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Woman Refuses Caesarean, Charged With Murder
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| 3-12-04
Posted on 03/12/2004 6:16:18 AM PST by truthandlife
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:39:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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As Melissa Ann Rowland's unborn twins got closer to birth, doctors repeatedly told her they would likely die if she did not have a Caesarean (search) section. She refused, and one later was stillborn.
Authorities charged 28-year-old Rowland with murder on Thursday, saying she exhibited "depraved indifference to human life," according to court documents. One nurse told police that Rowland said she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that."
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To: truthandlife
Paging Irony, you're needed in ward 12
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:18:00 AM PST
by
Crazieman
To: truthandlife
The doctor who performed an autopsy found that the fetus died two days before delivery and would have survived if Rowland had undergone a C-section when urged to do so. Well, there you go. Had she obtained an abortion after the fetus was dead but before delivery, it would have been hunky-dory. Why didn't anybody think of that?
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:23:00 AM PST
by
Physicist
To: Crazieman
Indeed. Had the doctors determined that the mother's life had been "in danger" they would have happily gone in to collapse the skull of one or both of the infants in utero. In cases like that, half of the people involved in the pregnancy die -- or two-thirds if both twins were killed by the doctor. In the actual case, two-thirds of the people involved managed to survive, and the doctors are personally offended.
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:23:19 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(You can see it coming like a train on a track.)
To: Crazieman
No kidding. She could have aborted both anywhere along the way and no one would have said a word.
She needs no reason to refuse a C-Section just as she'd have needed no reason to abort. Woman's body argument.
I wait anxiously as this plays out.
CG
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:23:38 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I'm armed. Isn't everyone?)
To: Crazieman
Paging Irony, you're needed in ward 12 Well put
What message did the government apparatus think it was sending with Roe v. Wade ?
She was warned about the medical consequences. Was she warned about the legal consequences?
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:26:19 AM PST
by
Consort
To: truthandlife
What also may be going on here is an emerging theory of pre-emptive defense of the doc . Fearing he'll be blamed, he sets in motion a case against the mother. The idea that he's anxious to perform an abortion is absurd.
We'll be seeing more of this kind of defensive medicine--as in, the best defence is a good offence.
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:26:31 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: truthandlife
Being a mom myself, I would walk through fire for any of my kids.
Most parents would.
I am strongly pro-life.
However, as much as I despise her not having the c-section, I have a problem with charging some one with a crime for refusing major surgery.
In this case, the woman sounded very uniformed about the operation.
9
posted on
03/12/2004 6:26:48 AM PST
by
MaryFromMichigan
( "The Passion" If you loved the Book, you'll love the movie)
To: truthandlife
Interesting. I don't see this as a question of abortion, but rather of the right to choose what kind of surgery you want performed on you.
10
posted on
03/12/2004 6:26:53 AM PST
by
Modernman
("The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must." - Thucydides)
To: truthandlife
now if she wanted to have a partial-birth abortion everything would be fine.
Let's see here a doctor can abort a partially born baby and not get into trouble, but if a mom-to-be that want to have a natural birth and the baby dies it's murder.
thats stupid.
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:27:21 AM PST
by
armyboy
(Posting from Sustainer Army Airfield Balad, Iraq. All Gave Some...Some Gave All. 56 more days!)
To: truthandlife
The pictures I've seen of her would seem to imply that she is of insufficient mental capacity to be able to make complex decisions. Not to say that she has no culpability but she does look to be mentally disabled or severely incapacitated by past drug use.
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:27:45 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Of course, they made her sign a paper saying they might die. But notice that only one died. The doctors probably wished that they both died so they could be REALLY right.
13
posted on
03/12/2004 6:29:36 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Sacajaweau
It is absurd.
14
posted on
03/12/2004 6:31:33 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Of course I'm armed. Isn't everyone?)
To: truthandlife
This is outrageous. Are people suppose to be arrested for not making the politically correct choice?
To: truthandlife
I am very pro-life.
But I cannot agree with charging a woman for murder for choosing the 'wrong' medical choice.
If a parent chooses chemo, instead of radiation, and it is determined that the chosen treatment hastened death, are we going to charge THOSE parents with murder?
If the doctors had made the wrong choice and killed one of the babies, would THEY be tried for murder? Of course not. That is what malpractice insurance is for.
To: truthandlife
Was there something preventing the doctors from administering pitocin to bring on labor? Seems like that would have been preferable to letting her flat turn down the C-section.
In any event I think a charge of murder is ridiculous and hypocritical in the extreme.
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:37:03 AM PST
by
T.Smith
To: 11th Earl of Mar
You echo my thoughts- post 9
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:37:20 AM PST
by
MaryFromMichigan
( "The Passion" If you loved the Book, you'll love the movie)
To: All
And the genepool marches on...
Melissa Ann Rowland
To: BikePacker
Should accompany that with a warning
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