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Woman in Scotland Sues Hospital Over Failed Abortion of Twins - (here's a jaw-dropper for you)
LIFE NEWS.COM ^ | APRIL 25, 2005 | STEVEN ERTELT

Posted on 04/25/2005 4:41:47 PM PDT by CHARLITE

Perth, Scotland (LifeNews.com) -- A Scottish woman has filed a lawsuit against a hospital over an abortion she had in 2001. The abortion was performed on twin unborn children and one of the babies survived the failed procedure. Jayde, the baby who survived, is now three years old and her mother, Stacy Dow, is filing suit for damages. She's seeking the cost she will incur of raising Jayde, an estimated $600,000 plus.

"I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that," Dow told a London newspaper.

The hospital, located in Perth, Scotland, failed to "take reasonable care to establish that the [abortion] had been successful," Dow said.

Dow brought the lawsuit in part because her husband recently passed away.

Dow had the abortion when she was 16 yeard-old and, weeks afterward, though she told the abortion killed both babies, she delivered one of the two children.

“After 33 weeks I went to the GP and he told me I was pregnant," Dow told the London Times. "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."

"They told me in the hospital that the operation had been successful and there was nothing left in the womb," she added.

Dow discussed with the newspaper how she would tell her daughter about the abortion she hoped to have.

"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.

In a similar case in England, a 36 year-old woman received about $25,000 under a settlement with another hospital when one of her twins survived the failed abortion.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortionsurvivors; failedabortion; hospital; lawsuit; mother; one; scotland; survivor; twins; uk
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I thought I'd heard everything already.........but this about does it for me, in the outrage department.
1 posted on 04/25/2005 4:41:58 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: CHARLITE

Sometimes reality defies and defeats fiction...


2 posted on 04/25/2005 4:44:52 PM PDT by El Conservador ("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
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To: CHARLITE

She thinks the HOSPITAL is responsible for her having a child to raise?

Gee,all this time I thought sexual intercourse caused pregnancy.

Who knew?


3 posted on 04/25/2005 4:45:12 PM PDT by Mears ("The Killer Queen,caviar and cigarettes")
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To: CHARLITE

Here's to wishing the 'mother' all the worst in the years to come.


4 posted on 04/25/2005 4:46:30 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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To: CHARLITE

Scotland the Brave no longer has any meaning. Wallace is spinning in His grave.


5 posted on 04/25/2005 4:47:35 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (Let Me Die on My Feet in the Swamp, BUAIDH NO BAS)
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To: CHARLITE

I'm shocked, but I'm not surprised. This is what has become of the socialist state of the UK.


6 posted on 04/25/2005 4:47:51 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Enjoy every sandwich.)
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To: CHARLITE
Luna to stupid Scottish lass:

If you didn't want the child after she was born, then why the heck didn't you give her up for adoption, you git!

7 posted on 04/25/2005 4:48:08 PM PDT by Luna (Lobbing the Holy Hand Grenade at Liberalism)
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To: CHARLITE

A "Wrongful LIFE" lawsuit. Insane.


8 posted on 04/25/2005 4:48:45 PM PDT by MisterRepublican
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To: The KG9 Kid

What do you think will be the implications for the child when it gets old enough to understand that it's mother sued the hospital for not killing it?


9 posted on 04/25/2005 4:48:46 PM PDT by Arkie2
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To: CHARLITE

She should of kept her legs crossed. But some people don't learn!


10 posted on 04/25/2005 4:49:02 PM PDT by Sundown2005
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To: CHARLITE

This woman makes me want to throw up. How dare she?! I wonder how the child she has now will feel when she learns (and she will) that she was "accidently" spared while her twin was murdered. Now this disgusting woman wants the hospital to take responsibility for a failed abortion? If she didn't want children why didn't SHE take responsibility and use something during sex??????????? God help her child when she learns her mother never wanted her in the first place, tried to murder her but failed and only murdered her twin. It's beyond the pale and the hospital should refuse such an outrageous request.


11 posted on 04/25/2005 4:52:54 PM PDT by cubreporter ( hav)
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To: CHARLITE

This woman makes me want to throw up. How dare she?! I wonder how the child she has now will feel when she learns (and she will) that she was "accidently" spared while her twin was murdered. Now this disgusting woman wants the hospital to take responsibility for a failed abortion? If she didn't want children why didn't SHE take responsibility and use something during sex??????????? God help her child when she learns her mother never wanted her in the first place, tried to murder her but failed and only murdered her twin. It's beyond the pale and the hospital should refuse such an outrageous request.


12 posted on 04/25/2005 4:53:44 PM PDT by cubreporter ( hav)
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To: CHARLITE

My jaw literally dropped!

Astonishing!


13 posted on 04/25/2005 4:57:36 PM PDT by Edward Watson
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To: Arkie2
Oh, I expect by that time stories like these won't be so shocking anymore and the civilized world will have moved forward towards entirely brand new moral insults.

Al-Qaeda will probably be openly running taxpayer-funded abortion mills in your daughter's elementary school by then.

14 posted on 04/25/2005 4:58:17 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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To: Mears
Who knew?
 

Really.

I'm sure the surviving child will thank mom someday. Probably while mom's asleep...

15 posted on 04/25/2005 5:02:34 PM PDT by Fintan (Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
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To: Arkie2

...Or when she finds out that her mom killed her sister or brother.


16 posted on 04/25/2005 5:04:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: CHARLITE

Well, 17 years ago, when I was pregnant with my son, I refused amnio. I was 35 years old and at that time considered a risk for having a child with Down's, so they wanted me to get an amnio(won't even attempt to spell the rest of the word). I didn't get it because I wouldn't have aborted no matter what they found, so I saw no reason for the test.

Because I refused, I had to sign a waiver, that was witness and notarized. It stated that should my baby be born with birth defects I would not sue for "wrongful life."


17 posted on 04/25/2005 5:07:00 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: CHARLITE
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.

It would be better to hope the surviving daughter does NOT understand why mom killed her twin sister and then sued for money because she didn't die with her twin. Mom was stuck with her because she didn't die with the other one, but mom got some money out it. If the daughter can understand all that, she'll have grown up to be one sick critter also. If so, may she be in charge of her mother's old age care.

That's going to be one great mother-to-daughter talk, though.

18 posted on 04/25/2005 5:07:17 PM PDT by xJones
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To: Luna

What a pathetic woman the mother is...my heart goes out to the child. God help us all


19 posted on 04/25/2005 5:10:27 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: CHARLITE
Dow had the abortion when she was 16 yeard-old and, weeks afterward, though she told the abortion killed both babies, she delivered one of the two children. “After 33 weeks I went to the GP and he told me I was pregnant," Dow told the London Times. "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 slut thought she was pregnant again meaning she was still having unprotectd sex after trying to kill her first 2 babies. Sickening.

20 posted on 04/25/2005 5:12:45 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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