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Re: More info on the woman w/twins charged for refusing C/section From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Mon Mar 15 12:45:15 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Charlie Chambers: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Change of subject Mag Sulfate on L&D" In reply to: Valerie Jacobsen: "Re: More info on the woman w/twins charged for refusing C/section" In other words, they took her OUT of the hospital and put her in jail, possibly less than 24 hours, and no more than 48 hours after major abdominal surgery. Yikes! -- Anna Meenan, MD At Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Valerie Jacobsen wrote: > >>>Wait till you see the photo of this woman-they should have put her on a 72 hr >>>psychiatric hold: >>> >>>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/11/mother.charged.ap > >>Now that's cool, we lock someone up from the looks. >> >>Why not send the thought police around and lock up everybody that >>doesn't fit your ide of biometry. > >Yes. > >Leaving aside for the moment whatever this woman's psychiatric state may >have been when this picture was taken, I wonder how well we should >expect an otherwise mentally healthy women to look in this circumstance! > >On 1/13, after over two weeks of repeated visits to hospitals with >requests that the babies be assessed, Rowland had an unwanted, emergency >surgery that delivered a dead baby. She also took the first step in >giving a second baby up for adoption (as planned well before the birth). > >On 1/14, she was arrested, questioned, and jailed. If this picture >shows a sane woman, it also shows a grieving, regretful, emotionally >exhausted woman, probably in great physical pain. > >I've had enough experience with grief, bad outcomes, and recovery from >major surgery to report that I've seen some capable women looking not >much better than this under less trying circumstances. > >-- >Valerie Jacobsen, RN, BSN, MS > Next message: Charlie Chambers: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Change of subject Mag Sulfate on L&D" In reply to: Valerie Jacobsen: "Re: More info on the woman w/twins charged for refusing C/section"

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