[GeronL]

Bad reporting.

Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, had refused medical treatment, saying she would rather die than go to either of the two recommended hospitals, and that being cut "from breast bone to pubic bone" would ruin her life, the county District Attorney's Office alleges in a probable-cause statement filed in 3rd District Court.

The woman says she never said it, this reporter should be taken out and flogged. The woman said she had already had 2 c-sections and another wasn't going to add scars. She totally disputes the assertions.

But the reporter had stated it as a fact.

[ECM]

"What we're trying to send is the message that someone has to stand up for a child who could have been alive," he said.

I don't even know where to begin...

[Cicero]

This is a sad business, but bringing a murder charge makes very little sense.

[armyboy]

"What we're trying to send is the message that someone has to stand up for a child who could have been alive," he said.
if the woman wants an abortion, it's a lump of tissue. In this case it's a child? talk about hypocrisy

[glock rocks]

Melissa Rowland

[Paleo Conservative]

This case is very scary. I'm appalled that any state could indict anyone for refusing to undergo a surgical procedure. I really can't support the notion that the government has the right to tell me I must let someone operate on my body.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

This woman has a husband, a boyfriend, 4 children, one of which is dead. She also has the ability to find coke, smokes and booze.

[shetlan]

An obese, mentally ill, woman refusing to "being cut from breast to pubic bone" during a difficult pregnancy is in jail only two days after giving birth!?

This is so incredibly callous. Where are her "caregivers."?

[TheDon]

Too bad the doctor didn't force the c section on the woman. Probably would have been a good idea to tie her tubes while at it.

[Cboldt]

It kinda opens the door to many stillborns, where mom didn't follow doctors orders, can be colored as murder.

The human condition is far from perfect, and IMO, it is arrogant on the part of the law, to think it can remedy the human condition. Murder? In Jail? Behold the infallible power of the state. Bah.

[Marie]

If a doctor says this will be a very difficult pregnancy and you should get complete bed rest for the last three months and the mother doesn't and the baby is stillborn, is she guilty of murder? If she smokes, is it murder? If she doesn't eat right, is it murder?"

If she get's an abortion, is it murder??

What I find frightening is that I've gone against doctor's orders when I KNEW something didn't smell right and it was always for the better. Sheesh, I've got some horror stories! I understand that this situation is unique, but I'm concerned that a win for the state will really set us up for some very bad thinking down the road.

[ZGuy]

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