Pregnant with twins, has an abortion, one twin survives and now the mother is suing for the cost of raising the child. Yes, there’s all sorts of problems here, not least that at some point the child is going to find out that her mother actively attempted to kill her. But it’s this line that niggles at me:
She gave birth to her daughter, Jayde, who is now three, in August 2001
at Perth Royal Infirmary, and is suing Tayside University NHS Trust in
a legal action believed to be the first of its kind in Britain.
Rolling around in the back of my mind is the thought that this is not the first case by a long shot. I vaguely remember a case where the judgement was that "having a child cannot be regarded as a misfortune for which compensation is necessary" or some such. Anyone know exactly?
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