Crazy news stories from the past!

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I thought maybe it would be interesting to dig up some obscure news stories from the past, that are almost too crazy to believe.

Let me get started.

Woman sues abortion clinic for 'wrongful birth'

Associated Press
September 2, 1998 By Alison Fitzgerald

BOSTON (AP) — A woman who ran from an abortion clinic when a man began a deadly shooting attack there four years ago says she was too upset to get an abortion, and now she wants the clinic to help pay to raise her child.

Deborah Gaines, 31, sued the clinic for "wrongful birth'' and her lawyer says she suffers post-traumatic stress disorder. She was at the Preterm clinic in Brookline in 1994 when John Salvi III began shooting in the lobby, killing two receptionists.

Gaines, 31, said she was so traumatized by the shooting that she was unable to bring herself to enter another clinic to end her pregnancy.

She says she loves her daughter Vivian, now 3, but needs Preterm to help defray the cost of raising her fourth child because she is poor, lawyer Chris Milne said Tuesday.

A state judge on Tuesday refused to throw out the case.

Gaines declined comment.

A lawyer for Preterm said Gaines is like a person who becomes too afraid to fly for necessary medical treatment after seeing an airliner crash.

"That doesn't give you the right to sue Pan Am because you chose not to do something,'' lawyer James Franchek said.

Salvi, 24, killed two people and wounded five others in attacks on two clinics in Brookline, outside of Boston. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but died in an apparent suicide in 1996.

Preterm contends the clinic had two armed guards at the time of the attack. Milne claims that was not enough, especially since it was widely known that abortion protests could turn violent.

"It should have been locked; there should have been armed guards,'' he said.

Heh. I just can't believe something so stupid could have transpired! Wrongful birth, because she was too afraid to go to other clinics, and decides to SUE the clinic that was simply the place victims were shot? Puhlease!