A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay for the upkeep of a child after a failed abortion meant the boy’s mother was obliged to see her pregnancy through to the end.
In a unique case, a court in Palma de Mallorca ordered the unnamed doctor to pay almost €1,000 a month in maintenance for the child until he reaches his 25th birthday. “There has never been a case like this before in Spain,” said Eva Munar, lawyer for the mother (24). “We don’t know if it has ever happened anywhere else in the world.”
The boy was born in October 2010, six months after his mother had gone for an abortion at the city’s Emece clinic.
The operation had been performed when the mother was almost seven weeks pregnant. The doctor told her two weeks later that a scan proved she was no longer pregnant. – (Guardian service)