Brain-dead woman who gave birth to girl dies Mother with terminal cancer removed from life support after delivery
RICHMOND, Va. - A brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support Wednesday and died, a day after giving birth.
Susan Torres, a cancer-stricken, 26-year-old researcher at the National Institutes of Health, suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma spread to her brain.
Her family decided to keep her alive to give her fetus a chance. It became a race between the fetus’ development and the cancer that was ravaging the woman’s body.
Doctors said that Torres’ health was deteriorating and that the risk of harm to the fetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy.
Torres gave birth to a daughter, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, by Caesarean section on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center. The baby was born about two months premature and weighed 1 pound, 13 ounces. She was in the neonatal intensive care unit. The child is reported healthy by doctors.
A Web site was set up to help raise money for the family’s mounting medical bills, and as of two weeks ago, people from around the world had donated around $400,000. The family said it must pay tens of thousands of dollars each week that insurance does not cover.
This is definitely a miracle (at least a medical miracle) of 20th century. But it has raiased some other issues and findings:
A lot of public opinion was against this, but the family and doctors put their best to ensure it. What do you think about these sort of cases? Should medical science be limited?
People, who think that women are not as strong as men, must change their views. This is just an example of how strong a woman can be.
Re: Women can still offer miracles: Brain-dead woman who gave birth to girl dies
Actually there was another black woman before who was in coma for 5 or 6 months and gave birth to a baby boy. In the beginning doctora thought that baby won't szurvive more then a month but couple months back her grandmother celebrated his 1st birthday.:)
But ya the power of Allah is beyond our imaginations.