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This is especially true in children, who have a more “plastic” brain that often recovers from even severe injuries. So why the rush to discontinue life support before there was time? Yes, her father might have interest in keeping her alive.
But the state (who faces a huge hospital bill, not to mention a huge lawsuit for her care since they failed to intervene when previous evidence of abuse had been noted) also had an interest –in making her dead.
Ironically because of the slowness of court appeals, Haleigh’s life support was not ended in October after the first court approved the state’s petition, and by the time the courts made the final decision in January she was starting to show signs of alertness.
A January 2006 report shows that the day after the court authorized the hospital to stop treatment, she was able to be removed from the breathing machine, and needed only a feeding tube, and the DSS said they didn’t plan to do that quite yet..........................
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But now, as much as I hate to, I must disagree with my friend Joseph Farah once again. Yesterday he wrote: "But Bill Buckley is gone. And so, in my opinion, is the conservative movement."
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The last man standing as the leader of the heart of the Republican Party is Gov. Mike Huckabee. He's only candidate who stands for the Human Life Amendment and Marriage Protection Amendment – which just got even more important.
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Terri Schiavo: Obama says helping her was his one great "regret" in life. He wishes he could go back in time and have a hand in starving a disabled women to death. Nice. But so does John McCain. Take a look at what he told Esquire (August 2006) and re-run Feb. 21, 2008:
"I understand the frustrations a lot of Republicans feel," McCain says. "We're not representing their hopes and dreams and aspirations. We worry about Ms. Schiavo before we worry about balancing the budget."
As Bobby Schindler said on my radio program last week, "What about the hopes and dreams of my sister (Terri Schiavo)?" Wasn't Barack's book about hope? Just not for the disabled, apparently. The audacity. And do we really want a candidate who thinks the budget is more important than human life? I don't. Huckabee stands for "the least" of us, and he's the only one.......................
The conservative movement's new leader
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The Haleigh’s story is relevant. Many would not have known about her if not for this thread. There have been numerous cases where doctors have given up and said there is not hope and yet the patient survived.