Posted on 01/23/2017 2:52:15 PM PST by Brown Deer
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a woman who claims her doctor caused her to have a miscarriage by administering an abortion-inducing drug can proceed.
Kimberly Stinnetts usual doctor was reportedly out the day of her appointment. Karla Kennedy, the doctor who was filling in that day, believed that Stinnett had an ectopic pregnancy since she had had one previously.
Thus, Kennedy decided to administer methotrexate, a drug that, as the court noted, is intended to cause the end of the pregnancy.
However, when Stinnetts usual doctor, William Huggins, examined her pregnancy via ultrasound, he found that Stinnett did not have an ectopic pregnancy after all, but instead had a normal intrauterine pregnancy. He said that Stinnetts pregnancy was now doomed to fail, however, quite possibly from the methotrexate.
A few weeks later, as predicted, Stinnett suffered a miscarriage. She then took her case against Kennedy to court, alleging that the doctor had unnecessarily ended a viable pregnancy.
The initial court dismissed the case, but when Stinnett appealed her case to the Alabama Supreme Court, it was ruled that her case stands and must be heard in the lower court.
The courts decision to allow Stinnetts case to proceed has significant implications for the pro-life movement since they based their decision on the belief that Kennedy had possibly contributed to a homicide--meaning that Stinnetts unborn baby was a person and not simply a fetus.
The use of the viability standard established in Roe [Roe v. Wade] is incoherent as it relates to wrongful-death law because, among other reasons, life begins at the moment of conception. The fact that life begins at conception is beyond refutation, wrote Judge Thomas Parker.
Members of the judicial branch of Alabama should do all within their power to dutifully ensure that the laws of Alabama are applied equally to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, both born and unborn, Parker added.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3516737/posts?page=1#1
Thanks for posting this, Brown Deer!
Ping out!
The worst fears of the uber feminists and their government allies. Keep the good news coming.
Something doesn’t ring right about this case. First of all, nobody broke the woman’s arm to force her to swallow the medicine. If she took it, it’s because she wanted to.
Second of all, fallopian tubes don’t contract and expel a baby. Uteruses do.
Third, why didn’t someone bother to an ultrasound prior to prescribing the med? Fallopian tubes can be viewed ultrasonically using a vaginal wand at the very least.
There are just too many things about this case that puzzles me and too many unanswered questions.
How old is this patient? How ignorant is she? (ie uninformed about pregnancy even at the basic level..the level of info one should get in 4th grade menstruation class)
Still, I’m glad that there is a law on the books determining the humanity of the unborn. It’s a step in the right direction and sometimes laws have to be added on till you get to where you want to be legally.
If this is the FIRST state to recognize this, this is a HUGH crack in the Roe v Wade abomination. GOD BLESS ALABAMA for this.
Thank you...
musicman!
Was the woman told what the medication was and the effect?
I do remember doctors commonly saying “take this” and almost no one questioning.
And series..
State of Alabama ping! This is good thing. This is a God thing.
Indeed it is, praise be to God!!
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I don’t understand how the substitute “doctor” could think using a drug that causes abortion would be effective against an ectopic pregnancy. Had she really had this condition, surgery is required and usually destroys the fallopian tube along with the baby.
However encouraging it is to see a court rule in favor of considering the life of the unborn child, the mother must “choose” to want the child and that still determines the legality of the issue. Recognizing the personhood of the unborn and her/his right to life should be REGARDLESS of the mother’s choice. THAT is the real issue.
Ruh Rho !
Court comes in contact with reality.
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