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LINK Arizona Man Sues Clinic for Giving Ex-Wife Abortion Pills 4 Years Ago

Nutcases are coming out of the woodwork.

7/16/2022

by Yelena Dzhanova

An Arizona man is suing the clinic that gave his ex-wife abortion pills — nearly four years after the termination.

Mario Villegas and his then-wife went to get an abortion in July 2018 at a Phoenix, Arizona, clinic, ProPublica reported. The next year, Villegas heard about a man who had sued an Alabama clinic after creating an estate for the terminated six-week-old embryo. He then set out to do something similar, according to ProPublica.

He filed a petition to be appointed as the representative to the "Baby Villegas" estate in August 2020, prompting his wife to seek legal aid.

J. Stanley Martineau, an Arizona attorney who represents Villegas, argued in court documents that his ex-wife did not give a valid form of consent to the abortion.

The clinic did not obtain her "informed consent because they did not tell her of the immediate and long-term medical risks associated with abortion that a reasonable patient would consider material, including the loss of the intense and emotionally satisfying maternal bond and relationship inherent in birthing and raising that child," the lawsuit says.

But Villegas's ex-wife signed four consent documents, ProPublica reported, including checking a box that said "I am comfortable with my decision to terminate this pregnancy."

Villegas, according to ProPublica, has begun to refer to and consider the terminated embryo as a girl. But Villegas and his then-wife had never learned the sex of the embryo, which was terminated at seven weeks in 2018.

In court filings reviewed by ProPublica, the woman said she and her ex-husband had been talking about getting a divorce even at the time of the abortion.

"We were not happy together at all," she said in a deposition filing.

Her attorney, Louis Silverman, argued in 2021 court filings that the move to petition to become the embryo's representative violated her constitutional right to an abortion.

"U.S. Supreme Court precedent has long protected the constitutional right of a woman to obtain an abortion, including that the decision whether to do so belongs to the woman alone — even where her partner, spouse, or ex-spouse disagrees with that decision," Silverman said, according to ProPublica.

The Supreme Court last month overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion a constitutional right nationwide, leaving the legality of abortion in the hands of individual states.

By overturning Roe, the Supreme Court has essentially made it illegal in at least 22 states to obtain an abortion. Additional restrictions are expected in several other states.

Martineau, Villegas' attorney, said he's not interested in winning any financial damages.

"All he wants to do is make sure it doesn't happen to another father," Martineau said, per ProPublica.

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The patriarchy has declared war on everyone that isn't cis male heterosexual Caucasian Christian conservative.
They would have no chance were it not for people that want to join them but come from other groups, like Log Cabin Republicans, gay Republicans that can't understand why they aren't included in the RNC, or wives and daughters that support Daddy's politics and religion even though it jeopardizes their ability to stay alive with an ectopic pregnancy because they aren't mentioned in the Bible or the Constitution.
We have to endure the American Inquisition now.
How's that for freedom?

Spot on! makes me just want to grab some balls and twist.

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He said he does not want money, BS. This is a lot of work to go to for no financial gain, it is going to cost.

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Yup clog the courts with lawsuits..especially put claims on Insurance/Airline Companies..for loss of life, especially of 8 week old humans..

Potential life, a lot can happen in 7 or 8 months and live birth is never a guarantee.

@MizJ I know this..however now that Red states have instituted "heartbeat" laws, it occurs to me that Insurance/airline companies are now liable for "loss of life" should the 8 week old human be kill in an accident..

Boy, if they manage to get embryos declared legally humans, the sky is the limit for insurance fraud and underhanded finagling of all sorts.

@Druvius ahhh..guess you haven't been following the "Pro-Life" story line that ''Life begins at Conception" thing..so in Red States à zygote IS human..

@Charlene I'm quite aware of it, and now the ridiculous and horrifying expected consequences of it are coming to fruition.

@Charlene If these moronic legislators would take Biology 101 and Anatomy at their local community college before drafting bills regarding health it would be a good start. They don't even know that an ectopic pregnancy cannot be relocated and made viable. Women's lives are at risk.

It's like the level of ignorance is growing exponentially. Some are so giddy with what they perceive to be an enormous victory on this issue that they think the sky is the limit perhaps.

@MizJ Book learnin ain't gonna happen, they take great pride in their willful ignorance, so why bother,right?.. as you know this has nothing to do with actual abortions. It's all about power and maintaining that power, at all costs. If it means lives lost of some of "those pesky Wimmins" all the better from their perspective of White,Kkkristian Male Patriarchy..

@Charlene Yes, it is a power grab. If women are saddled with kids they can't compete equally in the workplace due to the interruptions in their careers. It is also about sexuality as there is only sterilization that is 100% effective. Tubal ligations are difficult to reverse and are considered permanent. I suspect female sexuality intimidates some men. Sex is power.

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