Stephanie lived Kin 2, 5 years without a brain

American girl named Stephanie Keane, better known as Baby K, was born with a rare disease - anencephaly. This means that the brain she was absent. Of course, the girl's skull was not completely empty - the brain stem, which is responsible for breathing, heart and blood pressure cycle, after all was developed almost like a normal person.

The girl's mother refused to terminate the pregnancy, but found out about the daughter's illness already in the second month, explaining the principles of Christian morality. Doctors Hospital, where she was born Stefani, were forced to connect it to an artificial lung ventilation, because the child always had problems with breathing. Doctors advised the mother to agree to a failure to maintain life, but she refused, and eventually it came to court.

Stephanie's parents won court, thereby creating the first ever precedent and forcing all states of America to adopt a law - to provide the necessary medical care to all patients regardless of their ability to perceive their environment and health.

Later, the girl died in the same hospital, where he was born, at the age of 2 years and 174 days. Usually, children with this disease live a few hours to weeks. Sustaining life Stephanie spent about $ 500 thousand.

via factroom.ru