Four cases involving babies born to their brain-dead mums

Last July a healthy baby girl, Faith, was born at 35 weeks’ gestation in Alaska.

For the previous 23 weeks, her mother Jessie Ayagalria had been in a coma on life support so that her baby would survive.

Ms Ayagalria had suffered a massive heart attack. Early on in the coma, it was established that she had little brain activity and would not survive.