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Wrongful Pregnancy
Wrongful birth, Wrongful Life, Wrongful conception Of the three different legal notions, this is perhaps the least controversial.
Wrongful pregnancy, wrongful birth, and wrongful life:
Variations in the law between states
The concept of 'wrongful life' sounds horrifying to many legal outsiders, given the idea that it would be 'better that someone had never been born' seems anathema to common notions of decency and humanity. However, such notions as 'wrongful pregnancy,' 'wrongful birth' and 'wrongful life' are ultimately designed to bring justice to families with children with disabilities or women who were treated negligently by the medical system.
A wrongful pregnancy or conception case is a case in which "a healthy but unwanted child is born, following negligent contraceptive advice by a doctor or a negligent sterilization or abortion procedure" (Strauss 1996). The mother or both
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In the case of a wrongful birth the parents sue on behalf of a child is who was born abnormal or disabled (Strauss 1996). "Wrongful birth means the mother sues other people for being burdened with a disabled child, something she could have avoided. In essence wrongful birth suits are genetic or prenatal malpractice suits tort cases" (Wrongful life/birth suits, 2012, Bioethics and disability). These suits most commonly arise when a doctor fails to inform a parent about a fetus' birth defect or the full severity of the defect. "A 'wrongful life' claim is based on a legal fiction whereby an infant brings a case in which she is understood to be alleging that if it were not for the wrongful conduct of the defendant, the child would never have been born" (Duncan. n.d., 2). For example, a woman in Iowa whose child was born disabled argued that "if the mother had been diagnosed with rubella she would have aborted the child" given that rubella is associated with birth defects (Duncan 4).
The ability to bring up charges in courts of law on these controversial claims varies from state to state, and depends upon the views of the state regarding abortion rights. "No state recognized a wrongful birth cause of action until after Roe v.…
References
Duncan, William C. (n.d). Statutory responses to "wrongful birth" and "wrongful life" actions.
Marriage Law Foundation. Retrieved:
http://marriagelawfoundation.org/publications/UFFL%20Chapter.pdf
Strauss, S.A. (1996). 'Wrongful conception', 'wrongful birth' and 'wrongful life': the first South
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8691997
http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/wrongfulbirth.html
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