Posted on 07/19/2019 6:48:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
July 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A mother in the U.K. is suing England’s National Health Service (NHS) for more than £200,000 ($249,000 U.S.) for “wrongful birth,” alleging that health care workers did not conduct tests that would have revealed her unborn son’s Down syndrome.
Edyta Mordel told London’s High Court that had she known he would be born with Down’s, she would have aborted her child, now four-year-old Aleksander, the Daily Mail reports.
Mordel, 33, says she requested the tests during her pregnancy and was devastated when her baby was diagnosed with Down’s after birth.
The case is legally classified as a “wrongful birth” because Mordel says she would have had an abortion if she had known about the condition.
Mordel is seeking compensation for increased financial expenses of caring for her son and the impact it has upon her ability to work, the report said.
She learned she was pregnant in 2014 and said she told a midwife at her first appointment that she wanted the Down’s screen to be performed. She thought the test had been done at her 12-week appointment and she’d been cleared of the risk for Down’s.
But the test was not performed, the NHS is arguing, and the sonographer had recorded “Down’s screening declined” in her records.
Lawyers for the NHS claimed that Mordel was offered the screening but had declined it and “bitterly regretted” her decision after Aleksander was born, something she disputes.
“I was always sure about the decision and I always wanted it,” she stated. “I spoke with the midwife about Down’s syndrome screening. I had informed myself. I watched a lot of videos and read about screening.”
Her attorney said the screening would have shown the high risk of Down’s, which would have been confirmed by further testing.
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She could go see a cardio doc. She seems to have a wrongful heart.
But lawyers for the NHS claim she declined to have the test and staff recorded “down’s screening declined.”
That’s good he can work and be independent. I always feel sorry for the older or senior parents walking with adult Down’s syndrome children. To think that the parents have spent most of their lives taking care of them.
Honey, I didnt kill the kid!
People with Downs are no less important than anyone else. I imagine in the UK she is getting plenty of government help because her child has Down Syndrome!
4 years of contempt — poor thing.
The child must be rescued asap.
Hopefully the child will have a wonderful life without ever knowing the mother’s unloving heart.
Beautiful kid.
-PJ
Lady, you are a selfish a**hole! Don't ever get pregnant again...
You created this child my dear, for better or worse this is your life. You will be judged on how you deal with it what you make of it and the unconditional love you give to this child YOU created. How dare you blame anyone
Both the mother and her partner, the two aren’t married, moved to the UK in 2006. No word on if the two came to the UK legally, if they are self-supporting or have been living off British taxpayers.
This child should be taken away from his hateful mother and given to some people who will love him, and not see him as a meal ticket.
You would think a person would be ashamed to file court documents, in which they state under oath, that they wish they had killed their child.
But....NOOOOOOOOO, as John Belushi used to say.
Well she could kill her now....it is EXACTLY the same child....
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