Wrongful Life And Wrongful Birth Laws

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The main premise of this paper will explain wrongful birth and a touch of wrongful life. Many states ban against wrongful life and wrongful birth lawsuits and other states are debating on wrongful birth laws to prevent parents bringing a suit on physicians. In the United States most but not all states permit wrongful birth lawsuits. In wrongful birth suits it is typically used by parents for the birth of a child born with a handicap. Basically, parents argue that the birth of the child should not have happened if they have known if there was a serious medical condition with the unborn fetus. There are many cases that argue that the physician did not properly diagnose a condition or failed to provide correct information about the risks of …show more content…
Wrong, there can be mistakes in testing and chances of errors. There can be numerous test to be performed at stages within the pregnancy and diagnostic mistakes can occur. Diagnostic mistakes occur in genetic testing performed on parents, donors, fetuses, and embryos. Children with abnormalities can often be cause by false testing, which means the parents were not offered testing or the tests were incorrectly misused. In these types of claims some states allow damages for expensive child care costs but not for regular child-rearing expenses. (Crockin, Javitt, Baruch, & Bloom, …show more content…
Many claims on the expense of raising a disabled child have been controversial because many jurisdictions view a birth of a child as a joy or benefit to the parents. Many states do not understand the damages that come with wrongful birth. Damages can include expenses for the pregnancy and childbirth, lost wages, mother’s pain and suffering, and damages to the father’s loss of consortium (Showalter, 2015). Some of these states vary widely on whether parents can recover emotional distress

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