Should This Woman Be Allowed to See Her Kids?
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2011/03/25 16:00:00
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Can a paralyzed mother take care of her own children? A California judge will decide on Friday if Abbie Dorn, 34, who suffered severe brain damage after the birth of her triplets in 2006 and cannot eat, speak or move, has a constitutional right to visit her three young children.
ABC News reported that Dorn’s parents say she has every right to see her children and watch them grow up, but the father of the triplets, Dan Dorn, has argued that long visits with their motionless mom will traumatize the kids. Abbie can’t move on her own and is bedridden unless she is moved by one of her caretakers. Husband Dan has been raising the two boys and a girl on his own for almost five years and his now ex-wife last saw the children for four days last December, but had not seen them before that for three years.
Abbie’s lawyer said in final arguments on Thursday that there is no proof her client’s paralysis does harm to her children, while Dan’s attorney argued that the constitutional right to visit one’s children is “reserved for fit parents only.”
Abbie delivered her first two children without incident, but after a doctor nicked her uterus during her third child's birth, she bled so much that her heart stopped and when a defibrillator malfunctioned, her brain was deprived of oxygen.
Her parents say that Dan visited often in the days after the accident, bringing the children so Abbie could hold them, but over time the visits were more infrequent and he filed for divorce in 2007.
A team of experts hired by Dan’s lawyers determined that Abbie will never recover, but her parents countered that year of intensive physical therapy have allowed her to regain brain function and understand when people talk to her.
Should Abbie be allowed to see her kids?
ABC News reported that Dorn’s parents say she has every right to see her children and watch them grow up, but the father of the triplets, Dan Dorn, has argued that long visits with their motionless mom will traumatize the kids. Abbie can’t move on her own and is bedridden unless she is moved by one of her caretakers. Husband Dan has been raising the two boys and a girl on his own for almost five years and his now ex-wife last saw the children for four days last December, but had not seen them before that for three years.
Abbie’s lawyer said in final arguments on Thursday that there is no proof her client’s paralysis does harm to her children, while Dan’s attorney argued that the constitutional right to visit one’s children is “reserved for fit parents only.”
Abbie delivered her first two children without incident, but after a doctor nicked her uterus during her third child's birth, she bled so much that her heart stopped and when a defibrillator malfunctioned, her brain was deprived of oxygen.
Her parents say that Dan visited often in the days after the accident, bringing the children so Abbie could hold them, but over time the visits were more infrequent and he filed for divorce in 2007.
A team of experts hired by Dan’s lawyers determined that Abbie will never recover, but her parents countered that year of intensive physical therapy have allowed her to regain brain function and understand when people talk to her.
Should Abbie be allowed to see her kids?
Top Opinion
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belle 2011/03/25 16:35:51Yes
+21A mother will always be a mother. This woman did nothing on her own to cause this situation, The man should be ashamed of himself, The children hopefully will let him know this when they are old enough to realize how he has treated their mother all these years. Did he get money from the doctor for doing this to his wife to raise the kids?
Dan Dorn is a piece of work.
Apparently Dan Dorn abandoned his wife as soon as the health insurance ran out. Her parents sold their home and business to pay for her medical care. Only 12 months after Abbie almost died giving birth Dan Dorn called Abbie's father and said he was moving on and getting married again.
His lawyer is wrong in saying "the constitutional right to visit one’s children is reserved for fit parents only.” Who's to judge who's fit or not?? What other diseases or malfuntioning body parts would constitute taking a parents rights away??
the kids have a right to see and know their mother and mom has the right to see and know her kids!
if she has no brain function and can't understand anything, then just let her go to heaven. she obviously can't take care of the kids if she can't move, so one on one, i'd say no to visits like that.
but if she knows what's going on, then yes, but in a way that's more than just her in a bed. maybe her in a wheelchair (securely strapped in, of course) in a park, watching the kids play. it would probably be better for all involved and make the kids less scared of the hospital.
Regardless, the kids have a right to know their mom and she has the right to see her kids
the father must be a real cold azzhole... his children need to learn that there are many different kinds of handicap, with his being mental....
And who says she does love them? She's a vegetable, it's not a case of "mommy's sick in the hospital but don't worry she still loves you and will be home as soon as she can" it's a case of "mommy is REALLY sick, and probably doesn't know who you are".