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Haleigh Poutre Almost Victim of Euthanasia, Now Making Good Progress
Life News ^ | September 4, 2006 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 09/05/2006 4:45:45 AM PDT by 8mmMauser

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: babykillers; deathcult; deathcultivation; haleigh; haleighpoutre; kottkamprinotoo; schiavo; terridailies; terrioctoberdailies; terrischiavo; terrislegacy
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To: All; kristinn
I am about to hit the road on the drive to Washington DC. Hope many others of Terri's Legacy can make it, too!

Thread by kristinn...

Press Release: Support the Troops and Their Mission Weekend Sept. 22-23 in Wash., D.C.

8mm

701 posted on 09/21/2006 3:18:31 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All
More on the "inherant racism of population control", from LifeSite:

TORONTO, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “The March of the Religious Right - Where Does it Lead?” was the first major talk offered at the international “Challenge in Choice” conference of euthanasia advocates held in Toronto September 7th to 10th.

The talk featured Robert Raben, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs, and a major figure in the US Democratic party and Jon Eisenberg, an attorney and author of the book, “Using Terri.”

Raben, a political organizer and strategist for the Democrats, offered insight into the strategy of the Right to Die movement and emphasized that the religious right, particularly the Catholic Church, was their most powerful foe.

“Religious Right” most feared by Euthanasia Movement... In California only regular Mass-attending Catholics significantly opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide

8mm

702 posted on 09/21/2006 3:25:25 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All
Another review of David Gibbs' book...

SEMINOLE (BP)-"Life itself was on trial," the attorney who worked to save Terri Schiavo from starvation writes in a new book about the landmark Florida case and the shame it brought upon a nation.

Attorney in Schiavo case cites faulty legal system

8mm

703 posted on 09/21/2006 3:28:32 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All
Question and answer from the Florida Baptist Witness...

On March 18, 2005, when the feeding tube was removed from Terri Schiavo after years of legal wrangling prompted by her husband's desire to end her tragic life, what did Terri know?

How aware was she that the clock had begun ticking and the withdrawal of food and hydration was for the purpose of ending her life, which would come 13 days later? Was Terri cognizant that her husband, with the compliance of the judicial system and in the wake of the failure of federal and state legislatures and Florida's chief executive to stop him, was seeking to end her life because she had mysteriously and catastrophically suffered severe brain damage 15 years earlier?

What did Terri know?

I've often pondered this question in the 18 months since Terri Schiavo died-quite unnaturally. It's a question that should haunt every person involved in this saga-every citizen, every elected official, every judge, and, not the least of which, Michael Schiavo who today is a celebrity campaigning for politicians who have earned his political action committee's support.

What did Terri know?

A haunting question

8mm

704 posted on 09/21/2006 3:32:23 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; floriduh voter
What media mush does to the brain...

Unlike Bush, Crist stayed out of the Terri Schiavo uproar and even praised the judge who allowed the husband of the brain-damaged woman to remove her feeding tube. He calls himself "pro-life" and says he favors banning abortion except in cases of rape, incest and where the life of the mother is in danger. I doubt he would try to disturb current abortion law in Florida.

Snip...

In case this all sounds a bit confusing, just remember - Charlie Crist is a solid conservative even if he has some differences with the Bush brothers. We should be under no illusions about that.

After Jeb, hopefully a chance to take a breath

8mm

705 posted on 09/21/2006 3:38:27 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; neverdem; Coleus
Ping to an older thread refreshed by Coleus, post #14...

A journalist for the UK Guardian met several patients who emerge from a persistent vegetative state after taking zolpidem. The degree of recovery varies, and lasts only about two and a quarter hours, but some of the recoveries appear remarkable. Papers describing what happens have been published in the journals NeuroRehabilitation and the New England Journal of Medicine and a British company, ReGen Therapeutics, is carrying out clinical trials. Another therapy is electrical stimulation of the brain. An American doctor, Edwin Cooper, claims that people given electrical stimulation emerge from comas more quickly and regain functions more quickly than if they are given only traditional treatment. His work has not attracted much attention in the US ­ and was even denounced by the recently deceased expert witness in the Terri Schiavo case, Ronald Cranford, as "junk science".

Sleeping pills offer wake-up call to vegetative patients Drug could overcome brain shutdown...

8mm

706 posted on 09/21/2006 3:50:38 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: 8mmMauser
I have two robust teenaged nephews who were born smaller and less developed than Emmie-Rose. They had a very tough time coming into the world but you wouldn't guess now.

It is beyond sadness that they killed this baby. Oremus.

707 posted on 09/21/2006 5:08:13 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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To: 8mmMauser

I didn't know that men suffered from premenstrual syndrome, but I can't think of anything else that explains Ned Lamont.


708 posted on 09/21/2006 5:13:19 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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To: 8mmMauser

Hey, I'm down the road. Stop by and say hello :-)


709 posted on 09/21/2006 5:19:25 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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To: 8mmMauser
>> a single group only: “regular Mass-attending Catholics” were significantly opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

>> He singled out Catholic priest and medical ethicist, Fr. Kevin O’Rourke for praise, saying the priest had provided the movement with the arguments from Catholic ethics that defused Catholic opposition to the killing of Terri Schiavo.

From which we deduce that Fr. Kevin O'Rourke does not belong to the one opposition group, "regular Mass-attending Catholics."

I don't see how you can be a bioethicker and a Catholic.

710 posted on 09/21/2006 5:26:00 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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To: 8mmMauser
>> Lead scientist Adrian Owen said, "I was absolutely stunned. We had no idea whether she would understand our instructions. But this showed that she is aware."

It was more than that. It was an act of will. The patient chose to "play tennis" in her mind.

711 posted on 09/21/2006 5:35:02 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)
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To: T'wit
I don't see how you can be a bioethicker and a Catholic.

Mutually exclusive in so many ways...

712 posted on 09/21/2006 5:49:40 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: T'wit

Keen observation. Yes, it was will. Sure confounds the bioethick crowd desperate to build separation between the case and Terri's.


713 posted on 09/21/2006 5:51:18 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: 8mmMauser
Such very sad news, 8mm. Lord please comfort sweet Emmie-Rose's loving parents, and grant them strength and extra love in this so very senseless loss of their beautiful child.

8mm, you are so good and kind to do all that you so tirelessly and generously do. Thank you times infinity.

714 posted on 09/21/2006 10:54:43 AM PDT by Miss Behave (You can't negotiate with people who want to kill you more than they want to live. ~Caller to Hannity)
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To: 8mmMauser
Charlie Crist was on the opposite of Jeb Bush actively stifling investigations so that Terri Schiavo WOULD BE KILLED. Let's not forget "Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die" still available for review at my tag line. There's a jpeg of Terri's dad demanding a grand jury back in 2004.

Crist is a death monger running as a conservative and note the media doesn't call him a social conservative because he isn't one. He looks so much like kevorkian that I mute him and change the channel. governor kevorkian - I hope he loses.

715 posted on 09/21/2006 12:14:44 PM PDT by floriduh voter (www.conservative-spirit.org or Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought it was a tag team thing. I'll read it again. I'm so used to being flamed. I will go back... Speed reading is a good thing but not while reading posts. lol


716 posted on 09/21/2006 12:16:33 PM PDT by floriduh voter (www.conservative-spirit.org or Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Re: 648. I see where you were coming from now upon the re-read. Your point was that those particular views of mine are not extreme or radical. I'm the real America more times than not. I spose you are too. For example, Hugo Chavez can't get out of town fast enough for me...


717 posted on 09/21/2006 12:34:03 PM PDT by floriduh voter (www.conservative-spirit.org or Join Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser)
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To: floriduh voter
Crist is a death monger running as a conservative and note the media doesn't call him a social conservative because he isn't one. He looks so much like kevorkian that I mute him and change the channel. governor kevorkian - I hope he loses.

I had noticed the resemblence in character, but I hadn't noticed the physical resemblence before. My goodness, he does look like him.

718 posted on 09/21/2006 2:39:20 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. Þ)
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To: 8mmMauser
Emmie-Rose has died

Not fed since September 3rd I see. Where do we get such heroes? /s

719 posted on 09/21/2006 4:21:36 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: 8mmMauser
It appears that this was written on 9/8/06

She had physical therapy this morning with NO problems. They moved her all over, pulled her legs in and out… no changes in facial expressions, no changes in heart rate etc. SHE WAS FINE!

Now what good is physical therapy when they are straving her to death? What am I missing here?

720 posted on 09/21/2006 4:37:13 PM PDT by bjs1779
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