Posted on 01/05/2010 3:57:52 PM PST by Millicent_Hornswaggle
A Massachusetts mother with nine children who had asked a hospital for post-delivery birth control was sterilized instead without her consent, according to a lawsuit against the Springfield hospital and several doctors and nurses.
Tessa Savicki, 35, claimed that doctors at Baystate Medical Center had agreed to insert an intrauterine device, or IUD, that she brought to the operating room, but instead performed a tubal ligation that effectively ended her chances of having more children.
"They've done something. They cannot correct this," she told ABCNews.com. "You think you're safe at the hospital. You're not."
Savicki's attorney, Dr. Max Borten of Waltham, Mass., a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist who practiced for 30 years, said his client was devastated when she found out about the tubal ligation shortly after a December 2006 Cesarean section.
Awake with only spinal anesthesia, Saviciki "realized that when she was still on the table," he said.
Savicki's children range in age from 3 to 21 and she is a grandmother of one with another grandchild on the way. She had her first child, a boy, at age 13 after being raped, she told ABC News.
Getting back on her feet after a rough start -- two of her children are on welfare and she is unemployed -- Savicki said she's working toward her GED.
Her three youngest children are with her fiance, Angel Tirado, who she said was hoping for one more baby. Their youngest, Manuel, was recently diagnosed with autism.
"He was talking about trying for another boy," she said.
She understands that she would not be able to adopt, given her financial situation.
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Some US states adopted such laws before Hitler imposed them on Germany.
If she wins a court settlement I don’t think there are taxes.
How do you refer to your mother? I always call mine, "mom" when speaking to her and when referring to her I might say, "my mother" but just as likely to say, "my mom". I guess I'm just a "childish" 64 year old (she's 89).
I don’t believe I’ve said one word about sterilization, forced or otherwise. I don’t believe sterilization is necessary or even desirable...and regardless, if you cut off the money, that’s one hell of an autoclave. What happens to them then is...well...their concern. See how neat and fair that is? Beautiful simplicity
I don’t believe this woman or her story. Her very lifestyle proves she is a liar and a fraud. Not to mention the following, which none of the bleeding hearts here found worth commenting on, for some reason.
“The suit against Baystate is not the first reproductive claim Savicki has filed. In 2001, Borten confirmed, Savicki won a settlement against CVS and a spermicide company after she became pregnant using expired spermicide.
Borten, who was not her lawyer in the case, said that kind of lawsuit could have garnered seven figures, but Savicki won only about $20,000 and took home a little more than $1,000. “
Yep, a hell of a gal. She only got 20,000, you see. She could have got 7 figures! So, it was a frivolous lawsuit but she was only moderately greedy. By the way, I speak lawyer to a degree...and what he really said here is that they asked for 7 figures and settled for 20 grand. That is what they call spin in the lawyer industry.
And you’re going to have a hell of a time “tearing down” the welfare state if you’re always afraid to swing a demo hammer because a child is in the way. Yeah, you’ll get around to dismantling it, but in the meantime, let them breed unlimited foot soldiers to resist your attempt to “tear down” the welfare state. That’s kind of like leaving sugar out for the roaches so that you have plenty of targets when you start stomping them in your belated attempt at pest control. Sheer genius.
Stopping funding immediately would cause the welfare state to tear itself down. No further action necessary, except perhaps riot control.
These people are vampires. They live on our life’s blood. Everything she takes from me and gives to her children is that much less that I can provide for MY children, who I LABOR for. Unlike her.
If Hitler had been smart he’d have just moved 5 million illegal Germans to some large city and waited for the creation of welfare as we know it. We could never have resisted him because...its about the children!
I care as much about her little brood of monsters as I do about the children who died screaming in Dresden. Enemy=enemy. At least Germans came at you shooting, not sideways while trying to pick your pockets under the guise of a “right.”
In part it does. But there is no way the docs would use a device she brought in.
The children are innocent, you sir are disgusting.
Then you pay for them.
You must carry around a ton of guilt for Dresden, Nagasaki, or Hiroshima.
Not me. The little Germans and Japs were just smaller versions of the gas chamber operators or the murderers of our POWS in the Pacific. It was us or them...just like now.
And these little beasts are just little versions of her.
You pay for them.
No guilt. Children are innocent. What an unhappy person you must be.
24. As related in paragraphs 5-11 above, Dresden became a military target as (1), and of overriding importance, a primary communications center in the Berlin-Leipzig-Dresden railway complex; (2) as an important industrial and manufacturing center directly associated with the production of aircraft components and other military items, including poison gas, anti-aircraft and field guns, and small guns; and (3) as an area containing specific military installations.
You are correct.
Your cruelty is poison.
Listen noob, children are innocents that didn't ask to be pawns.
You're no conservative. Noob.
That’s the first time that I’ve read that term being fairly applied.
You're a danger to society.
The Founders actually let only people with property vote because they knew that those who did or would not work would vote to take from those that did.
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch.
He sounds like a liberal, spewing what he believes are conservative ideas. They aren’t. When DU mocks conservatives, it is just as overboard because they don’t get it.
It’s not for the federal government to redistribute wealth. It should be up to local governments and churches, and people who receive should be required to work in some way for it.
Tubal ligations are reversible, as are vasectomies. While reprehensible on the part of the hospital, it is hardly the end-of-the-world this woman is making it out to be.
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