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This is one of the most heartbreaking love stories I've ever heard. God bless this family.
1 posted on 08/02/2005 7:19:52 PM PDT by CO Gal
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To: NYer

Ping


2 posted on 08/02/2005 7:22:27 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Eastern Catholicism: tonic for the lapsed Catholic)
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To: CO Gal
Brain-dead woman gives birth to baby girl

Heck - Hillary did that years ago (well, girl by genetics; if not present appearance).

Seriously: I hope the baby's gonna be okay.

3 posted on 08/02/2005 7:23:13 PM PDT by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: CO Gal

Nice to hear this happened in VA, where the law is automatically pro-life.

A lot of people think that VA has antiquated laws, but can you imagine this happening in New York or CA?


4 posted on 08/02/2005 7:31:23 PM PDT by japaneseghost
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To: CO Gal

Praying for baby Susan


5 posted on 08/02/2005 7:33:37 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: CO Gal

More info at ... I searched the Google news site and got this,

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Susan+Torres&btnG=Search+News


9 posted on 08/02/2005 7:42:24 PM PDT by JockoManning (www.biblegateway.com)
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To: CO Gal

Show's you the grace of God is alive and well, and all the more reason to keep up the good fight against the culture of death promoted by the likes of NORAL, NOW and the other leftists.


13 posted on 08/02/2005 7:49:35 PM PDT by Mister_Diddy_Wa_Diddy
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To: CO Gal
It's sick and ghoulish. With the girl not even two lbs, what kind of health and developmental problems will she endure? No mother either.

This is a perversion of the natural order of things by a selfish family and their deceased daughter.

14 posted on 08/02/2005 7:54:15 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Choose LIFE. Circumcision = Barbarism. It's HIS body; what about HIS right to choose?)
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To: CO Gal; NYer; Salvation; trussell; Faith

Prayers sent from TX.


23 posted on 08/02/2005 8:06:17 PM PDT by TXBSAFH (The pursuit of life, liberty, and higher tax revenue (amended by the supreme 5).)
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To: CO Gal

Absolutely heartwrenching. Prayers for all in this family.


34 posted on 08/02/2005 8:27:12 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (Off-the-cuff-comments are NOT CLEAR and CONVINCING evidence.)
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To: CO Gal

According to U.S. law the mother had no right to life should her NOK claim she'd want to die under these circumstances; and the baby wasn't supposed to be human until months later. As it's written, God will not be mocked.


39 posted on 08/02/2005 8:38:23 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: Brad's Gramma; Texas Termite; M0sby; All
Prayers that this tiny baby will grow and flourish like our very own Texas Termite, who weighed only 1 lb 9.4 oz when he was born and just celebrated his 2nd birthday.

Prayer Request for A Tiny Baby

And prayers for the father, who is dealing with overwhelming grief and joy at the same time. May the Lord give him strength and comfort, patience and fortitude!

47 posted on 08/02/2005 9:21:28 PM PDT by kayak (Have you prayed for your President today?)
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To: CO Gal; Texas Termite; LaDivaLoca; wingnuts'nbolts; manna; Okies love Dubya 2; Fawnn; ...

Logan's Prayer Warriors...remember the baby and the Mommy we were praying for?

Susan Anne Catherine Torres needs a Logan miracle!!

kayak...THANKS for the ping!!


49 posted on 08/02/2005 9:25:52 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: CO Gal; Brad's Gramma; 4woodenboats; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Accountable One; Aeronaut; ...
Prayer ping.


My prayers go up for this baby, the mother, and the family. God's protection over the baby. God's comfort and calm for her friends and family. God grant the mother rest.

Blessings,
trussell

If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

56 posted on 08/02/2005 9:44:44 PM PDT by trussell (Prayers for the children!)
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To: TXBubba

ping


58 posted on 08/02/2005 9:48:59 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: CO Gal
Prayers for the child and the families involved.


Susan Torres's cancer spread from her brain to her other vital organs. (AP)




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She had hoped for a girl, and at 8:18 a.m. yesterday Susan Anne Catherine Torres was delivered by Caesarean section at Virginia Hospital Center. The newborn weighed 1 pound, 13 ounces and was 13.5 inches long. There were no complications during delivery, and the baby appears healthy, said her uncle, Justin Torres. The hospital confirmed the birth and said the baby is being monitored in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Meanwhile, Susan Torres's husband, Jason, who has slept by his wife's side for three months, who has decorated her room with pictures, held her hand and talked to her, faced the moment he knew would come.

Sometime -- perhaps today or tomorrow, if it hasn't happened already -- his wife's body, full of cancer, will be unhooked from the web of machinery that has kept it going for the past 13 weeks and allowed to die, an end that Jason Torres, other relatives and a team of doctors all agreed was inevitable.

Even as the baby continued to grow during the past several months, Susan Torres's cancer -- melanoma -- grew as well, spreading to her lymph nodes, lungs, liver and other vital organs, relatives said.

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Doctors and family members did not specify why the decision was made to deliver, but that her 26-year-old body had held out this long was beyond what anyone had hoped for in the beginning.

Susan Torres found out she was pregnant in February, and she and Jason, who have a 2-year-old son, Peter, were overjoyed.

Although she had a malformed freckle removed from her arm when she was a teenager, doctors had given her a clean bill of health.

In April, she began complaining of headaches and nausea, symptoms that doctors chalked up to her pregnancy. Then, on May 7, propped up in bed eating dinner, Susan Torres lost consciousness.

At the hospital, doctors told Jason Torres that his wife was brain-dead with no hope of recovery but that there was a slim chance they could keep her body going with machines for the sake of the fetus, which was about 15 weeks old at the time.

More...

59 posted on 08/02/2005 9:54:59 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: CO Gal; trussell

Prayers for the child, mother, and family.


74 posted on 08/03/2005 5:16:53 AM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm sailing on the wide accountancy.)
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To: CO Gal

Amen.


78 posted on 08/03/2005 5:41:44 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama ("Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus" never has better advice been given.)
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To: CO Gal

I pray for little Susan tonight, that she might be the emblem of love to her father and to her family - the physical reminder that love truly never dies.

May God bless this little child, even as her mother be blessed in Heaven.


96 posted on 08/03/2005 8:09:02 PM PDT by dandelion
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