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Article: Baby of rape victim brain dead - State faces decision on ending life support.
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 2, 1998
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"Baby Girl," born more than three months premature to a comatose rape victim, is brain dead despite extraordinary efforts to overcome the medical odds, a source told the Herald yesterday.
"The baby is brain dead," said one source familiar with the baby's struggle to live. "There's not much hope."
State social services officials, who have custody of the baby, now have the controversial decision whether to end life support.
After 11 days of hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, the tiny infant remained yesterday in critical condition.
The baby was born Oct. 23 in the Lawrence ...