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PERTH, December 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Scottish court has set a date for the case of a woman seeking damages from her abortionist for failing to kill both of her twin daughters. Stacy Dow is suing the Perth Royal Infirmary after the hospital sent her home still pregnant with the surviving child, Jayde, now four. “I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that,” Dow told a London newspaper in April. Perth Sheriff Court set has set March 2006 as the date for the case...

PERTH- A Scottish court has set a date for the case of a woman seeking damages from her abortionist for failing to kill both of her twin daughters. Stacy Dow is suing the Perth Royal Infirmary after the hospital sent her home still pregnant with the surviving child, Jayde, now four. “I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that,” Dow told a London newspaper in April. Perth Sheriff Court set has set March 2006 as the date for the case in which Dow is seeking...

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...

A mother seeking damages from a health authority has claimed doctors breached a "warranty" by failing to abort one of her twins. Stacy Dow, 21, is claiming £250,000 compensation to cover the cost of raising the one child which survived the failed attempt to abort twins. A court heard doctors effectively give a warranty that the abortion, at Perth Royal Infirmary, would work. NHS Tayside denied liability in the case at Perth Sheriff Court. Miss Dow was told that she would be having an abortion and would no longer be pregnant, the court was told. 'Breach of contract' Her lawyer...