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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have urged President Biden to negate the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the 1973 Roe. v. Wade decision by issuing an executive order establishing abortion centers on federal lands within states whose governments do not allow unconstrained abortion rights. "Because of the Court's callous decision we are on the brink of a wrongful life catastrophe," Warren warned. "Each week of delay in restoring each woman's constitutional right to abort her unwanted child will result in thousands of unneeded lives being brought into this world. The President has it within his power...

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. According to magazine, wrongful life claims are more prevalent in Israel where a higher rate of genetic disorders caused by consanguineous 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...

Shame on the jury who, in effect, agreed that a now happy child born with disabilities would be better off dead via abortion.  From the Palm Beach Post story: During a roughly two-week-long trial that ended Wednesday, Mejia and Santana claimed they would have never have brought Bryan into the world had they known about his horrific disabilities. Had Morel and technicians at OB/GYN Specialists of the Palm Beaches and Perinatal Specialists of the Palm Beaches properly administered two ultrasounds and seen he was missing three limbs, the West Palm Beach couple said they would have terminated the pregnancy. Instead,...

A German doctor has been ordered to pay child support to a patient who got pregnant with a contraceptive implant...

Amelia Loveless tried to abort her twin babies in 1999. The procedure failed and she sued the hospital. Now she has been awarded $45,000 in damages by a Quebec court, after a Montreal hospital left her still pregnant. The woman underwent an abortion procedure at St. Luc's hospital in March 1999. She gave birth to the babies later that year. Quebec Superior Court Justice Rex Solomon ruled in the woman's favor, even though the hospital had made efforts to contact her. However, in order to claim the award she must turn over the children, now six years old, to be...

THE High Court has been asked to decide whether severely disabled children can sue over medical negligence which resulted in their birth rather than abortion. In a landmark hearing, two disabled children, one now a young woman and the other a three-year-old girl, are seeking the right to sue their mothers' doctors for wrongful life.

Woman sues for 'wrongful life' November 10, 2005 THE full bench of the High Court will today begin hearing a landmark test case involving a disabled woman who unsuccessfully sued her mother's doctor for wrongful life. Alexia Harriton, now 24, was born deaf, blind and mentally disabled. She claims her mother's doctor negligently failed to diagnose rubella infection early in the pregnancy and wrongly reassured her that her baby would not be affected. Ms Harriton unsuccessfully tried to sue her mother's doctor, Paul Stephens, in the NSW Supreme Court three years ago for negligence. But in April this year she...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, December 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A woman, who says she would have aborted her son had her obstetrician not failed to warn her of his serious handicap, has had her "wrongful life" lawsuit thrown out of the state Supreme Court. Jennie Willis claimed that, had she known most of her son's brain was missing, she would have aborted him. The high court decided unanimously against Willis. "Even a jury collectively imbued with the wisdom of Solomon would be unable to weigh the fact of being born with a defective condition against the fact of not being born...

An Australian court is hearing a test case that seeks to establish whether children born disabled as a result of medical negligence can sue doctors for quot;wrongful life.quot; A lawyer representing doctors in the case has warned that if the court rules in favor of the children's right to sue for damages, then children born with disabilities could eventually end up suing their mothers for not aborting them. Moreover, Peter Garling warned, successful quot;wrongful lifequot; cases could prompt doctors to recommend abortions even in cases of minor disability, to safeguard against future lawsuits. Doctors and parents could be encouraged to...