Woman charged after refusing Caesarean

[hedgetrimmer]

~SNIP~
Autopsy showed 2nd twin would have survived with procedureThe Associated Press
Updated: 10:42 p.m. ET March 11, 2004SALT LAKE CITY -

A pregnant woman who allegedly ignored medical warnings to have a Caesarean section to save her twins was charged Thursday with murder after one of the babies was stillborn.

Prosecutors said Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, didn’t want the scars that accompany the surgery.

An autopsy found the baby died two days before its Jan. 13 delivery and that it would have survived if Rowland had had a C-section when her doctors urged her to, between Christmas and Jan.9. The other baby is alive, but authorities had no further information.

The doctors had warned that without a C-section, the twins would probably die, authorities said. A nurse told police Rowland said a Caesarean would “ruin her life” and she would rather “lose one of the babies than be cut like that.”

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link: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4509692/

[BruinAlum]

1. *sigh*

[Wonk]

2. There's a big thread on this in GD already...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1219454&mesg_id=1219454

[lazarus]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=415729&mesg_id=415729