Spanish Doctor ordered to pay child support for botched abortion

http://theweek.com/article/index/22...to-pay-child-support-after-a-botched-abortion

Clearly, this man is a quack but still...

A large cash award and then child support for 26 years! That is unbelievable!

Should doctors who screw up an abortion be forced to pay child support? What about the father of this kid? And now the mother claims she is happy to have her son and wants him...so shouldn't she be happy this happened...is there really much emotional damage to her if she is pleased to be a mother now?

Thoughts?

He shouldn't owe her anything, because abortion is murder.

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The $189,000 for emotional damages plus monthly child support is a bit much. Shoulda just left it at monthly child support and not gotten greedy, but at the same time the doctor should know what the hell a pregnant woman looks like.

I don't see how this is unreasonable.

Myah! Myah! Ya shoulda finished the job, see?

The fuck is this shit?!

"it doesn't matter what the reality is, a man is responsible, so whatever man -- which ever one is available -- must pay"? Fuck that sexist shit! Let the woman shoulder equal responsibility, gods damn it!

Good, then you can pay Skin's cable bill, regardless of whether or not you had any part in accruing it!

"Nehhhh, you didn't absolve me of my irresponsibility, so you have to pick up the slack of my irresponsibility! Nehhhhh!"

If Anc was paid to cut off your cable, didn't, then promised you it'd been cut off for several months before realizing his mistake, then you'd have a pretty good case.

Bitch should be legally obligated to care for the kid and, additionally, should be slapped upside the back of the head every month for having had a kid she wasn't prepared for despite knowing that cock plus pussy plus orgasm equals screaming shit machine.

The math IS NOT overly complicated.

Ah, there it is.

That's what it always comes down to if you wait long enough.

Skin still has an excellent case, according to you. Skin treated his ball sack like a Sega Genesis and is expecting you to foot the bill. Same deal. Skin can't keep his shit in his pants and will not accept his responsibilities as a parent. Tough shit for you, ain't it? Skin didn't ask you, Skin didn't give you a choice, Skin just selfishly squirted for his own short term gratification and now he's forcing you to foot the bill.

How do you like it?

The fact that you, personally, 14thDoctor, are a bitch? When do people not notice that?

You forgot the part where it now means that not only does Skin have to have cable but he now has to have the HD Package, Sports Package, Movie Package, and High Speed Internet package, FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS...

The man was hired to perform a service and didn't; and was incredibly negligent about it, unable to even tell the pregnancy had continued in ultrasound. I'm not sure about the extent of the damages, but child support seems fair to me.

What I can't understand is why anyone would keep him on as a doctor after this. The man is clearly dangerously incompetent.

I can see the cash award but the child support is a bit much. And what about the baby's father, is he off the hook for child support?

It will be interesting when the mother explains to the growing boy how some man he hardly knows is paying a huge amount of money every month to support him because he failed to kill him as intended!

BTW, taking inflation into account, that amount of money is roughly what I had available per month for my whole family, until after my wife started working when the kids were teen-agers. That's a very generous sum for child support!

At least the mother will be able to say very honestly that the boy is worth more to her alive than he would have been dead...

Whereas I think it should be the other way around.

Agreed. I'm surprised the young lady went to see him three times.

Yes, why is that? My thinking is that those are the actual costs of his incompetence. Given that the woman kept the child and is happy, I'm not sure if there is a major emotional trauma to compensate.

Precisely. She is happy to have a son (I wonder if she regrets trying to have him eliminated?), so why should someone else have to pay her for that?

OTOH, the doctor clearly failed at doctoring (even though I am thoroughly opposed to what he was hired to do), so he should lose his licence and have to pay compensation to the woman for failing to do the job he was hired to do.

Well, it seems it'd be better to get a settlement (for incompetence/punitive damages/whatever) upfront and be done with it, for both parties involved. Else this young woman is looking at a twenty-six year financial relationship with the doctor and the clinic. She can't count on either to last that long. As for the clinic I'm certain they're eager to put this incidence behind them too.

How about a lump sum payment for all the child support? $1,300 a month X 312 months = $405,600.

^ A ridiculously high payment, IMO, for not being competent enough at killing the boy...

As a medical procedure gone wrong, yeah, I can see her getting some compensation, if only to set the example. Unlike this case, some women absolutely need to have an abortion for medical reasons. Misdiagnosing a tubal pregnancy could result in her inability to have more children or even her own death, for example.

But child support? Get the fuck outta here with that shit. The kid has a father somewhere.

...and being unable to tell that the woman is pregnant from an ultrasound. Even when you have the direct comparison of the pregnant ultrasound beforehand. You're not supposed to use Matt Smith's equipment unless you're a Time Lord, you know.

Fair point, I was talking more about the method of payment than the amount.

Governments don't care who is made financially responsible as long as it isn't them and they can enforce it by law. In America, if your name is on the birth certificate as the father (even if you're listed without your knowledge) and that child turns 3, you're financially responsible until it turns 18 even if a paternity test later reveals you aren't the father.

There has to be more to it than that. Otherwise, someone can list some guy without ever telling them, and thus force them to pay, with no recourse?

This is almost as bad as when women who make test tube babies sue the sperm donor for child support. Just retarded.