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...doctors discovered that the pale and distressingly listless baby had CF. The disease strikes one in 1,000 children, is always fatal, but ravages its victims first. Girls suffer more than boys and die at a faster rate. To prolong Alex's life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy...
...celebrated life-and-death legal struggles intensified on both coasts over the Christmas holidays. In New York, the severely handicapped Baby Jane Doe, now almost three months old, became the subject of a third lawsuit intended to prolong her life. In California, Cerebral Palsy Victim Elizabeth Bouvia was denied the right to starve herself to death in a Riverside hospital and was force-fed despite her bitter resistance...
...decision came after nearly two years of debate between the university and the magazine's editors. But the magazine publishers will appeal the decision and prolong the dispute, according to Kathleen K. Kilpatrick, director of the American Literary Society, the corporation which funds the magazine...
...with a protruding spinal cord and a host of other congenital defects; doctors believe she will be almost totally disabled and severely retarded for as long as she lives. After agonized consultations with medical experts and religious counselors, her parents decided not to authorize major surgery that might prolong Baby Jane's life. A right-to-life activist lawyer sought to force the surgery, but two New York appeals courts and a state children's agency declined to override the parents. Justice then sued to obtain the records from University Hospital in Stony Brook, N.Y., to determine whether...
...into whether there had been a violation of a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped. The suit is the latest action in a year-old Reagan Administration campaign, initiated after an Indiana baby was allowed to die, and designed to force hospitals to do whatever is necessary to prolong the life of handicapped newborns. University Hospital officials are fighting to protect the confidentiality of the records...