[thoughtomator]

Awful as the consequences may have been, I'm not comfortable at all with charging someone with criminal penalties for refusing a medical procedure.

[GrandEagle]

I'm not comfortable at all with charging someone with criminal penalties for refusing a medical procedure.
Valid point. In my view it sort of depends on when you think a child is a child. If, for example, one of my children had say ... pneumonia. The doctors told me that death was likely unless my child was hospitalized. I refused, she died. Am I guilty of neglect therefore causing the death of my child?

I do understand what might complicate the issue is the location of her child.

[Windsong]

Your post probably makes more sense than all the rest. Too bad the gubmint posters here will side against you..sigh.

[TigersEye]

Awful as the consequences may have been, I'm not comfortable at all with charging someone with criminal penalties for refusing a medical procedure.

She had the choice to kill her babies willfully. But that's different; she doesn't (apparently) have the choice to refuse state mandated surgeries.

But one has to wonder; why didn't the hospital/doctors/nurses call the authorities before a life was lost? Why aren't the doctors/hospital/nurses being charged since they assisted in a normal delivery since that has been characterized as "depraved indifference to human life," when C-section was an option? If choosing a normal delivery was criminal in this case they couldn't be forced to participate just because she refused.