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Houston Mother Loses Fight To Keep Baby On Life Support Baby Sun Born With Fatal Genetic Disorder POSTED: 11:23 am EST March 15, 2005 UPDATED: 6:29 pm EST March 15, 2005 HOUSTON -- A critically ill baby at the center of a lengthy court battle died Tuesday shortly after being removed from life support at a Houston hosptal. A judge in Houston on Monday lifted an injunction the mother had won that prevented doctors from halting the care they believed was futile. Sun Hudson was born with a fatal genetic disorder. Wanda Hudson unsuccessfully fought to continue the medical care...

Hospital ends life support of baby 1st U.S. case of its kind is against mom's wish, in accordance with law 10:52 PM CST on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 By BRUCE NICHOLS / The Dallas Morning NEws HOUSTON — In what medical ethicists say is a first in the United States, a hospital acting under state law, with the concurrence of a judge, disconnected a critically ill baby from life support Tuesday over his mother's objections. The baby, Sun Hudson, who'd been on a mechanical ventilator since his birth Sept. 25, died quickly afterward, his mother said. "I held him ......

Sun Hudson, a baby born with a lethal deformity and on a ventilator since birth nearly six months ago, will be disconnected from life support at 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to a lawyer representing the baby's mother.Today, Harris County Probate Court Judge William C. McCulloch reaffirmed an earlier, groundbreaking decision to lift restrictions preventing Texas Children's Hospital from ending life-sustaining treatment for the child.According to bioethicists, no U.S. judge has ever let a hospital discontinue life support on a living baby."I feel bad. I don't have any plans to appeal, at this point," said Mario Caballero, the lawyer for Wanda...