[MarMema]

Even though we are correct that dehydration of useless eaters is on the rise.....

[atomicpossum]

(Her case had also undergone repeated court review.)

We've seen that 'court review' is often a misnomer, and more often than not a crossing of legal t's and dotting of bureaucratic i's than a consideration of meaningful fact.

[buckeyesrule]

I believe Michelle Malkin was asking where all the people that wanted to keep Tookie Williams alive were at.

[JoeSixPack1]

With their cries of "medical terrorism" and their comparisons to Nazi Germany, these so-called champions of life created an atmosphere in which some of their supporters made death threats not only to Michael Schiavo but to judges and legislators who had been on the "wrong" side of the dispute.

Although not quite reaching the heights of death threats, here on FR the roar alone was enough to treat each Shiavo thread as untouchable. Even a mere wisp of disagreement initiated an avalanche of verbal retribution the likes of which I had never seen on FR before or after.

[cgk]

From the article: After the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that she could be taken off life support, the girl began to show improvement.

Incorrect. To those who do not know (except perhaps from reading it in this article), Michelle Malkin has been covering this extensively. From one of her pieces here: Save Haleigh

As state officials prepared to remove Haleigh's life support, the supposedly impossible happened. She began breathing on her own, responding to stimuli, and showing signs of emerging from what the medical establishment had deemed her hopeless condition. Everyone had given up on Haleigh — except Haleigh. ''There has been a change in her condition," announced a DSS spokeswoman, Denise Monteiro. ''The vegetative state may not be a total vegetative state."

Unbelievably, the state had weaned Haleigh off her breathing tube before the state supreme court had made its ruling — but the government failed to inform the court of the development. Haleigh's medical records and the social service agency's brief remain sealed.

[cgk]

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...

[cgk]

ACTION ALERT! SEND HALEIGH A CARD OR LETTER!

the Boston Globe article :

EXCERPT:

Haleigh Poutre was discharged Thursday from Baystate Medical Center in Springfield and admitted to the Franciscan Hospital for Children. She has been hospitalized since September, when authorities say she was beaten into a coma.

A statement issued by the Franciscan Hospital said: "It is our hope that her stay at Franciscan will afford her the opportunity to maximize her potential for gains in her recovery."

The hospital advertises itself as the largest pediatric rehabilitation facility in New England.

CONTACT INFO FOR FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN:

Franciscan Hospital for Children
Attention: Miss Haleigh Poutre
30 Warren Street
Boston, MA 02135
phone: 617-254-3800
fax: 617-779-1119

Message to a Patient

Message To Patient

Franciscan Hospital for Children provides a secure and confidential way for family and friends of our inpatients to send a message over the Internet using this document.  Between Monday and Friday, your message will be printed and confidentially delivered to the patient, usually within 24 hours.  Messages received on the weekend are delivered to the patient the following business day.

[socialismisinsidious]

"the blame rests with the right-to-life advocates who made Schiavo"

What an asinine statement and a stupid article. Just b/c I point out your warts does not mean that I caused them.

Even if I grant the writer that Terri was in a vegetative state and not likely to recover to normal (however "normal" is defined)....the argument was that she should not have been killed just b/c she wasn't pretty enough or smart enough anymore. You don't kill people just b/c you think that their life stinks. and the tired old argument of her husband said she wanted to die if ever like "that"....then she should have put it in writing. (why is it that left never believes the husband of a vegetative pregnant women when he says she would have wanted to be kept alive so that the baby could live?)
The culture of death marches on.

[syriacus]

We need an Upton Sinclair to write a best-seller, like The Jungle," about end-of-life care.

[jwalsh07]

The author is an idiot. She should reserve her ire for the MASS DSS who tried ti have life support removed from the little girl after just three weeks. Or the Judge that oredered it. Or perhaps the left wing lunatic Mass politicians who made it all possible.

[bvw]

Her case had also undergone repeated court review

In context, that is a lie. The facts -- determined by one man alone -- were never reviewed. Yet they were contested, and remain so. The US Congress even passed an Act asking that the facts be reviewed and/or reheard by others.

[franky]

The courts and science have been put on a level by some people as gods.

Remember that God is a jealous God and will have no others before Him.

Some will be paying for this affront to our Lord!

[cgk]

Would you mind re-posting Bobby Schindler's reply to this column on this thread? (this is the same article, posted on a website after appearing in the Boston Globe.) Thank you... it is a SUPERB response and shreds the writer's assertions into what they are: lies.