Haleigh Poutre’s Personal Death Panel
“HOPELESS”. “IRREVERSIBLE”. “BRAIN-DEAD”.
Really?
The Massachusetts Dept. of Social Services failed Haleigh. For years, neighbors warned that she was being beaten. But her torturers convinced officials that the cuts, burns and bruises were all self-inflicted.
That is, until she finally showed up at the ER, half-dead. Then, almost as if to cover up their previous neglect, DSS sought to pull the plug on her just eight days later. You can’t get government to process a Cash-for-Clunkers claim in eight days–but destroying evidence of government malfeasance–eight days tops! Maybe seven!
Worse, the son of bitch who beat her was the only thing keeping Social Services from finishing the job that he started. He filed to keep her alive merely to dodge the murder rap. How bad is it when your attempted murderer is the only thing stopping the government from killing you?
Naturally, because she wasn’t a precious serial killer, the runaway robes at the Massachusetts Supreme Court imposed the Death Penalty on her.
But a funny thing happened when they went into the room to starve her to death: in violation of all pertinent Social Service regulations, she was breathing on her own.
Haleigh, now 15, lives in a Boston rehabilitation hospital where she is able to perform simple tasks such as feeding herself and writing her name.
But “Death Panels” are a vicious myth. Right.
Okay, You Don’t Like the Term ‘Death Panels’…so how about “life-and-death panels”?
Dany Mercado, a leukemia patient from Kitchener, Ontario, is cancer-free after getting a bone marrow transplant at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
Told by Canadian doctors in 2007 he couldn’t have the procedure there, Mercado’s family and doctor appealed to Ontario health officials, who agreed to let him have the transplant in Detroit in January 2008.
Steyn is right; strictly speaking, they’re not Death Panels–every once in a while they decide to let you live. But the point is, THEY decide.
Do you know what Obama’s greatest professional regret is?
Oddly, it’s not the fact that he voted repeatedly to throw unwanted premature babies into the medical waste bins at Christ Hospital. No, Obama has stated that the greatest regret of his public life was voting to give Terri Schiavo one more court hearing before starving her to death. You should have been a terrorist, Terri.
And Obama can’t figure out why Americans don’t believe him when he quotes himself as proof.
“Hopeless”. “Irreversible”. Brain-dead”. That’s what they called Haleigh. But they would never do that to you. See, you’re special. Unique, even. Precious. And one-of-a-kind.
Just like everybody else.
So what would they call you?
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