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Painful decisions thrust on families  view story
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
MARLON MANUEL and DON FERNANDEZ - - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Like the parents of Terri Schiavo, Nonnie Hawkins fought for her pregnant daughter, in spite of doctors who said her child would never recover from a severe brain trauma.
Physicians had debated how to sustain Hawkins' daughter. Months later, doctors removed the teenager from life support.
It was a year ago that Hawkins' daughter, 18-year- old Tara, died after 15 1/2 weeks in a coma. Just two days earlier, Tara had delivered a baby boy more than three months premature. The birth defied the projections of doctors who had never heard of a comatose mother delivering a baby of such short gestation — and without labor being induced.
Hawkins supports the intervention by Congress and President Bush in the Schiavo case.
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