Word: pinheiro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jamie Fiske, 11 months old, had one thing in common with three-year-old Justine Pinheiro, and that disappeared on an operating table in Minneapolis. On Nov. 5 the baby daughter of Charles and Marilyn Fiske of Bridgewater, Mass., underwent six hours of surgery that gave her a new liver and a good chance to recover from biliary atresia, a congenital liver defect that generally leads to death before the age of four. Justine Pinheiro is still waiting for a transplant to give her the same chance. The disparity in their fates raises one of the thorniest ethical questions facing...
...could begrudge a dying baby the means of survival. But Debbie Pinheiro, Justine's mother, admits, "We really get jealous over it." Debbie, 20, and her husband Jose, 24, a welder, have tried to match the Fiskes' effort to focus attention on their daughter's plight. The Pawtucket, R.I., couple have also petitioned their Congressman and been headlined on the front page of the Providence Journal. "I hope that the same thing that happened to the Fiskes happens to us," says Justine's mother. "I'm nobody important, but I'm determined to fight...