A woman who sued her former partner after he agreed to cover the cost of their mutually agreed abortion has been awarded $12,500, with a judge saying he “must share equally in the burden.”
The couple in question met via a marriage guidance service in 2007, and dated for only one month before splitting up.
However, it later emerged that in this short time the women had been made pregnant, and the couple agreed that the best course of action was to end the pregnancy.
The man formally signed his agreement to the procedure, and agreed to cover 30,000 yen of the cost, even accompanying her to the columbarium to pay his respects to the remains.
However, it appears this was not satisfactory to the woman, and she later demanded consolation money from the man, which he refused to pay. She then sued him.
The judge subsequently ordered him to pay 1,140,000 yen in compensation for the distress the woman underwent, saying:
“As the woman’s pain and burden were something you jointly caused, you should equally share in shouldering the burden.”
The man “behaved sincerely, but did not fulfill his obligations as a father in leaving the choice of whether to have the child to the woman.”
The man appealed the verdict, but was rejected. The woman’s lawyer hailed the decision as “a significant verdict which upholds the responsibility of a man.”
Via the Tokyo Shimbun.
man I love that image and the angle. Great art!
Could a man counter-sue on the basis that paying roughly half or more of his annual income will give him “emotional damage” concerning the abortion?
Why should a man pay for an abortion? Isn’t it the woman’s fault for not using a morning after pill or abortion pill? Much cheaper.
Your misreading that comment there. By doubling up he meant more than one type of birth control at once, IE condoms & birth control (“use a condom while she’s on birth control”); not wearing two condoms at once. Reading comprehension is your friend.
OK, the guy agreed to pay for the abortion and he did so. Looks to me like he kept up his part of the bargain. I don’t see how that extra bonus money even was part of the equation. The guy had to pay her more money to compensate her for her “pain and burden?” What the hell is that? He payed for the abortion what else is he supposed to be paying for? Her trauma at having become pregnant in the first place? Why doesn’t the woman owe the man anything for the trauma he went trough when he discovered the woman was pregnant in the first place and that he was now liable for supporting her child – a child he’d have essentially no rights to, BTW? Actually, that last part sort of puts things into perspective. Yeah, it’s clearly bullshit that this guy ended up having to pay this bitch ‘consolation prize’ money for her abortion. There’s no way she deserved extra money, but – with legal systems the world over clearly favoring women over men – it could have been much worse. It could have been worse in that the whore could have *had* the child and used it to extort this guy out of *way* more money and grief than she did. So, yeah, the guy got screwed – but it could have been even worse. Hopefully this will be a lesson to him about 3D women and why they’re just not worth the trouble in the first place.