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The Right Not to be Born
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France debates right not to be born.
A Paris court ruled that disabled children can sue doctors over not having aborted them.
France's highest appeals court ruled that children with Down syndrome have a legal right never to have been born and could sue doctors that attended the pregnancy.
This debate happened quite a while ago (December 2001), but nevertheless, what are your thoughts? Should children with Down Syndrome be able to sue doctors because they didn't abort them?
A Paris court ruled that disabled children can sue doctors over not having aborted them.
France's highest appeals court ruled that children with Down syndrome have a legal right never to have been born and could sue doctors that attended the pregnancy.
This debate happened quite a while ago (December 2001), but nevertheless, what are your thoughts? Should children with Down Syndrome be able to sue doctors because they didn't abort them?
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Surely if that was passed, then people with diabetes, blind people or other genetic diseases could also sue?
For example, in one case, a doctor failed to warn an expectant mother when pre-natal scans showed that her baby had the symptoms of Down Syndrome. The mother then argued that she would have aborted if she had been given a correct pre-natal diagnosis.
It just doesn't make sense to me! I mean, couldn't the children then also sue their mothers for not choosing to abort them, or even sue their parents for the extra 21 chromosome?
maybe they would have been better to make some kind of law about eythenasia (sp) so then the people with downs syndrom could decide for thenselves.
Yeh, but i'm sure they'd rather have been aborted than euthenised (does that word exist?).
Anyone got a link to a story on a news site about it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1753000/1753065.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1752000/1752556.stm
It's been, quite rightly, rejected.
I can sympathise with that, but a law suit isn't going to help future kids, and I can also see the point of the disabled groups who are said to have found the implication that disabled foetuses should be aborted highly offensive.