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After Botched Abortion, Doctor Ordered To Pay Child Support


A woman in Spain went to get an abortion in April, 2010, when she was eight weeks pregnant and it was legal to do so. The procedure failed, and seven months later, she gave birth — and now the doctor’s gonna pay for his mistake.

A judge ordered the doctor and the private clinic where he works to pay the woman 150,000 euros ($187,770) in damages for the negligence. He also ordered the doctor to personally pay monthly child support of 978 euros ($1,224) until the kid turns 26, the Daily Telegraph reported.

This may seem extreme, but in reality, the doctor is nearly as responsible for the child’s existence as the mother is — he shouldn’t be able to walk away and leave the woman to bear the burden she obviously didn’t feel prepared for.

Giving the doc the benefit of the doubt and assuming he made an honest mistake, I feel a little bad that he’ll be paying for it for the next 25 years — but then, isn’t paying for one mistake for years afterward exactly what abortion is supposed to protect people from? Maybe this experience will give the good doctor a sense of the urgency his patients feel, and inspire him to check and double check that he’s done his job right.

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  • Anonymous

    F@@k!!!

  • Kaitlyn Cocuzzo

    Maybe, the doctor shouldn’t have been trying to kill a child in the first place, nor should the mother have been. The laws protecting the murder of children are disgusting.
    Mom, have fun explaining to your child, that some random doctor is paying child support for it, because you wanted to kill it. 

  • Anonymous

    How is it in the back of the cave?

  • Anonymous

    No, you are mistaken, she lives under a rock

  • Anonymous

    I always forget specifics. I guess I meant under a rock IN the back of the cave.

  • Anonymous

    26? What, Spanish people can’t fend for themselves before turning 26 yrs old? It’s no bloody wonder their economy is in a shambles.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    pro life?
    Why do you call the child an it?

    pro life people are weird hypocrites.
    You probably believe in capital punishiment.

  • Anonymous

    I feel sorry for the poor child that must live with a mother that wanted to have him or her killed. Must be like living with a murderer that wants to murder just you. Liberalism gone mad. 

  • http://twitter.com/KeithFan28 Bobby

    He should have to pay some damages for botching the abortion.

    But, child support? No.

    The mother could choose to put the kid up for adoption. She’s CHOOSING to keep the kid. She made the choice, she gets the responsibilities.

  • Anonymous

    I understand your first sentence, but if you called the baby “it”, then you are kind of admitting baby as an object. Wouldnt it make more sense, if you say ” Have fun explaining your child, that some randm doctor is paying for support because he failed to kill the baby. And it not law prtecting the baby… That just happened and the law doesnt even it make sense.

  • Anonymous

    You nailed it! I’d love to see the shameless woman explain it to the child when he or she becomes a successful adult, that a doctor was compelled by the courts to pay for his or her upbringing, because mommy’s plan to kill him or her was unsuccessful. I wonder what she’ll feel like if the baby becomes the one time world number one tennis player like Rafael Nadal, or Formular One world champion like Alonso.

    Child: Mommy, why does Dr. Honorato keep giving you $1,224 every month?

    Mother(as if she deserves the titile): Son/daughter, you see I went to his clinic several years ago to kill you when you were still in my womb, because I did not want you to be born, but he failed to do the task successfully, so a judge asked him to pay me $1,224 every month until you become 26.

    Child: You must have truly loved me then, to think I did not deserve to live a life I had began in your womb.

    PS: @ Lilly ODonnell, what a shame for you to suggest that the best way to fix a “mistake” made by a human, is ending the life of another innocent human. I hope someday people like you will realize that a human life ones started, should be allowed to LIVE, even if some consider the conception a “mistake” as you put it. I wonder what mistakes are worth taking innocent human lives to fix them, in spite of the hundreds of other options available.

    “this experience will give the good doctor a sense of the urgency his
    patients feel, and inspire him to check and double check that he’s done
    his job right.”

    Lilly, YOU SEEM TRULY DISGUSTING INSIDE. (This is my opinion, and I am entitled to it).

  • Anonymous

    This proves my point that most of the commenters here are uneducated miscreants. Anyone with descent education or even studied English as a child, would have known that babies are referred to as “it” due to the possibility of an unknown gender.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    Sad situation from all sides. I hope the woman does not resent her child. No mention of the child as to the physical damages suffered.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mohamed-Iqbal/1045363016 Mohamed Iqbal

    I wonder if the judge would have ordered child support to be paid if the surgeon was a woman. This is a warning to all male abortion providers. Give up this disgusting profession and do a decent job of helping human life rather than providing services to end it.

  • Anonymous

    Yes because one must live in a cave or under a rock to have compassion for innocent, unborn babies. 
    This is typical liberal logic. There isnt much to it.

  • Anonymous

    She called the child an “it” because no sex was mentioned. Im sorry if that was two complicated for you. Also, having compassion for an innocent, unborn child and not feeling the same way about a monster who killed a family is too VERY different things. The irony in your statement is that it is liberals who are hypocrites on the issue. Lets review: We (Liberal)s dont care about the life/rights of an unborn baby but we care deeply about the rights/life of psychopaths. This is why it is well known that liberalism is a mental disorder.

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  • Anonymous

     No, one simply has to believe incorrectly and illogically that things exist before they actually do.  In your world, the ingredients in my kitchen are “unmade sandwiches” seeds are “unsprouted plants”, raw iron is “unforged nails”, blank pages are “unwritten books”, trees are “uncut lumber”, lumber must be “unbuilt furniture”, and zygotes are “unborn babies”.  But whatever.  Logic is unimportant as long as you get to enjoy the delicious self-righteousness that comes from posting about “compassion” and “typical liberal logic”. 

  • Anonymous

    @obeytoofy

    You only serve to show your depravity in comparing the life of unborn baby to ingredients in a sandwich.

  • Anonymous

    I’m more concerned that the child is left to be raised by a woman who didn’t want it.

  • Anonymous

    And you only serve to show the depth of stupidity necessary to confuse something that is unformed with something that is unborn.  In your world this: http://handeyes.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/imagemain_sperm_egg1_1.gif is a baby.  But here, in the real world, it isn’t.  

  • Anonymous

    @ObeyToofy:disqus You only prove my point. You are depraved. Why does a baby being not yet formed mean it is somehow less human? It is still a separate set of DNA and the only difference is time. All the pieces are there but small. Stupidity is not even fitting for people like you. You are far worse than stupid.

  • Anonymous

    Because it’s not a baby.  That’s why we have different words to describe it.  It’s also why we don’t call seeds “trees” even though they have the same DNA and all that’s needed is time.  You say, ”
    all the pieces are there but small”, but an egg fertilized by a sperm doesn’t have a brain, legs, eyes, ears or any of the same parts.  Maybe I just missed them?  Perhaps you could draw a circle around the “parts” you swear are there just “smaller” on this picture: 
    http://handeyes.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/imagemain_sperm_egg1_1.gif
    What’s that you say?  You can’t do it?  There are no legs, eyes, ears or actually ANY of the parts you say are there?  That’s what I thought.  You’re just another sad, deluded person who likes to imagine that fertilized eggs are “babies” so you can enjoy the feeling of self-righteousness that comes from condemning those who terminate a pregnancy. Pathetic.

  • Anonymous

    @ObeyToofy:disqus self righteous is the last thing I feel. I only feel sorry for the innocent lives lost and feel sorry for people like you. How empty it must feel to live a life so blindly lead by hedonism. There is no need to attempt to circle anything. Just because it hasnt formed yet doesnt mean the parts arent there. I dont know what your education level is but take some A&P courses and you will understand that DNA is the building blocks of life. DNA IS THE PART. DNA is microscopic. In other words you cant see it. Just because you cant see it doesnt mean it isnt there. 

  • Anonymous

    Ah, so DNA is a baby?  Thanks for educating me!  All this time I was sure it was a nucleic acid containing two nucleotides of sugar and phosphate groups joined by ester bonds.  Hey, look at this cute little guy: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/DNA_Structure%2BKey%2BLabelled.pn_NoBB.png/340px-DNA_Structure%2BKey%2BLabelled.pn_NoBB.png
    Isn’t he (she?) adorable?  Look at its cute chubby little cheeks, its tiny little feet, and it’s adorable little ears.  Isn’t it just the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?  Ever?
    How do you actually function in life like this?  Being so deluded that you can’t draw rational boundaries between things?  In a world where a DNA molecule is a baby, how do you differentiate other objects and beings and navigate your way around reality?  Your friends and family must have a hell of a time keeping you out of trouble.  Especially in the store!  ”Oooh look!  Chickens!”  ”No, those are just eggs.”  ”They’re chickens!!”  ”No they aren’t, see the shells?  They’re eggs.”  ”CHICKENS!!!”  ”Ok…sure…they’re chickens.”  But I suppose as long as you get to keep feeling all that delicious self-righteousness (which you claim is the last thing you feel, but it’s clearly the first) it’s a fair trade.

  • Anonymous

    @ObeyToofy:disqus Thank you but as a nurse I can assure you I understand exactly what DNA is. Nice job with the google seatch though. Your answer is yes, the DNA genotype precipitates the phenotype; In other words the DNA’s code is what defines the physical expression of the DNA. In other words the SEPARATE DNA IS A SEPARATE PERSON. Just because the phenotype is not yet expressed does not make the genotype any less significant. The phenotype is being expressed from the moment of fertilization. It has to grow though. I doesnt just start out as an arm or heart. It starts out as the genotype (genetic code) and continually grows the phenotype (expression of the gene such as arms and heart) until it is complete. So the pieces are there you just cant see them. 

  • Anonymous

    You’ve just made my point for me.  Everything needed to make a tree is contained in a fertilized seed.  But it’s not a tree.  It’s a seed.  And only the most deluded or irrational would claim otherwise.  In the same way, a fertilized egg is not a baby despite having everything needed to make a baby.  It’s a fertilized egg.  The fact that you can’t (or worse, refuse to) see this is, in a word, dumbfounding.  

    I’ve gone from feeling annoyed and offended by your willful irrationality for the sake of your personal sense of righteousness, to just plain feeling sorry for you.

    Which, for any reasoning and thinking person, should be the only appropriate reaction to a person so deeply deluded.

    Good luck in life.  I will respond no further to this thread, nor will I read any response you leave after this.

    And as a final note, entertaining the notion that you might be the nurse you claim to be, fills with me dread for all those to whom you might administer care.  Because at the very least, those who provide medical services should have solid critical thinking skills, and your deficits in this regard are nothing short of glaring.

  • Anonymous

    @ObeyToofy:disqus read this or not I dont care. Im glad you feel sorry for me. I guess I am just irrational and deluded then. I am the irrational one when you are drawing a comparison between a tree and a human life. You dont even see the irony in your statements. Irrational is claiming that because a human egg is fertilized and grows to a become a neonate and a tree seed is fertilized to become a tree, they are one in the same. You only prove your depravity. On one hand you have human life. On the other you have a seedling (tree). You somehow make a connection between the two even though they are so different. I can see you are not intelligent enough to even be having this conversation. Your middle school era insults only prove this. You actually think that somehow by insulting my critical thinking skills that makes your point any more valid. That only serves to show your  level of critical thinking.

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