A Pennsylvania woman who became pregnant and had an abortion despite having had a sterilization procedure may move her case forward, the state Superior Court has ruled, refusing to limit emotional distress damages to a six-week postnatal period, as the trial court had.
According to the opinion in Catlin v. Hamburg, the doctor who performed the sterilization procedure recognized the Filshie clip used for surgical contraception was failing on the right fallopian tube and opted for that side only to perform another type of procedure in which part of the fallopian tube is removed.
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