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.

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Excellent observations!

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>> ... they sure didn't want any outside observers did they?

Least of all did they want Terri's mother and father to know how she was being treated!

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Free Internet Press goes into detail on the sleeping pill awakenings, items Mikey and cronies had not used. What would Mikey have done had he known? What excuses will the next death dealers have for future victims like Terri?

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Intellpuke: We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough. Guardian correpondent Steve Boggan witnesses these 'strange and wonderful' rebirths, while correspondent Helen Pidd explains what we know of vegetative states. Their article follows:

For three years, Riaan Bolton has lain motionless, his eyes open but unseeing. After a devastating car crash doctors said he would never again see or speak or hear. Now his mother, Johanna, dissolves a pill in a little water on a teaspoon and forces it gently into his mouth. Within half an hour, as if a switch has been flicked in his brain, Riaan looks around his home in the South African town of Kimberley and says, "Hello." Shortly after his accident, Johanna had turned down the option of letting him die.

Three hundred miles away, Louis Viljoen, a young man who had once been cruelly described by a doctor as "a cabbage", greets me with a mischievous smile and a streetwise four-move handshake. Until he took the pill, he too was supposed to be in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state.

Across the Atlantic in the United States, George Melendez, who is also brain-damaged, has lain twitching and moaning as if in agony for years, causing his parents unbearable grief. He, too, is given this little tablet and again, it's as if a light comes on. His father asks him if he is, indeed, in pain. "No," George smiles, and his family burst into tears.

Patients In Vegetative States Awaken, Talk After Taking Sleeping Pill

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Terri's Legacy List

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

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Interesting.

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Posted here earlier, with no little trollery in the discussions :-)

Glancing at it just now, I think both city mice and country mice have been busy in the keyword list.

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Ping to another bone chiller thread from wagglebee on Singer...

PRINCETON, September 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a question and answer article published in the UK's Independent today, controversial Princeton University Professor Peter Singer repeats his notorious stand on the killing of disabled newborns. Asked, "Would you kill a disabled baby?", Singer responded, "Yes, if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole."

People who oppose Singer's position have maintained that Singer is the logical extension of the culture of death and that society will eventually embrace his stance if there is no shift to the culture of life. Alex Scadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition commented to LifeSiteNews.com about Singer saying, "at least he's consistent." In fact, Singer himself uses the abortion debate to justify his murderous stance.

Princeton Professor Singer: And I repeat, I would kill Disabled Infants

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Yes it is a repeat of the story, again today. The thread makes for a lively discussion and is worth a visit for any who have not checked it out. The topic is still on the wires so continues to attract attention.

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Singer isn't special. He is merely more frank than most about the evil beliefs at the core of modernist dogmas, and more willing to take those ideas to their logical conclusions. Other liberals harbor the same evil beliefs, although they may be less willing to express them or to face what they mean.

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>> The topic is still on the wires so continues to attract attention.

It certainly ought to!

The medical news of late is like God laughing at the Death Cult. We hear of "PVS" patients rewiring their brains, waking up with the help of a simple drug, purposely playing tennis in their mind. What are the bioethics committees going to say next time to relatives of patients they want to kill?

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Wow, I see my threads have been elevated to "bone chiller" status.

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Some years back when our handicapped son was still alive and well, my wife encountered a highly placed bureaucrat (at the Department of Education) with similar perspective. He did not stand out as uncommon, but one in a crowd of similar ilk. To my wife he coldly explained his position as if it were the only possible way to reason. My wife responded with equal coldness that she could bring our son there and see which of these bureaucratic intellectuals would be willing to carry out their brilliant reasoning and dispatch our son, themselves.

They were, well, shocked!

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You bet. Singer and Sanger just do that!

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Of Singer and Sanger he sung her,
From all that she valued, he flung her,
   Saying, "MY leftist views
   Let me do as I choose!"
She replied, "You are strictly from hunger."

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Line two improvement:

As the finger he flippily flung her

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Hooray for your wife! It takes guts to face down evil. The world needs more with her courage.

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CHARLIE CRIST FOR LT.GOVERNOR choice Jeffrey Kottkamp was in the gang of 10 who wrote Tom Gallagher a "get out" letter. He's also from the wealthy community of Cape Coral. JEFFREY KOTTKAMP was rewarded by Crist for trying to kick Gallagher out of the race, you see? Crist couldn't choose Mike Fasano because he's a girly man himself.

GANG OF TEN GET OUT GALAGHER LETTER "The letters, identical in language (click here to read), were orchestrated by Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, and Rep. Jeff Kottkamp, R-Cape Coral, who delivered them personally to Gallagher's Tallahassee campaign headquarters. The duo, who'd originally scheduled a press conference two blocks away at the Florida Press Center to unveil the letters, decided in the end not to do so."

FV SAYS: Crist's been to the hair salon. His hair is now imo, radioactive and you must wear shades to look at the new cc. if his hair was any whiter, he could snow blind people (maybe that's his new strategy).

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Petition for a Special Prosecutor Attn: Jeb Bush. I'll get the link later. It's so busy that when I tried to view it, my server crashed.

SPECIAL PROSECUTOR re: Judge Greer's commercial - view by clicking on the videotape at:

htttp://www.conservative-spirit.org.

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crist lt guv pick is the ultimate sellout. He had been in coma and had a feeding tube himself and he sellouts to crist trying to get Gallagher to lv the race and crist picks him. GOP is the hypocrite ticket for fl guv.

The House spent two hours in intensely personal debate. Several lawmakers spoke of the deaths of their parents or spouses. Rep. Jeff Kottkamp, R-Cape Coral, recalled being in a coma for two months and living on a feeding tube last fall after having serious complications from heart surgery.

The St. Pete Times did say how Kottkamp voted but even if he voted for Terri, he's in the camp of the one person who could have done a thorough investigation and she'd be alive today.

Looking more like Applewhite every day: Charlie Crist.

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WILLIAMSBURG -- Terri Schiavo's death was not a right-to-die issue but a battle over the rights of people with disabilities, her brother said Wednesday night.

Bobby Schindler, brother of the brain-damaged Florida woman who died last year when doctors removed her feeding tube after years of legal conflict between her family and her husband, spoke to about 100 College of William and Mary students Wednesday. He urged them to think of how they would care for a spouse or family member who became disabled.

Terri Schiavo sibling: Care for disabled kin

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

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Look who Charlie chooses: Mikey is sad...

Kottkamp ''is a very wise and stable choice,'' said Rep. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala Republican who is among the most outspoken conservatives in the Legislature. ``I think he does help give some comfort to many of us who know he has a heart for social conservative issues.''

Kottkamp voted in favor of the governor's effort to pass a law to reinsert the feeding tube of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo -- an effort that Crist did not support.

Crist's selection of Kottkamp prompted Schiavo's husband, Michael Schiavo, to issue a statement condemning Kottkamp as representing ``everything that is broken in Tallahassee.''

Crist chooses a conservative... Charlie Crist named a conservative trial lawyer and legislator, Jeff Kottkamp, as his running mate.

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