The Scheme blog # 2

on monday spetember the 15th,2008. i was reading a magazine artical about a woman who used the health care system to her advantage for personal financial gain. the woman went to the pharmacy to get a birth control perscription filled. the pharmacist filled the perscription wrong. the lady received allegra instead of birth control pills. the woman took the pills every day and became pregnant. after she became pregnant she backed tracked her steps to the her doctor and come to find out the pharmacist had filled the wrong perscription. the woman wanted to hold some one liable, so she sued due to a dispensing error. the dispensing error resulted in her having her life altered. when she took the pharmacist to court the judge made him responsible for the child, and he had to pay child support for the next eighteen years even though the child was not biologically his. the ethical part about this is:
1. She should of had good moral values and returned the medication( birth control pills come pre packaged and allegra does not).
2. the judge was wrong in this case because the pharmacist has to pay childsupport for a child that is not his. and he will have no parential rights for this child.
3. she deserve punitive damage but not to the extent of eighteen years of child support.
personally, i think the woman and the guy she laid with that is the true father of the child took advantage of the system and thought of a get rich quick scheme.