CBS News inexplicably turns 11-y.o.'s plight into a "right-to-die" case

[The Laughing Man]

• Edited by a Moderator • News headline: Mass. To Review Right-To-Die Case

The article:

Saying "errors in judgment were made," Gov. Mitt Romney on Monday announced an independent investigation into the state's handling of the case of a brain-damaged 11-year-old girl at the center of a right-to-die battle.

Haleigh Poutre was allegedly beaten into a coma last year by her adoptive mother and stepfather, who fought the state's efforts to disconnect the girl from her life support. The state's highest court granted the state permission last week to disconnect her from her ventilator and feeding tube.

I couldn't put • Edited by a Moderator • News' bizarre spin to the coals better than this:

http://www.michaelgraham.com/

Right to die? Where did that come from? Nobody has even suggested that Haleigh wants DSS to pull her feeding tube. And because Haley's condition has improved, DSS has for the moment announced they aren't going to. And even if someone testified Haleigh had expressed an opinion on life-saving medical care, what difference would that make? She's ELEVEN.

Exactly. Flipping. RIGHT! • Edited by a Moderator • News - America's main source for "fake, but accurate" reporting - has absolutely no business calling this a "right-to-die" case. This is a right-to-life case. Haleigh is breathing on her own now after months of being on a ventilator and she eventually may come out of her supposedly irreversible coma. "Right-to-die," indeed! The mind boggles at • Edited by a Moderator • News' deplorable, death-loving mentality.

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[Pilgrim]

As usual, Jinx, in his never ending quest to be offended has spun things either intentionally dishonestly or has spun out of ignorance.

1. The article is an AP article that CBS picked up.
2. The title does not reflect CBS or AP's opinion but rather the argument of both the state and the child's biological mother who said, "All I want is for her to rest. Being kept alive is no life."

So, Jinx, while I agree and share your outrage at the circumstance, your spin of CBS missed the larger point which is the tragedy of this young woman's life.

[kiwimac]

As usual, Jinx, in his never ending quest to be offended has spun things either intentionally dishonestly or has spun out of ignorance.

1. The article is an AP article that CBS picked up.
2. The title does not reflect CBS or AP's opinion but rather the argument of both the state and the child's biological mother who said, "All I want is for her to rest. Being kept alive is no life."

So, Jinx, while I agree and share your outrage at the circumstance, your spin of CBS missed the larger point which is the tragedy of this young woman's life.

Ah so Laughing man is Jinx.

So much is now explained!


Kiwimac