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Brain-dead woman kept alive for two months so her baby could be born

Baby boy Angel will never know his mum Karla   PHOTO   ;   COURTESY

US: A woman who was left brain-dead while pregnant was kept alive by doctors for nearly two months so her baby could be born.

Karla Perez, 22, was already expecting her second child in February when she collapsed in her Nebraska home from a catastrophic hemorrhage.

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