This child was not wanted

I found this article on the net today.
__________________________________________________ _

How do you tell your child that you wish that he had never been born and that he
is just a financial burden to you? How do you make sure that he will be regularly
reminded of this fact throughout his life? One way is to sue a doctor for
performing an operation with a known failure rate because he didn't do a perfect
job.

The newspapers and electronic media around my place this week have been full of a
story about a woman being awarded a very large sum of money because she had a baby
some years after having a sterilisation operation. She informed the surgeon at the
time that her right ovary and fallopian tube had been removed in a previous
appendectomy operation, so all he had to do was tie off the left tube. The doctor
rather incautiously did not check on this while he had her cut open, possibly
through a fear of being sued for doing exploratory surgery even a short distance
away from the specific place for which he had received authority from the patient
(a fear which it now seems would have been well justified). When she fell
pregnanta few years later she could have had an abortion (any religious objection
to abortion would surely also imply objection to tubal ligation as a means of
contraception) but instead she chose to proceed with the pregnancy. Then she heard
about lawyers. She is making the usual noises about how she loves her son very
much (but not enough to pay for him like the rest of us have to do for our
children, planned or not) and how she didn't do it for the money but just to send
a message to doctors (so why did she do it at all or why doesn't she give the
money to charity?). One result of this incident is that doctors are already
talking about refusing to perform elective surgery where there is a risk of
failure, because the insurance protection against fatuous claims like this is too
expensive.

There was a very nice photograph in the paper showing the mother and her son
smiling broadly. She is smiling because she has just won the lottery. He is
smiling because he doesn't understand what is going on.


The Millenium Project
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/

Brettg wrote:
I found this article on the net today.
__________________________________________________ _

How do you tell your child that you wish that he had never been born and that he
is just a financial burden to you? How do you make sure that he will be regularly
reminded of this fact throughout his life? One way is to sue a doctor for
performing an operation with a known failure rate because he didn't do a perfect
job.

The newspapers and electronic media around my place this week have been full of a
story about a woman being awarded a very large sum of money because she had a baby
some years after having a sterilisation operation. She informed the surgeon at the
time that her right ovary and fallopian tube had been removed in a previous
appendectomy operation, so all he had to do was tie off the left tube. The doctor
rather incautiously did not check on this while he had her cut open, possibly
through a fear of being sued for doing exploratory surgery even a short distance
away from the specific place for which he had received authority from the patient
(a fear which it now seems would have been well justified). When she fell
pregnanta few years later she could have had an abortion (any religious objection
to abortion would surely also imply objection to tubal ligation as a means of
contraception) but instead she chose to proceed with the pregnancy. Then she heard
about lawyers. She is making the usual noises about how she loves her son very
much (but not enough to pay for him like the rest of us have to do for our
children, planned or not) and how she didn't do it for the money but just to send
a message to doctors (so why did she do it at all or why doesn't she give the
money to charity?). One result of this incident is that doctors are already
talking about refusing to perform elective surgery where there is a risk of
failure, because the insurance protection against fatuous claims like this is too
expensive.

There was a very nice photograph in the paper showing the mother and her son
smiling broadly. She is smiling because she has just won the lottery. He is
smiling because he doesn't understand what is going on.


The Millenium Project
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/

The usual legal bull****. Take any topic in the news anymore, everyone
is trying to avoid responsibility.

Not a lot different than the forced child support most NCP's face. They
are forced to be a "visiting" parent and than ordered by law to pay for
the priveledge.

Whatever happened to common sense. The one thing that ****es me off more
than anything else is stupidity. While igonarance is failure or
inability to learn, stupidity is the willingness to do it wrong even
when you know better.

WTF

~Dani

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Brettg wrote:
I found this article on the net today.
__________________________________________________ _

How do you tell your child that you wish that he had never been born and
that he
is just a financial burden to you? How do you make sure that he will be
regularly
reminded of this fact throughout his life? One way is to sue a doctor
for
performing an operation with a known failure rate because he didn't do a
perfect
job.

The newspapers and electronic media around my place this week have been
full of a
story about a woman being awarded a very large sum of money because she
had a baby
some years after having a sterilisation operation. She informed the
surgeon at the
time that her right ovary and fallopian tube had been removed in a
previous
appendectomy operation, so all he had to do was tie off the left tube.
The doctor
rather incautiously did not check on this while he had her cut open,
possibly
through a fear of being sued for doing exploratory surgery even a short
distance
away from the specific place for which he had received authority from
the patient
(a fear which it now seems would have been well justified). When she
fell
pregnanta few years later she could have had an abortion (any religious
objection
to abortion would surely also imply objection to tubal ligation as a
means of
contraception) but instead she chose to proceed with the pregnancy. Then
she heard
about lawyers. She is making the usual noises about how she loves her
son very
much (but not enough to pay for him like the rest of us have to do for
our
children, planned or not) and how she didn't do it for the money but
just to send
a message to doctors (so why did she do it at all or why doesn't she
give the
money to charity?). One result of this incident is that doctors are
already
talking about refusing to perform elective surgery where there is a risk
of
failure, because the insurance protection against fatuous claims like
this is too
expensive.

There was a very nice photograph in the paper showing the mother and her
son
smiling broadly. She is smiling because she has just won the lottery. He
is
smiling because he doesn't understand what is going on.


The Millenium Project
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/

The usual legal bull****. Take any topic in the news anymore, everyone
is trying to avoid responsibility.

Not a lot different than the forced child support most NCP's face. They
are forced to be a "visiting" parent and than ordered by law to pay for
the priveledge.

Whatever happened to common sense. The one thing that ****es me off more
than anything else is stupidity. While igonarance is failure or
inability to learn, stupidity is the willingness to do it wrong even
when you know better.

WTF
I agree entirely dani.

Glow

The usual legal bull****. Take any topic in the news anymore, everyone
is trying to avoid responsibility.

It certainly seems that way....


Not a lot different than the forced child support most NCP's face. They
are forced to be a "visiting" parent and than ordered by law to pay for
the priveledge.

Whatever happened to common sense. The one thing that ****es me off more
than anything else is stupidity. While igonarance is failure or
inability to learn, stupidity is the willingness to do it wrong even
when you know better.

WTF

WTF!

~Dani

Well, where's the usual suspects who
can always be counted on to cluck
"If the doctor didn't want to pay child support,
he should have been wearing a condom?"

--
All excuses for feminism depend on
blaming the man and excusing the woman,
no matter what.