Woman sues for child-rearing expenses...
...after failed abortion. It's hard to know where to begin with this one. While one must acknowledge how painful it would be, having made the decision to abort, to find that you're still pregnant, it is nonetheless utterly appalling that someone would even consider such a suit. Imagine for a moment that you are this woman's child. At 2 years old, she is currently too young to be able to read news coverage of her mother's suit. But does anyone really think she won't find out about this when she's older? What would it do to a child's psyche to know that not only did her mother not want her (while this may not be an accurate depiction of the mother's state of mind, it is nonetheless how a child would see it), but that she filed a lawsuit over the mistake of her daughter's existance (I'm not claiming that's really the intent of the suit, but given how children view the world, that's not an outlandish interpretation)? I can't imagine what that would be like, and I can only hope that the mother who filed the suit didn't take the time to consider it. Because while it would be awful enough to have been so thoughtless, it would be even more awful for her to have gone ahead with the suit having fully considered the implications for her daughter.