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News: Italian parents sue hospital for failed abortion
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Italian parents sue hospital for failed abortion
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- Elisa Bellandi, now 14, survived an abortion when her mother fell pregnant with her accidentally when aged 43
- Parents, from Rimini, Italy, are suing the hospital that carried out the procedure for £700,000 for the girl's maintenance
- Her father Giuseppe said: 'The doctors brought her into the world. They should provide for her study and indispensable needs until she is 18'
- Elisa has always known she was a 'mistake' and supports her parents
Elisa Bellandi is a 'smart and beautiful' teenager according to her doting father. Like many 14-year-olds around the world her favourite band is One Direction and she loves singing. She has had to come to terms with the knowledge that not only was she a 'mistake' baby, conceived when her mother had already passed 40, but that she survived both a miscarriage and a failed abortion.
And if that were not bad enough to deal with, her parents are suing the hospital claiming that a botched operation caused 'psychological trauma' to Elisa's mother and father - in a case that has shocked Italy.
Giuseppe and Aurora Bellandi, who live in the Italian beach town of Rimini with Elisa, are demanding £700,000 (€1m) in compensation for not just the psychological trauma of having a second child, but also the material deprivation it caused to their lifestyle.
The failed abortion took place in 2000 after the couple, who already had a grown-up son, unexpectedly discovered that they were expecting a baby. The Bellandis were told it was medically necessary to save the life of Aurora, already 43. They also felt that they could simply not afford another child.
With grim acceptance, they agreed to the termination. But, by the time they discovered it had failed, it was too late to repeat the procedure under Italian law, which forbids abortion after 21 weeks. The pregnancy and birth were problematic and the couple successfully sued the doctors responsible for 'physical harm to the mother' and received £85,000 (€120,000) in damages in 2008.
Seven years later, the couple, who claim they are still struggling financially as a result of Elisa's birth, are taking a hospital in Alessandria, in the mountainous northern region of Piedmont, to Italy's highest court. The Bellandis argue the hospital is responsible for Elisa's birth and should pay for her upbringing.
'The doctors brought her into the world. They should provide for her study and indispensable needs until she is 18. It's her right', her father Giuseppe told MailOnline. Pointing out the damp on the walls of their tidy but basic semi, in the outskirts of the rundown seaside resort, he claimed: 'I don't want money for myself. I want money for her. You can't have a child and not want to give them everything. You have to.'
He said: 'We were told that we had had to have an abortion. Other couples who get pregnant get to decide if they will keep it or not. We didn't get to decide anything. They told us - first "You’re pregnant and you must have an abortion". Then, "You can’t have an abortion". They decided everything. As they decided everything they should bear the responsibility.'
He added: ‘I am not trying to become a millionaire. I just want enough for my daughter to be able to study. In Italy the children have to take on their parents' debts when they die. I don’t want that for her.’
They have been offered €60,000 by the hospital, which they have refused, but say they would accept another €120,000.
They are asking for maintenance, not financial compensation. But as well as the financial problems, there are the everyday worries that every parent knows well. 'There have been for the last 14 years, since I bought the first lot of nappies for her.'
Lawyers for the hospital claim the parents had not really wanted an termination and suggested that they should be thankful that that the operation was unsuccessful.'
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Elisa has always known she was a 'mistake' and supports her parents
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I used to call people "failed abortions" in high school...
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They're right for asking for money, since it's the hospital's fault, but they're completely wrong for telling their daughter she was a mistake 
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I used to call people "failed abortions" in high school... |
Most of us stopped doing that in middle school, but better late than never I guess!
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Elisa has always known she was a 'mistake' and supports her parents
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They have a right to sue the hospital... but I cant help but feel sorry for the girl now that she's born. To know she was a mistake and her parents tried to abort her. Like its all a damn mess
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I support the parents here, the hospital should pay for the maintenance of the girl.
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that is sad
feel bad for the girl
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I support the parents here, the hospital should pay for the maintenance of the girl.
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the couple successfully sued the doctors responsible for 'physical harm to the mother' and received £85,000 (€120,000) in damages in 2008.
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and even after they sued again seven years later
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They have been offered €60,000 by the hospital, which they have refused, but say they would accept another €120,000.
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and even after they sued again seven years later
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What a ****ing mess 
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They're right for asking for money, since it's the hospital's fault, but they're completely wrong for telling their daughter she was a mistake |
This.
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Poor girl is going to grow up a mess knowing all of this
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Jesus Christ!
This world really is messed up 
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The girl looks shady af.
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Where did they spend the money they've already got from the hospital? That money should have been saved for their daughter's education but they probably spent on themselves, those parents are horrible and they don't deserve the little girl.
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