot afford. This landmark legal struggle for the rights of Canada's autistic children to necessary medical treatment- the 'Auton' case - will be heard before Canada's highest court in Ottawa on June 9th & 10th, 2004 with all provinces and the federal government intervening against the children. The judgment handed down in the Auton case will have a broad and lasting effect on every single Canadian who is ever in need of any type of health care.

The core of the Governments' defense is based on autism health care research produced by B.C. Office of Health Technology that is skewed, grossly inaccurate and totally contradicts proven scientific treatment. The Government funded researchers were directed to produce bogus research to defend the government in this autism treatment lawsuit.

The bottom line is there is a new generation of Canadian children who have unnecessarily lost their futures to the ravages of autism. These children, with the proper treatment, could now be living happy and productive lives had it not been for the endless and inhumane legal maneuvering by government.

A front row seat to the now famous Auton Case is afforded by Dr. Sabrina Freeman's whistleblower expose that chronicles the various techniques government uses in its attempt to discredit the science behind the uniquely effective, science-based treatment protocol for autism - Lovass-style behavioural autism treatment. The book is Science for Sale in the Autism Wars: Medically necessary treatment, the court battle for health insurance and why health technology academics are enemy number one.


For a copy of Science for Sale in the Autism Wars, go to www.skfbooks.com
Dr. Sabrina Freeman, a sociologist, Stanford University Ph.D., and the author of the popular book -- “Teach Me Language” -- has been a tireless advocate for the rights of children with autism to receive science-based treatment since 1996. Her intimate involvement in court cases against governments to obtain autism treatment insurance, along with her formal knowledge of the scientific method, give her a unique window on the latest chapter in the long running autism wars. Freeman lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, son, and her 16-year-old daughter.
Questions For The Guest
1.) How could one scientific study have results that are the opposite of the other?
2.) What proof do you have that the Canadian government paid off academics to provide bogus research?
3.) How could something so bogus and grossly inaccurate continue to perpetuate itself?
4.) How does this junk science in Canadaeffect health care in other countries?
5.) How can government deny necessary health care for children with autism?
6.) What happens to autistic children whose parents can’t afford the treatment?
7.) If one of our listeners has an autistic child, what recommendations do you have for them?