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11-15-2006, 07:11 PM

Batist

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I truly feel sorry for this kid

the mom is a retard

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Doctor ordered to pay for unwanted baby

Wed Nov 15, 9:05 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - A court ruling which ordered a gynecologist to pay child support for up to 18 years as compensation for botching a contraceptive implant was condemned by the German media as scandalous on Wednesday.
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The Karlsruhe-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the doctor must pay his former patient, now a mother of a three-year-old boy, 600 euros ($769) a month because she became pregnant after he implanted her with a contraceptive device. "A child as a case for damages -- this perverse idea has now been confirmed by one of Germany's highest courts," conservative Die Welt daily newspaper wrote in an editorial on Wednesday.

The device is meant to protect against pregnancy for up to three years, but half a year after the operation, the implant could no longer be found in the woman's body, the court said.

While it should be welcomed that a doctor can now be held to account in the same way as a shoddy plumber, the newspaper said, how could a child whose parents had sought damages for its birth ever come to terms with the situation?

"In addition to the highly private inkling that he was not wanted by his parents, he now has official confirmation that he was born by mistake," Die Welt also said.

The award covers the first years of the child's life and also subsequent costs to the age of 18.

The parents, who had known each other six months at the time of the conception, were no longer together, the court said, ruling that the father should also be compensated for the maintenance he was paying toward the child.

The ruling could spark a flood of similar claims against gynecologists, Stern magazine wrote on its Web site.

I wonder how he'll feel. money being give for being unwanted.

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11-15-2006, 07:36 PM	#2
Xavius Sabor de Soledad Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: NM Posts: 32,274	The contraceptive itself couldn't be 100% effective anyway, why is the doc paying for it? __________________ I was young and confused and your mom didn't want me around no more. Now pass me dem damn collard greens!

11-15-2006, 07:45 PM

Knight of Cydonia

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Well, in their defence they might not have had the money for another kid, yet still loved it so wanted to keep it. Raising a child does cost a lot of money, though I'm pretty sure the German state also pays child support, which may not cover every extra expense, but certainly the $600 a month is an exagerated amount.
If anything the doctor should have told the parents, and they could just as well have informed themselves on the matter, that such an implant isn't entirely full proof either, like many things any means of contraception has certain failure rates, which may or may not be due to faulty use of it. I've heard of migration of these implants in the news before, so although very rare, I don't think it would be fair to simply blame the doctor for it, unless it can be proven without a doubt the migration was his fault because of a mistake in the operation, and not because of a reaction of the woman's own body to it.

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11-15-2006, 07:56 PM	#4
Robjomak still going strong Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 8,019	I can't imagine any medical process not having disclaimers plastered all over it. This is a frivolous lawsuit however you look at it. If you want to sue for malpractice or whatever the equivalent is in Europe because the procedure (or perhaps the device?) didn't function to its guarantee, that's reasonable. But asking for child support is frivolous, not to mention sick.

11-15-2006, 09:23 PM	#5
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