Posted on 02/28/2012 11:26:46 PM PST by grundle
It's possible that women who become pregnant after taking the defective birth control pills Pfizer recalled on February 1 could sue the drug company for unwanted pregnancies, experts say. And they could ask for a lot of money.
Courts have typically thought about so-called wrongful pregnancy cases as similar to medical malpractice, said I. Glenn Cohen, assistant professor and co-director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Similar cases have allowed people to sue for things like unwanted pregnancies after botched vasectomies. In the past, there has even been a case in which a woman successfully sued a pharmacist for a pregnancy that resulted from errors in filling the woman's birth control prescriptions, Cohen said.
The best chance for a case, however, would be for affected women with unwanted pregnancies to band together and bring a class-action lawsuit against Pfizer, said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. Such a case could ask for considerably more money than an individual case, and would be more attractive to lawyers, Caplan said.
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There is only one form of birth control that is 100% effective and it does not come in a bottle or a package.
However, it may put the whole who pays for contraception issue to bed. If no one makes the stuff, you don’t have to pay for it.
ahhhh.....the lawsuit culture teams up with the “babies are a punishment” crowd....and this is what you get.
Don’t you just love unintended consequences?
So now! You can actually sue somebody because you got pregnant....by having sex!!!
oh the horror!
LOL.
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