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The end of the year is when reporters choose their best stories of the year for contest entries. My most poignant assignment in 2005 concerned Susan Ann Catherine Torres, born 13 weeks premature on Aug. 2 and weighing less than two pounds.
Her mother, Susan Torres, 26, had suffered a brain aneurism from melanoma complications on May 7 and was pronounced brain-dead at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlingon. Husband Jason Torres decided to try to keep his wife alive until his daughter, then four months in utero, could live outside the womb.
For the next three months, it was nip and tuck as to whether Susan Ann would make it. When she was finally born, doctors pronounced her unusually healthy at a jubilant press conference.
Five weeks and five days later, she fell victim to a deadly intestinal infection. In the last hour of her life, she was removed from the respirator and placed in her father’s arms.
“The doctors expected her to die within a minute or two,” Mary Ann Kreitzer, a friend of the family, recently wrote in her Les Femmes newsletter. “She confounded their expectations. Like her mom, little Susan was a fighter, the spark of life like a hot ember.
“Lying in her daddy’s arms, she struggled for every breath, raising her oxygen level far above what the doctors thought she could do on her own.” “She wanted to live,” the child’s grandmother told Mrs. Kreitzer. “She wanted to stay with her daddy. She loved her daddy … All these people who talk so cavalierly about abortion need to know these babies want to live. We’ve got to stop killing them.”
Three days after Christmas, there’s a dark feast day, the Slaughter of the Innocents, which commemorates the many boys ages 2 and under who were killed by King Herod’s soldiers in their unsuccessful search for the Christ child.
Susan Ann was a wanted child. Many other children aren’t so lucky. For every Christmas celebration, there’s a Slaughter of the Innocents. As Paul Harvey would say, that’s the rest of the story.
— Julia Duin, The Washington Times Religion Writer
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Her mother, Susan Torres, 26, had suffered a brain aneurism from melanoma complications on May 7 and was pronounced brain-dead at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlingon. Husband Jason Torres decided to try to keep his wife alive until his daughter, then four months in utero, could live outside the womb.
For the next three months, it was nip and tuck as to whether Susan Ann would make it. When she was finally born, doctors pronounced her unusually healthy at a jubilant press conference.
Five weeks and five days later, she fell victim to a deadly intestinal infection. In the last hour of her life, she was removed from the respirator and placed in her father’s arms.
“The doctors expected her to die within a minute or two,” Mary Ann Kreitzer, a friend of the family, recently wrote in her Les Femmes newsletter. “She confounded their expectations. Like her mom, little Susan was a fighter, the spark of life like a hot ember.
“Lying in her daddy’s arms, she struggled for every breath, raising her oxygen level far above what the doctors thought she could do on her own.” “She wanted to live,” the child’s grandmother told Mrs. Kreitzer. “She wanted to stay with her daddy. She loved her daddy … All these people who talk so cavalierly about abortion need to know these babies want to live. We’ve got to stop killing them.”
Three days after Christmas, there’s a dark feast day, the Slaughter of the Innocents, which commemorates the many boys ages 2 and under who were killed by King Herod’s soldiers in their unsuccessful search for the Christ child.
Susan Ann was a wanted child. Many other children aren’t so lucky. For every Christmas celebration, there’s a Slaughter of the Innocents. As Paul Harvey would say, that’s the rest of the story.
— Julia Duin, The Washington Times Religion Writer
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