{"id":790,"date":"2004-04-13T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/13\/charges-against-melissa-ann-rowland-dropped\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T23:03:00","slug":"charges-against-melissa-ann-rowland-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Charges against Melissa Ann Rowland dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/2004\/Apr\/04082004\/utah\/155254.asp\">From the <i>Salt Lake Tribune<\/i>:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">Acknowledging they have reservations about Melissa Ann Rowland&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s rights activists who say prosecutors, by charging Rowland with murder, dehumanized all women.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buying-floxin-online-safe\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Salt Lake Tribune: Acknowledging they have reservations about Melissa Ann Rowland&#8217;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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}