Melissa Ann Rowland is still speaking out about her case.
Salt Lake County prosecutors originally charged Rowland, who used drugs while pregnant, with murder after allegedly declining a Caesarean section and later delivering a stillborn child.
She pleaded guilty in April to two third-degree felony counts of child endangerment, was given probation and a suspended prison sentence and was ordered to complete a drug treatment program in whatever state she chose to live.
Rowland said she planned to quietly get on with her life, but appeared on Greta Van Susteren's TV show "On the Record" Wednesday discussing her case. "I don't think there should be laws regulating this," Rowland told the Deseret Morning News in a phone interview earlier Wednesday. "They should not be able to charge people with murder for having a stillborn. It goes against human dignity."
Rowland, 28, was charged with first-degree felony murder after one of her twins was stillborn on Jan. 13. The other twin survived and has been adopted.
One local doctor urged Rowland to have an emergency C-section because he believed the babies were at risk, but she refused, court documents state. Rowland has repeatedly denied this.
Rowland admitted in a plea bargain that she used cocaine while pregnant, and she and the live baby tested positive for the drug just after the birth.
Her case sparked national headlines and debate.
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