This thread is not the appropriate place to expouse your views on abortion. There are many threads on that topic, and a quick search should turn up a bunch of 'em.

Sorry if you got jumped on, but threads is this forum tend to get steered off topic quite easily instead of being interesting productive conversations.

I wonder if the women who weren't able to have abortions could sue him for damages somehow. I hope they can, and do.

This is in the states - there much be a way to sue. ;)
But seriously - but you should be able to sue for damages. He mislead/forced them into a life changing (and perhaps life threatening) event. I mean, pregnancy is not cheap, and it's not a cakewalk. If these women were forced into bringing the pregnancy to term, then they should be compensated for it.

Hey, lawsuits have been won on a lot less.

Or maybe he gets to raise the kids? ;)

LOL! In theory, that's a good idea, but I wouldn't want this freak raising any kids who will probably also grow up to be freaks. ;)

Yeah.... I was't really serious, of course.

But now that I think about it....I wonder if that possiblity were there if it would have changed his mind about misleading women in the first place....

He should be forced to wear an empathy belly 24-7 and the number of months will be determined using the following equation.

Take the number of women he misled and multiply that number by 9, for the number of months of a average pregnancy.

Nice. :rolleyes: :mad:

I hope the women who were misled can sue for damages... significant damages. There's the medical cost of prenatal care, delivery, well-baby checkups, vaccinations, etc. There's often the cost of day care, school, maybe college eventually. Then there's the opportunity cost of possibly having had to drop out of high school or college or give up a promising career. There's the physical trauma of pregnancy and childbirth, and maybe the emotional trauma of having had to bear a child that was the result of a rape. All for a child the woman had already decided she did not want to bear.

I'm a little confused, though, as to why more of these women didn't seek a second opinion at another abortion clinic.

I think the guy should pay all the medical expenses of every women he misled, then pay child supports for every women his misled.

I saw the "Jane Doe" who brought the prosecution interviewed on CNN. She was a college student, who didn't realize she was pregnant at first. When she did learn she was pregnant, she wanted an abortion "because I had engaged in 'normal' college behavior that was potentially harmful to the developing baby. It was not a good time in my life to have a baby. I was not ready for this". She went on to say he stalled her and stalled her until it was too late to exercise the option she wanted and she spent the rest of the pregnancy scared because of her previous behavior and lack of early prenatal care because of his stalling her. Her argument was that while she loved her son and thankfully he was healthy (although premature) she had her right to her decision usurped.

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Okay, so flame me now, but I just had to throw this in regarding her quote....and an abortion wouldn't be potentially harmful to the developing baby?

Yeah, yeah - I know that's not the point she was making - I just thought it to be a funny choice of words.

Its my birthday and 31 candles on the cake has enough flames for everyone, don't ya think?! :D