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...profound, make courts more wary. Two years ago, a Chicago court refused to require twins to undergo tests to determine if their bone marrow could help their half brother who was dying of leukemia. In 1987 a Washington federal court ordered a pregnant cancer patient to undergo a caesarean delivery in an attempt to save the fetus, even though she and her doctors opposed the operation. The baby lived for just two hours. The woman died two days later. But the lower-court ruling doesn't provide a precedent because it was vacated by an appeals court the following year...
...Delivery of a baby by Caesarean section...
...series of cases of mistaken charges of child abuse helped lead to a change of policy under Mayor David Dinkins. In one notorious example, Brooklyn bank clerk Judith Adams lost custody of her child for nearly two months after the medication that doctors gave her during a caesarean section resulted in a false-positive drug test. "Instead of breast feeding my baby, I was looking for lawyers and going to social workers' offices, trying to get him back," ^ she recalls bitterly...
...result, cases seeking to establish a broad range of fetal legal rights have grown increasingly common. The most prominent of these cases have involved arrests of pregnant women addicted to drugs and court-ordered caesarean sections...
...more than 50 cases around the nation, pregnant, drug-addicted women have been arrested and charged with "delivering drugs to a minor" or "child abuse." And in at least 12 cases, women have been forced to undergo caesarean section deliveries against their wishes, purportedly to save their babies' lives...