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Haleigh Poutre Update...

The update is now getting some traction with an article by Steven Eltert of Life News.

Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Haleigh Poutre was the victim of child abuse and was nearly killed via euthanasia when Massachusetts officials gave up on her after she entered a coma. Now Poutre, once termed "brain dead" by doctors, continues to improve and is speaking a few words, her grandmother says.

Sandra Sudyka, the girl's biological grandmother, is no longer allowed to visit her granddaughter and now says she is ready to speak to the media about Poutre's condition.

Haleigh Poutre Almost Victim of Euthanasia, Now Making Good Progress

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Terri's Legacy List

(Original Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to September 2.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

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Ramesh Ponnuru writed for the National Review Online...

Rauch writes that I don’t explain whether I think women should get jail terms for seeking abortions, instead “mumbling that ‘the pro-life movement’ does not necessarily seek jail time for women and that fining doctors and revoking medical licenses might suffice.” Continuing in the same vein, Rauch asks whether I would punish the discarding or destroying of embryos as first-degree murder. And: If human life is “inviolable,” then why should it matter whether a hopelessly vegetative patient — someone like Terri Schiavo — left instructions not to be fed? Surely, from Ponnuru’s perspective, the doctors caring for her cannot ethically conspire to starve her to death even if she would prefer to die. If every abortion is infanticide, could even the most life-threatening pregnancy be ended? We don’t have a “health exception” to the murder laws.

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>> Avrett, Poutre's biological mother, lost custody of her daughter after physically abusing her.

I don't believe this. At the least, it needs investigation. It was the abusive half-sister, Holli Strickland, who reported Avrett to the DSS for the alleged abuse. As nearly as one can tell, she simply stole Haleigh from Avrett. God alone knows why; given the later abuse, Strickland obviously hated the child. The DSS gave custody to Strickland, the accuser. (Strickland clearly had an "in" with the DSS and was expert at manipulating their agencies, but that's a story for another day.) In Strickland's custody, Haleigh was starved, burned with cigarettes and beaten nearly to death.

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Glad to hear Haleigh's condition is improving!!