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Tuesday January 7, 2003
COURT UPHOLDS UTAH BAN ON 'WRONGFUL BIRTH' SUITS
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SALT LAKE CITY, January 8, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a victory for unborn children diagnosed with possible physical and mental disabilities, the Utah Supreme Court has upheld the state's ban on so-called "wrongful birth" lawsuits.
Legislators opted in 1983 to protect doctors from being sued by parents who say they might have chosen an abortion given a prenatally-diagnosed abnormality. In this case, Marie Wood and Terry Borman sued the University of Utah Medical Center in 1999 after their daughter was born with Down's Syndrome. They claimed that faulty prenatal tests led them to believe the girl would not have chromosomal disorders -- adding they would not necessarily have aborted their little girl, but would have liked to have had the "informed choice" of killing her before birth.
However, in numerous cases, prenatal diagnoses via ultrasound and other methods prove to be wrong -- and sometimes the problem rectifies itself during the course of pregnancy for reasons doctors cannot explain.
For more details on the ruling, see "'Wrongful Life' Suit Upheld" at:
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jan/01012003/utah/16415.asp
For a paper on "Prenatal Euthanasia: Genetic Genocide" see:
http://cureltd.home.netcom.com/genocide.htm
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