[8mmMauser]

A new possible entry to the presidential race is one who would have sided with Terri. Could it be Gilmore may rise like a phoenix out of the ashes singed by legend-in-his-own-mind Jimmy Webb?

Were he to run, Mr. Gilmore might find himself frequently hearing the name "Terri Schiavo," despite having no direct role in that controversy. In 1998, Mr. Gilmore intervened in a Virginia case strikingly similar to that of the Florida woman whose case became a national debate in early 2005 and eventually spurred congressional intervention.

After a car accident, Kentucky newscaster Hugh Finn emerged in a persistent vegetative state and was taken to a Manassas nursing home. As in the Schiavo case, the victim's spouse contended that Finn had preferred to die rather than persist in a vegetative state; other members of Finn's family disagreed. A legal battle ensued over the decision to remove the feeding tube. Days before Finn's tube was to be removed, Mr. Gilmore announced that the state would appeal the legal decision authorizing the removal of the feeding tube, contending that that the decision amounted to euthanasia. The Virginia Supreme Court rejected the appeal, and Finn died eight days after the feeding tube was removed.

Gilmore Ponders Joining Crowded Republican Presidential Field

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[8mmMauser]

Haleigh Poutre related...

Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley has launched a homicide investigation into the death of a 2-month-old Dracut boy, an alleged victim of shaken baby syndrome who was taken off life support yesterday afternoon.

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Dracut police said Williams reported that the baby was choking. Doctors at Lowell General Hospital, where the baby was first taken, found the baby to be in respiratory distress, and by Thursday he was declared brain dead at Floating Hospital at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.

Yesterday, doctors performed surgery to harvest the baby's organs for transplantation, said Coakley. At the time, life support was withdrawn and Liam's death was officially announced by authorities.

"So this is officially a homicide investigation into the cause of death of Liam Garvey," Coakley said at a press conference with officials from the Dracut police.

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Authorities said they have moved carefully in the past few days in deciding whether to withdraw life support, concerned about the issues that arose in the case of Haleigh Poutre, a victim of alleged child abuse. After taking custody of the comatose girl last fall, DSS moved quickly for a court order to remove her life support.

Four months later, after winning the high court's approval to withdraw life support, DSS officials said they discovered the girl was breathing on her own and was capable of responding to commands.

The 12-year-old girl from Westfield is now at a Brighton rehabilitation hospital in stable condition, her case causing statewide reforms to be enacted on end-of-life cases involving minors in state custody.

Baby's death investigated as homicide, Coakley says

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[PhilDragoo]

Made the call that Florida governor shied from like a downed power line.

And almost had the tax cut Virginians wanted until Warner worked his evil.

Obviously Gilmore has too many scruples to succeed in a presidential bid.

Unless a tsunami removes conventional wisdom.