Mother of 9 sues hospital.

[Irving]

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100103mom_of_9_cries_foul_claim_i_was_sterilized _against_my_will/

Basically after her latest kid she went into the hospital to have a removable IUD installed into her uterus, and came out with her tubes permanently tied.

My take: The hospital screwed up BIG time and she definitely has a case. However, I'm not sympathetic to her because she is an unmarried, unemployed, mother of 9. She doesn't have custody of 2 or 3 of them, and is receiving public assistance for 2 of the however many still live with her. 2 of them are no longer minors. So, while I feel her suit is correct, this was probably the best thing that will ever happen to her.

Discuss.

[Batteriesnare]

She has a case I would think, but I agree, that was probably the better of the two outcomes.

[Troublco]

What's to discuss? I agree with you on this one.

[Birddog1911]

Welfare breeders...[Bang][Rant1][Toile2]

[robsterclaw]

I may be weird, but the way I see it is this way. Different circumstances for different people. If this had happened with a married mom of any amount of kids, and not on public assistance, I'd hope the hospital gets whacked with a big settlement.

In this case though, she can't afford the kids she has, has a long history of public assistance, so her reward is she just got that surgery for free!

[clublights]

Complete screw up by the hospital and I'm sure they will pay for it in court............

However on a complete side note..................... score a win for Karma .

[Colorado Luckydog]

In this case though, she can't afford the kids she has, has a long history of public assistance, so her reward is she just got that surgery for free!

She can afford them now!!

[mutt]

Yeah the hospital screwed up big time and I suspect will pay through the nose. Too bad she can just use this an excuse to sponge even more off the system. I love working hard so others don't have to. Welfare has to have a time limit to give people an incentive to better themselves. Otherwise you get people like her.

[GreenScoutII]

Well, I think she will almost certainly win some kind of settlement against the hospital. It does sound like malpractise (sp?). It appears she was seeking contraception, but ended up with sterilization instead.

I'm not against providing some form of public assistance to people who fall on hard times until they can get back on their feet, but for some people, welfare becomes institutional and generational. This has to stop. There must be some limits to the amount and type of benefits paid and for how long.

I'll go on record as stating that forced sterilization is wrong. Appealing concept, but morally indefenseable.

[Troublco]

Agreed that forced sterilization is wrong, and completely indefensible.

Maybe what we should do is make it a choice. If you have more than X number of kids, and you're habitually on welfare, you get it if you want to get any more welfare...

Let them choose what they want.

[jake]

I'll go on record as stating that forced sterilization is wrong. Appealing concept, but morally indefenseable.
I told my wife the story, and as soon as I got to the 'nine kids by different men, on welfare' part, she said instead of sterilizing her they should have shot her. She's very much a ZPG kind of girl.

[SA Friday]

I don't like the fact the welfare momma is pushing out kids like this, but then again who am I to judge her given right to decide what she's going to do with her uteris. I really don't think any woman says, " you know, I think I'm gonna push out a liter of kids and live off of wellfare. Ya, that's the plan I have for my life."

I really don't like a surgeon making mad cash getting confused between an IUD insertion and a tubal ligation. That's a life and body changing mistake. How would you like it if you went in for a vasecotmy and had your penis surgically removed?

I hope she sues for millions and gets every penny.