(July 9, 2013 at 5:28 am)Ben Davis Wrote: Irrespective of whether the women were forced or not, due process was not followed so the Health Care Review Committee wasn't able to confirm consent or monitor the process. What this means is that a doctor was making arbitrary decisions on the suitability of particular women to have children and side-stepping all quality controls. That's malpractice.
I think that this is the issue. There are procedures in place that must be followed before you perform that kind of operation on an inmate, and those were not followed. Which means that there's no paper trail, not even something as obvious as release/consent forms. There's no reason to accept that a charge this serious can be met with "nah, don't worry about it, she said it was okay."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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