Courts need to get the hell out of the Medical Business. And we, as a people, need to demand clear and undeniable evidence of the state of an injured person when there is a legal question of the gaurdians intentions. Today it is a little girl, abused and beaten, who decided to come out of a coma before the court system finished its death sentence on her (visa Michelle Malkin):

A day after the state’s highest court ruled that the Department of Social Services could withdraw life support from a brain-damaged girl, the agency said yesterday that Haleigh Poutre might be emerging from her vegetative state.
DSS also said it has no immediate plans to remove her feeding tube.

”There has been a change in her condition,” said a DSS spokeswoman, Denise Monteiro. ”The vegetative state may not be a total vegetative state.”

Monteiro said Haleigh is breathing on her own, without the ventilator she has depended on for four months. Monteiro also said that doctors at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield elicited responses from Haleigh during tests performed yesterday.

Michelle has the complete round up, so I will not repost all of it here. But the gaurdian in this case was in legal jeopardy depending on whether the girl lived or died because he was suspect in the abuse. So the court decided seemed to be deciding the girl must die so the father could get the ultimate punishment.

Courts are not the place for these decisions, but someone must step in when there are issues with the guardian – as with Terri Schiavo. It was not about a family’s privacy, the family was split and suspect. When there are no clear wishes or intentions, we need to err on the side of life.