Haleigh Poutre...

Thanks to Michelle Malkin and others, I was made aware of a situation in Massachusetts that seems to be getting quite the amount of attention: Halleigh Poutre's fight for her own life. While some might see this as similar to the Schiavo case, this is a child we're talking about, a child who cannot make such decisions for herself, much less express what she would want, and I echo the sentiment that "There should be a presumption that people, that children, even brain-damaged orphans, ought to live."

I find the follwing rather interesting...

Some patients with severe brain stem injuries may partially recover from a persistent vegetative state, but they rarely recover fully enough to communicate, feed themselves and live ordinary lives, Dr. Steve Williams, chief of rehabilitation medicine at Boston Medical Center, told the Globe. But he said recovery is more likely with children than adults. “There’s more plasticity to their brain. There’s potentially other areas of the brain that can take over,” he said.

Why? Because I'm a brain damaged kid who couldn't walk until he was seven years old, one who is convinced that somehow (God's grace really) other parts of by brain took over where the damaged part could not and enabled me to walk. If God can do that, then He sure can save this precious young life.