In June 1987, Angela Carder was 26 weeks pregnant and dying of cancer. Sedated and on a ventilator, she was fading so fast that no one could ask her what she wanted to do about the fetus inside her.

In 1987, hospital administrators at George Washington University Hospital in D.C. went to court to force 27-year-old Angela Carder, six months pregnant and ill with a rapidly metastasizing tumor in ...

After Angela Carder’s death, her Catholic family appealed the court’s decision because they did not want any other family to suffer the same kind of brutal intrusion. (Courts often decline to hear ...