"This person suffering from hereditary
defects costs the people 60,000
Reichmarks during his lifetime. People,
that is your money. Read 'New People'."
Posted on 09/05/2006 4:45:45 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
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.
If your organs are harvested while you're still using them, that's suicide. But if someone else's organs are harvested while they're still using them, that's good. And you say I have no compassion? I'm not the self-centered one, who thinks others should have their organs harvested before they die, but I should get to keep mine until after I'm dead.
Conscious, healthy person: Don't kill them and take their organs, no matter how much BykrBayb wishes they'd off themselves.
Unconscious, terminally ill person: Consult with the family regarding removal of life support and organ donation. If it's me, hopefully things will go smoothly and my organs can be donated to help others.
Yes! Hysteria! Straw men! False dilemmas! Ad hominem! Use all available tools in the holy struggle!
The distinction is between healthy people and people either definitely dead or on the brink of death. But don't let me keep you from your propagandizing.
I can't imagine that history just got censored like that.
I can imagine that ad hominem did, thanks to our moderators.
Can you explain to me how what you said is any different? I mean, without lying. Why do you want the truth censored out? If you're going to quote those old propaganda posters, you should be willing to face up to it.
Many posters here question spending money on anybody who is not up to acceptable standards. What am I missing?
I'm afraid you're beyond reason.
I'm afraid I couldn't explain it.
If you can't explain it, could you ask the moderator to reinstate the post in question?
In other words, no, you can't see any difference either. That's why you got upset over it being posted. Because it showed the source of your material.
Yes, honey, think whatever you like.
I think the moderator understands quite well. You are the one who doesn't understand.
As long as I don't tell anyone else, right? You still haven't answered either of my very simple questions? How is what you said any different, and why did want the truth censored?
I've explained three times how it is different, and the moderator censored ad hominem, not "truth".
Why are you disrupting the pro-life thread?
I am? That's odd, considering I'm pro-life.
Try to tell the truth, just once. You now have three questions posed to you. You haven't answered any of them.
How is what you said different?
Why did you want the truth censored out?
Why are you disrupting the pro-life thread?
Would the accident victims' families welcome condolence cards from all the people who happened to drive past the accident but were otherwise strangers?
Generally, people are most interested in things that either
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