ABSTRACT
Spruce, "The Sound of Silence: Women's Voices in Medicine and Law" (1998) 7 Colum. J. Gender & L. 239 at 241. The case referred to is Re AC, 533 A.2d 611 (D.C. App. 1987); rev'd 573 A.2d 1235 (D.C. App. 1990). The trial judge's decision to order the Caesarean section was initially upheld on appeal and then reversed on rehearing by a full panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals.
