I think I’d agree with you if they were making a similar argument in their defense, but they’re not; there was nothing to impede them from acting like reasonable adults with a responsibility for the health and safety of their child, except for their lack of common sense. That’s not a legally valid excuse for letting…

I agree. The parents definitely screwed up— big time. However, the part about the midwife concerned me more. The article doesn’t indicate that she was in any sort of trouble. People use doctors and midwives because they don’t know about medicine, so to have one that seems poorly informed and poorly trained is very…

As much as part of me wants to say (screw’em and throw away the key) another part of me starts to realize that this is wading into some very murky waters. Are we going to prosecute every mom who has a premie and freaks out, suffers a panic attack and doesn’t get her kid to the hospital? While this case seems cut and…