Forced C Section

Courts have repeatedly held that a competent person has the right to refuse medical treatment in re baby boy doe 632 n e 2d 326 1994.

Forced c section. Here in the states women of sound mind have been forced into unwanted c sections and in some cases even punished when authorities blamed their delayed consent for bad outcomes for their babies. 501 likes 1 talking about this. Mother sues hospital claiming forced c section a woman is suing a new york hospital claiming she was given a cesarean section against her will reports cbs news contributor dr.

Forcing a woman to have a cesarean section is not legal see e g a supreme court case cruzan v. We love slam m8. Here we had the opposite statistics said rodrigo aguiar a director at brazil s national supplementary health.

Doctors received a court order to force her to have a c section and according to the napw report the sheriff went to pemberton s home took her into custody strapped her legs together and. In her dreams i m begging the doctor don t do it in 2011 doctors performed a cesarean section on rinat dray a 32 year old religious mother of two without her consent. Women who were forced to have c sections against their will i feel so sad about it she remembers.

The who estimates that about 10 percent of births require a c section. Many women have disturbing stories of being forced or pressured into getting c sections when the treatment went against their wishes. Forced c sections are at the center of one of the most difficult autonomy beneficence conflicts in bioethics.