Woman Sues For Wrongful Birth of Surviving Twin After Failed Abortion

LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/21/06 | Gudrun Schultz

[wagglebee]

PERTH, United Kingdom, March 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A young woman who gave birth to a daughter, after a failed abortion left one of her twins still alive, is suing for damages against the hospital that carried out the procedure.

Stacy Dow, 21 years old, discovered she was pregnant with twins when she was 16, reported the BBC yesterday. She decided to abort her babies. Following the abortion she was given a contraceptive injection and told to expect weight gain and irregular menstruation as side effects.

When she went to her doctor months later, she found one child had survived the abortion. Ms. Dow was only seven weeks away from giving birth. At that late stage of pregnancy she could not have another abortion. Late-term abortions are illegal in the UK unless the mother's life is in danger.

Ms. Dow is suing the Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for £250,000. She wants to cover the "financial burden" of raising her five-year-old daughter, Jayde.

She also wants compensation for being forced into the difficulties of being a single mother, for the emotional and psychological distress she suffered after discovering she was still pregnant, and for the "pain and discomfort" of having her daughter by Caesarean section.

The hospital wants the claim thrown out. Hospital officials say Ms. Dow's daughter is "normal and healthy", and £250,000 is an excessive claim. They also say no contract between the hospital and Ms. Dow was entered into, and she was never guaranteed a successful abortion.

[wagglebee]

They should take her daughter away from her, this monster has no business being a parent.

[dinok]

I second that motion.

[al baby]

Good God I have heard it all now. sick sick sick

[ElkGroveDan]

Meanwhile the Lord certainly has a special plan for that child.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

How is she ever going to tell her daughter that she murdered her twin?

[stm]

Wrongful BIRTH.

I can die now, I've heard everything now. These "people" are beneath contempt.

[USNBandit]

Following the abortion she was given a contraceptive injection and told to expect weight gain and irregular menstruation as side effects

I notice they didn't tell her to expect kicking. What a piece of work.

[LexBaird]

A wrongful life suit. How charming.

[EternalVigilance]

Sickening.

[Larry Lucido]

She won't have to. The girl will be old enough to read in a few years, if mom lets her survive.

[1rudeboy]

I can't imagine going through life knowing I had a twin brother or sister that was treated like a clog in a drain.

[skaterboy]

I said it before and ill say it now..one of the truly tragic things in this life is that so many loving people who want kids cant have em but "people" like this can shoot em out like pez dispensers

[DieHard the Hunter]

Horrible. I feel sorry for the little girl. What would it be like to know that a) your mum didn't really love you or want you and b) killed your twin and c) wants to make squillions from the hospital for the "mistake" of your birth???

I agree with the previous poster: this 5 yr old kid needs to be taken away from her mum and given to a family which will love her.

Sometimes, humanity makes me weep!

[Danae]

There is something fundamentally wrong with this woman. I feel sorry for her child. She will forever know that her mother did not want her. Still doesn't.

[Feiny]

No one forced her to keep the baby. She could have put the child up for adoption. I hope this child never learns what her "mother" has done.

[indi_girl447]

When you think it can't get any worse, you hear stories like this and your proved wrong. Its so sad. That poor child. I'd hate to have her for a mother. My thoughts are with her.

[wagglebee]

Pro-Life Ping.

[kstewskis]

She also wants compensation for being forced into the difficulties of being a single mother, for the emotional and psychological distress she suffered after discovering she was still pregnant, and for the "pain and discomfort" of having her daughter by Caesarean section.

Unless this woman was brutally raped and did not choose to engage in "activity that might result in pregnancy," she has no argument.

Nor brains. That poor child.

[jazusamo]

Pathetic. She wants the hospital to take responsibility for her actions. That poor little girl should be taken away from her.

[TXBSAFH]

Twins are a blessing times two.