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Dear Abby readers urge photos of dying babies in hospitals
Readers share a plea for newborn photo records from nurseries noting families who lose babies often never see their child. A letter praises a nurse who took a dying baby’s photo and urges hospitals to keep images for grieving parents. A separate reply from Kirk Douglas discusses nursing home care activism.
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Abby
Elsie Sieben
Brockton
Mass
Vermont
California
Claude D. Pepper
Committee On
Rep
Pepper
Sen
John Heinz
John Glenn
Congress
Campaign For Quality Care
Washington
16Th St. N.W
Washington, D.C
Kirk Douglas