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Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge From: ainsron (ainsron@sbcglobal.net) Fri Mar 12 10:36:25 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: art fougner, md: "GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" In reply to: art fougner, md: "GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Next in thread: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" If you read the link to the SL Tribune article and see the details of the case, this woman had significant mental illness, history alcoholism and drug abuse. To say what she did is akin to murder is grossly ignorant of the facts as presented. If the doctors had obtained a court order, they could possibly have saved this child. http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Mar/03122004/utah/147031.asp Ronald E. Ainsworth -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of art fougner, md Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 6:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge SALT LAKE CITY Stillbirth is called murder A woman who officials say ignored her doctors' warnings to have a cesarean section to save her twins was charged Thursday with murder after one of the babies was stillborn. Melissa Rowland, 28, exhibited a "depraved indifference to human life" that caused the baby's death, prosecutors said. An autopsy showed the baby died two days before its Jan. 13 delivery and that it would have lived if Rowland had undergone a C-section, as her doctors urged, between Dec. 25 and Jan. 9. A nurse told police that Rowland said a cesarean would "ruin her life" and that she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that." http://www.freep.com/news/nw/nat12_20040312.htm art -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: art fougner, md: "GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" In reply to: art fougner, md: "GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Next in thread: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge"

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