Haleigh Poutre Almost Victim of Euthanasia, Now Making Good Progress

Life News ^ | September 4, 2006 | Steven Ertelt

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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.

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The Terri Factor...a feeble attempt to besmirch a candidate: (Nebraska)

Voters in the 1st Congressional District should send Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry back to Washington for a second term.

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A response:

econteach wrote on October 30, 2006 4:26 PM:

"You forgot an important reason why someone ought NOT vote for Fortenberry. Terry Schiavo. Mr. Fortenberry voted with the pack that wanted to interfere with the most sacred commitment - a marriage and say they knew better than the husband what the wife wanted. The Supreme Court slapped Congress back to their side of the Constitution for that. Do you, the voters of the First District, want someone who voted that way to represent you? For shame Journal Star for this endorsement."

Fortenberry is our choice in 1st District

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The Terri Factor...(Idaho)

That wasn’t the only time the congressman’s libertarian streak disappeared. Otter also voted for the 2005 House bill intervening in the Terri Schiavo case, overruling Florida courts to keep a brain-damaged woman on life support. He has voted for all the Republican iterations of immigration reform, even when they criminalized Good Samaritans who aid illegals. (“We need to get the border under control,” Otter says, “and then we can decide what to do about the people who are already here.”) He has voted for several versions of campaign finance limits.

Butch Otter Rides Again

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The answer is: They cannot.

I recall Gloria Allred saying (in reference to Terri) something to the effect that death is so final, why not err in favor of life. Many others have expressed similar opinions.

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Not to change subjects for more than a moment, this is what John Kerry meant to say.

>> "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, if you get a bunch of D's, you get stuck in Vietnam like I was."

But he botched it and said "Iraq" instead of "Vietnam."

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If he had one he could have said, "I raq my brain."

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And that goes across the board. I was touched by the number of people who had far ranging ideas of religion yet were baffled that one could err in favor of death.

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Har, now Kerry is caught between Iraq and a hard place. Didja see the thread on his canceling campaign commitments today?

He is rivaling Mikey in giving out the death kiss to candidates.

Heads Up! All Scheduled Kerry Functions for 11/1/06 cancelled

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>> How Can a Secular Society Claim Anyone is “Better Off Dead”?

That's easy. Ask a trial lawyer! Especially a spiritually awakened one such as George Felos. He will channel the dead person for you. True, he charges more than other spiritual advisors and fortune tellers, but he, er, uh, the dead person will tell you exactly what you want to hear!

Mr. Felos, apparently sober, spoke thus to an earlier client, Estelle Browning:

>> “‘Mrs. Browning, do you want to die? … Do you want to die?’—I near shouted as I continued to peer into her pools of strikingly beautiful but incognizant blue. It was so eerie. Her eyes were wide open and crystal clear, but instead of the warmth of lucidity, they burned with the ice of expressionlessness.”

Mrs. Browning's unspeaking innards replied, yes, she did want to die, thank you very much. And that took care of that. And you doubt that the dead are better off?!?

John Edwards, another trial lawyer, famously channeled an unborn baby, made millions by it, and ruined the practice of obstetrics. Today, when a woman gets a C-section, chances are high that Edwards put her through the extra pain of surgery. Not to mention some scars that hot wax won't remove.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lawyer. She has hardly any trial experience, yet she could channel Eleanor Roosevelt! Mrs. Roosevelt told her that her husband Franklin cheated too.

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>> Judge ... ruled in Schiavo case

And he'll answer to God for it.

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No you're still wrong, what he meant to say is:

"If you don't, if you get a bunch of D's, you get grain of rice stuck in your ass in Vietnam like I did."

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Judge ... ruled in Schiavo case

And he'll answer to God for it.

Even Pilate tried to avoid making a judgement and washed his hands later. Where does that put Greer?

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On a slightly less reverential note, I should like to thank the blessed St. Fu, patron of trolls.

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Well, Greer didn't wring his hands during that Holy Week, just said Terri should die. I don't think Whittemore agonized over the decision, just dawdled to let the clock run out as Terri's chances for recovery from the dehydration slipped away. Both had stains washing does not remove.

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Yes, we can be thankful to St. Fu for the silence.

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Exactly.

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>> ...Terry Schiavo. Mr. Fortenberry voted with the pack that wanted to interfere with the most sacred commitment - a marriage...

Sacred, yes, Mikey agrees! He was getting Jodi Centonze pregnant one night and he said, "You know, honey, I want to do more than shack up with you and make babies. As soon as I bump off my wife and get the inheritance, let's get married."

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>> Where does that put Greer?

An unrepentant goat.

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Growing up I had a neighbor who was in Aushwitz and he told me one time of the subtle hand gesture that Mengele used when his brother was sent to the gas chamber due to a slight limp. I'm sure there's old films somewhere that Greer could use.

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See #1918.

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Father God,

May every wicked one, whose action or inaction
resulted in Terri's murder, receive your perfect
justice in your perfect timing.

Please let it be in our lifetime.

Shower Terri's family with your comfort and love, this
day and every day.

In Jesus name,

Amen