Acknowledging they have reservations about Melissa Ann Rowland’s mental health, prosecutors agreed to drop a murder charge against the woman for allegedly refusing a Caesarean section that may have saved her unborn twin boy.
Instead, Rowland, 28, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of third-degree felony child endangerment in a deal that could end her three-month stay in jail. The agreement, though, did little to appease women’s rights activists who say prosecutors, by charging Rowland with murder, dehumanized all women.
I’m with Andrea Dworkin on this one: I, too, believe that C-sections are, for all intents and purposes, a violation of women’s bodies. I mean the full name of it ( Ceasarein section) smells like patriachal phallic imperialism……