Woman claims "I was sterlized against my will!" after having 9 children...

[DaemonSeid]

There are many facts to this case to go over and to be upset about.

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A 35-year-old mother of nine is suing a Springfield hospital, three doctors and two nurses, claiming they permanently sterilized her against her will, violating her reproductive rights, according to a lawsuit filed in Superior Court.

Tessa Savicki, who has nine children aged 3 to 21, claims doctors were supposed to implant an intrauterine device, which is a type of reversible birth control, after she delivered a son, Manuel Flores, on Dec. 19, 2006, at Baystate Medical Center.

Instead, she said, a type of permanent sterilization known as a tubal ligation was performed, leaving her mentally distraught and incapable of bearing more children.

“There was no medical reason for them to do this,” Savicki told the Herald. “That’s my choice. This is my body. I wanted the IUD so later if I felt I wanted more children, I could have more.”

Savicki said she did not sign a written consent for a tubal ligation, which under federal and state regulations is required at least 30 days in advance for all MassHealth patients who want a permanent sterilization procedure.

Savicki’s attorney, Max Borten of Waltham, alleges that his client’s human and constitutional rights were violated and that the hospital had a “total breakdown of protocols.”

“There were violations at many, many levels,” said Borten, a former obstetrician and gynecologist who practiced as a physician for more than 30 years in Massachusetts.

Medical records sought

Borten provided the Herald with a Baystate Medical Center letter on Savicki’s case, signed on May 22, 2009, by an employee of the hospital’s Health Information Management System department. It reads: “We regret to tell you that in spite of carefully and thoroughly searching, we have been unable to locate the following medical records: ‘Tubal consent form for December 2006.’ ”

The signed letter was sent by Baystate to one of Savicki’s previous attorneys, Borten said.

Baystate spokeswoman Jane Albert confirmed that the document was signed and sent by an employee in the Health Information Management System department. She declined to comment on it.

[texas*princess]

That's crazy.

Just some more tidbits:

This is the second time Savicki has sued over reproductive issues. In 2001, she reached a settlement with CVS and a spermacide company after she became pregnant with her now 12-year-old daughter after claiming she bought and used an expired spermacide, according to federal court documents.

Savicki has nine children from several men, is unemployed and relies on public assistance for two of the four children who live with her. She receives supplemental security income, or SSI, for a disability, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she said. Her mother has custody of three of her children. Two of her children are no longer minors.

Oh! And she also had her first kid at 13 and dropped out of school.

I get the whole 'it's my body' thing... I totally get that... but what I don't get is why people don't understand just because they can have kids doesn't mean they should.

It's so frustrating that they are draining the system and aren't doing anything to contribute to society. She's just like that Octomom lady. Ugh.

[cheerfulgreek]

I think it was wrong. But why does she keep having kids? Can she afford the ones she has, or is she relying on us (the tax payer) to feed them? If she is, then I have a slightly different opinion about it.

[XAntoftheSkyX]

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I think it was wrong. But why does she keep having kids? Can she afford the ones she has, or is she relying on us (the tax payer) to feed them? If she is, then I have a slightly different opinion about it.

That's it, I'm done. I missed page two. She has nine kids from different guys and she's on government assistance, too. That's crap. Take her off of the system, tell her she's on her on, and I agree 100% with the Drs. and nurses. I hate people like that. My God, that makes me so mad.

[33girl]

IUDs are gross. Yuuuuuuck.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

That's it, I'm done. I missed page two. She has nine kids from different guys and she's on government assistance, too. That's crap. Take her off of the system, tell her she's on her on, and I agree 100% with the Drs. and nurses. I hate people like that. My God, that makes me so mad.

But there's another part of me that's not in favor of it, because it could lead to genocide and who's to say what's too many childeren, because there's a lot of people who have money with only one child and they're not taking care of him/her. And I also wouldn't want genetic profiling to start from this kind of thing. So, I guess I'm kind of in between.

[33girl]

http://www.webmd.com/cancer/non-hodg...-pdq-treatment

If she has NHL, should she even be getting pregnant?

[Smile_Awhile]

I really feel like we're missing part of this story. Obviously, we're hearing her and her lawyer's perspective- but I'd be interested to hear what the doctor's and their lawyers had to say in response.

If this was truly done with no precedent for the need (which I have a hard time believing), then she deserves to win. It's her decision, and her body. Unfortunately, it's our tax dollars- but we have no way that we can stop her legally.

[DaemonSeid]

Sounds like Octomom huh?

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by Smile_Awhile

I really feel like we're missing part of this story. Obviously, we're hearing her and her lawyer's perspective- but I'd be interested to hear what the doctor's and their lawyers had to say in response.

If this was truly done with no precedent for the need (which I have a hard time believing), then she deserves to win. It's her decision, and her body. Unfortunately, it's our tax dollars- but we have no way that we can stop her legally.

I agree we haven't heard what he doctors/hospital's lawyers have to say.

I seriously wish we could cut people off after a certain amount of time on public assistance. It's so ridiculous how so many people abuse the system.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

I agree we haven't heard what he doctors/hospital's lawyers have to say.

I seriously wish we could cut people off after a certain amount of time on public assistance. It's so ridiculous how so many people abuse the system.

Like people who come to get food from a food bank wearing full-length furs, gold chains, and driving Escalades?

TRUE STORY.

[GatorDG]

Sorry, if she takes one penny of public money she is NOT taking care of her children. Public assistance was not meant to be something that you stay on forever but rather a short term "assist". Speaks volumes that her mother has custody of three of her children.

[agzg]

This woman is just short of disgusting for me. That being said, the doctors should not have sterilized her without her consent. If that's what happened.

It's a doctor's job to fully inform patients of all risks and effects of procedures, it is not their job to make major health decisions for us.

[DaemonSeid]

Why would a hospital surgically implant something that they were not supplying the patient themselves?

I would imagine that if something happened, the woman would have no legal recourse against the hospital, since she brought it in herself.

Which, again, makes no sense.