SHORES, Justice.
In late October 1980, 38-year-old Emma James was five feet four inches tall, weighed 316 pounds, and was an obstetrics patient with high blood pressure and gestational diabetes. Mrs. James was a patient at the high risk clinic of the University of South Alabama Medical Center.
Mrs. James lives in Camden, Alabama, and when she went to the hospital in Mobile on October 28, 1980, in the final stages of her pregnancy, the doctors decided that...
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