Posted on 06/19/2015 10:56:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An Indian man who sued the authorities over his own birth because his mother conceived after undergoing sterilisation in a state clinic, has lost his decades-long legal battle.
Rajesh Laljibhai Patel's mother launched a lawsuit against the government of India's western Gujarat state two years after he was born in 1985.
Vijuben Patel, who already had four children, had undergone a sterilisation procedure at a camp organised by authorities in the state six years earlier.
She argued that government should pay for her son's maintenance, citing medical negligence, and named him as a plaintiff in the case even though he was just two years old at the time.
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IIRC, there actually is a similar cause in California law called “Wrongful Life”
Seriously,
That sounds like the name of a rock group.
Tough. If he didn’t want to be born he can correct that situation easily in Oregon.
What’s an American feminist, delusional harpie doing in India, anyway?
Every time I read some news from India, I feel like they are stuck in a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” time warp.
It’s a tragic set of circumstances that raises a wrongful life claim. But it is generally applied when a child has extreme genetic defects or physical deformities like microcephaly.
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