Courts Force C‑Sections via Zoom

Judges and hospital staff are using virtual court hearings to seek orders or pressure pregnant people to accept cesarean deliveries while they are in labor, sometimes with the patient attending the hearing from her hospital bed. The practice combines emergency medicine, judicial power, and telecourt technology to override informed refusal in real time. — This reframes reproductive coercion as a law‑and‑technology problem: telecourt procedures and hospital practices can become mechanisms to enforce fetal‑centered decisions, affecting constitutional rights, medical ethics, and maternal health outcomes.