Haleigh Poutre Almost Victim of Euthanasia, Now Making Good Progress

Life News ^ | September 4, 2006 | Steven Ertelt

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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.

She told The Republican newspaper that she last saw Poutre on July 18 but indicated she was "doing well."

"She was bright-eyed and smiling. She is always responsive to us," Sudyka explained.

Department of Social Services had asked Sudyka not to talk with reporters about Haleigh, but since they will no longer allow her and Haleigh's biological mother, Allison Avrett, to visit the 12 year-old, she said she's going to talk to the media.

"I decided since they broke the deal, I am going to talk. People should know how well she is doing," Sudyka told the newspaper.

"They don't want people to know how she is doing after they wanted to pull the plug," Sudyka said.

DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro declined an interview with The Republican but said that the visiting privileges have been suspended, not terminated.

Haleigh first began speaking in June, her grandmother told the newspaper.

"I was saying to her 'I love you,' and she was trying to say 'love' and it came out as a vibration...'ove,'" Sudyka said.

Sudyka, who is working with an attorney to adopt the girl, said she has said hello, responds to comments and questions, speaks nonverbally and is able to write her name. Haleigh can't walk and is confined to a wheelchair.

Avrett, Poutre's biological mother, lost custody of her daughter after physically abusing her. Poutre was put into a foster home where her adoptive parents also abused her. Her adopted mother committed suicide after abusing Poutre so much she had to be hospitalized.

DSS took Poutre into custody and when she appeared to slip into a coma, the agency asked the state Supreme Court for permission to take her life. That's when Poutre began responding.

Poutre has been receiving physical, speech and occupational therapy since January 26 at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton.

Gov. Mitt Romney appointed a commission to look into how the state failed to properly handle the girl's case.

[floriduh voter]

Like I said before, there's nothing there. It's all about the image and fundraising. The next four years are going to be bad no matter who becomes governor.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/26/Hillsborough/Crist_visages_are_rev.shtml

(cc plans on opening up the guv mansion for tours for the little people. He's bubba clinton without the fat behind.) So full of himself. It's demented.

[floriduh voter]

Egomaniacs are for dictatorships. Florida is already toast but I'm thinkin' we are heading for burnt toast.

[floriduh voter]

The next guv debate will be Monday night on NBC stations in Florida. Will voters wake up before election day or will propaganda rule the day?

[Lesforlife]

To send condolences to Ms Vo's daughter:

lthitrinh@hotmail.com

[floriduh voter]

condolences emailed.

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It is the season. Halloween, the eve before the holy All Saints Day grows with the fertilizer sprinkled by the liberals as their chosen replacement for Christmas and similar holy days. This day according to Catholic and other religious enemies of the left is the time when the evil spirits may run freely and wreak havoc for a time.

This year more than in the past, events converge to bring us new horrors. True horrors face the liberals like Terri's Legacy which still hangs on their shoulders.

So it may not be a surprise as the election frightening to them looms and the favorite holiday of the dark side approaches even sooner, the spectre from the shadows appears.

Even as Felos and Mikey suit up for Halloween and Dethnell puts on costume and broom, and bats fly from the caves, the theme most horrible to them all gives rise to a timely approach.

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Oh, the "Horror"  What "Horror" may do best is serve as a cudgel against conservative viewers. Last season, an army of undead soldiers rose from their grave in "Homecoming" to vote out the president who sent them to war in a veil-free swipe at President George W. Bush. This season's first episodes feature a serial killer with a weakness for Vice President Dick Cheney and casts Big Oil in an unflattering light.
    Future tales promise assaults on pro-lifers and a horror version of the Terri Schiavo case.
    Zombie auteur George A. Romero ("Dawn of the Dead") routinely uses horror as a medium for social criticism, so these "Masters" are merely following in his footsteps.

Oh, the "Horror"

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Ping to the update on Mrs. Vo above and the link to email for condolences post #1,678 and 1,684 by LesforLife.

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The Terri Factor...

Recognized again:

Over the past five years of the Bush presidency, Republican congressional majority and political ascendancy of the religious right, the term "values" has gained currency in our national lexicon. So-called social values issues such as gay marriage, "intelligent design" and the Terri Schiavo case have helped to determine close elections.

A value we can all share

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The Terri Factor....

Otherwise, Cannon has voted the Republican party line on a remarkably long list of disastrous policies, from the war in Iraq to both versions of the Patriot Act to the Terri Schiavo fiasco to the extension of the Bush tax cuts.

Burridge, by contrast, is no socialist. A native Utahn, he's a graduate of Brigham Young University's law school, and he stands for protecting the rights of the unborn and traditional marriage. But he also believes that neocon efforts to abandon public education, worker rights, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are not Utah values.

Burridge in Dist. 3: Replace Cannon with a vigorous Utah Democrat

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The Terri Factor...

In the process, with a little help from redistricting, he has turned a reliable Republican seat into one that favors Democrats.

Holt, 58, did the right thing on the highly charged Terri Schiavo issue, going to the House floor to vehemently oppose the circuslike involvement of federal officials in what was a tragic personal issue.

Editorial | Rush Holt for Congress

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The Terri Factor...

The YouTube generation has seen her proclaiming widespread scientific support for the intelligent design concept of life's origins, equally widespread doubts about whether global warming is a reality and saying that Terri Schiavo, the comatose Florida woman whose end-of-life treatment triggered federal intervention in 2005, was "healthy" and "not terminally ill.''

Those have become talking points among moral crusaders. But Bachmann pushes her faith-based politics well past that. In testimony to a Brooklyn Park church congregation this month — also available on YouTube — she spoke of how the Almighty called her to run for the state Senate and the U.S. Congress, and how she followed her husband's career advice because "the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives — you are to be submissive to your husbands.' "

In the 6th District, Wetterling

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The Terri Factor...

That is nonsense -- then and now. Mr. Hill does show courage, however, on social wedge issues in a conservative area. He favors federal funding of stem-cell research with embryos that are going to be discarded anyway and says he would have voted against federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.

Although he thinks women must have the option of abortion, he favors a "95-10" plan aimed at reducing abortions by 95 percent in 10 years by preventing unwanted and troubled pregnancies.

Not surprisingly, Rep. Sodrel has different notions.

Hill for Congress in Indiana's 9th District

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The Terri Factor...

Hurst then directly addressed Davis, asking why he had supported federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo feeding-tube removal case. Davis replied that one member of Congress could have halted the action and that Democrats were complicit in allowing the case to be taken to federal court, where it was later defeated.

"We do it for people on death row, why not Terri Schiavo?" he asked, winning loud cheers from his supporters in the audience.

Davis and Hurst duke it out for 11th District congressional seat

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The Terri Factor...

One woman asked the former sheriff in absentia to explain how he thinks it was wrong of Congress to intervene in the life of Terry Schiavo when he doesn't fight the Republican party's wish to interfere with the private relationship of women and their doctors or allow pharmacists not to fill legal prescriptions. Her question was met with applause.

Reichert skipped Mercer Forum

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The Terri Factor...

With congressional races around the United States heating up as we head toward Election Day on Nov. 7th, it is an appropriate time to ask, “What would a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives do with power?” The short answers, their length matched only by their vagueness, include, hold the Bush Administration accountable, get out of Iraq and fix the budget.

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And then there’s the homeland. If Democrats take over the House, one of the first bills filed may include a proposal to change the nation’s motto to, “In the Feds we trust.” From equipping first responders and funneling more money into No Child Left Behind education funding to increasing subsidies for “affordable” prescription drugs and renewable energy, Democrats are once again attempting to make the federal government accountable for responsibilities that are better left to the states. The problem with this type of policy is that it banks on Americans’ willingness to pay more taxes to fund an even larger federal government. If Hurricane Katrina, Terri Schiavo and the fluctuating price of gasoline taught us anything it is that not every problem requires, or even benefits from, a federal solution.

What can blue do for you? (not much)

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The Terri Factor...

For the last few years, the entire Republican party at the national level has given off an air of hubris. Whether it’s overstuffing spending bills with blatantly wasteful earmarks or overstepping their authority with the Teri Schiavo case or forming corrupt relationships with lobbyists or over-relying on one sect of Christianity to win elections and inform policy, the Republicans seem more interested in raw power and the advancement of a few key interests than they are in the common good of the nation—or even in their own proclaimed ideals of small government and fiscal responsibility.

Why the Republicans are Positioned to Lose

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The Terri Factor...

Lamont said he got into the race because he pictured Joe Lieberman with his hand on the wheel as George W. Bush was saying "stay the course." In issues other than Iraq, Lamont said he didn't like federal government intruding in hospitals, as was evidenced by the Terri Schiavo case.

Ned Lamont, who won the Democratic primary for Connecticut's U.S. senatorial race earlier this year, came out to Wethersfield on a cold Tuesday October night and delivered in person the message he has been spreading throughout the state.

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The Terri Factor...

Bush and Rove, however, are as ruthless and politically amoral as ever - while the Democrats remain infuriatingly feckless. There has been a stream of unparalleled fiascos: Iraq (going "remarkably well", as Dick Cheney said the other day), Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, Jack Abramoff, Terri Schiavo, Harriet Miers, corruption outrages (two former Republican congressmen are in jail and several more, including Bob Ney, who still sits in Congress, are heading there) and various ludicrous sex scandals. (My favourite is that of Don Sherwood, a 65-year-old, happily married father-of-three who, as a representative for Pennsylvania, stood for traditional family values. He settled with a mistress who brought a $5.5m lawsuit against him after police found her cowering in a locked bathroom in his DC flat saying he'd tried to "choke" and "strangle" her.) Yet, instead of just giving up the ghost, Bush and Rove and their cronies are coming out fighting, furiously spending money and smearing away as only they know how.

Bush: The long goodbye

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>> a horror version of the Terri Schiavo case

The horror was real. It took place shortly after Michael came home late one Saturday night -- February 25 1990. He is in a rage from an argument with Terri earlier in the day. She hardly knows what hits her. One moment she is asleep, the next she is dragged out of bed and wrestled down in the hallway. She lies on her stomach, her head to one side. Michael is atop her, on her back. He is twice her size. She has no chance to resist or even to cry out. He pins her with his knees, one in her lower back, one on her right thigh. The force is so great she cannot breathe. Within seconds she is unconscious and limp. Michael, gloating, does not get off until it is too late. Terri is in respiratory-cardiac arrest. Lack of oxygen to her brain has crippled her for life.

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The Nazi factor...

About a year and a half ago there was a woman in Florida by the name of Terri Schiavo who was plugged into a feeding tube. She was legally dead. Her husband wanted to let her die. It was Bush and his brother who intervened on her behalf, trying to keep her alive. On the other side were Democrats who fought against it politically.

Bush = Hitler?

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