Re: OT - Did anyone see this in the news?

March 12, 2004

Wow! This is scary. I'm not sure how to take this last quote.....

---The law has been used to prosecute women who kill or seriously harm

their babies through drug use; it has never been used because a woman failed to

follow her doctor's advice, 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, " Driessen

said.---

I can see why they made the law, but what this Driessen person said about it

being troubling to charge a mom because they don't like her choices,

well......isn't using drugs ultimately a choice??? I know there are people who

are addicted to drugs don't feel like they can control whether they can use the

drugs or not, but they can make a choice to get help, so thats why I feel drug

use is a choice.

I definitely think that this case warrants us watching because of the points

Chrystal brought up, and many many more. Something like this can get out of

hand real easy if we as citizens don't watch. Even if we as mothers don't agree

with what this woman did, you have to play out to completion using a law like

this the way they are trying to use it. Heck, if this gets out of control they

parents could possibly be sued if they choose to let a child's minor infection

try to clear up on its own and then it got worse, or something like that, pick a

scenario. Chrystal, thank you for sharing this article with us.

Axelrod

OT - Did anyone see this in the news?

This article frightens me because if I don't follow my doctors advice can they

then charge me with some kind of negligence? What if something is wrong with my

baby and they say oh its because she wouldn't take a glucose tolerance test, or

she wouldn't do this...are they going to come after me? This is very scary.

No Caesarean leads to murder charge

Friday, March 12, 2004 Posted: 6:50 AM EST (1150 GMT)

Rowland was charged wth the murder of her stillborn baby.

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