Woman awarded $100k for raising 'an unwanted child'

	posted by Matt on 10:50 PM March 1st, 2006
	Tirryb writes "News.com.au reports that a woman who had a failed abortion has been awarded over one hundred thousand dollars to cover the cost of raising her 'unwanted child' (for physical/psychological trauma, too). Whereas fathers who have no say in the abortion and end up with an unwanted child are forced to PAY UP for 18 years. That seems fair..."

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If only! (Score:1) by Davidadelong on 11:46 PM March 1st, 2006 EST (#1) If only my my revulsion could be put forth in print! How many Men have died, or crippled due to the current paradigm! Here we have a Woman that is being paid because she had a child, duh, what else is new! Gentlemen, we have got to act, and soon. Because, if we do not, we will really be lost. The judge was a woman, noted. But, the fact that this kind of "judicial" action can be wielded onto the public without immediate outcry is a lesson to us all, even in Canada. $104,000, gee when I was lied to and cheated into having a child to increase the "mothers" wellfare checks, I guess I should have been awarded let's see, $300,000? But it cost me much more Folks, much more....."It is a good day to die!"

Re:If only! (Score:2) by Tirryb on 12:37 AM March 2nd, 2006 EST (#2) I know. Before I was married I was in a long-term relationship with a woman who fell pregnant. At first, she cried and told me it was another guys. I told her there was no way I was raising it, and she told me oh yes there was, or at least my 'money' would raise it (this was a little before the prevalence of DNA testing). Later, she told me that actually it wasn't his and was probably mine. Then, when I finally got used to the idea of being a dad at age 19, she gleefully told me one day that she'd terminated it. It was a punch in the guts, I remember almost collapsing, and I remember her laughing when I asked why the hell she didn't ask me. We're guys. We get screwed over, we have no rights, no power, we're just a wallet with a flat top so they can keep pulling cash out with one hand and piling guilt on with the other...

... (Score:1) by Draco88 on 10:36 AM March 2nd, 2006 EST (#3) From the article:           "The mother's lawyer, Brad Cunningham said despite his client suing for "wrongful birth", she loved her son and did not regret having him." I really don't know what to say... How do you look someone in the eyes and tell them you love them, when the only reason they are alive today is because you failed to have their existence terminated prior - a fact that you successfully sued a man over for $100,000+ ? I feel sick.

Re:... (Score:1) by blaze4metal on 12:34 PM March 2nd, 2006 EST (#4) If she loved her son and did not regret having him, she wouldn't have A) Had an abortion, B) when the abortion fails, sue for "wrongful birth". She's out for the money.

It figures. (Score:1) by Thundercloud on 03:36 PM March 2nd, 2006 EST (#5) Only in America can a woman try to kill her child and then be rewarded for it. (And of course a man is punished for it...)   Thundercloud.   "Hoka hey!"

Accountability (Score:1) by Gang-banged on 08:21 PM March 2nd, 2006 EST (#6) (User #1714 Info) Based upon this case, could we sue a judge who had put our cases in the junk drawer ?

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