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I definitely got my money's worth from school today.  Have you ever heard of "fetal rights"?

One of the professors described a story of a woman who was pregnant and who had syphilis.  She was at risk of passing the disease to the baby (see congenital syphilis). The woman refused treatment.  The state threatened to intervene and force treatment upon her to protect the fetus.  The woman relented.

I can't get this story out of my head, so I tried duck duck go!-ing it tonight. I wasn't able to find the exact news article, but my search provided this new term: fetal rights.

I have mixed feelings about this, as I'm sure many of you do.  Public health and human rights is a very tangled web to unweave.  In the interest of keeping it friendly here, I'll keep those feelings to myself. But please feel free to drop me a line with your thoughts and I'll share.