The Daily Press reports that an emergency room physician is being blamed in a lawsuit for the death of a Virginia woman who, following her lapse into an irreversible coma, was artificially kept on life support long enough to deliver her baby. The infant was prematurely delivered, weighing less than two pounds, but she died at the age of 5 weeks. The lawsuit alleges that the death of the baby was also the doctor's fault. Court filings allege that the doctor misdiagnosed the mother's symptoms as mere morning sickness when she presented at the emergency room. She suffered brain death from a hemorrhage later that day. According to the Daily Press, the case is remarkable from a legal standpoint in that it raises unique questions about the responsibility of a physician to a person not yet born at the time of an alleged incident of negligence.