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This is a strange case with strange connections. The family is represented by the team that defended Dr. Death.

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The condition of a 4-year-old Pace boy is the direct result of his brain disorder, not a case of felony neglect, say supporters of the boy’s mother.

“I can’t believe Florida courts would decide to allow Terry Schiavo to be starved and on the other hand, to prosecute a mother because her child has normal symptoms of the end-stage of a terminal disease,” Dianne Fitzgerald, founder of the National Lissencephaly Network, said Thursday.

Erin Brittany Markes, the boy’s 19-year-old mother, was jailed on $100,000 bond Friday on allegations that she withheld medical treatment from her son. Santa Rosa County Circuit Judge Ron Swanson ordered her release on Wednesday. She left under electronic monitoring that restricts her travel to within Santa Rosa and Escambia counties.

Markes’ son reportedly suffers from Miller-Dieker syndrome, a form of the rare genetic brain disorder lissencephaly, characterized by a smoothing of folds in the brain.

Authorities say the boy weighed only 10 pounds when he was hospitalized and had not received his seizure medication. His body temperature was 91.1 degrees and he suffered from bedsores.

Fitzgerald’s organization has referred Markes to Bill McHenry, an attorney at the Michigan-based law firm of Fieger, Fieger, Kenney, Johnson & Giroux P.C. The charity also is considering forming a legal defense fund for Markes.

The firm’s Geoffrey Fieger is the attorney who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkian in his doctor-assisted suicide trial.......................

Group: Brain disorder caused boyÂ’s condition

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Perspective from an unusual source, followed by unusual comments...

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Every time there's another landmark on the way to gay marriage, several people send me links and jubilant emails about it. They expect me to jump up and down and cheer about it, but I can barely register even polite interest.

It isn't that I don't want to be able to legally formalize a commitment to the woman of my choice. I want that more than anything else, as a matter of fact. But I've been paying enough attention to know that even if I were a man, I wouldn't have that option anymore.

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Even as the traditional expectations that used to go with marriage are dissolving, brand new ones are being invented. Nowadays, if your spouse is admitted to the hospital with brain damage caused by highly suspicious injuries, you can deny her medical care for years and then have her slowly starved to death. The alleged domineering patriarch of the 1950's did not imagine he had any right to do such a thing, and yet Democrats are attempting to pretend that being married doesn't mean fidelity, doesn't mean commitment, but does mean the right to inflict a slow and agonizing death. Andrew Sullivan actually complained that because he is gay, courts probably wouldn't recognize his "right" to have his partner starved to death. Isn't that terribly unfair?

Personally, for me the murder of Terri Schiavo was the end of my enthusiasm for gay marriage.

Brunette Republican Sex Kitten... Gay Marriage? What For?

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Especially when the Denver Post and Children’s Hospital were
complicit in the starvation death of little Dylan Walborn.

This little boy’s seizure disorder was becoming more active
and his parents didn’t want him to “suffer” any longer.

The Post chronicled the lengthy starvation death with a feature
story which might still be available on line.