Friday, June 09, 2006

Pregnant women bound to doctors recommendations?

That is from Lee Salisbury, a former evangelical preacher who questions the current trend in politics, with her Critical Thinking Club of Minnesota.

In January, a doctor at a Salt Lake City hospital told Rowland she should have an emergency C-section if she wanted to save the life of one of the twins she was carrying. Rowland delayed, but eleven days later had the C-section and one of the babies was born dead. An autopsy showed the baby would probably have lived had the C-section been performed when the doctor ordered it. Prosecutors in Utah charged Rowland with first-degree murder, citing "depraved indifference to human life." Police immediately imprisoned Rowland and held her on $300,000 bail.

Or consider Angela Carder. “In 1987, when Carder was pregnant and critically ill with cancer, the doctors in her Washington hospital got a court order to try to save her fetus. Mother and fetus died in surgery.”

The result? "Effectively, the pregnant woman is a human incubator and has no rights."

The real conflict has become between the pregnant woman’s choice and the raw power of the state acting on Pro-Life inspired legislation...

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