Court Favors Euthanasia for Massachussetts Girl, Though She's Doing Better

Lifenews.com ^ | 1-19-06 | Steven Ertelt

[FeeinTennessee]

Court Favors Euthanasia for Massachusetts Girl, Though She's Doing Better by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor January 19, 2006

Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- The Massachusetts state Supreme Court has ruled that a hospital can end the life of a badly abused 11 year-old girl, even though she is doing better and beginning to respond to stimuli. Haleigh Poutre was abused by her birthmother and placed in a foster care home with her adoptive mother and stepfather. The allegedly beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat, in what left Poutre in a comatose state.

Poutre was placed in state custody and state officials eventually decided she should be taken off life support. Though he had abused her, Poutre's stepfather Jason Strickland fought the decision.

The state Supreme Court ruled that allowing Strickland to fight the decision is "unthinkable" and it approved the euthanasia of Haleigh.

But now, news reports indicate the little girl is progressing.

Just one day after the ruling, Haleigh began breathing on her own and responding to medical stimuli.

Denise Monteiro, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Social Services, told the Associated Press that doctors will conduct tests to see if she is truly progressing, which may change the situation.

"There's a possible change in her condition," Monteiro said Wednesday. "She's having some responses."

She confirmed to the Boston Globe Wednesday that the state does not yet plan to go through with removing her feeding tube.

Strickland's attorney John Egan told AP that he may bring the case to federal courts.

"This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What's the rush? Just give her a chance," attorney John Egan said. "Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life."

[TheCrusader]

"The court decision (if I read correctly) was made before she was known to be doing better."

The point is that no Court can determine if a person will get better or not, and this case is the absolute proof of that. There are many such cases where people determined to be 'vegetables' or suffering 'irreversable comas' do in fact recover. There is no defense for taking a feeding tube from a child this age; feeding tubes are not considered to be life support. This nation's judiciary are rotten and corrupt to the core.

[Gone GF]

Let's see, the article clearly says there's no plan to pull the feeding tube and they will be doing tests to check her out. The headline is bs. No "culture of death" here at this point

[FeeinTennessee]

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[TheCrusader]

"Believe it or not, she was one of the descending voters on the gay marriage case"

I hope you're not talking about Cheif Justice Margaret Marshall, because she was the swing vote FOR gay marriage in Massachusetts. The Court was tied, and so in essence she gave homosexual, pervert marriage to Massachusetts all by herself, because at that point she alone held to power to legalize it or shoot it down.

[TheCrusader]

"Probably after she found out the vote count. Pretending to be honest."

See # 24

[FeeinTennessee]

Let's see, the article clearly says there's no plan to pull the feeding tube and they will be doing tests to check her out. The headline is bs. No "culture of death" here at this point







Well, here's another story on it:

http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/01/18/news/nation_world/doc43cdd8f27e474767706876.txt

[HEY4QDEMS]

I don't know if she was chief justice or not, I do no that the lone Lesbian on the court voted against gay marriage.

[vrwc0915]

sick perversion that passes for health care ping for later

[marty60]

Maybe these Justices should read the transcripts of the NAZI DOCTORS trials. They are at the National Archives. The Brauer case is pretty close. Hitler even said it is better for the State to kill the innocent children, then the parents will not feel guilty.

[mmercier]

The state of Massachusetts had dozens of opportunities to take this girl into state custody as reports of abuse were filed in the past. Once she is beaten into dementia they now take custody and decide she needs to be put down.

This state is governed by people that are too educated to be considered anything other than consciously evil.

[dmz]

Not the point at all. The headline distorts the facts of the case. It is exactly what the MSM does. And it is wrong to do so.

[printhead]

decending? dissenting?

[vpintheak]

It is just what the leftists want. It is the same sick twisted pathology of nazi's and communists. Death to all those who we feel are inferior!

[massgopguy]

This just in. Haleigh has been moved to Rehab.

[Gil4]

Are you series?

[DustyMoment]

Did the Death Judge, FL judge Greer, move to MA???

[purpleland]

O'Reilly is really strange/hostile/rude/inappropriate in his verbal interactions on his radio program with Lise and E.D. However, O'Reilly really brought the controversial Vermont Judge and his "sentence" of a child rapist to national public attention and scrutiny.