slacker Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Irregular News for 11.16.06 Berlin, Germany -- 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. 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. source Quote Link to comment
Hawkeyehusker Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 That is just plan nuts. Hopefully the decision can be appealed. Quote Link to comment
huskernumerouno Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 The woman could make out big time, get support from the doctor and the father. Quote Link to comment
husker rob Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 AR-------did you have something to do with this? Quote Link to comment
huskernumerouno Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 AR-------did you have something to do with this? Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 AR-------did you have something to do with this? "I did not have sex with that woman." Oh, wait - were you talking about the child support??? Quote Link to comment
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