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Abortion Fails to Kill Both Twins - Mother Sues Hospital
PERTH, April 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The legal ramifications of abortion are reaching levels of absurdity that are becoming difficult to parody. With the advent of the bizarre notion of ‘wrongful life’ lawsuits has come the answer to the pro-lifers’ rhetorical question, “What do you do if a hospital fails to kill your child?” In the case of Stacy Dow, a 20-year-old Scottish woman who gave birth to a healthy girl after trying to abort her and her twin, the answer is, ‘sue.’ Dow is suing Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for 250,000 pounds because they failed to kill both of her unborn children.
Dow said she discovered she was pregnant with twins and, because she wanted to carry on with plans for nursing school, she went to the Perth Royal Infirmary for an abortion at six weeks gestation. The hospital tried to abort the children and told her it had been ‘successful.’ Later when Dow began to put on weight, she visited a doctor. “After 33 weeks I went to the GP and he told me I was pregnant. I thought he meant I had fallen pregnant again, and I couldn’t believe it when I was told that it was one of the original pregnancies.”
The surviving twin was born healthy and is now three years old. Dow is claiming, with perfect adherence to the abortion logic, that since her intention was to kill both children and the hospital failed to complete the operation, that Dow is now owed support for the surviving child.
The hospital is arguing that there was every reason to think the ‘termination’ had been complete. Their statement says that the doctor “checked the cavity of the uterus and could feel no further products of conception. As far as could be clinically determined the pregnancy had been terminated.”
“I still don’t know if, or what, I’m going to tell Jayde when the time comes. I just hope she understands what happened and why I did it.” Dow said.
Though the woman and the hospital seem to have missed it, the irony is not lost on pro-lifers. “Are we the only ones who think this is nuts?” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “You can have your children taken away by the state for abuse, but if you want them dead, as long as it’s before birth, it’s OK and you can sue if a hospital fails to kill them. How far does this have to go before we wake up to the insane evil of abortion?”
lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05042507.html
PERTH, April 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The legal ramifications of abortion are reaching levels of absurdity that are becoming difficult to parody. With the advent of the bizarre notion of ‘wrongful life’ lawsuits has come the answer to the pro-lifers’ rhetorical question, “What do you do if a hospital fails to kill your child?” In the case of Stacy Dow, a 20-year-old Scottish woman who gave birth to a healthy girl after trying to abort her and her twin, the answer is, ‘sue.’ Dow is suing Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for 250,000 pounds because they failed to kill both of her unborn children.
Dow said she discovered she was pregnant with twins and, because she wanted to carry on with plans for nursing school, she went to the Perth Royal Infirmary for an abortion at six weeks gestation. The hospital tried to abort the children and told her it had been ‘successful.’ Later when Dow began to put on weight, she visited a doctor. “After 33 weeks I went to the GP and he told me I was pregnant. I thought he meant I had fallen pregnant again, and I couldn’t believe it when I was told that it was one of the original pregnancies.”
The surviving twin was born healthy and is now three years old. Dow is claiming, with perfect adherence to the abortion logic, that since her intention was to kill both children and the hospital failed to complete the operation, that Dow is now owed support for the surviving child.
The hospital is arguing that there was every reason to think the ‘termination’ had been complete. Their statement says that the doctor “checked the cavity of the uterus and could feel no further products of conception. As far as could be clinically determined the pregnancy had been terminated.”
“I still don’t know if, or what, I’m going to tell Jayde when the time comes. I just hope she understands what happened and why I did it.” Dow said.
Though the woman and the hospital seem to have missed it, the irony is not lost on pro-lifers. “Are we the only ones who think this is nuts?” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. “You can have your children taken away by the state for abuse, but if you want them dead, as long as it’s before birth, it’s OK and you can sue if a hospital fails to kill them. How far does this have to go before we wake up to the insane evil of abortion?”
lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05042507.html
A 14 year old who survived an abortion but had severe brain injuries as a result,tried to sue the doctor for the damage that was done to him,to help with medical care as well.He lost,they said his mother had signed for him to be aborted therefore he had no rights to sue:crying: :banghead: :bigyikes: 14 and still deemed a non-person with no rights,first the property of mom to dispose of,then the victim if a court,who upholds the non-person title 14 years later:tsktsk: