tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5590465.post3444471699685760560..comments2024-03-11T05:58:13.874-04:00Comments on Halbert's Cubicle: Life: What is it good for?Halhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17985840356273623901noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5590465.post-13033947673631408352006-11-16T09:47:00.000-05:002006-11-16T09:47:00.000-05:00Actually, I thought of something else here.
The a...Actually, I thought of something else here.<br /><br />The article doesn't say what the birth control implant was. Perhaps this implant can be digested by the body?<br /><br />If so, I don't see the doctor as being at fault. But then, we don't know enough information to make that call.Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985840356273623901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5590465.post-68612890226050606062006-11-15T19:02:00.000-05:002006-11-15T19:02:00.000-05:00Depends. Hopefully she'll try to soften it by exp...Depends. Hopefully she'll try to soften it by explaining the circumstances. That's really more of a respect for someone's feelings, though, as opposed to a respect for life issue.<br /><br />I agree that it's a bizarre situation.-Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16841346338225366728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5590465.post-91209794506247500462006-11-15T17:50:00.000-05:002006-11-15T17:50:00.000-05:00Yeah, I realize that it comes off as a malpractice...Yeah, I realize that it comes off as a malpractice suit. Still. Why not go with adoption? This whole "I didn't want you but I'm keeping you anyhow" theme is really bizarre.<br /><br />The critical part here is the "explaining it to her kid" part. That kid, when he's old enough to understand, will probably feel less than worthwhile to his mother if she was suing this doctor for damages. Is the child wrong to feel that way?Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985840356273623901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5590465.post-16155275820582497962006-11-15T17:38:00.000-05:002006-11-15T17:38:00.000-05:00The last one's basically just a malpractice suit, ...The last one's basically just a malpractice suit, though. If the doctor somehow screwed up the control method (evidently the implant was just plain gone), she might have a case that he didn't do what she paid him to do, and "child support" is just the judge's way of dividing up what is a pretty meager malpractice suit at $166,104. I'm not sure how she's going to explain that to her kid, but knowing that you're not in a position to have a kid and attempting to take steps to prevent that from happening doesn't seem like a disrespect of life to me. It's possible that she did want kids later in life, that she'll be a fine mother, but knew she couldn't afford it <i>now</i>. And it's more likely to stick than if she was trying to claim support after she'd been on the pill or some method of birth control that demands she actually do something, while this was essentially a body modification that the doctor botched.<br /><br />After all, she did, you know, <i>have</i> the kid and didn't put it up for adoption. Wikipedia's claiming that abortions are illegal in Germany, but that the illegality isn't actually enforced. As all of my studies as a German minor were about the postwar era and not legal statutes, I have no clue what that means.<br /><br />Also, in case you hadn't seen that in the article (I think that's the same one, I read it yesterday on fark), the Church of England is also throwing its support behind actively euthanizing severely disabled babies, in addition to allowing them to die naturally.<br /><br />So there's that.-Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16841346338225366728noreply@blogger.com