Wow, I can’t even begin to imagine how awful that would have been. This is disgusting and those in power are animals.

By sharing and examining Doyley’s case with her consent, we aim to show you what forced medical treatment can look like. And, while we encourage you to read the full investigation, we wanted to offer you a look inside the Zoom court hearing so you can see for yourself what happened.

You can see the confusion on Doyley’s face as she realizes she’s being taken to court over her medical decisions. She asked for a lawyer, or at least a patient advocate. Florida courts don’t require lawyers for pregnant women in hearings about their medical decisions and the hospital didn’t provide an advocate, so Doyley had to go it alone.

Judge Michael Kalil was on the call in his black robe and explained how the hearing would work. Doyley, a Black woman, was lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to IVs and monitors and covered by a sheet. She was surrounded on the screen by nearly a dozen doctors and lawyers, most of them white, who offered a lot of testimony about what could happen to Doyley’s baby if she continued to refuse a C-section.

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What the testimony doesn’t include, though, is much about the downsides Doyley faced from having another C-section, which could entail a long recovery, infection and other complications, along with the risk of death.

But she couldn’t explain her reasoning until the judge decided to unmute her.

Somehow not the Onion. Crazy.

A surgery she didn’t consent to and refused is free right? The court ordered it, they better also be getting the bill.

The doctors and lawyers are all named on the call so put them all together in a lawsuit and tell them to pay for the birth since they were the ones that ordered it.