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IAfter reading this, I now propose an addendum to the original 10 Bill of Rights to include the "...right not to have been born"
This article is something I would expect reading in the Weekly World News, let alone a real newspaper..it's almost too absurd to believe.
What is this world coming to? I guess money cures all ills...
Disabled Have Right Not To
Be
Born, Rules French Appeals
Court
By John Lichfield in Paris
The Independent - London
http://news.independent.co.uk
7-15-1
Handicapped children have a right not to have been born,
France's highest appeal court decided yesterday, to angry
protests from politicians and pressure groups. The judges
confirmed an earlier, landmark judgment that children born with
a grave disability had a right to sue doctors who failed to
diagnose their likely handicap in the womb.
Pressure groups for the handicapped said this was an invitation
to discriminate against people with disabilities and a legally
sanctioned step towards eugenics, or selective breeding. The
French government said it would invite all interested parties to a
"global reflection" on the ethics of aborting handicapped
children, and that it would announce possible legislation in the
autumn.
The court rejected claims for compensation from three
handicapped children, saying the negligence of their doctors had
not been clearly established. They reaffirmed their ruling of last
November that a child born with a grave handicap also has,
under certain conditions, a right to sue a doctor failing to
recommend that the foetus should be aborted. The court said
that there must be a "direct causal link" between the mistakes of
diagnosis made by the doctor and the birth of a seriously
disabled child.
The original judgment arose from the case of Nicolas Perruche,
now 17, who was born severely handicapped after his mother's
doctor failed to realise that she had measles during her
pregnancy.
The Collective Against Handiphobia, a pressure group set up
after the original appeal court decision, denounced the new
judgment as a "recognition of a right not to be born". A
spokesman for the group said it would encourage other parents
to sue and would make the abortion of handicapped children
standard practice.
Christine Boutin, a centre-right member of parliament who
plans to stand as an anti-abortion candidate in the presidential
election next year, said the judgment invited a policy of "state
eugenics", and would promote the "fantasy of a handicap-free
society".
This article is something I would expect reading in the Weekly World News, let alone a real newspaper..it's almost too absurd to believe.
What is this world coming to? I guess money cures all ills...
Disabled Have Right Not To
Be
Born, Rules French Appeals
Court
By John Lichfield in Paris
The Independent - London
http://news.independent.co.uk
7-15-1
Handicapped children have a right not to have been born,
France's highest appeal court decided yesterday, to angry
protests from politicians and pressure groups. The judges
confirmed an earlier, landmark judgment that children born with
a grave disability had a right to sue doctors who failed to
diagnose their likely handicap in the womb.
Pressure groups for the handicapped said this was an invitation
to discriminate against people with disabilities and a legally
sanctioned step towards eugenics, or selective breeding. The
French government said it would invite all interested parties to a
"global reflection" on the ethics of aborting handicapped
children, and that it would announce possible legislation in the
autumn.
The court rejected claims for compensation from three
handicapped children, saying the negligence of their doctors had
not been clearly established. They reaffirmed their ruling of last
November that a child born with a grave handicap also has,
under certain conditions, a right to sue a doctor failing to
recommend that the foetus should be aborted. The court said
that there must be a "direct causal link" between the mistakes of
diagnosis made by the doctor and the birth of a seriously
disabled child.
The original judgment arose from the case of Nicolas Perruche,
now 17, who was born severely handicapped after his mother's
doctor failed to realise that she had measles during her
pregnancy.
The Collective Against Handiphobia, a pressure group set up
after the original appeal court decision, denounced the new
judgment as a "recognition of a right not to be born". A
spokesman for the group said it would encourage other parents
to sue and would make the abortion of handicapped children
standard practice.
Christine Boutin, a centre-right member of parliament who
plans to stand as an anti-abortion candidate in the presidential
election next year, said the judgment invited a policy of "state
eugenics", and would promote the "fantasy of a handicap-free
society".
