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Article: Dispute over comatose baby extremely rare, experts say Court battle over whether girl should be taken off life support draws attention
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 2, 1998
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The facts surrounding the dispute over whether a 9-month- old
comatose girl should be taken off life support at Children's
Hospital of Wisconsin make the case extremely rare, not only in
Wisconsin but also nationwide, medical ethicists and legal experts
say.
"It's a very unusual and tragic case," Daniel Blinka, a law
professor at Marquette University, said last week.
Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann has said
that the mother of the infant, already serving a jail sentence for
abusing the child, will be charged with homicide if the baby dies.
That possibility has led the child's court-appointed guardian to
contend it is the fate of the mother and not the best interest ...