Woman in Labor at Florida Hospital Brought in Zoom Court for Refusing C-Section

SilverElfin

WTF? This is shameful. It’s also why I feel vaccine mandates shouldn’t be legal. We all have a fundamental right to our bodies. The government shouldn’t be able to force you to make different choices when it comes to your body.

jacquesm

I read the whole thing an hour ago and I'm still not through processing all of the pros and the cons but the thing that really stands out for me is the degradation and the lack of humanity. A hospital taking a patient to court is on a level that I can not square with the Hippocratic Oath. During COVID there were all these people talking about 'bodily autonomy' and I felt that was overblown, vaccines are one of the best things that have happened to humanity and the only reason that a very large number of inevitably fatal or grievously harming diseases have come under control and are no longer a cause for infant mortality or lifelong paralysis. But this is on another level, very personal and immediate and I find I can't shift my perspective to the 'common good' one here. A hospital performing surgery on you that you explicitly say you do not want and then forcing you by putting you in court through 'zoom' is such a mis-application of technology that I wonder if they remember why they are there in the first place. This does not feel like care to me. I've been in hospital a couple of times in my life and I never had the idea that that machine that was taking care of me could turn against me. But this poor woman will most likely never want to see the inside of a hospital again.

Radle

“You’re somebody who is a bad mother, right?” Mutcherson said. “Which is a huge part of what the thought process is here. This is not what mothers do. Mothers sacrifice, including allowing somebody to cut you open.” You Americans have completely lost it.

carefulfungi

She was denied legal counsel - not even provided a patient advocate - and was somehow expected to represent herself while in labor - while the hospital caring for her told her she was "a bad mother" in court??

PlunderBunny

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OutOfHere

Perhaps we need a quantitative scoring model of whether a C-section is warranted. Obviously her "score" wasn't sufficiently high until the baby's heart rate actually dropped. In other words, a C-section shouldn't have been pushed on her until there was strong evidence, i.e. the low heart rate, and not merely suggestive evidence, to warrant it.