I heard this on Paul Harvey
Published on March 13, 2004 By GemCityJoe In Current Events
I was listening to Paul Harvey this past Friday afternoon and I heard him talking about this. I didn't get the town where this actually happened but maybe someone else has more information that they could post.
It seems that there was a certain woman who became pregnant with twins. The doctors warned her thet if she had the twins by natural child birth that the babies would not survive and she was encouraged to have them through surgical proceedures.
She absolutely refused to do this and insisted on having them naturally.
She ended up having things her own way and she had the twins through natural child birth. One of the twins was fine but the other was still-born.
Now the mother is being charged with murder.
I don't understand this. Shouldn't a woman have the right to choose the way in which she wants to bring her children into the world? Shouldn't any person male or female be able to decide whether or not they wish to have surgery? GCJ
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on Mar 14, 2004
This is how I see it: If we're not supposed to tell a woman how to give birth if the natural way is going to kill one of her children, then we shouldn't tell parents how to raise kids in general, even if it kills them.
on Mar 17, 2004
I agree 100%. Who could have know for sure that one of the twins would be born dead.
on Mar 17, 2004

Read the whole story at:  http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Mar/03122004/utah/147031.asp

She *knew* that *both* babies were in distress.  She could have killed both of them.  She was also on cocaine.

I have two thoughts on this from two angles-
1) The hospital could have petitioned to get a guardian appointed for the babies and forced her to have the operation.  She was obviously not mentally capable of handling the situation.
2) If the tables were turned and a baby died after a C-Section, would the doctor go to jail because the mother wanted to have a natural birth?

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