Brain-dead woman dies after childbirth

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Wed Aug-03-05 10:42 PM
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Brain-dead woman dies after childbirth

Edited on Wed Aug-03-05 10:44 PM by ih8thegop

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/08/03/braindead.pregnancy.ap/index.html

ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) -- 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.

"This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family," Justin Torres, the woman's brother-in-law, said in a statement.

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.

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