No Caesarean leads to murder charge
Thursday, March 11, 2004 Posted: 8:08 PM EST (0108 GMT)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- 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 January 13 delivery and that it would have survived if Rowland had had a C-section when her doctors urged her to, between Christmas and January 9. The other baby is alive, but authorities had no further information.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/11/mother.charged.ap/index.html <---Rest of article.
Should she be charged with murder?
What about certain religious groups who refuse to take their children to the hospital because of their religious beliefs? How is this any different?
Should the government be allowed to force people into having operations and/or taking medications?
Thursday, March 11, 2004 Posted: 8:08 PM EST (0108 GMT)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- 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 January 13 delivery and that it would have survived if Rowland had had a C-section when her doctors urged her to, between Christmas and January 9. The other baby is alive, but authorities had no further information.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/11/mother.charged.ap/index.html <---Rest of article.
Should she be charged with murder?
What about certain religious groups who refuse to take their children to the hospital because of their religious beliefs? How is this any different?
Should the government be allowed to force people into having operations and/or taking medications?