Abortion clinic sued over disclosure of fetal remains research (ABQ NM)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | December 5, 2016 | Chris Quintana

[CedarDave]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At 21, Jessica Duran conceived a child she hadn’t planned for, and abortion, she said, felt like her only option.

It was 2012. The father of the baby, and Duran’s parents, all said she should terminate the pregnancy. So she did.

She went to Southwestern Women’s Options, signed a document that among other things allowed the fetal tissue of her 12- to 13-week aborted pregnancy to be used for medical research. She now says she didn’t read the document closely, but that she was distraught.

In 2015, Duran learned her aborted fetus could have been used in medical research at the University of New Mexico.

To know my child was used as a science project, a child I loved and wanted, it’s devastating,” Duran said.

Now, four years after the abortion, Duran filed a lawsuit against Southwestern Women’s Options, seeking attorney fees, unspecified damages and the temporary cessation of the clinic’s donation of fetal tissues.

Her attorney, Michael Seibel, contends the clinic failed to give Duran proper notice under law that her fetal body parts could be used in medical research, and that she should have been given a separate consent for donation.

Currently, a U.S. House of Representatives Select Investigative Panel has been reviewing both Southwestern Women’s Options and UNM, which receives fetal tissue from the clinic. Under federal law, abortion providers are prohibited from selling fetal tissue, but they can donate it for medical research. Abortion providers can recover the cost of processing and transferring the tissue, though those costs are not specified or capped by law.

[CedarDave]

While I agree that fetal remains shouldn't have been used (sold?) for research, the fact is that she consented to the abortion (after being pushed by the father and her parents) and her saying now she loved and wanted the child seems a bit too self-serving.

[CedarDave]

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[VaeVictis]

So science experiments is too much but killing it was okay? I fail to see the logic here....

[Mr. Douglas]

Yep. There is a reason we have contracts and contract law.

We ARE still a country of laws, right?

[BenLurkin]

Everyone but the child voted on whether her child should live....and the child lost.

[Mr. Lucky]

Exactly.

[bgill]

To know my child was used as a science project, a child I loved and wanted, it’s devastating,” Duran said. She loved the child so much that she killed it. She's after the money, period. Evil murderer and scammer.

[TheDon]

"To know my child was used as a science project, a child I loved and wanted, it’s devastating,” Duran said.

Nope, you don't get to say that murderer.

[CedarDave]

So science experiments is too much but killing it was okay? I fail to see the logic here....

That's the way I see it too. The only "positive" thing about this lawsuit is that it focuses attention on the shady traffic in fetal tissue.

[BatGuano]

“and her saying now she loved and wanted the child seems a bit too self-serving.”

It seems a bit more like horsehockey. She is now living her life as she deserves, wracked with guilty feelings for murdering a helpless human being.
I'll bet her pre murder counseling was no more than one question, “Do you want to do this?”

[KittenClaws]

“. . . all said she should terminate the pregnancy. So she did. . . .”

“. . .Duran learned her aborted fetus could have been used in medical research. . .”

“. . .To know my child was used as a science project, a child I loved and wanted, it’s devastating,” . . .”
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Her relatives can talk (perhaps pressure her)into murdering her child, yet she grows a conscience about the remains?

If she truly cared for and “wanted” her unborn baby, yet still aborted, perhaps she could have coughed up some money for a decent burial?

[camle]

it was in the contract you signed, don’t blame others if you didn’t read it

[fella]

Going for the money.

[Boogieman]

“a child I loved and wanted”

She wanted it and aborted it (which is solely the woman’s decision)? Does not compute.

[SgtHooper]

I hope she wins!!

[ssfromla]

It’s not uncommon for women to grieve many years afterward in some cases. Once they come to that realization there is grief and depression.

[Neidermeyer]

Yep. There is a reason we have contracts and contract law.

We ARE still a country of laws, right?
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Not for many years ,, I lost a case today where the party that wrote the contract got completely out of it because they claimed they didn’t know what it meant despite the plain meaning of the words being obvious to anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together... no “meeting of the minds” ... even though it was their contract... so now you can put anything on paper ,, even a one sided contract where the other party has no input and either side can just nullify it on a whim “it’s not exactly what I thought it meant”.