{"id":265,"date":"2004-03-12T20:19:48","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T00:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/03\/12\/theres-a-difference-between-refusing-a"},"modified":"2004-03-12T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T00:19:48","slug":"theres-a-difference-between-refusing-a-c-section-and-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/03\/12\/theres-a-difference-between-refusing-a-c-section-and-an-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a difference between refusing a C-section and an abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a222'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Here&#8217;s the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2004\/03\/12\/national1711EST0684.DTL\">news story<\/A>: Utah woman&nbsp;charged with&nbsp;murder because she refused a C-section, and later delivered a pair of twins, one alive, one stillborn.&nbsp; The murder charge stems from the fact her doctors advised her that if she didn&#8217;t undergo the procedure, there was a good chance that both twins would not survive.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Does this scare anyone else that the pro-life movement is so determined to &#8220;preserve life&#8221; that their analogizing refusing a Caesarean, an invasive procedure where a woman&#8217;s belly is cut open, to the affirmative act of having an abortion? (Please note, that I consider myself pro-life, but I have always been disturbed by &#8220;vigilante,&#8221; fundamentalist pro-lifers.) (After typing and submitting the previous sentence, I had to shudder&#8230;it feels so weird announcing that conservative stance.)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the news story: Utah woman&nbsp;charged with&nbsp;murder because she refused a C-section, and later delivered a pair of twins, one alive, one stillborn.&nbsp; The murder charge stems from the fact her doctors advised her that if she didn&#8217;t undergo the procedure, there was a good chance that both twins would not survive. Does this scare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}