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Unborn Baby Fights to Survive after Mother's Brain Death
Weeks after cancer caused the brain death of 26-year-old Susan Torres, the pregnant mother is still being maintained by machines as her unborn baby continues to thrive in her womb. Hoping to reach at least the 25th week of pregnancy, when the baby has a good chance of survival, Jason Torres of Arlington, Virginia, can only watch and be reassured that his wife would have wanted her baby to have every chance to live.
"There's not a glimmer of doubt in my mind that this is what she would have wanted," Torres told USA Today. "Any chance at all to save the baby, and Susan would have said, 'Let's go for ...