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Wrongful birth is a legal cause of action in some common law countries in which the parents of a congenitally diseased child claim that their doctor failed to properly warn of their risk of conceiving or giving birth to a child with serious genetic or congenital abnormalities. [1]
Wrongful life is the name given to a cause of action in which someone is sued by a severely disabled child (through the child's legal guardian) for failing to prevent the child's birth. Typically, a child and the child's parents will sue a doctor or a hospital for failing to provide information about the disability during the pregnancy, or a ...
The parents’ cause of action for their resulting losses is labeled "wrongful birth," while the infant’s cause of action for their own losses is termed "wrongful life." Wrongful birth is a more accurate mirror image of wrongful abortion. [8] The former deals with the non-prevention of the birth of an unwanted child, whereas the latter deals ...
A Minnesota couple’s “wrongful conception” lawsuit accuses a urology practice of misinforming them about the success of the husband’s vasectomy, resulting in an unplanned pregnancy and the ...
A Texas mother who was forced to give birth to her stillborn son in Texas has joined a lawsuit against the state with seven other women who were denied abortions while facing severe pregnancy ...
Vermont’s child welfare agency used baseless allegations to secretly investigate a pregnant woman and win custody of her daughter before the baby's birth, according to a lawsuit.
McFarlane v Tayside Health Board [2000] 2 AC 59 [1] is a leading House of Lords decision concerning wrongful birth in the English law of negligence, though the case was Scottish. The specific ratio decidendi of the decision is debated, but the judgments provide guidance and authoritative discussion used in later cases. [2]
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