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[holzman_tweed]

Get on the horn to your congress critters about this one early and often. A woman in Utah is being charged with murder on the grounds that she refused a C-section and her baby was stillborn.

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[aliza250.livejournal.com]

A simple explanation of the story: http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=80598

A bit more background: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8953392%255E1702,00.html

According to CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/12/mother.charged.ap/index.html at one hospital, "Rowland left after signing a document stating that she understood that leaving might result in death or brain injury to one or both twins, the doctor told police." - so presumably at that time nobody was telling her that she might face criminal charges. Doesn't that make the doctor an accessory to murder for not getting the police to detain her?

Of course, one side-effect of this will be women avoiding pre-natal care, since they might get in trouble for ignoring advice they didn't want to take.