Haleigh Poutre update...
I can only excerpt from Boston.com.
THE DEATHS of Dontel Jeffers, Rebecca Riley, and Liquarry Jefferson, and the horrifying injuries sustained by Haleigh Poutre reveal not just cracks but gaping holes in our state's child welfare system. We all must share a sense of urgency about the child abuse crisis in Massachusetts. Governor Patrick has taken an important first step with the appointment of Juvenile Court Judge Gail Garinger as the first child advocate...........
An urgency to fix the child welfare system
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A sad Gey indeed, with not a very cheerful event coming up...
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His students, many of whom are conservative Christians, are watching him die. They'd like to help him start the conversation. But he won't.
Gey doesn't pray for anything. An American Civil Liberties Union attorney and law professor at Florida State University, he ranks among the nation's top defenders of separation of church and state, of scientific inquiry, of rationalist, non-Christian governance.
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Gey was a much-quoted constitutional law expert during the battle over continuance of life support for Terri Schiavo. But no one is an expert on how to die.
His disease offers only agonizing choices.........
ALS saps professor's strength, not his ideals
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