Posted On: June 28, 2007, 4:07 pm CDT

Posted By: sam

The question that is not to be answered in this is lawsuit is whether abortion is right or wrong. The question will be whether the clinic acted responsibly in trying to notify and follow up with the claimant about the necessity of removing the medical devices/equipment/tools, and whether there was informed consent on what could happen before they were ever inserted. There will be many other issues, including why the decedent would not allow a pelvic exam at the emergency room, if there were other ways the clinic tried to notify the decedent and if there were any other potential causes of TSS. If the rods had been removed at the emergency room when she first went there, there would have been a much better chance of surviving TSS than when the infection became rampant and caused organ failure.