Woman Charged After Her Baby Is Stillborn
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A pregnant woman who allegedly ignored medical warnings to have a Caesarean section to save her twins was charged with murder after one of the babies was stillborn.
Prosecutors said Melissa Ann Rowland didn’t want the scars that accompany the surgery.
An autopsy found the baby died two days before its Jan. 13 delivery and that it would have survived if Rowland, 28, had had a C-section when her doctors urged her to, between Christmas and Jan. 9. The other baby is alive.
The charges carry five years to life in prison. Rowland was jailed in Salt Lake City on $250,000 bail.
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