BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Damages claim for abortion twin: "A mother is hoping to win £250,000 in compensation after her twin daughter survived an abortion four years ago.
Stacy Dow, from Perth, was 16 when she found out she was pregnant with twins and decided to have an abortion.
However, when she returned to her doctor after 33 weeks she was told one of the babies had survived.
Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust said there had been nothing to suggest a child had survived and plans to challenge the claim in court next year.
The surviving baby, Jayde, is now four. Her mother is claiming the damages for the 'financial burden' of her upbringing.
I still don't know if, or what, I am going to tell Jayde when the time comes. Maybe when she is nine or 10 I will sit her down and explain it to her
Stacy Dow
In a landmark legal case, lawyers will argue that as a result of the failed termination, she suffered loss, injury and damage... and suffers 'an impediment in her ability to obtain employment in consequence of her care for the child.'"
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