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...baboon heart fails, but a doctor defends the transplant...
Though no one expected Fae's survival to be easy, her death last Thursday night came as a surprise. The child, who was born with a fatal defect called hypoplastic left heart, had received the heart of a seven-month-old female baboon on Oct. 26 and made steady progress for the next two weeks. In a touching videotape made just four days after surgery, Baby Fae was seen yawning and stretching, seemingly a normal infant in every respect. By the second week she was no longer dependent on a supplementary oxygen supply or intravenous feeding. (Read "Baby Fae Stuns...
...hospital called Fae's mother within the next two days and, as Bailey explained, proposed the baboon heart transplant. A friend recalls that Teresa "decided she had to do anything possible to try and save her baby's life." Barstow residents who are close to the mother say that she was well aware of the experimental nature of the operation and was not pressured into agreeing...
...were very displeased with the whole situation at Loma Linda," says Aaron Medlock, executive director of the New England Anti-Vivesectionist Society. "We feel a great deal for Baby Fae because she was used, just as the sacrificed baboon, as an animal in an experiment. The public just doesn't understand that the operation did not take place for the benefit of Baby Fae, but for the benefit of researchers...
...probably wouldn't have lived any longer without the baboon heart but now they're both dead," he says. He added that very rarely does a doctor have to make a life or death decision based on killing an animal for the sake of a human being. "Seventy million animals die every year in experiments and almost none of these deaths save the life of a human...