Montana woman sues, says she would have aborted daughter with cystic fibrosis

liveactionnews.org ^ | February 3, 2016 | Calvin Freiburger

[Morgana]

Kerrie Evans of Gardiner, Montana, has filed a $14.5 million lawsuit against Park Clinic in Livingston, Billings Clinic’s Bozeman OB/GYN, nurse practitioner Peggy Scanson, and Dr. William Peters, arguing that she would have gotten an abortion if they had diagnosed her six-year-old daughter’s severe cystic fibrosis in utero.

Evans and her husband contend they were concerned about cystic fibrosis going into the pregnancy and planned to abort if a blood test showed the disease, and because they did not they now face $300,000 yearly medical bills for her.

In response, the defendants claim that Evans only discussed Down Syndrome with them during pregnancy and failed to either fully read the information they provided her or request a cystic fibrosis test. Therefore, they maintain, that they did meet their obligation to provide informed consent.

They further noted that “wrongful birth” is not recognized as a legal cause of action in Montana, meaning that the suit “would set a dangerous precedent.” However, District Judge Mike Salvagni rejected their motion to dismiss, deciding the suit was unlikely to invite a flood of similar claims.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Satan has a special place in Hell for you, Kerrie.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Does this woman realize that someone with CF who receives a lung transplant has a good chance at leading a normal life..how sickening for this woman to even have considered aborting her daughter because she was born with CF. I can never understand this kind of mentality ALL human life is precious!

[nclaurel]

God bless that poor child whose parents wish they had murdered her. How could she feel loved in that home?

[zerosix]

One can only hope when mommie hits old age, her unwanted daughter is in charge of deciding which rat-infested nursing home in which to place her!

[Osage Orange]

Don't think you can diagnose severe CF disease with a blood test....

I think you don't know that.....until later.

I have a relative with CF....and it's mild. Not known until she was 10-12 years old...Masked as asthma, allergies..

Anyway....I don't think we know the whole story here..............

[Glad2bnuts]

Why didn’t they sue to terminate the childs life after the birth? Really, at that point, what difference would it make? Thanks to the grate hillary for the phrasing
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[vette6387]

So this is what our “society” has devolved to, thanks to our Marxist Left in this country. Everything has a price. Everyone needs to be “compensated for the vicissitudes in their lives.” Our third child came along twelve years after the births of her two siblings. Naturally the “benevolent State of California” told us that they'd cover amniocentesis with the express purpose of encouraging us to abort her if there were and genetic abnormalities (mostly Downs Syndrome). The period of time between the administration of the test and obtaining the results were the most sobering days of our lives. In the end, there were no issues, but we, in that interim had decided that we would live with whatever God chose to give us. Now, she's 32 years old and a more beautiful person cannot be found on this Earth. It brings tears to my eyes reading about these heartless people who put a price tag on human life!

[LukeL]

Millions of people are oohing and awing over the German Shepherd Quasimodo, yet many of those people would recommend an abortion if a baby had spina bifida

[cherry]

I can guarantee that the little girl is on Medicaid if her health care is that expensive...

on top of hating their own flesh and blood, they're liars..

[JimRed]

“Daughter, I should’a killed you when I had the chance.”

[nobamanomore]

Yes, she’s pretty special.