Court orders gynecologist to pay parents who would have aborted disabled daughter

LifeSiteNews ^ | 12/23/11 | Jeanne Smits

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The likely immediate effect of the judges’ decision is that Belgian doctors will be pressed to make doubly sure that the unborn child is free from all “defects,” and to recommend abortion when it is not.

The "Brave New World" is here.

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[JakeS]

The little girl is now 9 years old, and besides her spina bifida, which keeps her to her wheelchair, she is also incontinent and mentally handicapped.

My heart goes out to that little girl, living with disabilities cannot compare to the pain of having parents that wish she were dead, May God protect that little girl and may He deal with that judge and those parents.

[Pollster1]

My heart goes out to that little girl, living with disabilities cannot compare to the pain of having parents that wish she were dead, May God protect that little girl and may He deal with that judge and those parents.

My thoughts exactly. Perhaps being mentally handicapped is a blessing if it keeps her from understanding just how much her parents resent (hate?) her.

[Dante3]

It sure is. This is outrageous.

[Joe 6-pack]

I need to get some new history books. The ones I have all say the nazis lost...

[murron]

My daughter in law has a nephew who is almost two years old born with spina bifida. When they firts got the diagnosis, at birth, they were devastated. Now they are beaming parents of a beautiful smiling little boy. He has had some surgery and will probably have more, but if you would see the bright eyes and smile on this little boy you would just want to steal him and take him home with you. He cannot walk normally, but other than that, he is a normal child in every way. Ask them if they would have wanted to abort their baby because he has spina bifida, and I can guarantee their answer.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Something is rotten in the state of Belgium

[trisham]

Big government will decide what is right and what is wrong.

[Huskrrrr]

Sadly, nothing coming from the Godless Continent surprises me anymore.

[ConservativeDude]

“wrongful life” tort coming soon to California...then...??

[perplyone]

I have spina bifida, but God saw fit not to saddle me with mental handicaps as well. My parents were advised by doctors to leave me at the hospital to die. Forty-three years later (my birthday was Friday), I’m still laughing at the doctors.

[perplyone]

My parents are in the same camp as your family.

[kearnyirish2]

“The ones I have all say the nazis lost...”

Mine don’t; they say “the Axis” lost. When you get to later chapters (around 1973), they say the Nazis won (abortion was one of the “crimes against humanity” for which Nazis were executed at Nuremberg). Apparently “crimes against humanity” are subjective.

[little jeremiah]

I’ve heard that at least in the US there are many parents who are willing - anxious - to adopt children with heath problems, so if mothers carry “imperfect” children to term, there are waiting loving arms.

[Mr. K]

And why werent these people all struck by lightning? I mean c’mon ... a ittle help here G?

[sodpoodle]

Happy belated Birthday;)

[PowderMonkey]

"My parents were advised by doctors to leave me at the hospital to die."

Hoisting a Martini toast in your behalf this evening. I was not quite five pounds and born three months premature at a time and in a place where preemies simply didn't survive. My parents where told likewise. The prayers of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary where answered, and saw to it that I was brought home. Cheers!

[CurlyDave]

Before we work ourselves up into a lather here we might ask if we do know God’s will in cases like this.

For almost all of human history up to about 50-100 years ago the girl would have died shortly after birth with deformities that serious. Is that God’s will? Or is it that the child should be alive artificially after medical intervention?

Would the parents have gone on to have other children if this one did pass shortly after birth? What are those lives worth?