Doctor ordered to pay for unwanted babyBERLIN (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. 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.
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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.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/child_compensation_dc Aside from the fact that this mother is now the mother of a child who will know had a court decree him "unwanted", what is your thinking on this ruling by a German court?
Do you think it would dampen the anti-Choice fervor in this country if every Pharmascist who refused to honor a prescription for birth control, every doctor who refused to prescribe morning-after contraception, or every school system which refused to offer sex education as part of their Health curriculum could be sued and made a party to unwanted pregnancies?
What do you think?
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