Gynaecologist must pay child support

Ananova ^ | November 15, 2006

[EveningStar]

A German doctor has been ordered to pay child support to a patient who got pregnant with a contraceptive implant...

[EveningStar]

ping

[keepitreal]

Did she or her partner have any part in this pregnancy??

[derllak]

Huh? Maybe she should go after the father for child support. And she's so poor she had another one. I'm glad this brainless bimbo isn't teaching MY kids!

[Anti-Bubba182]

This is outrageous!

[Finger Monkey]

That's a load of pelosi!

[EveningStar]

Did you read the rest of the article?

[EveningStar]

Yes! Elephant pelosi!

[jpsb]

Well the result of this is easy to see, Doctors in Germany stop doing contracepitive work.

[DemforBush]

The article doesn't specifically state it, but I'm wondering if the device was improperly implanted by the OB/GYN. *If* that were the case, I could see the point of the lawsuit. Otherwise, this is judicial lunacy.

[EveningStar]

Let's see if this landmark decision spreads through the rest of Europe. If it does, it could then reach Canada and then the US.

[RRomo]

HA HA HA.... ROTFLMAO

Seriously!

BTW... I hope you don't mind... I'm going to be using that :)

[keepitreal]

Yes

[EveningStar]

Pretty bizarre, isn't it? Let's hope it doesn't spread to here.

[keepitreal]

Yes. I guess my point in a backhanded way was that contraceptives are never 100 percent. Two adults who engage in relations knowing that contraceptives are never 100 percent effective are responsible for the resulting life. Of course, responsibility for one's own actions is a lost virtue.

Unfortunately, such actions have already been brought here. They just don't go as far as child support:

"In 1989, the Ohio Supreme Court handled a case called Johnson v. Univ. Hosp. of Cleveland. In Johnson, our court adopted a limited-damages rule for wrongful pregnancy actions. The limited-damages rule allowed parents to recover the costs of the pregnancy and delivery, damages for emotional distress due to pregnancy, lost wages and a few other expenses. But our decision didn't allow for the recovery of costs for raising the child. "

http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Justices/pfeifer/column/2000/jp112900.asp

[Battle Axe]

I know a couple with a botched vasectomy. Their daughter is a lovely girl now graduated from college. I think they sued the physician.

[Rumple4]

The guys at Trojan are shaking in their boots over this

[adorno]

Pretty bizarre, isn't it? Let's hope it doesn't spread to here.

Actually, wouldn't it be a good thing to have that kind of justice spread to the U.S.?

Imagine that birth control pill manufacturers and prescriptions writers (doctors) were also liable for contraceptive failures. Less doctors and clinics and hospitals would dare to write those prescriptions.

Laws like that could probably be expanded to the most notorious birth control method of all: abortions. If anything at all goes wrong during the abortion, the doctor/clinic could be hit hard with a lawsuit. Also, if a woman has a late term abortion performed and later has guilt feelings, she could sue the doctor/clinic for being complicit in committing a crime while she was very guilt laden and was very emotional and very mentally weak when she had the procedure performed. .

[edpc]

botched vasectomy

That phrase, combined with your screen name, made me cringe.