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It's Not About Kids, It's About Women's Choices
Woman Charged With Murder of Unborn Child By ALEXANDRIA SAGE SALT LAKE CITY (March 12) - A woman accused of murder because she allegedly avoided a Caesarean section that could have saved her unborn twin has denied the charge, saying she already had scars from earlier C-sections. Her attorney, meanwhile, said she had a long history of mental illness. Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, was charged Thursday of showing ''depraved indifference to human life,'' ignoring medical advice to deliver her twins by C-section because she didn't want to be scarred. One nurse told police Rowland said she would rather ''lose one of the babies than be cut like that.'' Rowland told Salt Lake City radio station KSL from jail that ''I already have a pretty nasty scar, it doesn't matter at all now,'' The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Her attorney, Michael Sikora, called a C-section major surgery and told the Tribune ''it would come as no surprise that a woman with major mental illness would fear it.'' The documents allege that Rowland was warned numerous times between Christmas and Jan. 9 that her unborn twins would likely die if she did not get immediate medical treatment, the documents allege. When she delivered them on Jan. 13, the twin girl survived but the boy died. Shortly afterward, Rowland was jailed on a child endangerment charge involving the surviving twin, who has been adopted by a family Rowland knows. Rowland told the radio station she has two other children who live with their grandparents in Virginia. Sikora said Rowland moved to Utah with a boyfriend and is either divorced or estranged from her husband. She lives in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan. A spokesman for the district attorney, Kent Morgan, had said earlier that Rowland was married. The case could affect abortion rights and open the door to the prosecution of mothers who smoke or don't follow their obstetrician's diet, said Marguerite Driessen, a law professor at Brigham Young University. ''It's very troubling to have somebody come in and say we're going to charge this mother for murder because we don't like the choices she made,'' she said. The woman sought medical advice in December because she hadn't felt the fetuses move, documents said. Regina Davis, a nurse at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake, told police that during a visit there, Rowland was recommended two hospitals to go to for immediate care. Rowland allegedly said she would rather have both twins die before she went to either of the suggested hospitals. On Jan. 2, a doctor at LDS Hospital saw Rowland and recommended she immediately undergo a C-section based on the results of an ultrasound and the fetus' slowing heart rates. 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. The same day, a nurse at Salt Lake Regional Hospital saw Rowland, who allegedly told her she had left LDS Hospital because the doctor wanted to cut her ''from breast bone to pubic bone,'' a procedure that would ''ruin her life.'' LDS Hospital can't comment on the case because of medical privacy issues and the pending court case, said spokesman Robert Pexton. The doctor who performed an autopsy found that the fetus died two days before delivery and would have survived if Rowland had undergone a C-section when urged to do so. It was not immediately clear how far along Rowland was in her pregnancy. She was charged in Salt Lake County with one first-degree felony count of criminal homicide. Rowland was being held on $250,000 bail at the Salt Lake County jail, and was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. If convicted, she could be sentenced to between five years and life in prison. ''We are unable to find any reason other than the cosmetic motivations by the mother'' for her decision, Morgan said. Caesarean sections usually involve delivery through a surgical incision in the abdomen and front wall of the uterus. Dr. Christian Morgan, a family practice doctor who regularly performs C-sections at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, said he had never seen vertical skin incisions performed at LDS Hospital for a first-time C-section. ''Even when you need to get a baby out in minutes, it can still be done in the bikini incision,'' Christian Morgan said. |
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It's Not About Kids, It's About Women's Choices
"GudGye11" wrote in message ... Woman Charged With Murder of Unborn Child By ALEXANDRIA SAGE SALT LAKE CITY (March 12) - A woman accused of murder because she allegedly avoided a Caesarean section that could have saved her unborn twin has denied the charge, saying she already had scars from earlier C-sections. Her attorney, meanwhile, said she had a long history of mental illness. Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, was charged Thursday of showing ''depraved indifference to human life,'' ignoring medical advice to deliver her twins by C-section because she didn't want to be scarred. One nurse told police Rowland said she would rather ''lose one of the babies than be cut like that.'' Rowland told Salt Lake City radio station KSL from jail that ''I already have a pretty nasty scar, it doesn't matter at all now,'' The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Her attorney, Michael Sikora, called a C-section major surgery and told the Tribune ''it would come as no surprise that a woman with major mental illness would fear it.'' ---------------------- When my sister-in-law ended up having to have a caesarean with her first kid the doctor told her that she shouldn't have anymore because a c-section weakens the uterus and such. Of course she went ahead and had two more anyway, both c-sections. Brilliant woman, (sarcasm) -------------------- The documents allege that Rowland was warned numerous times between Christmas and Jan. 9 that her unborn twins would likely die if she did not get immediate medical treatment, the documents allege. When she delivered them on Jan. 13, the twin girl survived but the boy died. Shortly afterward, Rowland was jailed on a child endangerment charge involving the surviving twin, who has been adopted by a family Rowland knows. Rowland told the radio station she has two other children who live with their grandparents in Virginia. Sikora said Rowland moved to Utah with a boyfriend and is either divorced or estranged from her husband. She lives in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan. A spokesman for the district attorney, Kent Morgan, had said earlier that Rowland was married. The case could affect abortion rights and open the door to the prosecution of mothers who smoke or don't follow their obstetrician's diet, said Marguerite Driessen, a law professor at Brigham Young University. --------------------- What about women, (and men), who know that the chances are great of passing on some horrible genetic problem to any kids they have? But still just HAVE to have one no matter how much the kid may suffer. Or women who take fertility drugs and either have the extra embryos 'removed' so that the one or two has a better chance or (in my opinion far worse) go ahead and have a freak litter of five or six or more, all of which are either born too soon, always far underweight, having to spend their first months hooked up to machines, costing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars,(that we all pay in higher insurance rates), and end up having lifelong health problems. These are easily as or more horrible than a woman choosing to forego a c-section. People who just HAVE to have a baby no matter what kind of hell that childs life may be are selfish to a degree I can't even fathom and those are the ones who should be charged with endangerment. ~AZ~ ------------------------ ''It's very troubling to have somebody come in and say we're going to charge this mother for murder because we don't like the choices she made,'' she said. The woman sought medical advice in December because she hadn't felt the fetuses move, documents said. Regina Davis, a nurse at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake, told police that during a visit there, Rowland was recommended two hospitals to go to for immediate care. Rowland allegedly said she would rather have both twins die before she went to either of the suggested hospitals. On Jan. 2, a doctor at LDS Hospital saw Rowland and recommended she immediately undergo a C-section based on the results of an ultrasound and the fetus' slowing heart rates. 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. The same day, a nurse at Salt Lake Regional Hospital saw Rowland, who allegedly told her she had left LDS Hospital because the doctor wanted to cut her ''from breast bone to pubic bone,'' a procedure that would ''ruin her life.'' LDS Hospital can't comment on the case because of medical privacy issues and the pending court case, said spokesman Robert Pexton. The doctor who performed an autopsy found that the fetus died two days before delivery and would have survived if Rowland had undergone a C-section when urged to do so. It was not immediately clear how far along Rowland was in her pregnancy. She was charged in Salt Lake County with one first-degree felony count of criminal homicide. Rowland was being held on $250,000 bail at the Salt Lake County jail, and was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. If convicted, she could be sentenced to between five years and life in prison. ''We are unable to find any reason other than the cosmetic motivations by the mother'' for her decision, Morgan said. Caesarean sections usually involve delivery through a surgical incision in the abdomen and front wall of the uterus. Dr. Christian Morgan, a family practice doctor who regularly performs C-sections at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, said he had never seen vertical skin incisions performed at LDS Hospital for a first-time C-section. ''Even when you need to get a baby out in minutes, it can still be done in the bikini incision,'' Christian Morgan said. |
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It's Not About Kids, It's About Women's Choices
"GudGye11" wrote in message ... Woman Charged With Murder of Unborn Child By ALEXANDRIA SAGE SALT LAKE CITY (March 12) - A woman accused of murder because she allegedly avoided a Caesarean section that could have saved her unborn twin has denied the charge, saying she already had scars from earlier C-sections. Her attorney, meanwhile, said she had a long history of mental illness. Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, was charged Thursday of showing ''depraved indifference to human life,'' ignoring medical advice to deliver her twins by C-section because she didn't want to be scarred. One nurse told police Rowland said she would rather ''lose one of the babies than be cut like that.'' Rowland told Salt Lake City radio station KSL from jail that ''I already have a pretty nasty scar, it doesn't matter at all now,'' The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Her attorney, Michael Sikora, called a C-section major surgery and told the Tribune ''it would come as no surprise that a woman with major mental illness would fear it.'' ---------------------- When my sister-in-law ended up having to have a caesarean with her first kid the doctor told her that she shouldn't have anymore because a c-section weakens the uterus and such. Of course she went ahead and had two more anyway, both c-sections. Brilliant woman, (sarcasm) -------------------- The documents allege that Rowland was warned numerous times between Christmas and Jan. 9 that her unborn twins would likely die if she did not get immediate medical treatment, the documents allege. When she delivered them on Jan. 13, the twin girl survived but the boy died. Shortly afterward, Rowland was jailed on a child endangerment charge involving the surviving twin, who has been adopted by a family Rowland knows. Rowland told the radio station she has two other children who live with their grandparents in Virginia. Sikora said Rowland moved to Utah with a boyfriend and is either divorced or estranged from her husband. She lives in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan. A spokesman for the district attorney, Kent Morgan, had said earlier that Rowland was married. The case could affect abortion rights and open the door to the prosecution of mothers who smoke or don't follow their obstetrician's diet, said Marguerite Driessen, a law professor at Brigham Young University. --------------------- What about women, (and men), who know that the chances are great of passing on some horrible genetic problem to any kids they have? But still just HAVE to have one no matter how much the kid may suffer. Or women who take fertility drugs and either have the extra embryos 'removed' so that the one or two has a better chance or (in my opinion far worse) go ahead and have a freak litter of five or six or more, all of which are either born too soon, always far underweight, having to spend their first months hooked up to machines, costing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars,(that we all pay in higher insurance rates), and end up having lifelong health problems. These are easily as or more horrible than a woman choosing to forego a c-section. People who just HAVE to have a baby no matter what kind of hell that childs life may be are selfish to a degree I can't even fathom and those are the ones who should be charged with endangerment. ~AZ~ ------------------------ ''It's very troubling to have somebody come in and say we're going to charge this mother for murder because we don't like the choices she made,'' she said. The woman sought medical advice in December because she hadn't felt the fetuses move, documents said. Regina Davis, a nurse at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake, told police that during a visit there, Rowland was recommended two hospitals to go to for immediate care. Rowland allegedly said she would rather have both twins die before she went to either of the suggested hospitals. On Jan. 2, a doctor at LDS Hospital saw Rowland and recommended she immediately undergo a C-section based on the results of an ultrasound and the fetus' slowing heart rates. 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. The same day, a nurse at Salt Lake Regional Hospital saw Rowland, who allegedly told her she had left LDS Hospital because the doctor wanted to cut her ''from breast bone to pubic bone,'' a procedure that would ''ruin her life.'' LDS Hospital can't comment on the case because of medical privacy issues and the pending court case, said spokesman Robert Pexton. The doctor who performed an autopsy found that the fetus died two days before delivery and would have survived if Rowland had undergone a C-section when urged to do so. It was not immediately clear how far along Rowland was in her pregnancy. She was charged in Salt Lake County with one first-degree felony count of criminal homicide. Rowland was being held on $250,000 bail at the Salt Lake County jail, and was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. If convicted, she could be sentenced to between five years and life in prison. ''We are unable to find any reason other than the cosmetic motivations by the mother'' for her decision, Morgan said. Caesarean sections usually involve delivery through a surgical incision in the abdomen and front wall of the uterus. Dr. Christian Morgan, a family practice doctor who regularly performs C-sections at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, said he had never seen vertical skin incisions performed at LDS Hospital for a first-time C-section. ''Even when you need to get a baby out in minutes, it can still be done in the bikini incision,'' Christian Morgan said. |
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It's Not About Kids, It's About Women's Choices
"GudGye11" wrote in message ... Woman Charged With Murder of Unborn Child By ALEXANDRIA SAGE SALT LAKE CITY (March 12) - A woman accused of murder because she allegedly avoided a Caesarean section that could have saved her unborn twin has denied the charge, saying she already had scars from earlier C-sections. Her attorney, meanwhile, said she had a long history of mental illness. Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, was charged Thursday of showing ''depraved indifference to human life,'' ignoring medical advice to deliver her twins by C-section because she didn't want to be scarred. One nurse told police Rowland said she would rather ''lose one of the babies than be cut like that.'' Rowland told Salt Lake City radio station KSL from jail that ''I already have a pretty nasty scar, it doesn't matter at all now,'' The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Her attorney, Michael Sikora, called a C-section major surgery and told the Tribune ''it would come as no surprise that a woman with major mental illness would fear it.'' ---------------------- When my sister-in-law ended up having to have a caesarean with her first kid the doctor told her that she shouldn't have anymore because a c-section weakens the uterus and such. Of course she went ahead and had two more anyway, both c-sections. Brilliant woman, (sarcasm) -------------------- The documents allege that Rowland was warned numerous times between Christmas and Jan. 9 that her unborn twins would likely die if she did not get immediate medical treatment, the documents allege. When she delivered them on Jan. 13, the twin girl survived but the boy died. Shortly afterward, Rowland was jailed on a child endangerment charge involving the surviving twin, who has been adopted by a family Rowland knows. Rowland told the radio station she has two other children who live with their grandparents in Virginia. Sikora said Rowland moved to Utah with a boyfriend and is either divorced or estranged from her husband. She lives in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan. A spokesman for the district attorney, Kent Morgan, had said earlier that Rowland was married. The case could affect abortion rights and open the door to the prosecution of mothers who smoke or don't follow their obstetrician's diet, said Marguerite Driessen, a law professor at Brigham Young University. --------------------- What about women, (and men), who know that the chances are great of passing on some horrible genetic problem to any kids they have? But still just HAVE to have one no matter how much the kid may suffer. Or women who take fertility drugs and either have the extra embryos 'removed' so that the one or two has a better chance or (in my opinion far worse) go ahead and have a freak litter of five or six or more, all of which are either born too soon, always far underweight, having to spend their first months hooked up to machines, costing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars,(that we all pay in higher insurance rates), and end up having lifelong health problems. These are easily as or more horrible than a woman choosing to forego a c-section. People who just HAVE to have a baby no matter what kind of hell that childs life may be are selfish to a degree I can't even fathom and those are the ones who should be charged with endangerment. ~AZ~ ------------------------ ''It's very troubling to have somebody come in and say we're going to charge this mother for murder because we don't like the choices she made,'' she said. The woman sought medical advice in December because she hadn't felt the fetuses move, documents said. Regina Davis, a nurse at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake, told police that during a visit there, Rowland was recommended two hospitals to go to for immediate care. Rowland allegedly said she would rather have both twins die before she went to either of the suggested hospitals. On Jan. 2, a doctor at LDS Hospital saw Rowland and recommended she immediately undergo a C-section based on the results of an ultrasound and the fetus' slowing heart rates. 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. The same day, a nurse at Salt Lake Regional Hospital saw Rowland, who allegedly told her she had left LDS Hospital because the doctor wanted to cut her ''from breast bone to pubic bone,'' a procedure that would ''ruin her life.'' LDS Hospital can't comment on the case because of medical privacy issues and the pending court case, said spokesman Robert Pexton. The doctor who performed an autopsy found that the fetus died two days before delivery and would have survived if Rowland had undergone a C-section when urged to do so. It was not immediately clear how far along Rowland was in her pregnancy. She was charged in Salt Lake County with one first-degree felony count of criminal homicide. Rowland was being held on $250,000 bail at the Salt Lake County jail, and was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. If convicted, she could be sentenced to between five years and life in prison. ''We are unable to find any reason other than the cosmetic motivations by the mother'' for her decision, Morgan said. Caesarean sections usually involve delivery through a surgical incision in the abdomen and front wall of the uterus. Dr. Christian Morgan, a family practice doctor who regularly performs C-sections at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, said he had never seen vertical skin incisions performed at LDS Hospital for a first-time C-section. ''Even when you need to get a baby out in minutes, it can still be done in the bikini incision,'' Christian Morgan said. |
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