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Haleigh Poutre Update, sort of...

Mitt Romney had been on the side of anti-life years ago, yet in recent times has appeared to come over to the pro-life side. Now as he moves into the national spotlight, his actions to protect Haleigh Poutre ratify that perspective. I wonder as his quest may ebb and flow how it will affect the attitude/treatment of DSS and others towards Haleigh.

Steven Ertelt of Life News reports.

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Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney says he will make a decision in January about whether he will enter the 2008 race for president. Romney, who last year converted to the pro-life position after years of backing legalized abortion, would join the growing field of candidates seeking the GOP nomination if he joined the race.

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Since that interview, Romney has opposed human cloning and aggressively pursued an investigation against state officials who asked a state court to kill Haleigh Poutre, a young girl who recently recovered from a coma.

How this change of heart will play out in the 2008 Republican primaries remains to be seen.

Mitt Romney Will Make Decision About 2008 Presidential Race in January

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Latest from a Christian news source on the euthanasia developments for the British.

Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor of England, has warned doctors in a recent statement that they may face prison sentences if they refuse to euthanise patients. Criminal charges of assault could be laid against doctors or nurses who refuse to allow patients to die, even by removal of food and hydration tube.

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British courts, in conjunction with jurisdictions around the world, have determined that it is sometimes in the patient’s best interest to be dehydrated to death by removal of feeding and hydration tubes. In many parts of the world, including Canada, food and hydration is considered “medical treatment” and as such can be, and frequently is, withheld on the grounds that it constitutes “extraordinary treatment”.

This was the thinking that allowed the court-ordered killing of Terri Schindler Schiavo in 2005.

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While the new Act insists doctors kill patients who might otherwise live, the reverse determination was not upheld either by British or European courts. Leslie Burke, a British man who suffers from a degenerative disease that will one day render him unable to communicate, went to court to obtain a guarantee that he would not be dehydrated to death on the orders of doctors.

Doctors Who Refuse Euthanasia Face Criminal Charges

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