22-year-old Cuyahoga Falls resident Ariel Knights is filing a malpractice lawsuit against the Akron Women’s Medical Group for “deviating from acceptable standard care”—that is, failing to abort her first-trimester fetus, “eventually leading to”—drumroll, please—“her child’s birth” and endangering Knights’ life.
The doctor, who allegedly positioned her over a trash bag at the clinic, told her everything was “good and clear” before sending her on her not-so-merry, still-preggo way.
Knights has a rare condition called “uterus didelphys,” or “double uterus,” which means her uterus is divided into two chambers. Knights had already successfully carried a child to term in her left uterus, but this pregnancy was in her right, which doctors told her wasn’t stable enough to support a fetus, jeopardizing both her pregnancy and her life.
After her supposed abortion, Knights was “constantly ill and in pain,” so she went to the ER, where doctors discovered that she was still pregnant. Not wanting to return to the abortion clinic that had already proven ineffective at, well, abortions, she contacted another clinic in the area, which declined to treat her “for somebody else’s mistake.”
After long stints at the hospital and ER throughout her pregnancy, Knights, who is pro-choice, finally delivered a healthy baby girl—what newspapers are calling her “miracle baby”—in September, but is suing the clinic for over $25,000 in “compensatory damages.” She hopes the suit will bring attention to subpar women’s healthcare in the area.
Our solution? The automated DIY abortion pod from Prometheus. Duh.
This article appears in Mar 13-19, 2013.
Er, how could you possibly call yourself a doctor and not know this woman was still pregnant? A simple blood test would tell you that.
2 kids already at 22. Popping them out left and right, huh? But that’s okay, our government has taught us that when you pop out another kid, the size of check you get goes up in value.
I’m 25 and have three children. My husband is a US Marine. I think it’s pretty shitty that you would assume that because someone is young and has children, they MUST be living off the government. And even if they are, isn’t that what you people are about? HAVE THE BABY, HAVE THE BABY, HAVE THE BABY regardless of what it means to support it?
right, because fucking anything that moves just because you can get an abortion is the correct answer
I worked at an awesome clinic here in Cleveland and i have to question a number of things. If the clinic did a sono before the procedure as they should have they would have detected the anomoly in her uterus and should have done the procedure with a sono to confirm they got the correct uterus & they should have examined the tissue afterwards to make sure the weight was correct & nothing was missed. i guess the moral of the story here is don’t skimp on your abortion. Saving $30 or so means jack, if they screw up.
@Cara, a few things here.
1. I’d like to give your husband a big thank you for serving.
2. Your bias and ignorance is obvious. “you people” might say have the baby, but they also advocate being a responsible parent having the child when you’re ready. You sound foolish when you shout only the first part over and over.
3. I wouldn’t assume they were living off the government if it wasn’t true most of the time. I don’t know many self-sufficient 22 year olds. Most either sponge off their parents or the government.