الجمعة، 23 مايو 2014

You can't just cut open pregnant women because you disagree with their choices | Jessica Valenti

The same thinking behind 'personhood' arguments is being used to force pregnant women to have surgery against their will


Having a doctor perform surgery on you without permission literally cutting into you while you protest is the stuff of which horror movies are made. Yet that's just what happened to 35-year-old Rinat Dray when a doctor at Staten Island University Hospital performed a C-section on the Brooklyn mother, against her will and verbal protests.


Her right to bodily integrity and freedom was taken away with a swipe of a pen the director of maternal and fetal medicine, Dr James J Ducey, wrote in Dray's medical records, "I have decided to override her refusal to have a C-section." Dray is suing the hospital and doctors for malpractice.


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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1jK2iPL

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