Medical Tyranny and the War on Families: The Fight to Reunite the Riveras

In this episode of Nurses Out Loud, host Kimberly Overton speaks with Izzy Rivera, a father whose family has been devastated by the unchecked power of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. The Riveras’ five children were taken from their home after Izzy declined a vitamin K injection that was being pushed on their healthy 7-month-old baby — an intervention that should never have been forced at that stage. This single act of parental choice unleashed the full weight of the state, with devastating consequences.