In June, 1987, Angela Carder, a 28-year-old woman in Washington, D.C., was admitted to the hospital. She was 26 weeks pregnant and dying from cancer. For 15 years, Angela had struggled with bone ...

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 ...