Dumb Lawsuits

Ain’t babies grand? They are just these little bundles of joy you could hold in your hand and stare for hours because the sheer joy and raw emotion of a newborn baby just makes all the pain, suffering, turmoil, worry and bother in the world melt away with the simple sight of a baby’s smile. Of course, all that pain, suffering, turmoil, worry and bother comes rushing back at you like a group of oncoming Mack trucks at full speed when you realize exactly how much money it will cost to take care of the little bastard.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A court ruling which ordered a gynecologist to pay child support for up to 18 years as compensation for botching a contraceptive implant was condemned by the German media as scandalous on Wednesday.

The Karlsruhe-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the doctor must pay his former patient, now a mother of a three-year-old boy, 600 euros ($769) a month because she became pregnant after he implanted her with a contraceptive device. “A child as a case for damages — this perverse idea has now been confirmed by one of Germany’s highest courts,” conservative Die Welt daily newspaper wrote in an editorial on Wednesday.

Let’s not blame the father or the mother and their lack of self control or the cheap motel for having a lousy minibar or selection of movies to keep them occupied or the manufacturer of the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed or the towel they used and later stole or the IHOP where the father took the mother out for a “gourmet” breakfast and stuck her with the check. That’s right, the doctor is responsible for the pregnancy.