The plaintiffs, Nicole Welker and Justin Brinkley, claim all of this was caused by the use of Pitocin and the negligence of Dr Carnevale and hospital nurses. The doctor and nurses had monitored her contractions from the beginning of her admissions into the hospital until she gave birth. During her birth they had her set up to a fetal monitor in which they could tell the baby was distressed, losing oxygen, and losing his heart rate. They have a lawyer representing them and another ob-gyn doctor as an expertise. He stated that the Pitocin should have been stopped being administered during Nicole’s labor.…
Case Reflection: State Paternalism and Pregnant Women The case of “State Paternalism and Pregnant Women” is overwhelmingly fascinating as well as very controversial. In fact, this case was so controversial it went all the way to the Supreme Court before a decision was finally reached. Personally, I was unsure of where I stood on this specific issue the first time I read it but ultimately I came to agree with the supreme court’s decision that protected the right of pregnant women from being arrested due to positive drug tests that were given to the police, without the patient’s knowledge or consent. Although I find this case very intriguing, I chose this case to do a reflection on based upon the overwhelming amount of ethical questions…
Katie, a 24 year old pregnant female, 33 weeks gestation is admitted to the hospital in sickle cell crisis. Also, she has preeclampsia and is in a tremendous amount of pain. Katie has a medical history of taking opioids and morphine during her pregnancy for pain due to her sickle cell disease. The doctors take Katie right back to the delivery room and prep her for a cesarean section. The baby is born and taken to the Intensive Care Nursery for monitoring due to prematurity and low birth weight.…
Introduction Preterm birth can cause serious health problems or even be fatal for a baby, particularly if it happens very early (Weiss, 2015). In general, the more mature a baby is at birth, the better the chances of surviving and being healthy is. Ms. W’s case is no different; she is in preterm labor in the hospital, refusing treatment. Moreover, due to pregnancy and medication annoyance, Ms. W wants to discontinue all treatment, despite doctors’ orders. Ms. W’s potential risks of premature delivery will increase if she does not understand her medical indications, quality of life in association to risks, contextual features, and the way she applies patient preference.…
Help for the hopeless Pain can be very intense it may seem perfectly reasonable to want something that would make it stop and find some relief. It is a complicated issue, but there has to be some balance and responsibility when consuming painkillers. According to the centers for Disease control and prevention, nearly 2 million Americans abused prescription painkillers in 2013, with 44 people dying from an overdose each day (D’ Amora). Although, these are devastating news; this is not the worse part. An unborn child has to suffer the sad consequence of a pregnant woman who is addicted to these types of pills.…
As we all are wll aware love is a major aspect of life. This one simple word can create something as magical as starting a family. The controlling of these pills is unethical becuase it eliminates the sense of an important emotion towards someone. Abortion is an unethical issue we deal with today. This procedure allows new parents to “get rid” of their children not demonstrating love or providing the children with a future.…
Pregnancy and prenatal harm to offspring arise many issues. What is the right balance of the fetuses "rights" and the mother 's rights of bodily integrity? Finding the accommodating balance is both difficult and challenging. Both the fetus and mother must be analyzed and evaluated to come to an ultimatum deciding what is best for the unborn child, while also considering the mother 's rights to autonomy and bodily integrity. Robertson and Schulman say, "Ethical analysis must balance the mother 's interest in freedom and bodily integrity against the offspring 's interest in being born healthy.…
Federal Government Should Outlaw Late-Term Abortion In 2013, reporter Sarah Terzo from Live Action News in Virginia indicated that late-term abortion clinic shoots babies through the heart with poison in order to kill them. This example is a good reason to why the federal government should be outlawing late-term abortion. No matter what situation the mother and fetus are in, every fetus should have the right to live a meaningful life. However, the federal government should outlaw abortion after the first trimester because many of the practices are inhumane, all fetuses should have the right to live, and the ways abortion can cause risks for the women. Late-Term Abortion Being Inhumane…
One day Socrates went to the park to run as training for the 5k run he signed up to do. After running two miles, he decided to stop for a short break. As he was sitting in a bench at the park, a young women sat angrily down next to him to receive a phone. Janice: Claire, listen to me you cannot follow through with it. It is precious life inside of you.…
Since Beauchamp and Childress wrote The Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1977, patient autonomy, justice, non-maleficence and beneficence have been accepted as the four major medical principles (Murgic, 2015). In my opinion, autonomy is the hardest principle to implement especially in end-of-life care. I am reflecting on the Charlie Gard case where a healthy baby boy was born and it was soon discovered he had a rare genetic mutation that affected his brain, his musculature and most other major organs. The health care team reviewed the potential outcomes for this baby and decided that the best option was to allow him to “die with dignity”, remove life support and not pursue any untested experimental treatment. This could have been the end…
To know someone would suffer their entire life if they are born and let them be born would possibly seem as cruel and inconsiderate or even heartless. Because they are within our moral community, we should not let them suffer a painful life. Because they are the child 's parents, they should have a say in whether or not the child is born and suffers it 's whole life, or gets aborted and never has to…
The problem with this is not that the patient is having a miscarriage. As a nurse we the responsibility to care for any woman that present to the emergency room with this type of emergencies. The part that becomes a moral and ethical dilemma for me is, when they have an elective abortion, take medication to induce an abortion because of the lack of care during sexual activity. Ethical and moral questions that can arise from this situation would be how does the nurse deal or care for a patient who has had an abortion who considers abortion as…
An unborn child should not have to be punished for the same scenario. There is no such thing as a child coming into this world unwanted there are couples all over the world that cannot conceive and would love to be able to adopt a child to love and care for as their own. An unborn baby’s lifespan in the womb explains that the unborn are alive and they are tiny human beings just forming at their own rate.…
According to AbortionNo, “An unborn child is always innocent and should never be punished” (Admin). In other words, a baby does not deserve to be kill because their parents were irresponsible. The baby did not decide that his/her parents had sexual intercourse and did not use protection. No one should be punished to get their life taken away because of someone else’s irresponsibility.…
Abortion is crime that has to stop. This should have never existed because they might take the child’s life away, but in times the mother as well can be in danger with their lives, too. When abortion happens it doesn’t just bring pain, but it comes with psychological stress. The church or the state didn 't approve of abortion until the 19th century.…