Haleigh Poutre continues to improve; Michelle asks where Tookie's supporters are

As Haleigh continues to fight for her life, doctors - who once said she was in a "persistent vegetative state" and wanted to end her life - have changed their tune:

Haleigh Poutre, the brain-damaged girl whose fate has been debated in the highest levels of state government, will receive emergency life-saving measures from hospital staff if her heart or lungs stop working.

A spokeswoman for the state Department of Social Services, which has custody of Haleigh, said yesterday that among its revised requests to the courts last week was that the agency no longer sought to enforce a ''do not resuscitate" order.

That order told doctors not to begin emergency measures to save the 11-year-old Westfield girl's life if she went into cardiac or respiratory failure. DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro said the agency no longer seeks to have that order go into effect and has suspended plans to withdraw life support, including her feeding tube.

Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin asks the supporters of "Tookie" Williams, "Where are you now?" I would ask the same question. These people fought tooth and nail to save a convicted murderer from being condemned to death by the state, yet they are silent when an innocent girl is condemned to death by the state. Why is the left so eager to save the guilty but ignore (or, in the case of abortion, condemn) the innocent? Some on the left say that the death penalty is wrong in part because people who might be innocent might be condemned to death. So what about state-sanctioned euthanasia? As in Haleigh's case, people whose diagnoses might be wrong might be condemned to death. They don't argue that, though. Why is that?