Keep her in your prayers.
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Happy Birthday Haleigh Poutre!
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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 ...
Perhaps you'd better go back and read the mini-story we were referring to, about someone stealing one of Clinton's. You may want to rethink whether these are delicious served ice cold.
The thief would need a pair to make cuff links, just one for a tie tack.
Ownership means more than sentimental attachments the bureaucrats cannot understand anyway.
Officials would not comment on Poutre's condition during her birthday celebration yesterday but released a statement: ''Franciscan Hospital for Children loves to join our patients in celebrating their birthdays. As a pediatric hospital, we understand how important birthdays are for kids, as well as providing an opportunity for fun and happy feelings that can be an important part of treatment."
Yeah, right..
Implications that the attorney didn't do her job, I guess.
Haleigh turns 12, but Mom wasn't invited
And now the head of a child welfare agency comes to the rescue of the (hopefully to be more notorious) DSS...
We see, it isn't the fault of DSS. If only the were able to properly place Haleigh in the first place they wouldn't have needed to try to kill her, or whatever.
The wrong way to reform child welfare
Maybe I am just getting the wrong impression and I hope somebody will set me straight if so.
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Keep her in your prayers.
And from ProLifeBlogs
Happy Birthday Haleigh Poutre!
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Haleigh Turns 12 Today (Haleigh Poutre, abuse victim: Send a Card)
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Amber Alert Jared McGuire FL (Update: Police believe body found is his)
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This idiot reporterette does not know the difference between killing a child and "letting" a dying patient go.
Later in the story, she called it an "end-of-life case." Well, that settles it -- snuff the child! She's dying! She can't get better! And notice how calling it a "case" tucks the whole matter away into a government manila folder. It's merely a case, not the life of a precious child hanging in the balance. And it's none of our business. The DSS is in charge of these things.
Megan Tench, if Haleigh were your child, God forbid, you'd use honest words and voice real feelings.
ROCKFORD — Standing face to face with a reporter, Robert Schindler immediately became defensive. If he were to describe the color of a door he pointed to in the Clock Tower Resort as dark gray, he said, he would expect to see in the newspaper that he described it as purple.
Schiavo’s parents share tough road to fame at priests’ benefit
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Local author to speak at Booksensation
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We used to call them boarding schools or workhouses; only here, it is the state who uses them to warehouse lost and desperate kids. They have no family ever to come home to. No love, no home, no family. I can't think of a better formula to wreck a child, can you?
We have a lot of poignant literature about boarding schools. Oliver Twist, for instance. C. S. Lewis wrote angrily about his boarding school, which he called "Bergen-Belsen" in honor of the German concentration camp.
In the case of the DSS, there's little doubt the "schools" will teach welfare dependence, and it's a cinch they will NOT teach the moral values required for responsible adulthood.
Interesting development: Your link was functional but just turned into a demand for one to register for boston.com. That means I can't go back and get more quotes from this mush-mouthed fellow telling the DSS not to go so fast in getting rid of its little concentration camps.
I just noticed the same when going back to find out what a megan tench was. But I found a solution. Apparently the Boston.com-mies have found a trick to thwart revisits, but the solution is simple. Reboot your computer to clear it and recheck. Voila! c'est vachement utile..
You don't want to know, especially before breakfast.
Women are supposed to be much better than men at expressing feelings and matters of the heart. This one is hard and cold as stone. It frightens me that such as she are able to reproduce.
If he were more honest, he could have said, "Mr. Schindler understandably distrusted me. I'm a reporter. Who can trust a reporter?"
Please, please, my stomach cannot take any more of this!
Like talking about a bad case of tench mouth
Well stated.
Stop that. It Hirsh when I laugh.
I was talking about a Brass Monkey cocktail ;-)
Bill Clinton is best served roasted...
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