(note – I had to remove the video, it kept making IE hang up)
The website in the above video and the stories below came to my attention through a discussion on OutQ radio, a GLBT Satellite radio station on Sirius. The fact is that all these anti-abortion people that fight for the right of fetuses are taking away a women’s right to choose how and when and where to give birth. In some cases, as the one described below, it even rates the life of the fetus higher then that of the mother. I am outraged by these stories and even though they are a few years old, this stuff still happens.
- In 1987, Angela Carder was twenty-five weeks pregnant, and cancer had metastasized to her lung.
- Administrators of George Washington University Hospital – who were also the liability risk managers feared a lawsuit by pro-life activists.
- They convened a court hearing at the hospital
- Angela’s family and her husband as well as her physician opposed a c-section because it was very unlikely that she would survive such procedure.
- Despite medical testimony that such a procedure would most likely Angela’s life, an order was issued forcing her to have an emergency c-section.
- Neither Angela Carder nor her baby survived.
And then there is this one
- Laura Pemberton had given birth via c-section before. When she became pregnant again, no hospital would let her give natural birth.
- She decided to give birth to her child at home in Florida.
- While she was in labor, a Sheriff came to her house
- Doctors were in the process of getting a court order to force her to have a c-section because of a less then 5 percent chance of ruptures during delivery.
- The sheriff took her into custody during active labor, they strapped her legs together and forced her to undergo a c-section at the hospital.
- During a later lawsuit she was told that fetal rights outweighed hers.
- She gave later birth to three more children — naturally
Or this one
- Melissa Ann Rowland was charged with murder after she gave birth to twins, one of them stillborn.
- Melissa was told by doctors that she should have a c-section, but she refused to, because she had been through the procedure and had been cut a lot
- Melissa did finally have a c-section, but, according to prosecutors, not soon enough.
- They theorized that the second baby may have survived an earlier c-section.
