The first ruling of its kind in the nation, last week a New Jersey judge ruled that mother’s can decide that they do not want the child’s father in the delivery room.
According to nj.com the judge is cited as saying, “Any interest a father has before the child’s birth is subordinate to the mother’s interests,” Mohammed wrote. “Even when there is no doubt that a father has shown deep and proper concern and interest in the growth and development of the fetus, the mother is the one who must carry it to term.”
The decision is the result of a court battle that played out last year in New Jersey’s Passaic county when a once engaged couple broke things off and the mother did not want the child’s father in the delivery room during childbirth. The court hearing actually took place the same day that the mother, Rebecca DeLuccia, went into labor. The judge ruled in her favor that day, November 19th, but the written decision was just released last week.
BMWK Family, should expectant mothers be able to keep fathers out of the delivery room?