From:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114016,00.html
Woman Refuses Caesarean, Charged With Murder
Friday, March 12, 2004
SALT LAKE CITY — As Melissa Ann Rowland's unborn twins got closer to birth, doctors repeatedly told her they would likely die if she did not have a Caesarean section. She refused, and one later was stillborn.
Authorities charged 28-year-old Rowland with murder on Thursday, saying she exhibited "depraved indifference to human life," according to court documents. One nurse told police that Rowland said she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that."
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.
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I find this and other stories like this very frustrating. We say it’s a mother’s right to choose abortion because the fetus is not a human being until birth, but then we get this story as well as Scott Peterson’s “DOUBLE” murder trial saying something completely different. So is a fetus a human being or a piece of property?
Perhaps Scott Peterson should be charged with one count of murder and one count of personal property destruction.