For more than two years, Massachusetts social workers ignored reports that a little girl was being abused and neglected, assuming instead that Haleigh Poutre was hurting herself. Only when she was beaten into a coma with a baseball bat, did…

For the last thirty years, the focus of medical ethics has been patient autonomy. Because not every patient is competent to exercise choices in treatment, the law has evolved to allow “surrogates” to make choices for the incompetent. Of course, in th…

Haleigh may not have been a founding member of a street gang, convicted of capital murder or an author of children’s books (with a help of a ghost-writer), but she still deserves a chance.

I refuse to be hopeless. I will read the story of Haleigh Poutre and I will see God’s hand at work. I will have hope becasue I have a God that is worthy of that hope and that will, in the end, see to the realization of that hope.

We’re into Day 2 of jury deliberations for the Milwaukee 5. Now, what did Congressman Gwen Moore mean when…

This is why life is not given value based on its contributions to the world. This is why life is precious all on its own.

Michelle Malkin has a lengthy, link-rich post on a little girl in Massachusetts named Haleigh Poutre, who was terribly abused by her stepfather and was supposedly in a persistent vegetative state from which she could never recover. She was kept

Apparently some on the far right wing never learn, no matter how badly they embarrass themselves.

If you haven’t been following it, up in Massachusetts there is yet another tragic medical story unfolding. A young girl, Haleigh Poutre, is r…

Light blogging most of the day due to errands and then a function tonight at Buster’s school, but a few things to think about:
A child appears to be coming out of a coma on the eve of a planned pulling of her nutrition. This is going to keep h…

From Michelle Malkin:

Last fall, Haleigh was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat. Haleigh, in a coma, was kept al…

Michelle Malkin has a write up on Haleigh Poutre. I encourage you to read the story both on her blog and on The Political Pit Bull.

Here’s the story of young Haleigh Poutre over at Michelle Malkin’s digs. It might have been another one of those Schiavo cases, only this one might end up with a different ending, if Haleigh has anything to say about the matter.

From Michelle Malkin:

I was just reading an article over at Michelle Malkin’s site regarding the “right-to-die” issue. For those who believe in the “right-to-die” idealogues, this story over at Michelle Malkin’s site may in fact be a wake…

The topic of the day in much of the blogosphere is the gripping story of Haleigh:

… This case is sure to reignite the “right-to-die” and “vegetative state” issues that captured the nation’s attention with Terry Schiavo. Michelle Malkin said this…