The Cochlear Implant Trial
A woman in Grand Rapids, Michigan, goes back to court at 9 a.m. on October 4 to fight for the right to refuse elective surgery for her kids.
Calvin Luker, a consulting attorney for Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service (MPAS) and Tricia Luker, a "mom in the trenches," report that Lee Larsen, a deaf mother of two deaf sons, now 3 and 4 years old, left the children with friends for a weekend last year (she is separated from their deaf father). The children were abused by those friends, and as a result the state took them away from their mother.