Increasing Number Of Disabled Israeli Children Sue For Not Being Abort

[Apotheoun]

Increasing number of disabled Israeli children sue for not being aborted

 

BY CHRISTINE DHANAGOM

 

JERUSALEM, November 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - “Wrongful life” lawsuits, in which doctors are held liable for not discovering fetal abnormalities that might have prompted parents to abort their child, have become so common in Israel that the government has set up a committee to investigate the issue, New Scientist reports.

 

“I find it very difficult to understand how parents can go on the witness stand and tell their children ‘it would have been better for you not to have been born,” said Professor Avraham Steinberg

According to magazine, wrongful life claims are more prevalent in Israel where a higher rate of genetic disorders caused by consanguineous (connected by kinship) marriages has fueled a “pro-genetic testing culture.” The county has seen an estimated 600 wrongful cases since the first in 1987.

 

While similar lawsuits in the United States and Canada are often brought by the parents of disabled children, it is common in Israel for the children themselves to demand compensation for the fact that they were not killed in-utero.

 

Asaf Posner, a medical malpractice lawyer who sits on the government’s Matza committee which is charged with investigating the issue, has obtained judgments averaging around 4.5 million shekels (about $1 million U.S. Dollars) for clients with spina bifida and cystic fibrosis.

 

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[Selah]

Wow... :(

[Anastasia13]

As harsh as it sounds, if they don't want to live, they have options, not good or moral alternatives, but they are there.

[John Ryan]

This is the cheap huckstering of a deeply emotional and troubling issue for human beings born with disabilities.

Edited October 16, 2013 by John Ryan