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Baby Doe

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Baby Doe
An infant with Down syndrome born in April, 1982, in Indiana who had a tracheo-oesophageal fistula that required surgery for the infant’s prolonged survival; given the infant’s anticipated poor quality of life, the parents decided to withhold treatment with the approval of the local court and the child died within 6 days


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9780806138251 Baby Doe Tabor; the madwoman in the cabin.
SA Mention names such as Calamity Jane or Baby Doe and they might evoke today's romanticized images of 19th and early 20th century women in the West as portrayed in films and popular fiction.
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