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Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge From: ainsron (ainsron@sbcglobal.net) Fri Mar 12 11:33:37 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" I agree that it is a slippery slope. From what I see, this woman did not have the capacity to make a decision regarding how or when her baby should be delivered. If she didn't have the capacity to make that decision, she should not be prosecuted for murder of the child. The bigger question is that if she didn't have the capacity to make a decision for herself and her child, why didn't she have a court appointed conservator to make that decision? Did her physicians meet their obligation to her and to her child, or did she even have a physician? It sounded like she simply dropped in and out of the system, visiting different hospitals at different times with no one "responsible" for her. 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 9:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge IMHO a dangerous precedent - the slippery slope beckons - I am interested in what this group thinks. art At Fri, 12 Mar 2004, ainsron wrote: > >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 > -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge"

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