Why Remember Haleigh Poutre?

I first posted on the Haleigh Poutre case here as a crime story.

This case hasn't received extensive coverage, though it has had some .. perhaps that's because it is so sad.

Beaten into a coma by her stepfather, they've removed Haleigh's breathing tube and now she is breathing on her own. However, I don't believe that was the plan ... they are going to let her die.

And the bastard that beat her is fighting it because it means a murder charge for him. Or, would he have us believe he's a right to lifer?

God, so sad.

I don't approach cases where the state holds judgment over one's ability to be kept alive through artificial means from a hard ideological perspective.  I approach them from the perspective of a humanist with an appreciation for how the state's judgment can often be flawed.

It could be argued that the state failed Haleigh Poutre by not protecting her from a horrible crime. However, it's no longer an arguable point that the state was prepared to fail her, yet again, through allowing her to die.

Michelle Malkin revisits the Haleigh Poutre case today.

More on her progress. Though still not walking, her verbal skills have improved vastly and she is able to communicate.... Keep Haleigh in your thoughts and prayers. There is a powerful institutional motive for covering up Haleigh's progress. Don't forget her.

We need to be ever mindful of the creeping authority of the state, particularly when it would presume to govern our ability to live and receive the appropriate medical care required to keep us alive. If we continue to devalue the very concept of life in our society, in the end, we will be left with no values at all.

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[abigail]

Keep healing sweet baby girl! You are loved by many!

[Suncana Sesic Alvarado]

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