April 25, 2005

NURSING'S LOSS...:

Mother sues NHS after twin survives abortion (David Lister, 4/25/05, Times of London)

A MOTHER who underwent an abortion after learning that she was pregnant with twins is suing the NHS for £250,000 after one of the babies survived.

Stacy Dow, who was 16 when she found out that she was pregnant, is seeking compensation and damages for the “financial burden” of raising her daughter. Miss Dow, whose father has had to take on a second job to help to pay for his granddaughter, is claiming for “loss, injury and damage” suffered at the hands of Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The teenager, who hoped to train as a nurse...

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 25, 2005 12:00 AM
Comments

The child should be taken out of that home. What a cruel, selfish lot those people (the woman and her father, at least) are. Yikes, Mr. Judd, its not even 8 am and you are already illustrating the worst in human nature.

Posted by: Buttercup at April 25, 2005 7:53 AM

She wants to be a nurse? She's off to a good start, as the primary job of future NHS nurses will be seeing "inconvenient" patients off.

Posted by: Greg Hlatky at April 25, 2005 8:04 AM
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