A Woman's Right to Choose is a semi-regular feature of Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels.
A Boston woman is suing her abortion doctors after she gave birth to a healthy baby. She is suing for the costs of raising the child.
(Jennifer) Raper claimed in the three-page medical malpractice suit that she found out she was pregnant in March 2004 and decided to have an abortion for financial reasons.
Dr. Allison Bryant, a physician working for Planned Parenthood at the time, performed the procedure on April 9, 2004, but it "was not done properly, causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant," according to the complaint.
Raper then went to see Dr. Benjamin Eleonu at Boston Medical Center in July 2004, and he failed to detect the pregnancy even though she was 20 weeks pregnant at the time, the lawsuit alleges.
It was only when Raper went to the New England Medical Center emergency room for treatment of pelvic pain in late September that year that she found out she was pregnant, the suit said.
She gave birth to a daughter on Dec. 7, 2004.
She is seeking damages, including child-rearing costs.
I wonder what life will be like for this little girl growing up knowing her mother tried to kill her and then sued the doctors because she is alive?
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