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Danger Zone - (Haleigh Poutre)
National Review ^ | February 01, 2006 | Wesley J, Smith

Posted on 02/01/2006 7:29:10 AM PST by Ohioan from Florida

In the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. For those who have not heard the tragic story, Haleigh was beaten nearly to death last September, allegedly by her adoptive mother and stepfather. The beating left her unconscious and barely clinging to life.

Within a week or so of the beating, her doctors had written her off. They apparently told Haleigh's court-appointed guardian, Harry Spence, that she was "virtually brain dead." Even though he had never visited her, Spence quickly went to court seeking permission to remove her respirator and feeding tube. The court agreed, a decision affirmed recently by the supreme court of Massachusetts.

And so, no doubt with the best of intentions, a little girl who had already suffered so much was stripped by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of even the chance to fight to stay alive. If she didn't stop breathing when the respirator was removed, which doctors expected, she would slowly dehydrate to death.

Close Call

Then came the unexpected:

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: childabuse; dehydratnfla; dontfeedtrolls; euthanasia; flstarvestate; gallagher4guv; haileypoutre; haleighpoutre; justicevseuthanasia; massachusetts; starvnfla; stopflmurders; tedstith; terridailies; terridailiesfeb; terrischiavo; terrischindler; wesleyjsmith
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To: 8mmMauser; Ohioan from Florida; BykrBayb
My wife just told it is all my fault. Period. No discussion.

That's the way it works alright. Here, I threw myself at OFF's mercy. Practically put myself in bondage to make her snap out of it : ) What did I get? No pain! I would NEVER do that with BykrBayb, life is to short!

1,361 posted on 02/22/2006 4:44:32 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: BykrBayb
They were beheaded for doing just what we're doing.

I do know all three of these young people were beheaded.

left to right: Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Cristopher Probst

1,362 posted on 02/22/2006 5:14:43 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779

And don't you forget it!

; )


1,363 posted on 02/22/2006 7:23:38 PM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: bjs1779; BykrBayb; 8mmMauser

I'm so blessed to have y'all for buddies! You make me smile from ear to ear sometimes!!

Hou evur, I wheel werk hard two improove mi spaelin an gramer. I mussed do a laught of stuff to katch up to ewe smar-tee pantz.


1,364 posted on 02/22/2006 7:25:40 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: 8mmMauser
Terri's parents have spkg engagement in Illinois on Feb. 24th.

http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=12505

1,365 posted on 02/22/2006 7:29:24 PM PST by floriduh voter (http://www.conservative-spirit.org Tom Gallagher for Fla Guv www.tg2006.com)
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To: Wampus SC
Lethal injections in NOLA.

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06022201.html

1,366 posted on 02/22/2006 7:46:13 PM PST by floriduh voter (http://www.conservative-spirit.org Tom Gallagher for Fla Guv www.tg2006.com)
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To: T'wit; amdgmary; 8mmMauser
www.wealthtv.com is running ads on the local talk radio stations for "What Really Happened to Terri Schiavo". The program is airing on Feb. 26th or thereabouts. (I don't know who gets wealthtv but at least we can read about it at their web page if we don't get the channel.

No matter how much the baddies would like this to go away, it's not going anywhere.

Abandoning Terri to die a torturous death was an early indicator of the wrong track this country is on.

1,367 posted on 02/22/2006 7:53:20 PM PST by floriduh voter (http://www.conservative-spirit.org Tom Gallagher for Fla Guv www.tg2006.com)
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To: 8mmMauser

Please ping to 1366.


1,368 posted on 02/22/2006 8:15:07 PM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: floriduh voter
NPR story: lethal injections given to hospital patients after Katrina?

Lifesite follow-up story

Don't call them "mercy killings" -- Not Dead Yet

1,369 posted on 02/22/2006 11:33:13 PM PST by T'wit (Liberals called our Vietnam troops baby killers. They've since sponsored 45 million abortions.)
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To: floriduh voter
David Gibbs III, George Felos and Gloria Allred ... to discuss The Impact of Terri Schiavo

"SAN DIEGO, CA – February 15, 2006- In a WealthTV exclusive, these legal powerhouses will appear for the first time together on national television. David Gibb [sic] III (attorney for the family of Terri Schiavo) and George Felos (attorney for Michael Schiavo) will join the renowned attorney Gloria Allred to discuss the fascinating case of Terri Schiavo and it’s [sic] affect [sic] on our Nation. ...

"This one-hour special will air on February 27th, the day after the premier of the two hour documentary The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Story."

Memo to Ohioan from Florida and BykrBayb: You're good at 'splainin' stuff. Maybe you could tell them how to spell Gibbs, when to put an apostrophe into "it's" and why they should have written "effect," not "affect." If you feel properly persnickety, you could also go after the punctuation mistakes :-)

1,370 posted on 02/23/2006 12:08:37 AM PST by T'wit (Liberals called our Vietnam troops baby killers. They've since sponsored 45 million abortions.)
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To: Ohioan from Florida
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And weight four it two say
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Its rarely ever wrong.
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1,371 posted on 02/23/2006 12:28:06 AM PST by T'wit (Liberals called our Vietnam troops baby killers. They've since sponsored 45 million abortions.)
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To: Ohioan from Florida; Goodgirlinred; Miss Behave; cyn; Abby4116; Alissa; AlwaysFree; amdgmary; ...
BykrBayb, LifeSiteNews site is down this morning at least when I tried it, but this other site is carrying the same story. Bioethicking wholesale.

Just after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans rumors circulated that at least one hospital had euthanized patients during the mayhem. LifeSiteNews.com reported in September 2005, that an unnamed doctor admitted to a UK newspaper that such activities had taken place at Memorial Medical Center. In October another doctor at the hospital confirmed in a CNN interview that he suspected such activities and admitted he left the hospital saying he would rather abandon patients than actively kill them. Later in October hospital workers were subpoenaed for an investigation.

Click for the LifeSite story, which must be cached.

HOSP GAVE LETHAL INJECTIONS TO PATIENTS

This link from that site seems to work.

LifeSiteNews

8mm


1,372 posted on 02/23/2006 3:51:43 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: NYer; All
Rockford, Illinois

Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of Terri Schiavo, will be speaking at the city’s third annual Priest Appreciation Dinner, at the Clock Tower Feb. 24. The Schindlers are founders of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, Inc., a group dedicated to ensuring the rights of disabled, elderly and vulnerable citizens against care rationing, euthanasia and medical killing. Joe Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League, will attend as an honored guest.

Fr. Brian A.T. Bovee, Rector of the Oratory of St. Mary and Priest of the Institute of Christ the King, will offer a sung traditional Latin High Mass prior to the dinner.

Parents of Terri Schindler-Schiavo to speak at dinner

8mm


1,373 posted on 02/23/2006 4:00:10 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All
At least some in Idaho think committing bioethick is not a good thing.

An excerpt:

But my disappointment and others' didn't end there. It only grew worse. Shortly after the ruling, Sen. Gordon Smith issued a short statement. "This case has run the full length of the American legal process, and the issue is now settled law," the Oregon Republican said. "Regardless of my personal position on assisted suicide, Oregon's law has been tested at every branch of our government, and the judgment of Oregon's voters has been affirmed. I accept the Supreme Court's decision, and Congress should do the same."

Assisted suicide Commentary by David Reinhard

8mm


1,374 posted on 02/23/2006 4:09:14 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: T'wit

Kewl pome


1,375 posted on 02/23/2006 4:10:06 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: 8mmMauser

I believe an English professor wrote it, a good dozen years ago. For me, that was back when CompuServe was the outside world :-) It was easy enough to find the verse again on the 'Net.


1,376 posted on 02/23/2006 4:44:38 AM PST by T'wit (Liberals called our Vietnam troops baby killers. They've since sponsored 45 million abortions.)
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To: 8mmMauser

If that story ever breeches MSM, there will be some very unhappy family members to deal with. Just months before Katrina hit, the state was audited and people were indicted for misusing funds meant to repair levees, etc. Someone on a long ago thread mentioned the possibility that Blanco's foot dragging in the aftermath was due to her fear of discovery. She was afraid that if FEMA and the government rolled in immediately, they'd unearth some pretty bad stuff.

I'm not typing too coherently this morning. Anyway, if I remember correctly, the person who made the comment(paraphrased), is from LA.

I don't know how anyone could have prevented the destruction, but dammit they knew this was coming and the hospitals should have been evacuated, with mandatory evacuation starting 48 hrs ahead of landfall for everyone else...with a brain that is. The Heineken guy is my desktop wallpaper. Someone made a parody ad for Heineken thanking New Orleans for making them number 1 ;-)


1,377 posted on 02/23/2006 4:49:56 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl (Support the fence....grow a Victory Garden!)
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To: 8mmMauser
Hmm. I found the one I had buried deep in my files, complete with attribution. That had the same beginning but was quite a bit longer. Title and author were:

"An Owed to the Spelling Checker," by Jerry Zar, Dean of the Graduate School
Northwestern Illinois University

1,378 posted on 02/23/2006 5:50:15 AM PST by T'wit (Liberals called our Vietnam troops baby killers. They've since sponsored 45 million abortions.)
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To: floriduh voter

I saw this. So sickening! Whoever did this should go to jail for murdering those poor patients who were being taken care of, or so they thought!


1,379 posted on 02/23/2006 6:05:26 AM PST by Halls (Dallas County, Texas, but my heart is in East Texas!)
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To: All

I gather this WealthTV program fell through and has been cancelled. Given what I've heard, it would have been anti-Terri sandbagging -- good riddance. (Not too surprising with Felos teaming up with Allred, a hard-core leftist activist.) If you have other information on this, feel free to bring us up to date.


1,380 posted on 02/23/2006 6:28:00 AM PST by T'wit (T'wit rule #2: liberals are always wrong, even when they come down on both sides of the issue.)
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