Reply #12: I don't like this at all

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I replied to the other thread about this (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x470679#470847) but the fact remains--this woman is suffering from a mental illness already, and is defenseless in the hands of a public defender who might want to get himself out of this quickly.

I tried calling Gloria Allred's office, and the ACLU about it--Allred's office said they can't get involved in cases where they haven't been asked to intervene by the family, and the ACLU hasn't called me back.

I'm a nobody, but this case is one in which the left does not win. First, it's a test on Bush* new "unborn fetus" law, it's a test on the viability of abortion laws in general, it's a test on women's rights over their own bodies.

This poor woman is at the center of a tornado of self-serving men who want only to see women subjugated again, and who want to make certain that we "understand" our place in society.

As I pointed out in the other thread, the woman had 2 other births by C-section, so it's highly unlikely she would have refused a C-section on the basis of it being only a C-section. I don't put it past any doctor to have lied about what he/she said to the woman when she refused treatment.