"Botched abortion" (meaning the baby lived)

A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay for the upkeep of a child after an abortion sought by the mother failed and she gave birth.
By Fiona Govan, Madrid
24 May 2012

A judge on the island of Majorca ordered the unnamed gynaecologist to pay the mother 150,000 euros (£120,000) in "moral damages" for his negligence and a monthly maintenance of 978 euros (£780) until the child reaches its 26th birthday.

The court in Palma heard how the woman had sought to terminate an unwanted pregnancy at a clinic in April 2010 when she was eight weeks pregnant but, unbeknown to her at the time, the procedure failed.

She returned to the clinic three months later seeking another abortion because she believed that she had fallen pregnant again.

But an ultrasound revealed she was five months pregnant and she was refused a termination because it was over the legal time limit of 14 weeks.

She was offered a refund of the £320 she paid for the initial procedure and referred to a clinic in Barcelona, which, it was suggested, might have performed a late-term abortion, but doctors there also refused.
the rest   (Wait till the boy finds out he was accidentally not murdered)