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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on March 23, 2012, 04:50:01 PM
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Parents awarded $2.9M in ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuit over daughter born with Down syndrome
A Portland, Ore. couple was awarded $2.9 million on Friday for the care of their Down syndrome baby, who they argue would not have been born if doctors had not been "negligent†in their pre-natal care.
Ariel and Deborah Levy won their "wrongful birth" suit against Legacy Health System, arguing they chose to continue their pregnancy based on what doctors told them, according to ABC News, and would have terminated it if they had not been assured their baby did not have the genetic condition.
Jurors found five instances of Legacy Health's negligence, including a doctor's finding that the baby had a normal chromosomal profile based on a test that was performed and analyzed incorrectly.
Thirteen weeks into Deborah Levy's pregnancy, according to The Oregonian, her doctor tested a sample of tissue and concluded the baby did not have any chromosomal problems. Even though later tests suggested it might have Down syndrome, doctors assured the family that nothing was wrong.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/parents-awarded-2-9m-wrongful-birth-lawsuit-daughter-born-syndrome-article-1.1037159#ixzz1pyambtxJ
This is interesting. What do you think?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002462109
Geez, poor kid will grow up knowing that mom and dad wanted to abort her.
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Disgusting.
She was born with Downs. Doesn't mean you get money you greedy pricks. It means you have to deal with LIFE! I was born with hydrocephalus. Did my parents get money? No. They got a ration of shit from a doctor telling them they're better off putting me in a home cause I'd never walk, talk, write, or do anything at all. See me here doing shit? What if she overcomes it? Her parents never thought of that, did they? No, they just saw damn dollar signs in their eyes.
Pathetic!
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I read about this lawsuit before it had come down to a decision. It is discussing in my opinion.
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See me here doing shit?
H5, but for this line in particular. :-)
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I was born very underweight, with cholic, had trouble breathing and eating, and asthmatic right from the start. My parents were told I would never be able to run, and wouldn't be very athletic at best. I have 4 team MVPs playing football and was one of the fastest runners in the county for two years. I served in the Army, I forgot to mention I had asthma because I wanted to serve, and no one ever knew.
I've seen down syndrome's kids that light up the lives of everyone around them. They shouldn't have been rewarded just because their daughter survived the butchery they intended if she wasn't just what they wanted.
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Ok, even if the doctor was negligent in some way in how he analyzed the results, why would they win anything when adoption was still a viable option at the birth? That's what I don't get--they still had means to alleviate their responsibility for the raising of the child so why not take that? Me thinks someone wants the $ now attached to the child and found the child a useful vehicle to that end.
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Sick and disgusting parents who feel entitled to a perfect baby or a big payout if the child is flawed.
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I wonder how much Sarah Palin got in HER lawsuit over Trig.
Yeah, thought so...
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Wait my son was born with club feet. I need a lawyer!
Dirty filthy scum of the earth lawyer like they had!
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And the DUmmies don't see the need for tort reform.
Memo to the parents--I sympathize with the hardships you will endure, the extra costs you will incur having to care for a child well into your later years.
That being said, you have no idea of the love, the PURE LOVE, that someone afflicted with Downs shows. That can and will overcome any difficulties you may face in raising this child, and you'll eventually see the error of your judgment regarding this child. If it doesn't, might I suggest you go play in traffic?
Oh, and as a final thought--what would you have done 20-30 years ago before these tests were available?
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Sounds to me like liberals appreciate the science of eugenics. Why am I not surprised ?
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I read about this lawsuit before it had come down to a decision. It is discussing in my opinion.
Disgusting
Geez, I need to proof read my posts.
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Disgusting
Geez, I need to proof read my posts.
'Tis ok... discussing this issue makes ME feel disgusting so it's apropos...
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My God, children aren't Christmas sweaters you give back because they are not the right fit. "God, I don't want this one, I'm sending it back and would like a different one." :hammer: Children are a gift, and you take what God gives you and do the very best you can to help that child reach it's full potential, and you LOVE that child, unconditionally, no matter what. How disgusting. "If I knew who you were going to be, I'd have killed you." :argh:
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My God, children aren't Christmas sweaters you give back because they are not the right fit. "God, I don't want this one, I'm sending it back and would like a different one." :hammer: Children are a gift, and you take what God gives you and do the very best you can to help that child reach it's full potential, and you LOVE that child, unconditionally, no matter what. How disgusting. "If I knew who you were going to be, I'd have killed you." :argh:
H5
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The idea that parents are suing because they would have aborted their child otherwise gives me the chills. It is one thing to discuss abortion in the theoretical, but to be holding your child and to say publicly that you would have aborted her if you had known that she had Down's shows a truly vile person.
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The regressives will do what any good regressive would do.
Grab the money and run.
Let the taxpayers raise the child.
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This is just painful to read. Poor little girl. I hope she never realizes her parents wanted to kill her.
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And for a stark contrast, here is Sarah Palin acknowledging World Down Syndrome Day, honororing Trig: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150634182253435 Also, the video she links to is heartwrenching.
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This is just painful to read. Poor little girl. I hope she never realizes her parents wanted to kill her.
my first thought............my first thought......... vile and disgusting examples of parents
sometimes I have wondered if I got the wrong kid but that was after they were being soooooooooooo bad :whistling:
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Lady on the other side of my family tree took care of a severely handicapped and mentally retarded child for 62 years until both went to the nursing home together.
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Lady on the other side of my family tree took care of a severely handicapped and mentally retarded child for 62 years until both went to the nursing home together.
My grandmothers cousin has a daughter. When the baby was born with downs from daughter, the daughter was immediately going to institutionalize it. Grandmother said oh hell no and I want the baby and I disown you. Little Wayne is approaching 50 and the sweetest man ever. Always gives me hugs when I see him. He is what is keeping that woman going and she is in her late 80's.
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Back in the days where I joined in protesting abortuaries, one of my fellow pro-lifers, who already had six children, told me that his wife was pregnant with Number 7--and early tests showed that the child had Downs. He told me that he considered it a blessing to have a child with Downs.
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Y'all are letting your emotions and personal beliefs get in the way of things.
Possibility of abortion aside for a moment. the Drs. Tested the wrong tissue. You don't see that as a problem ?
Now because the wrong tissue was tested the parents were mislead. Now you may disagree with any decision they may have made if the correct tissue was tested and they were given the right information But this was clearly a case of medical malpractice.
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Y'all are letting your emotions and personal beliefs get in the way of things.
Possibility of abortion aside for a moment. the Drs. Tested the wrong tissue. You don't see that as a problem ?
Now because the wrong tissue was tested the parents were mislead. Now you may disagree with any decision they may have made if the correct tissue was tested and they were given the right information But this was clearly a case of medical malpractice.
See my earlier comment. Also, testing, particularly amniocentesis, has risks of harm to the fetus. What if this were 30 years ago and such testing didn't exist? How would you feel about them then?
Was a mistake made? Yup. Does it rise the the level of malpractice? Maybe, maybe not--but this being the litigation lotto society we've become, morality and doing the right thing has fallen by the wayside.
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See my earlier comment. Also, testing, particularly amniocentesis, has risks of harm to the fetus. What if this were 30 years ago and such testing didn't exist? How would you feel about them then?
Was a mistake made? Yup. Does it rise the the level of malpractice? Maybe, maybe not--but this being the litigation lotto society we've become, morality and doing the right thing has fallen by the wayside.
Any medical procedure carries certain risks, obviously those risks are considered minimal or the procedures would no be performed.
The Dr. did not do the "right thing' that's why it was considered medical malpractice. I don't agree with Abortion but it is the law. The Dr mistake deprived that couple of the right to make an informed medical decision. whether we agree with what that decision may be , as long as it is a legal one, is irrelevant .
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Y'all are letting your emotions and personal beliefs get in the way of things.
Possibility of abortion aside for a moment. the Drs. Tested the wrong tissue. You don't see that as a problem ?
Now because the wrong tissue was tested the parents were mislead. Now you may disagree with any decision they may have made if the correct tissue was tested and they were given the right information But this was clearly a case of medical malpractice.
I'm disgusted that they said they would have aborted their daughter if the test had been accurate, and if I'm being emotional over that then too bad. That poor girl will probably learn some day that mommy and daddy would have had her killed in the womb without a second thought.
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Y'all are letting your emotions and personal beliefs get in the way of things.
Possibility of abortion aside for a moment. the Drs. Tested the wrong tissue. You don't see that as a problem ?
Now because the wrong tissue was tested the parents were mislead. Now you may disagree with any decision they may have made if the correct tissue was tested and they were given the right information But this was clearly a case of medical malpractice.
I stayed away from that part, but I do agree with what you've said here and that's what they were awarded for was the malpractice. That said though, they still had the option of adoption to limit their liability for the child's care.
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I'm disgusted that they said they would have aborted their daughter if the test had been accurate, and if I'm being emotional over that then too bad. That poor girl will probably learn some day that mommy and daddy would have had her killed in the womb without a second thought.
I am also but under law that was an option available to them if provided the correct information. Everyone has to live with choices they make or may have made.
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I stayed away from that part, but I do agree with what you've said here and that's what they were awarded for was the malpractice. That said though, they still had the option of adoption to limit their liability for the child's care.
I would like to think that perhaps the Lord above had a hand in the couple deciding to keep the child.
Again whether we agree with the choices they made or may have made their decisions were predicated on faulty medical information.
There are two Downs syndrome boys in my family. One Lives in an assisted living apartment complex and works as a Gopher in a automotive Repair and Body shop. The other require 24 hr around the clock care existing in his own little world coming out occasionally to blather in a language only his mother and sisters understand.
My sister is a stepmother to her son because to get the financial/medical assistance required to care for her son she had to give him up essentially making him a ward of the state. it torn her apart to do it but social workers and the such made sure she would be awarded custody and care of the child.
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And for a stark contrast, here is Sarah Palin acknowledging World Down Syndrome Day, honororing Trig: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150634182253435 Also, the video she links to is heartwrenching.
Oh that made me cry! What special families they are.
Cindie