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Haleigh Poutre update...

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WESTFIELD - A newly appointed state House committee will hold hearings this month to address concerns raised over the Department of Social Services' oversight of child abuse victim Haleigh Poutre.

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The DSS attempted to end Poutre's life support eight days after she was hospitalized on Sept. 11, 2005, and six days after gaining temporary custody of the girl. The state Supreme Judicial Court, not knowing the girl had been showing signs of improvement the week before, issued a decision on Jan. 17 approving the removal of life support. But the order was never carried out, and now the child is eating, breathing and communicating on her own at a Boston rehabilitation center, family members have said.

DSS officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi ordered the establishment of the committee. It was adopted by the House yesterday.

"This child is not alone, and other children have been or are at risk of being likewise victimized," said state Rep. Geoffrey D. Hall, D-Westport, chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight and a member of the 11-member committee, which also includes state Rep. Donald F. Humason Jr., R-Westfield.

Hearings to deal with child abuse

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Ping to wagglebee thread on Texas Designer Babies...

A Texas fertility clinic now promoting its plan to "design" babies for customers is moving society another step down the road toward full-blown eugenics in the United States, where there would be certain categories of lives that simply would be valueless, according to a spokesman for an organization of physicians.

"I hope we have the gumption to have laws passed that will prohibit this," Dr. Gene Rudd, the associate executive director for the Christian Medical Association, told WND. "But one we've gone so far, how can you justify not going just a little bit further … down that ethical abyss."

Hitler-style 'designer' babies coming under fire in Texas

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At least some are paying attention.

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God bless and preserve Haleigh Poutre. That poor child was put through hell by evil step-parents. So what happens when the bureaucrats stepped in? The state tried to kill her! These folks are "f'ing nuts," to quote a vulgar friend.

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On January 11, the House will consider a bill to fund
research that requires the killing of human embryos.
Sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), H.R. 3 will
federally fund research on human embryos that supposedly
are "leftover" from in vitro fertilization. Instead of
promoting the adoption of these human embryos, this bill
would require their death.

President Bush is the first president to federally fund
human embryonic stem cell research. He decided that such
research could be funded so long as the cells had been
obtained from embryos on or prior to August 9, 2001. Since
then, the government has funded research on over 22 stem
cell lines. However, the President's policy does not
encourage the further killing of human embryos.

Just as abortion is currently legal, killing human embryos
is completely legal. The debate is about federal funding.
We don't federally fund abortion even though it is legal.
Likewise, we should not force U.S. taxpayers to fund
research that requires the destruction of embryos. Last
July, President Bush vetoed the same bill and the House
upheld the veto. However, H.R. 3 would overturn the Bush
policy and create a direct incentive to create and kill
human embryos for research with your taxes!

==>Please contact
your Representative and let him or her know that you
strongly oppose H.R. 3.

Thank you and God bless you.

from frc.org (e-mail)

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