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Haleigh Poutre update!

Looks like we have some fallout from the attention poor Haleigh received.

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House lawmakers will file legislation this week to open end-of-life hearings for children in state custody, create a cabinet secretary for child welfare, and enact other recommendations from a task force created after the case of Haleigh Poutre.

The legislation also would require written second opinions and recommendations from an ethics committee in end-of-life cases involving children. The legislation was unveiled yesterday by the House majority leader, John Rogers, Democrat of Norwood and chairman of the special House Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect

The bill would set minimum education requirements for social workers and increase criminal penalties if those legally required to report child abuse fail to do so. It requires mandatory training for those mandated reporters to help them recognize child abuse.

The review of the state's child welfare system began after Haleigh, whose adoptive mother and stepfather were accused of beating her, was hospitalized with severe brain injuries in 2005. The Department of Social Services, which took custody of Haleigh, won approval from the state's highest court to remove Haleigh's feeding tube after the agency said doctors had declared her to be in a vegetative state. DSS was criticized for acting too quickly. Her condition improved, and she was moved to a rehabilitation center....................................................................

House committee to file legislation on child abuse

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This is an extensive interview with Bobby Schindler in Austria. I excerpted it, as it is long, but encourage reading the whole article.

ALKOVEN, Austria, JULY 25, 2007 (Zenit) - Euthanasia implies two choices -- either killing people because of their disability or caring for them and loving them as they deserve, says the brother of Terri Schiavo.

Bobby Schindler said this as a participant at an international conference titled "Sense and Obligation on the Present State of the Euthanasia Debate." The conference was organized in the Hartheim Castle, a site once used by the Nazis for euthanizing the handicapped.

President Heinz Fischer of Austria, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna, and Josef Puhringer, governor of Upper Austria, all participated in the event..............................

Terri Schiavo's Brother on Euthanasia

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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

>> The bill would set minimum education requirements for social workers and increase criminal penalties if those legally required to report child abuse fail to do so. It requires mandatory training for those mandated reporters to help them recognize child abuse.

Lo! A bill trying to keep bureaucrats from being stupid. I predict that bureaucrats will go right on being stupid.