Woman sues doctor for "allowing her to be born."

tenchineuro · 2021-12-02T02:35:02+00:00

The 20-year-old’s “wrongful conception” claim saw her take Dr Philip Mitchell to court over his failure to advise her mother to take vital supplements before getting pregnant.

So did her mother talk to her doctor before becoming pregnant?

And what if he did tell her and she forgot?

Deckardisdead · 2021-12-02T04:47:00+00:00

I need this lawyer. Someone should have to pay for my birth.

short_dude5ft3in · 2021-12-02T02:42:10+00:00

Based on the article, there’s lots of room to doubt the stories considering it’s almost 2 decades old. I’ve seen many videos of people claiming so drastically different stories that what has just transpired few moments earlier in the videos.

Our own recollection is not something that is reliable to make a judgement with that magnitude.

I see it as woman judge, woman plaintiff, man defendant with money.

Airforce987 · 2021-12-02T04:38:03+00:00

This cant be real. The Doctor is being held responsible for a spinal disorder that occurs by chance and genetics. It's also not a hereditary disposition that the Doctor might have warned a fetus could develop, and was negligent in preventing it.

It's ultimately the parent's responsibility for the health of their child. If the supplements are standard prescription for any mother trying to conceive and the Doctor blatantly denied her request for them, then she might have a case. This is not what happened here; the Doctor offered his opinion and she made a choice to listen or not, without seeking a second opinion. They're also not required for a healthy baby nor should they be expected in order to produce a healthy baby. People have been making babies for millenia without these supplements.

Basically this ruling means any time someone is born with a deformity or genetic defect, the doctor can be sued because they didn't warn the parents it could happen, and that taking this or that vitamin might have reduced the risk of the deformity/defect.

C20H25N3O-C21H30O2 · 2021-12-02T07:38:55+00:00

She should have sued her mother for being neglectful and not taking the necessary pregnancy vitamins and minerals. Doctors can fix many things but they can't fix stupid.

Nerfixion · 2021-12-02T05:43:07+00:00

Time to sue my doctor because I have scoliosis and glasses.

Stoicism1981 · 2021-12-02T04:45:47+00:00

I sometimes wonder if I’d like to be born but to blame it on the doctor, it is outrageous

ApprehensiveMail8 · 2021-12-02T15:05:41+00:00

Let me get this straight:

He is liable for failing to mansplain to her mother what vitamins she should be taking as a woman, and/or what forms of birth control she should be using?

matrixislife · 2021-12-02T14:09:57+00:00

I don't see this as a men's rights issue. She's suing the doctor for failing to give advice to take folic acid supplements prior to conception. It's very iffy suit imo, but it wouldn't make any difference if it was a man suing or a woman.

BeepBeepYeah7789 · 2021-12-02T18:00:42+00:00

That's what annoys me about many lawsuits (not just this one); they seem to hinge on someone dropping the ball to some degree at some point in time, no matter how insignificant the ball-dropping was.

Now I know that the doctor in this case didn't actually "fail" to do anything, but my point is that it seems as if a person can sue (and possibly win) if the opposing party was (supposedly) negligent in ANY way, no matter how small.

There comes a point in time when the ball ends up in YOUR court and YOU have to run with it.

darknessblae · 2021-12-02T16:06:52+00:00

Remember this day this is the day that doctors nurses and anyone else just trying to help anyone else started recording themselves. This is real I can't believe it but I'm probably not smart enough to completely understand. Either way doctors who are already pretty on edge are going to have even more reason to just be super guarded while trying to help the people. Forgive me for the rent I just don't know how to feel about this I'm going to look into this way more but this is real and not clickbait

BluBeech · 2021-12-02T21:42:12+00:00

This sounds like malpractice considering the doctor didn't inform the mother about what she should and shouldn't take. As people have pointed out it could easily happen to a man so this point is a tad redundant here.

CocoTotoMomo · 2021-12-02T03:27:06+00:00

Is this related to mens rights?

DaLordOfDarkness · 2021-12-02T04:15:32+00:00

That’s just very stupid.

BowtiepastaMasta · 2021-12-02T14:01:51+00:00

What kind of precedent does this set? This is absolutely ridiculous.

ijustdontcare74 · 2021-12-02T09:40:55+00:00

Oh look yet another story of a woman failing to take responsibility for her own choices and actions...it's almost as if there's a pattern here? How about you do your own research on pregnancy? Genetic conditions such as this are NOT caused by a lack of supplements, plus supplements should not be needed if the mother was on a healthy diet to begin with. Why is she not suing her mother for damages???? I'm so sick of people like this expecting everyone else to pay for their own choices (the mothers not the child obv), it's disgusting. The mother obv knew the child would be disabled (it would have shown at the 3 and 6 month scans), yet CHOSE to continue with the pregnancy. No doctor has the ability to terminate a pregnancy without the mothers consent. It was always the mothers ultimate responsibility....but she won't accept that!! All the cases I see reported, it's almost exclusively women too....pathetic.

BowForThanos · 2021-12-02T11:43:44+00:00

The fucks this got to do with mens rights? Could have just as easily been a male doing this

nooneinteresting-1 · 2021-12-02T17:15:54+00:00

Since she won, is she going to do 'euthanasia' herself? I mean, she said herself she should not be born. Money should be given to charity that will ensure better education for future GP's.

Liluglydude5 · 2021-12-02T02:21:57+00:00

Honestly I’m with her on this one

rabatek · 2021-12-02T06:38:31+00:00

Pussy pass

slipkid223 · 2021-12-02T04:50:15+00:00

Easy solution, euthanasia.

dcs577 · 2021-12-02T17:45:52+00:00

I don’t know anything about the merits of this case, but as an antinatalist I do think being born is a harm done unto us by others. That being said it would get rather absurd if everyone started to be able to sue their parents or parents doctors for being born. I believe this possibility was satirized in a Kurt Vonnegut short story actually.

Own-Flatworm4787 · 2021-12-02T22:18:12+00:00

I imagine if it were a man suing it'd never have gotten that far let alone winning. Same if it were a woman doctor. These things only seem to happen with a female victim and a make perpetrator, and whatever story they have to tell to make it seem that way. That woman in Florida successfully sued the man who saved her like and jumped in the ocean and pulled her out and did CPR. She won that case under "consent" laws. The good Samaritan act didn't help.

codemancode · 2021-12-02T10:39:53+00:00

Does he get to fix his mistake now?

Interesting-Eye-5464 · 2021-12-02T16:21:45+00:00

This is women excelling at manufacturing indignation to its fullest degree

DanzigMisfit · 2021-12-02T04:49:31+00:00

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darknessblae · 2021-12-02T15:56:14+00:00

I swear to God if this is clickbait I am unsubscribing from this sub

Big_TipOff89 · 2021-12-03T00:57:21+00:00

To everyone saying that the doctor is wrong for not advising the mother properly, how do you know that? It's her word against his, and just like everything else the women is always look as the victim in this type of he/she said cases.

I'm not picking a side I'm just asking why

The_Final_Skywalker · 2021-12-02T02:27:33+00:00

Take this out of men's rights right now. That woman has good reason for that, and personally I don't want to be associated with this subbreddit being a woman hating place even more than it already is

ColonelVirus · 2021-12-02T13:59:37+00:00

'the judge found that Dr Mitchell had not told Caroline, of Skegness, England, of the importance of taking folic acid supplements before getting pregnant'

Sounds like incompetence by the Doctor?

Title	Woman sues doctor for "allowing her to be born."
Author	Rolaid-Tommassi
Upvotes	482
Comments	84
Date	December 2, 2021 2:20 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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