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Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Fri Mar 12 16:09:00 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: rmodugno@aol.com: "Group wants 'alternate courts' for medical malpractice suits" Previous message: Gail Waldby: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" In reply to: art fougner, md: "GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" OK, here's my (hypothetical) question: If a child develops end-stage kidney or liver disease and his father is the only tissue match for a kidney or partial liver donation, can the father be charged with murder if he refuses to undergo surgery to save his child's life? HMMMMMMM................ -- Anna Meenan, MD At Fri, 12 Mar 2004, art fougner, md wrote: > >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: rmodugno@aol.com: "Group wants 'alternate courts' for medical malpractice suits" Previous message: Gail Waldby: "Re: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" In reply to: art fougner, md: "GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GEN: Cesarean Refusal Results In Murder Charge"

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