The Happy Family. (photo courtesy BBC news)
Posted on 12/09/2005 7:23:02 AM PST by dukeman
PERTH- A Scottish court has set a date for the case of a woman seeking damages from her abortionist for failing to kill both of her twin daughters. Stacy Dow is suing the Perth Royal Infirmary after the hospital sent her home still pregnant with the surviving child, Jayde, now four.
“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 in April.
Perth Sheriff Court set has set March 2006 as the date for the case in which Dow is seeking £250,000 for the “financial burden” of her surviving child. Dow had been told that no “live material” had survived the procedure.
The NHS is contesting the suit saying that at the time there had been no indication that a child had survived.
Dow’s lawyers are arguing that Jayde’s birth has created an unjust burden for her mother. “As a result of the failed termination,” the suit says, “the pursuer suffered loss, injury and damage…She has the financial burden of care, upbringing and aliment of Jayde. She suffers an impediment in her ability to obtain employment in consequence of her care for the child.”
Dow is quoted by the BBC saying that she does not know what she is going to tell her daughter, Jayde. “I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that,” she said.
“I still don't know if, or what, I am going to tell Jayde when the time comes. Maybe when she is nine or ten I will sit her down and explain it to her.”
She added: “The hospital knew it was twins when I went for the termination so they should have checked even more carefully before sending me home.”
In recent years, “wrongful life” or “wrongful birth” suits have sprung from the abortion logic that unwanted children are, in the words of California pro-life speaker Scott Klusendorff, “a disease, the recommended treatment for which is abortion.” In Canada, France and the US wrongful birth suits are pushing legal experts and legislators to confront the legal consequences of taking the logic to its final ends.
Did you ever notice how all the people who favor abortion have already been born?
For the sake of the child, adoption seems the best answer. How screwed up would you be when your mom told you she intended to kill you, but it didn't work? And.....even worse, she killed your twin successfully?
susie
The Happy Family. (photo courtesy BBC news)
How interesting that the mother named her daughter "Jayde." It's a better name for the mother, who might be revealing something of her own character by naming her daughter that. Jade is another word for trollop. I rarely believe in the excercise of state power to take children from their biological parents, but in this case, biology is all that is in operation here. That child should be given a proper name and given to a loving couple who actually want a child.
It's all just part of His plan.
Would be nice if the judgement went to the child, who was then removed from the mother's home and placed with a loving family. THAT would be justice. (I do think the abortionist seriously screwed up). You know, come to think of it, this child should probably seriously consider the hand of God in this, maybe He intends something really special in her life.
susie
Wow...time to start a collection plate for this girl's many, many, many years of therapy ahead...
And to know your mother tried, unsuccessfully to have you killed by managed to kill and deprieve her of her sister
"Some Women act like they're hiring a pest exterminator for their womb."I do not want to imply all women. Just those who are like Stacy here.
Apologies to anyone I've offended.
I pray that God might send someone into her life who can teach her this!
Dow is quoted by the BBC saying that she does not know what she is going to tell her daughter, Jayde. “I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that,” she said.
“I still don't know if, or what, I am going to tell Jayde when the time comes. Maybe when she is nine or ten I will sit her down and explain it to her.”
The same can be said about Stacy Dow as can be said about Cindy Sheehan. Quality women make quality mothers. Can you imagine what a horror it will be when this kid is old enough to understand the nightmare this woman is who claims to be a mother. Wow!
the term you are looking for is "birth mammal"...
Unbelievable! That poor child! BTW -- where's the father in all of this???
"The doctor pulled the machine out and the nurse went to look at the tissue. All I wanted to do was curl on my side and hold my belly.
"Okay, you can sit up," the female nurse said to me. "Do you meditate?"
“No, I was just breathing. I needed to concentrate on something other than the pain.”
"You did very well." She and my mom slowly walked me into the recovery room, me feeling very faint. I lay down on a couch with a heating pad on my belly and blanket over my legs while another nurse gave me apple cider and took my blood pressure. It was 84/46. "Wow you can just stay here for a while." I wasn't going anywhere.
"How are you doing?" my mom asked me. It was the first thing she had said since I changed into the johnny.
I slowly turned my head toward her, wryly grinned and said, ‘I won't do that again,’ as I heard the last abortion of the day being performed in the other room.
There was a book in the waiting room, the youngest abortion was 8 years old and the oldest was 52. A girl had been back 5 times for an abortion. However, knowing what I know today, I would never have an abortion. The stress on your body, the pain... If I ever get pregnant again, it will be full term.
I am glad that I had the choice of abortion; I am the only person that has the right to decide what is best for me. I had felt that my life was on hold and this was the best decision that I could have made for myself. I have always felt that everything that I do is a learning experience. I don't regret it. I learn from it. I feel better now.
Do I ever wonder about the baby? Yes, it vaguely passes through my head occasionally. When my nephew was born, I bawled as I looked at him in the nursery. A part of it, I have to admit, now, to myself, was for my loss when I had the abortion 9 months earlier. I knew then, and I still know now, that it was the right choice to make and I don’t regret it. But, still, there is a loss. My nephew makes me happy. I know that, eventually, I want to have children, but I figure that for now, I will take care of him that way, he is the closest thing that I have to a child of my own."
She obviously has no maternal feelings for the child.
I feel sorry for the child.
Her day of reckoning will come only when she realizes that her nephew is NOT the closest thing she has to a child of her own...she has a child. It is dead, by her own choice. I wonder how she'll feel about her abortion when she comes to that realization.
The Supreme Court might want to cite this foreign case in some future decision. Another example of how we can gain "wisdom" from the decisions of foreign courts.
If only her own mother had had an abortion, she wouldn't be having this hardship today...
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