Wrongful birth litigation and prenatal screening

Torts--wrongful birth and wrongful life.

Wrongful life, wrongful birth, and justice in tort law.

Wrongful birth, wrongful conception, and the Irish Constitution.

Wrongful life and wrongful birth: new concepts for the pediatrician.

Over the past two decades, numerous suits for damages have been brought against physicians for the injury of wrongful life, or wrongful birth. Within the past 5 years, several precedents have been set that broaden the physician's legal obligation to recognize and act upon foreseeable or potentially recurrent genetic, teratogenic, or chromosomal disorders. These precedents may be expected to aff...

Wrongful life, wrongful birth, wrongful death, and the right to refuse treatment: can reasonable jurisdictions recognize all but one?